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. Now that it doeth not make to the purpose, it was first showed, from this, that the Defend. himself concludeth no more from thence, then that the Church may by virtue of this permission, ordain any Ceremonies that may be fit for the better serving of God. Which maketh nothing to the purpose, except first it be proved that God is better served with our Ceremonies, then without them. The Rejoinder here 1. denieth this to be his Conclusion, and yet they are his own words, & no other conclusion is mentioned by him, as appeareth in the Rejoinder it self, pag. 74. But by this (saith the Rejoinder) he undertakes to prove another thing. Let it be so, yet he must first prove this, which he immediately draweth out of the text, which he doeth not.

1. Now that it doeth not make to the purpose, it was first shewed, from this, that the Defend. himself concludeth no more from thence, then that the Churche may by vertue of this permission, ordaine any Ceremonies that may be fit for the better serving of God. Which maketh nothing to the purpose, except first it be proved that God is better served with our Ceremonies, then without them. The Rejoynder here 1. denieth this to be his Conclusion, and yet they are his owne wordes, & no other conclusion is mentioned by him, as appeareth in the Rejoynder it self, pag. 74. But by this (sayth the Rejoynder) hee undertakes to prove another thing. Let it be so, yet he must first prove this, which he immediately draweth out of the text, which he doeth not.

Neither doeth he so much as name that other thing ⟨p. 53⟩which he undertaketh to prove, much less perform his undertaking. This was therefore no fit place for him to vent his phrase, of shooting beside the Butt. 2. He accuseth the Repl. of insulting, because he denied the Consequence, and gave a reason of it: and yet referreth the answer of that reason, to a fitter place I know not where. Only he repeateth the often exploded evasion, that the question is whether all lawful things be particularly, or expressly commanded in the word, which none of us ever writ, said, or thought. Yet we must be troubled with this groundless, useless repetition, over and over again.