A19178:240
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. XXXI.
After much sailing in the main sea, the Defendant directeth his course (as he saith) homeward to the narrow seas, by instancing, in the practise of Non-conformists themselves. His comparison is good: for as the scriptures were too deep for him to fasten any anchor of a conforming argument in: so the practises of weak men are so full of sands and shelves, that here he can have no sure riding. The sea of Rome turned, by one of our Prelates, mare Romanum, is the best harbour of all the world for the ceremonies to arrive and rest in.
AFter much sayling in the maine sea, the Defendant directeth his course (as he sayth) homeward to the narrow seas, by instancing, in the practise of Non-conformists themselues. His comparison is good: for as the scriptures were too deepe for him to fasten any anchor of a conforming argument in: so the practises of vveak men are so full of sands and shelves, that here hee can haue no sure riding. The sea of Rome turned, by one of our Prelates, mare Romanum, is the best harbour of all the world for the ceremonies to arriue and rest in.
The first example brought is the form of an oath, which is taken on a book. To which I answer, 1. That if this form of swearing can be proved to be of the same nature with the cross in baptism, &c. we will rather abandon this form to avoid the Cross, then admit of the cross for love of this. 2 I affirm, that it were much better that this form (invented by Papists, and abused not only by them, but also by many among our selves) were abolished, as it is in other Countries not Popish,