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.…

Upon this occasion the Rejoinder 1. crieth out of a falsehood shameful, and to be blushed at, for saying that the Def. distinguisheth will-worship into lawful, and unlawful. But let any man judge where is the falsehood, shame, and cause of blushing. The question is of worship invented by man, which Chemnitius (with other Divines) call will-worship, whether it be lawful or no? the Def. answereth by a distinction, that some is unlawful, as essential, and some lawful, as accidental. What can be more plain? But (saith the Rejoinder) Accidental worship, be denieth to be properly worship, and therefore denieth it to be will worship, unless it be imagined essential. What a consequence is this, to bear up so weighty an accusation? It is not properly worship, and therefore it is not will-worship. He may as well say: it is not properly worship, and therefore it is not lawful worship. May it not be improper will-worship, though it be not properly worship? Or no improper worship come merely ⟨p. 137⟩from the will of man? It is rather a property of Ceremonies, to depend merely on the will of the institutor. So Tostatus in Exod. tom. 1.148. et in Levit. pag. 585. A Ceremony is a certain observation, or a special manner of worshipping God determined out of the sole Commandment of of the lawgiver.¹

Vpon this occasion the Rejoynder 1. criethout of a falshood shamefull, and to be blushed at, for saying that the Def. distinguisheth will-worship into lawfull, and unlawfull. But let any man judge where is the falshood, shame, and cause of blushing. The question is of worship invented by man, which Chemnitius (with other Divines) call will-worship, whether it be lawfull or no? the Def. answereth by a distinction, that some is unlawfull, as essentiall, and some lawfull, as accidentall. What can be more plaine? But (sayth the Rejoynder) Accidentall worship, be denieth to be properly worsh•p, and therfore denieth it to be will worship, unlesse it be imagined essentiall. What a consequence is this, to bear up so weightie an accusation? It is not properly worship, and therfore it is not will-worship. He may as well say: it is not properly worship, and therfore it is not lawfull worship. May it not be improper will-worship, though it be not properly worship? Or no improper worship come meerly ⟨p. 137⟩