A19142:745
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Neither is there any corruption of Gods ordinances, whose original occasion may not be found in mens (nay fathers) Ceremonious presumptions.
Neyther is ther any corruption of Gods ordinances, whose originall occasion may not be founde in mens (nay fathers) Ceremonious praesumtions.
4. It was finally answered by the Repl. that the always of these Feasts, cannot include the Apostolical times, and for other always, Bellarmine Cont. 1. l. 4. c. 9. hath the same plea, and the answer given unto him by our Divines, may serve here. The Rejoinder here 1. insinuateth that it is very likely, these Feasts, or some of them, were on foot while some Apostles lived: because Polycarp pretended John to have taught Easter.
4. It was finally answered by the Repl. that the allways of these Feasts, cannot include the Apostolicall times, and for other allways, Bellarmine Cont. 1. l. 4. c. 9. hath the same plea, and the answer given unto him by our Divines, may serve here. The Rejoynder here 1. insinuateth that it is very likely, these Feasts, or some of them, were on foot while some Apostles lived: because Polycarpe praetended Iohn to have taught Easter.
On foot indeed was the mystery of Antichristian corruption in the Apostles times. But that which Polycarp is said to have pretended, was for the fourteen day of the month, and is confuted by a contrary pretence of the latin Churches, from Peter and Paul. Socrat. l. 5. cap. 22. He 2. addeth, under Augustine's name that it is insolent madness, to think that not to be well done, which hath been done by all the Church, though it began after the Apostles times. Now though I find no such saying of Augustine's, in the epistle quoted ⟨p. 86⟩