A19178:77
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. XIX.
Here the Protestants themselves are brought in confessing as much as Bellarmine said of them. But the first witness Chemnitius saith nothing, but that some Ecclesiastical rites, though they have no commandment or testimony in Scripture are not to be rejected: which in the sense now often expounded, I willingly grant. Yet the Def. should not in stead of Testimony of Scripture, have put warrant of Scripture: For testimony neither in usual acception, nor yet in Chemnitius his own meaning, is so large as warrant.
HEre the Protestants themselues are brought in confessing as much as Bellarmine said of them. But the first witnesse Chemnitius saith nothing, but that some Ecclesiasticall rites, though they haue no commandement or testimonie in Scripture are not to be rejected: vvhich in the sense now often expounded, I willingly grant. Yet the Def. should not in stead of Testimonie of Scripture, haue put warrant of Scripture: For testimonie neither in usuall acception, nor yet in Chemnitius his own meaning, is so large as warrant.
The place of Calvin hath been answered before. Junius is plainly of the same mind, and so to be interpreted, so also Zanchius, Daneus and Whitaker: But because Junius is styled here by the Def. with his deserved title of Judicious, it will not be amiss to show his judgement fully about such additions as our ceremonies are. To name therefore one place for all at this time, because there he speaketh professedly his judgement, and bindeth it with a solemn oath, for the sincerity and impartialness of his conscience in that behalf: The place I mean is in his Ecclestasticus, lib. 3 cap. 5. towards the end. Where first he distinguisheth betwixt things necessary, and others not necessary in the administration of the Church: and concerning even the latter sort, he modestly, but throughly showeth how little liberty is left unto men. If any man (saith he) either by Civill or Ecclesiastical authority will add things not necessary nor agreeable to order, we would not pertinaciously contend with him, but desire only that he would seriously consider of three things. 1 By what authority or example he is led to think that the holy Church of God, and the simplicity of the mysteries of Christ (whose voice only is