A19142:844
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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The Def. having thus told us, what Calvin did not mean, addeth that Calvin meant by worship, the inward virtue of worship, which consisteth (saith he) in an opinion of holiness and justice. The Repl here justly noted the ill sound of those words: the inward virtue of worship consisteth in an opinion, to which the Rejoinder saith just nothing. And yet in all this chapter maintaineth all that doctrine of opinionated worship, which the Def. let fall. But a man would think, that upon this occasion, he should have declared, how, and how far worship doeth consist in opinion? As for inward ⟨p. 132⟩virtues and vices consisting in opinion, it is as great a paradox, and greater also, then that of the Stoics, who made all other differences of mens estate, beside virtue and vice, to consist in opinion.
The Def. having thus tould us, what Calvin did not meane, addeth that Calvin meant by wo•ship, the inward vertue of worship, which consisteth (sayth he) in an opinion of holinesse and justice. The Repl here justly noted the ill sound of those words: the inward vertue of worship consisteth in an opinion, to which the Rejoynder sayth just nothing. And yet in all this chapter mainteyneth all that doctrine of opinionated worship, which the Def. let fall. But a man would thinke, that upon this occasion, he should have declared, how, and how farre worship doeth constift in opinion? As for inward ⟨p. 132⟩vertues and vices consisting in opinion, it is as great a paradoxe, and greater also, then that of the Stoickes, who made all other differences of mens estate, beside vertue and vice, to consist in opinion.
In the second place, it was asked by the Repl. how an inward virtue, can be planted in an outward Ceremony? the Rejoinder by error of opinion. But it is more then error, nay more then ordinary madness, for any man to think, his inside, is in his out-side, his heart is in the feather that he weareth on his hat.