A discourse of schism

4thly. The Sign of the Cross is an addition to Baptism, and so utterly unwarrantable. Under the Old Testament it was unlawful to add to the Ceremonial Law of God, Deut. 4.2. And how should it be lawful under the New to add to the Ceremonial Law of Christ? Christ was as faithful in the House of God as Moses; his provision was as perfect for Rituals, as that […] Moses was. Nay, the Worship under ⟨p. 67⟩the Old Testament being more Shadowy and Ritual, and that under the New more pure and simple; an addition to this is less tolerable than to that, because the purer the Worship is, the more impure is the addition. The Prophet Ezekiel, speaking of the Glory of the Evangelical Church, that it was the place of God's Throne, and of the soles of his feet; adds this, That they should no more set their thresholds by God's, or their posts by his, Ezek. 43.7, & 8. they should not add their own Inventions to God's Precepts. When the Corinthians joined, [Greek or Hebrew], their own supper to the Lord's, it was unjustifiable; and the Apostle expostulates about it, Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the Church of God? 1 Cor. 11.22. Are there not distinct Houses, and distinct Suppers? why do you join the Civil Supper to the Sacred? The Apostle against such mixtures allegeth that Institution,¹ I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you, v. 23. Man may not add to what is from God. When the ⟨p. 68⟩Armenians added sod meat to the Lord's Supper, it was condemned by a General Council. When the Artotyritae brought in their bread and cheese into it,² it was abominable; when they brought in their mulsum or mellitum into it,³ the Church calls it, aliud poculum, another cup; and that, ad grande peccatum & reatum pertinet, it amounts to a great sin and guilt, as being an addition to Christ's Institution. It's true, the Fathers in this Council did through infirmity admit, Vinum cum aquâ mixtum, a mixture of Water with Wine; but another Council will not admit, no not of a little water mixed with the Wine, and adds this reason for it;