A19142:846
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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Th• Repl. added in the third place, that the proper nature of worship, doeth not consist in holiness, and justice, but in the honouring of God: so that all external Ceremonies, whose proper use, is the honouring of God, are external worship. This was directed against those words of the Def. the inward virtue of worship (placed in outward Ceremonies) consisteth in an opinion of holiness, and justice. Now what saith the Rejoinder? 1. No man can in any action aim at Gods honour, without opinion of justice and holiness in that action. Which may be granted, if justice (in this form of speech, whereby our Divines use to condemn many Popish Ceremonies) did not signify justification as it doeth. But yet it doeth not follow from thence, that every opinion of holiness, and justice, doeth make worship, much less inward worship, and least of all, the inward virtue of worship.
Th• Repl. added in the third place, that the proper nature of worship, doeth not consist in holinesse, and justice, but in the honoring of God: so that all externall Ceremonies, whose proper use, is the honoring of God, are externall worship. This was directed against those words of the Def. the inward vertue of worship (placed in outward Ceremonies) consisteth in an opinion of holinesse, and justice. Now what sayth the Rejoynder? 1. No man can in any action ayme at Gods honor, without opinion of justice and holinesse in that action. Which may be granted, if justice (in this forme of speache, wherby our Divines use to condemne many Popish Ceremonies) did not signifie justification as it doeth. But yet it doeth not follow from thence, that every opinion of holinesse, and justice, doeth make worship, much lesse inward worship, and least of all, the inward vertue of worship.
2. Then (saith he) all external Ceremonies must needs be worship. And this is that which we avouch, of all Ceremonies, whose proper use is the honouring of God. 3. It is not (as he addeth) the immediate and peculiar ⟨p. 133⟩