A19142:883
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is no will-worship, to pray thrice or seven times in a day, or to preach thrice in one Lords-day upon special occasion. Some vows are no more worship, for ⟨p. 151⟩the matter of them (and that only is left unto choice, no• the manner) then fighting in a lawful war, upon the bond of an oath, is religious worship. Kneeling in prayer is expressly allowed by Gods revealed will: and the determination of it to this or that time, is to be ruled by occasion. 4. As for that conclusion which the Rejoinder draweth from the former grounds, viz. that order comeliness and edification. 1. Cor. 14. give power to men, for to appoint accessory parts of external worship, first, it hath no connection with them, as hath been showed in part, and may further be observed by this, that the inference is, from free-will-offerings, vows, and Kneeling, that therefore the Apostle 1. Cor. 14. doeth give Churches power to appoint such formalities as our Cross, and Surplice: which is to tie harp and harrow together with a rope of sand. Secondly, suppose it had, then it is not fully and resolutely expressed: because from will-worship of free will-offerings may as well be concluded essential, as accessory will-worship to be in the Churches power for to appoint it: because they were as essential offerings, as other sacrifices, which were by name commanded. If by accessory worship, he meaneth that which is appointed by man, in opposition to essential, as appointed by God (which his manuductive interpretation beareth) then in stead of a conclusion, we have a mere confusion: the Church may appoint that will-worship which God hath not appointed, but man doeth. Thirdly, the appointing of this or that, doeth not follow upon the practise of free-will-offerings, and vows, except it be ⟨p. 152⟩understood, that the Church might have appointed men, what, and how many free-will offerings they should offer, which were to turn free worship into forced.
It is no will-worship, to pray thrice or seven times in a day, or to preache thrice in one Lords-day upon speciall occasion. Some vowes are no more worship, for ⟨p. 151⟩