A19142:909
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.
2. His tracts of indifferency, and worship are styled little Pamphlets, such as do creep in the dark, and are hard to be seen of men that walked by day light. This is (up and down) the language of great prelates, when Goliath-like, they confute their adversaries with scorning of their little stature, and ignoble state. But the Def. or Rejoinder might have put that little pamphlet into the belly of a whale, by setting it forth with a large confutation, in folio, and so also have helped it from creeping, to some kind of riding on horseback.
2. His tracts of indifferencie, and worship are styled litle Pamphlets, suche as doe creep in the darke, and are hard to be seen of men that walked by day light. This is (up and down) the language of great prelates, when Goliah-like, they confute their adversaries with scorning of their litle stature, and ignoble state. But the Def. or Rejoynder might have put that litle pamphlet into the belly of a whale, by setting it forth with a large confutation, in folio, and so also have helped it from creeping, to some kinde of riding on horsebacke.
Neither is it harder for day-light men, to see such treatises, though thrust by their command into dark corners, then it is to open their mouths for to ask after them, and then their eyes to look on them. Howsoever, if this be a sufficient answer, then what shall become of many little books for instruction, and help, dispersed by good men among the Papists, where public authority doeth make them to keep them selves in a little compass, & to creep in the dark, for fear of being apprehended by the inquisitors day-light walkers? Mr. Bradshaw was made for accurate, short, & mere logical fashion of writing. So much appeareth out ⟨p. 151⟩of other treatises of his: as that of Justification. For to have drawn forth him unto large wordy discourses, it had been as hard, as to confine wordy men, unto the accurateness of mere logical dealing.
Neyther is it harder for day-light men, to see suche treatises, though thrust by their commaund into dark corners, then it is to open their mouthes for to aske after them, and then their eyes to looke on them. Howsoever, if this be a sufficient answer, then what shall become of many litle bookes for instruction, and helpe, dispersed by good men amonge the Papists, where publicke authoritie doeth make thē to keep thē selves in a litle cōpasse, & to creep in the darke, for fear of being apprehēded by the inquisitours day-light walkers? Mr. Bradshaw was made for accurate, short, & mere logicall fashion of writing. So muche appeareth out