Christian religion

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?

That followeth not: for that the ceremony of representation of the spiritual rest, came after the commandment of the rest; and therefore is accessory and accidental; for which cause the time of correction and of abolishment of ceremonies being come, that ceremony may well fall away, and yet the Commandment remain, as being not of the substance of the Commandment.