A19142:977
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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For the present, it was first noted by the Repl. that some intention and opinion of holiness cleaveth to our Ceremonies. This is denied by the Rej. and yet in his whole dispute, he maketh them worship, though accidental, arbitrary, and improper. Neither can any man impose a double or treble religious Ceremony without intention and opinion of some holiness belonging to it, more then to that which is not so religious.
For the present, it was first noted by the Repl. that some intention and opinion of holinesse cleaveth to our Ceremonies. This is denied by the Rej. and yet in his whole dispute, he maketh them worship, though accidentall, arbitrarie, and improper. Neyther can any man impose a double or treble religious Ceremonie without intention and opinion of some holinesse belonging to it, more then to that which is not so religious.
It was in the second place observed, that more holiness was attributed to those washings, then is by many among us to the cross, cannot be proved out of the text, there being no one circumstance in it, which may not fitly be applied to our Ceremonies. To which the Rej. saith 1. that those are blind & superstitious persons, which attribute such things to the Cross, not the Church imposing. Just as Bellarmine, in the place by and by to be cited, answereth Calv. about the same matter:1 If there be any more rude among her Catholics, we hold them worthy to be corrected. But are not our blind Protestants, and those rude Papists, hardened in their superstition, by the imposing & urging of those things which they superstitiously dote on?
It was in the second place observed, that more holinesse was attributed to those washings, then is by many among us to the crosse, cannot be proved out of the text, ther being no one circumstance in it, which may not fitly be applied to our Ceremonies. To whiche the Rej. sayth 1. that those are blinde & superstitious persons, which attribute suche thinges to the Crosse, not the Church imposing. Iust as Bellarmine, in the place by and by to be cited, answereth Calv. about the same matter: