A19178:303
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. XXV.
The reasons had need be strong, when they come without any testimony of Scripture, and antiquity. But here the Defendant is as much forsaken of all help, as he was in the other. His first reason is, because heretics have perverted the sacraments Now he knew that the question is of humane ceremonies, not of Gods holy institutions: therefore he fetcheth about, and draweth this to his purpose, by gathering from thence, that it is almost impossible to find any ceremony without exception. All which we grant, of human significant ceremonies, as he knoweth well: except therefore he be resolved to make a trade of begging the question, I know not what he should mean by this unreasonable reason.
THe reasons had need be strong, when they come without any testimonie of Scripture, and antiquitie. But here the Defendant is as much forsaken of all helpe, as he vvas in the other. His first reason is, because hereticks haue perverted the sacraments Now he knew that the question is of humane ceremonies, not of Gods holy institutions: therfore he fetcheth about, and draweth this to his purpose, by gathering from thence, that it is almost impossible to finde any ceremony without exception. All which we grant, of human significant ceremonies, as he knoweth well: except therefore hee be resolved to make a trade of begging the question, I know not vvhat he should meane by this unreasonable reason.