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…

For Protestant Divines, Bellarmines confession is alleged, who saith, That Protestants grant that the Apostles did ordain certain Rites and Orders, belonging to the Church, which are not set down in Scripture, cont. 1. lib. 4. cap. 3. To which I answer, 1 Rites and Orders may be ordained, though such ceremonies as ours be unlawful. And Bellarmines meaning could not be of such Rites as our Ceremonies ⟨p. 13⟩are, except he spake against his conscience, for he confesseth, de cult: sanct. l. 3 cap. 7, that some of our Divines, as Brentius by name condemn such as unlawful. 2 Bellarmine craftily bringeth in this confession of our divines, that he may make them contradict themselves, as appeareth in the same place. His Confession therefore in this place is not so indifferent, as the Def. would have it: 3 our Argument is not from the Scriptures negatively against the authority of the Apostles, which was all one with that of the Scriptures, and therefore understood in our Proposition, but against the ordinary authority of the Church. Except therefore the Def. can prove either that our ceremonies were the rites brought in by the Apostles, or that our Convocation house hath the same authority which the Apostles had, this confession of Bellarmine is nothing to the purpose.

FOr Protestant Divines, Bellarmines confession is alledged, who saith, That Protestants grant that the Apostles did ordaine certaine Rites and Orders, belonging to the Church, which are not set down in Scripture, cont. 1. lib. 4. cap. 3. To vvhich I answer, 1 Rites and Orders may be ordained, though such ceremonies as ours be unlawfull. And Bellarmines meaning could not be of such Rites as our Ceremonies