A19142:758
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
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2. His second is, that Junius wrote not this of such Ceremonies as ours: because he speaketh of those that are neither necessary, nor according to order, rejected by Christ, added to Divine things, which must needs import necessity and worship a• fixed unto them. But had it not been better counsel, for the Rejoinder to have held his peace, then to let every man see what miserable shifts he is driven to? 1. Junius having made this conclusion: that Magistrates may not constitute, and change persons, things, Ceremonies at their pleasure, and that those which tell them they may (as our Def. and Rejoinder do in part) are therein no well willers to the Church, propoundeth this question: if it be not in the Magistrates ⟨p. 91⟩power, to appoint, or abrogate such things? to which he answereth negatively: because all necessaries, and essentials are appointed by Christ, and as for other not necessary things, above the sphere of order, he gives those reasons, which are in the words, largely cited. Now 1. what a wretched evasion is this, that he spake not of our Ceremonies?
2. His second is, that Iunius wrote not this of suche Ceremonies as ours: because he speaketh of those that are neyther necessarie, nor according to order, rejected by Christ, added to Divine thinges, which must needs import necessitie and worship a• fixed unto them. But had it not been better counsel, for the Rejoynder to have helde his peace, then to let every man see what miserable shifts he is driven to? 1. Iunius having made this conclusion: that Magistrates may not constitute, and change persons, things, Ceremonies at their pleasure, and that those which teli them they may (as our Def. and Rejoynder doe in part) are therin no well willers to the Churche, propoundeth this question: if it be not in the Magistrates ⟨p. 91⟩power, to appointe, or abrogate suche thinges? to which he answereth negatively: because all necessaries, and essentialls are appointed by Christ, and as for other not necessarie thinges, above the sphere of order, he gives those reasons, which are in the wordes, largely cited. Now 1. what a wreched evasion is this, that he spake not of our Ceremonies?