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.…

All this I speak, not that I would fall out with any, who is not of the same opinion with my self: for I profess the contrary, in a word of truth: every man abounds in his own sense: Only this seems somewhat grievous, & I conceive also injurious to the truth, that after all hard dealing, she cannot get an indifferent hearing, Seeing it is the fashion of the world, to have mens persons in admiration, to gain some countenance thereby to their own courses, And therefore to blow up the fame of mens abilities, (as they do bladders) to the utmost greatness they can, that the greater warrant they may seem to have, to follow their opinions & ways. And contrariwise, the person must be disparaged, when we would have his cause, or work come into discredit: a fashionable, but a shame less piece of Rhetoric: Thus the writing of the Repl: must be a pamphlet, his manner of writing scurrilous, that when both are thus disfigured, by the dirt and soot, which the Rej. hath flung upon them, it may be conceived, they ⟨image 20⟩were so misshapen in their first frame: uhereas the answer of the Rei: must be lifted up & proclaimed, worthy, learned, & judicious: which puts me in mind of Demetrius his out-cry: 19. Acts: 28. Great is Diana of the Ephesians: ¹the ground whereof was not so much the love of the Goddess, as the greedy desire of that great profit, they reaped thereby: So here, the answer must be learned & judicious, that men may conform learnedly, and judiciously.

All this I speake, not that I vvould fall out vvith any, vvho is not of the same opinion vvith my self: for I prosesse the contrary, in a vvord of truth: every man abounds in his ovvne sense: Only this seemes somvvhat greiuous, & I conceave also injurious to the truth, that after all hard dealing, she cannot gett an indifferent hearing, Seing it is the fashion of the vvorld, to have mens persons in admiration, to gayne some countenance therby to their ovvne courses, And therfore to blovv up the fame of mens abilityes, (as they do bladders) to the utmost greatnes they can, that the greater vvarrant they may seeme to have, to follovv their opinions & vvayes. And contraryvvise, the person must be disparaged, vvhen vve vvould have his cause, or vvork come into discredit: a fashionable, but a shame lesse peice of Rhetorick: Thus the vvriting of the Repl: must be a pamphlet, his manner of vvriting •currilous, that vvhen both are thus disfigured, by the dirt and soote, vvhich the Rej. hath flung upon them, it may be conceyved, they