A19178:378
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. XVIII.
The second charge of scandal, is in respect of the Separatists. Where 1. I ask, if Gaius had made a separation from the Church wherein Diotrephes lived, whether the Apostle John had been cause of that scandal, because he condemned his abuse of excommunication. 3. Joh. 9. 10. 2. If any separate from Churches where Images are retained, who is the cause, they that dislike of Images, or they that retain them? 3. The dislike of ceremonies is not the chief cause for which separation is made: but the intolerable abuses which are in Ecclesiastical Courts: by which it cometh to pass, that many poor men being troubled at the first for a small thing, afterward are driven to fly the country: and flying with a hatred of such courses, are ready to receive that impression which is most opposite unto them. The thing it self is plain enough to all indifferent men, that Ecclesiastical corruptions urged and obtruded, are the proper occasion of separation.
THe second charge of scandall, is in respect of the Separatists. Where 1. I aske, if Gaius had made a separation from the Church wherein Diotrephes lived, vvhether the Apostle Iohn had been cause of that scandal, because he condemned his abuse of excommunication. 3. Ioh. 9. 10. 2. If any separate from Churches where Images are retained, who is the cause, they that dislike of Images, or they that retaine them? 3. The dislike of ceremonies is not the cheife cause for vvhich separation is made: but the intollerable abuses vvhich are in Ecclesiasticall Courts: by which it commeth to passe, that many poore men being troubled at the first for a small thing, afterward are driven to flye the countrey: and flying with a hatred of such courses, are ready to receiue that impression which is most opposite unto them. The thing it selfe is plaine enough to all indifferent men, that Ecclesiasticall corruptions urged and obtruded, are the proper occasion of separation.