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.…

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 Matt. 15) Legislatoris ipsi non jactabant, se novum quicquam tradere, sed tantum add•re cavendi formulas, quae media ossent adminicula, ad servandam Dei legem. The old Masters of Ceremonies pretended always, that they meant only to bring-in additions of preservation. Like enough (saith the Rejoinder:) But this very inlet of superstitious things, under the pretence of bringing in only preservative means, doeth witness that such additions as are preservative, ⟨p. 121⟩were always allowed by Gods people, as confirmation of error by Scripture, doeth show the dignity of holy Scripture. This is in deed as fair a pretence, for an inlet of superstition, as can be made. But withal it is manifest from thence, that is is no sufficient, but a very suspicious answer, for Ceremonies, accused of superstition, to say, and not to prove, that they are preservations. Yet these Ceremony-mongers had all their pretence properly from means of preservation, which are and were always allowed by God, and his people, not from additions.

6. It was likewise observed, that this praetence hath been allways the shoeing-horne, to draw on superstition with. For (as Calvin noteth on