A69075:934
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
How prove you that this commandment is not ceremonial but perpetual?
How proue you that this commandement is not ceremoniall but perpetuall?
First, no Ceremony hath place in the moral Law whereof this is a part: otherwise if this be Ceremonial, then there are but nine words. Secondly, for that it was written by the finger of God, which the Ceremonies were not. Thirdly, it was written in tables of stone, as to signify the hardness of our hearts, so to signify the continuance of it. Fourthly, it was before any shadow or ceremony, yea before ⟨p. 87⟩Christ was promised, whom all ceremonies have respect unto.
First, no Ceremonie hath place in the morall Law whereof this is a part: otherwise if this be Ceremoniall, then there are but nine words. Secondly, for that it was written by the finger of God, which the Ceremonies were not. Thirdly, it was written in tables of stone, as to signifie the hardnesse of our hearts, so to signifie the continuance of it. Fourthly, it was before any shadow or ceremonie, yea before ⟨p. 87⟩Christ was promised, whom al ceremonies haue respect vnto.
But sith it sometime shadowed our eternal rest: is it not therefore ceremonial?
But sith it sometime shadowed our eternall rest: is it not therefore ceremoniall?