A19142:83
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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A taste of the tartness of Doctor Burgess his Spirit, in the several passages of his answer. This tartness vvill appear in 3. kinds. 1. His heavy Censures, and that, of the very hearts, & consciences of men. 2. His open reviling of the persons of the non conformists: or secret inducements to bring them into distaste: 3. His Keen & scornful jests, which are his pastime, frequently expressed through the whole. Heavy Censures. 1. They who tell us, that all the Church may do touching rites ⟨image 24⟩is: but the application of circumstances, which are in nature, Civill: Adding that the Church may not ordain any Cerem: merely Ecclesiastical; do Manifest a spirit which lusteth after contradiction p. 37 of manuduc. In the answer. 2. If it seem so to him indeed: God hath smitten his contentious spirit, with Giddiness: for who but a man forsaken of all wisdom. &c. 62. p. ⟨image 24⟩3. The Convocation house is not so likely to conclude &c. as this Libeller, is to come to shame for his factious, & intolerable comparison, unless God humble him. p. 62. 4. For whosoever thinks not as ⟨image 25⟩(they) must either be condemned of gross corruption, or excused, as having some good meaning: yet much weakness with all, scil. in (comparison of them) And this pride makes them so scornful: p. 65. 5. It is so palpably false, that I should hardly believe, any Friar durst have set it down in print: p. 67. ⟨image 25⟩6. And see how these men that talk & write in so haughty, & magistral a fashion, do but gull, & deceive them with the names of worthy men. Which is so great & shameful a sin, & in this Replyer, so frequent, that I wonder he dares dispute about Cerem: before he have learned the substance of common honesty: p. 83. in his alligations. 7. How can you believe any truth, cross to your opinion? when as you seek glory one of another, & presume of your new traditions, as if the spirit of truth came to you, or from you alone. p. 103. 8. As for terms of excrements, ⟨image 26⟩which he would be loath, one should apply to the hair of his head, It savoureth of a spirit of rancour, as doth the like Foul speech, in the Scotch Dialogue. God vvill judge them for these reproaches, by which they labour, to breed scorn, and abhorring of these, in the minds of ignorant men. p. 131. 9.