A discourse of schism

2dly. The Ceremonies thus taken do seem to invert the Gospel. The Apostle tells the Galatians that they were removed to another Gospel, which was not another; but there were some that troubled them, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ, Gal. 1.6, 7. The word in the Original is not [Greek or Hebrew], to evert, but [Greek or Hebrew], to invert the Gospel. They did not deny the Gospel, but they added the Jewish Ceremonies to it, and so inverted it, and made it to be another Gospel; a Gospel mixed with Jewish Ceremonies, being not the same with it self in its purity. And as those Jewish Ceremonies did invert the Gospel, so do ours, tho upon a different reason, invert it also. Theirs did invert it, as being made necessary to Salvation; ours do it, as being made terms of Communion. In the pure Gospel Heaven and Ordinances do both stand open unto men in the Church. The Gospel is ⟨p. 79⟩inverted not only when men are barred out from Heaven, by making other necessaries to Salvation than are required therein, but also when men are barred out from Ordinances by making other terms of Communion than are commanded therein. This latter is that which I shall explain by Humane Instances. If a Prince grants a Charter of Franchises to a person, and, as it passes the Great Seal, the Chancellor of his own head adds a Condition to the Grant, the Charter is hereby inverted.¹ When King Edward the First confirmed the English Charters with this addition, Salvo jure coronae nostrae, the Nobles were displeased, and would not be content, till their Charters were confirmed as they were at first granted, in an absolute manner. They were sensible that a new modus might make their Charters look like another thing than indeed they were. If a man covenant or article with another, that he shall enjoy such a thing, and without orders a Condition be superadded, the Covenant is inverted. When the Emperor Charles the Fifth ⟨p. 80⟩made an Agreement with the Duke of Saxony, ²and superadded a Condition that the Duke should be of his Religion, the Duke utterly refused it; the addition made the Covenant another thing. If a man make his Will, and the Scribe of his own head add a Condition to a Legacy, the Will is inverted; hence in the Civil Law the Falsarius is greatly punished.