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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
Part › Chapter 2 › SECT. 2. Concerning adding to Gods worship.
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.
For from a sword, or any other iron weapon, a man may well detract rust, for the preservation of it, From an aguish man, blood may be detracted, for the preservation of his life, nay sometime a leg, or an arm, may be cut off, for preservation of the body. So that, all things considered, the Rejoinder will upon second thoughts, either cashier in Gods worship, his addition of preservation, or else add unto it, a detraction or diminution of preservation. Calvin in his nineteenth sermon upon Deuteronomy, hath this remarkable sentence.
For from a sword, or any other yron weapon, a man may well detract rust, for the preservation of it, From an aguish man, bloud may be detracted, for the preservation of his life, nay sometime a leg, or an arme, may be cutte off, for praeservation of the bodie. So that, all thinges considered, the Rejoynder will upon second thoughts, eyther cashier in Gods worship, his addition of preservation, or else adde unto it, a detraction or deminution of preservation. Calvin in his nineteenth sermon upon Deutrinomie, hath this remarkable sentence.
Let us assure ourselves, we shall ever be unruly and wild-headed, until our Lord hath tamed us, by long handling, and made us stick to this ground, that it is no more lawful for us, in any wise, to add any thing to his law, then it is lawful for us, to take any thing from it.
Let us assure ourselves, we shall ever be unruly and wild-headed, untill our Lord hath tamed us, by long handling, and made us sticke to this grounde, that it is no more lawfull for us, in any wise, to adde any thinge to his law, then it is lawfull for us, to take any thinge from it.
6. It was likewise observed, that this pretence hath been always the shoeing-horn, to draw on superstition with. For (as Calvin noteth on