A19178:102
A reply to Dr. Mortons general Defence of three nocent [sic] ceremonies viz. the…A reply to Dr. Mortons generall Defence of three nocent [sic] ceremonies viz. the…
A reply to Dr. Mortons general Defence of three nocent [sic] ceremonies viz. the surplice, cross in baptism, and kneeling at the receiving of the sacramental elements of bread and wine.A reply to Dr. Mortons generall Defence of three nocent [sic] ceremonies viz. the surplice, crosse in baptisme, and kneeling at the receiving of the sacramentall elements of bread and wine.
Amsterdam: printed by Giles Thorp, 1622
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.
SECT. IIII.
Here are two testimonies brought to confute the Non-conf. his interpretation of Scripture, whereby he would infer that all kind of will-worship is unlawful. For that is here the question and nothing else. The first Witness is Danaeus, where the consequence lieth thus, if Danaeus in one place doth apply these Scriptures to grosser will-worship then our is, then he doth not allow that they condemn all kind of will-worship; but the first is true: ergo. is not this a fair kind of reasoning: just as the Papist Gregorius de Valentia reasoneth, abominable idolatry is condemned, 1 Pet. 4. 3, therefore not all idolatry.
HEre are two testimonies brought to confute the Non-conf. his interpretation of Scripture, wherby he would infer that all kinde of will-worship is unlawfull. For that is here the question and nothing else. The first Witnesse is Danaeus, where the consequence lyeth thus, if Danaeus in one place doth apply these Scriptures to grosser will-worship then our is, then he doth not allow that they condemne all kind of wil-worship; but the first is true: ergo. is not this a faire kinde of reasoning: just as the Papist Gregorius de Valentia reasoneth, abominable idolatry is condemned, 1 Pet. 4. 3, therfore not all idolatry.
The other Witness is Zanchius in Col. 2 23, where beside that the like consequence is made as before, I would desire any indifferent man to consider these words of Zanchie found in that very place. One kind of will-worship is if any new worship, whereby God is worshipped be invented and brought into the Church. For God will only be worshipped, and only with that worship which he himself hath appointed,