A19142:933
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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5. Against the Def. his invention of indifferent worship, it was excepted (to pass by repetitions) that no Scripture, Divines, or good reason doeth acknowledge any such worship. The ground is, because in Scripture, all worship is either approved as good, or condemned as evil: all Divines do distribute worship into true or false: and they have reason so to do. To this the Rejoinder opposeth nothing but the contrary assertion, grounded upon examples. 1. So far (saith he) as we may call the particularities of external disposition, in the m•nner of worship, respectively t• their end, worship, so far may we call them indifferent worship: as kneeling, standing, bowing, or prostration, the place, and hour of worshipping, singing of this or that Psalm.
5. Against the Def. his invention of indifferent worship, it was excepted (to passe by repetitions) that no Scripture, Divines, or good reason doeth acknowledge any suche worship. The ground is, because in Scripture, all worship is eyther approved as good, or condemned as evill: all Divines doe distribute worship into true or false: and they have reason so to doe. To this the Rejoynder opposeth nothing but the contrarie assertion, grounded upon examples. 1. So farre (sayth he) as we may call the particularities of externall disposition, in the m•nner of worship, respectively t• their ende, worship, so farre may we call them indifferent worship: as kneeling, standing, bowing, or prostration, the place, and houre of worshiping, singing of this or that Psalme.
I will not here write over again, that which hath been declared about these things in the head of Worship. But in brief thus: 1. The question is not, what this or that may be called, by a Rhetorical trope, but what it is in the nature of it. 2. Respect to the utmost remote end, doeth no more make matters of order, time, and place, worship, than it maketh worship of eating, & drinking, and whatsoever we do to the honour of God,