A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

4. The Prelatical conformity was for the most part made up of sacred ceremonies, which had been grossly and notoriously abused either to Idolatry or Superstition, and therefore being things of no necessary use, ought not to have been continued, but abolished as the brazen serpent was by Hezekiah.

4. The Prelatical conformity was for the most part made up of sacred ceremonies, which had been grossely and notoriously abused either to Idolatry or Superstition, and therefore being things of no necessary use, ought not to have been continued, but abolished as the brazen serpent was by Hezekiah.

But in our uniformity now excepted against, I know no such thing (and I am confident no man can give instance of any such thing in it) as a sacred Religious rite or thing which hath neither from Scripture nor nature any necessary use, and hath been notoriously abused to idolatry or superstition, if any such thing can be found, I shall confess it ought not to be continued.

But in our uniformity now excepted against, I know no such thing (and I am confident no man can give instance of any such thing in it) as a sacred Religious rite or thing which hath neither from Scripture nor nature any necessary use, and hath been notoriously abused to idolatry or superstition, if any such thing can be found, I shall confesse it ought not to be continued.

5. They imposed upon others and practised themselves ceremonies (acknowledged by themselves to be in their own nature merely indifferent, but looked upon by many thousands of godly people, as unlawful and contrary to the word) to the great scandal and offence of their brethren. Our principle is, that things indifferent ought not to be practised with the scandal and offence of the godly.