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.…

1. IN the first place, he taketh great exception against one rule propounded by T. C. Rep. 2. pag. 62. that Ceremonies offend not any, especially the Church of God. To this, D. Witgifts main answer was, that it was a rule for private men, & not for the Church. Of this the Rejoinder seemeth ashamed: and therefore seeketh after other exceptions. The first is, that the business for which this rule is given. 1. Cor. 10.32. was no matter of Church Ceremony, but of conversation. Where he should have considered. 1. that some Church Ceremonies had of old their place in ordinary conversation, so these two are not apposite one to the other. 2. that the eating of things offered to idols, was a heathenish Ceremony, and therefore the abstaining from it required in Christian Ceremonies. 3. that howsoever this rule is in this place applied, yet Rom. 14.15.20. it is by the same Apostle applied to some kind of Jewish Church Ceremonies.

1. IN the first place, he taketh great exception against one rule propounded by T. C. Rep. 2. pag. 62. that Ceremonies offend not any, especial•y the Churche of God. To this, D. Witgifts mayne answer was, that it was a rule for private men, & not for the Churche. Of this the Rejoynder seemeth ashamed: and therfore seeketh after other exceptions. The first is, that the buisinesse for which this rule is given. 1. Cor. 10.32. was no matter of Churche Ceremonie, but of conversatien. Where he should have considered. 1. that some Churche Ceremonies had of ould their place in ordinarie conversatiō, so these two are not apposite one to the other. 2. that the eating of thinges offered to idols, was a heathenish Ceremonie, and therfor the absteining from it required in Christian Ceremonies. 3. that howsoever this rule is in this place applied, yet Rom. 14.15.20. it is by the same Apostle applied to some kinde of Iewish Churche Ceremonies.