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A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
Part › Chapter 1 › SECT. 15. Concerning Protestants arguing negatively from Scripture.
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For what sense is in such a stated question: whether the Scripture doeth condemn such Ceremonies, as it leaveth indifferent, or only those which it some way forbiddeth? All that pass by, may see, that this was not worth the taking up.
For what sense is in suche a stated question: whether the Scripture doeth condemne suche Ceremonies, as it leaveth indiff•rent, or onely those which it some way forbiddeth? All that passe by, may see, that this was not worth the taking up.
Yet concerning the mixture of ceremonies with opinion of holiness, justice, merit, efficacy, or real necessity, ⟨p. 45⟩which here the Rejoinder maketh the only grounds of forbidding, he is now, in such gentle manner as is requisite, answered, in the head of Difference betwixt popish Ceremonies and ours.
Yet concerning the mixture of ceremonies with opinion of holinesse, justice, merit, efficacie, or reall necessitie, ⟨p. 45⟩which here the Rejoynder maketh the onely grounds of forbidding, he is now, in suche gentle manner as is requisite, answered, in the head of Difference betwixt popish Ceremonies and ours.
5. After this, the Repl. is charged with quarrelling, only because he saith the Def. answered nothing to a main point, upon which this first argument, in the Abridgement, doeth depend, namely the rules of Ceremonies, that they should be needful, and profitable, for edification, the more comely and orderly performance of Gods instituted service, which being wanting in our Ceremonies they cannot be innocent, though all were granted which the Def. maintaineth. And why is this a quarrel?