A19178:300
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. XXIII.
NO example can the Defendant find in all the book of God, for lawful reserving of Idolatrous ceremonies, but only two; one of Gideon, Judg. 6. 26. and another of Joshua, los. 6. 19. and yet of Gideons example, the Def. himself confesseth, that it was by special commandment from God: and that it is not every way imitable. And of Joshuas, beside that it was also the express commandment of God; and that there is no mention made of things appropriated unto Idolatry, but only of goods which had been the possession of Idolaters: so that he may fetch as good an argument and better, from the Spanish Crusadoes, for the cross in baptism, then from the riches of Jericho. It doth no way appear in the text, but that the vessels were first molten, and then the gold only, and the silver, brass or iron of them, brought into the tabernacle. So that by this wretched penury of Scripture proofs, it is manifest, that the warrant for retaining of humane Idolatrous ceremonies, must be fetched out of another court, then that which God holds in his holy word.
NO example can the Defendant find in all the booke of God, for lawfull reserving of Idolatrous ceremonies, but only two; one of Gedeon, Iudg. 6. 26. and another of Ioshua, los. 6. 19. and yet of Gedeons example, the Def. himselfe confesseth, that it vvas by speciall commandment from God: and that it is not every vvay imitable. And of Ioshuas, beside that it was also the expresse commandement of God; and that there is no mention made of things appropriated unto Idolatry, but onely of goods which had been the possession of Idolaters: so that he may fetch as good an argument and better, from the Spanish Crusadoes, for the crosse in baptisme, then from the riches of Iericho. It doth no way appeare in the text, but that the vessells were first molten, and then the gold onely, and the silver, brasse or yron of them, brought into the tabernacle. So that by this wretched penurie of Scripture proofes, it is manifest, that the vvarrant for reteining of humane Idolatrous ceremonies, must be fetched out of another court, then that vvhich God holds in his holy word.