Twelve
generall
Arguments
,
Proving
that
the
Ceremonies
imposed
upon
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
in
England
,
by
our
Prelates
,
are
unlawfull
;
And
therefore
that
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
for
the
bare
and
sole
omission
of
them
in
Church
Service
,
for
conscience
sake
,
are
most
unjustlie
charged
of
disloyaltie
to
his
Maiestie
.
〈…〉
Math.
18.23
.
If
I
have
spoken
evill
,
beare
witnesse
of
the
evill
:
But
if
I
have
spoken
well
,
why
smitest
thou
mee
?
1605.
To
the
Reader
.
GOod
Reader
,
We
come
not
as
voluntaries
into
this
field
of
Contention
,
but
draug'd
into
it
by
the
very
haires
of
our
head
:
If
our
cause
bee
●ighteous
and
good
,
Thou
wilt
easily
graunt
●in
so
great
Imputations
and
Extremities
●nflicted
upon
us
for
the
same
)
that
we
can
●oe
no
lesse
,
Then
give
reasons
for
our selves
●nd
it
.
All
the
favour
I
require
of
thee
,
〈◊〉
,
That
thou
wouldest
looke
into
our
cause
〈◊〉
not
by
the
flashing
lightninges
,
that
come
●ut
of
the
mouthes
of
our
Adversaries
the
Prelates
)
but
by
the
light
of
our
owne
Reasons
,
by
which
if
thou
shalt
see
the
goodnes
of
our
cause
,
and
innocencie
of
our
persons
,
the●
imbrace
it
with
vs
.
And
in
pitie
pray
fo●
vs
,
(
that
without
shipwrack
of
Faith
and
a
good
Conscience
)
wee
may
endure
patientli●
and
meekely
,
what
so
ever
God
shall
suffer
to
bee
inflicted
vpon
vs
for
the
same
;
in
these
wicked
and
licentious
times
.
The
first
Argument
.
-
All
Wil-worship
is
sinne
.
-
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Church
Service
in
manner
and
forme
prescribed
,
is
a
Wil-worship
.
-
Ergo
To
use
them
is
sinne
.
The
Proposition
can
not
be
denied
,
for
the
Apostle
Paule
plainly
condemneth
Wil-worship
.
The
Assumption
may
thus
be
proved
:
-
All
partes
of
Divine
Service
and
Worship
,
imposed
only
by
the
wil
and
pleasure
of
Man
,
upon
the
Ministers
of
Divine
Service
,
and
that
of
necessitie
,
to
be
done
,
is
Will-worship
.
-
But
to
use
these
Ceremonies
in
manner
and
forme
prescribed
,
is
to
use
such
Ceremonies
as
are
1.
partes
of
Divine
Service
and
Worship
,
2.
imposed
onely
by
the
pleasure
and
will
of
Men
,
upon
the
Ministers
of
Divine
Service
,
3.
9
necessitie
to
bee
done
therein
,
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
manner
an●
forme
prescribed
,
is
a
Wil-worship
.
The
Proposition
is
as
cleare
as
the
Sunne
at
noone-day
.
The
Assumption
hath
three
parts
,
1.
That
they
are
parts
of
Divine
Worship
and
Service
.
This
is
proved
evidently
by
this
Argument
:
-
All
Mysticall
and
Ecclesiasticall
Rites
and
formes
of
Divine
Service
,
institut●d
by
Ecclesiasticall
authoritie
,
to
be●
Ministeriall
actions
in
the
solemne
Worship
of
God
,
and
performed
in
that
manner
,
and
having
that
use
in
Divine
Service
,
that
if
God
should
but
ratifie
and
confirme
the
same
use
,
they
should
then
be
parts
of
his
true
Worship
,
(
I
say
)
all
such
Ceremonies
are
used
as
partes
of
Divine
Worship
-
But
these
Ceremonies
in
controversie
,
are
either
all
,
or
the
greatest
parte
of
them
such
.
-
Ergo
,
●hey
are
partes
of
Divine
Worship
and
Service
.
The
Proposition
cannot
with
any
modest
face
bee
denied
;
For
els
how
●ould
a
sole
Divine
ratification
of
the
present
use
of
them
,
make
them
partes
of
his
true
Worship
?
if
they
were
not
used
as
partes
of
his
Worship
before
.
The
Assumption
is
as
manifest
,
For
if
Christ
should
by
some
Revelation
from
heaven
signifie
,
That
it
is
his
will
that
a
Minister
in
Divine
Service
should
weare
a
white
linnen
garment
,
In
Baptisme
make
the
signe
of
a
Crosse
,
To
these
endes
and
purposes
that
are
expressed
in
the
Service
booke
,
then
certainly
they
should
be
essentiall
parts
of
his
Divine
Worship
,
els
the
Iewish
Rites
and
Ceremonies
and
our
Sacraments
are
no
partes
thereof
.
The
second
part
of
the
Assumption●
the
1.
Syllogisme
.
That
they
are
imposed
onely
upon
t●
pleasure
and
will
of
man
.
This
is
evident
.
For
those
things
th●●
God
leaves
as
indifferent
to
the
wi●
and
discretion
of
man
to
doe
or
leav●
undone
,
being
imposed
by
man
upo●
man
,
are
imposed
onely
upon
the
wi●
and
pleasure
of
man
.
The
3.
part
of
the
Assumption
is
:
That
they
are
of
Necessitie
to
be
don●
in
Divine
Seruice
.
Which
is
also
out
of
all
doubt
,
For●
Minister
standes
bound
to
doe
them
upon
paine
of
suspension
and
deprivation
:
and
God
must
haue
no
solemne
Worship
in
England
,
except
it
be
administred
in
the
same
.
Upon
all
this
it
followes
,
That
to
use
these
Ceremonies
in
manner
and
forme
proscribed
,
is
to
use
such
Ceremonies
,
as
are
partes
of
Divine
worship
imposed
onely
by
the
will
of
Man
,
&c.
The
2.
Argument
.
-
It
is
a
sinne
against
God
for
him
that
is
by
way
of
Excellencie
a
servaunt
of
IESVS
Christ
,
(
without
a
precise
and
direct
warrant
from
him
)
at
any
time
,
(
especially
in
the
Solemne
Worship
of
God
)
to
give
speciall
Honour
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
,
-
But
to
use
these
Ceremonies
,
is
in
that
manner
aforesaid
,
to
give
speciall
Honour
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
,
-
Ergo
It
is
a
sinne
against
God
to
use
them
.
The
Proposition
is
manifest
&
cleare
to
any
that
have
an
eye
of
Reason
and
any
light
of
Divinitie
shyning
in
it
.
For
what
is
a
sinne
if
this
be
not
:
That
a
Servaunt
of
Iesus
Christ
,
even
then
when
hee
is
in
the
Service
of
Christe
,
should
performe
speciall
Honour
and
Service
to
Antichrist
,
or
any
of
his
limmes
.
The
Assumption
is
prooved
(
If
our
adversaries
will
graunt
it
,
that
the
Pope
is
Antichrist
,
and
that
all
the
visible
members
of
his
Church
,
acknowledging
him
their
supreame
head
,
are
members
of
him
)
by
this
reason
.
-
Such
a
Conformitie
to
Antichrist
and
his
Members
in
the
Ceremonies
of
Religion
and
Forme
of
Divine
worship
,
as
is
not
only
besides
the
word
of
God
,
but
in
a
speciall
manner
derogatorie
to
all
reformed
Churches
that
have
departed
from
the
Synagogue
of
Rome
,
is
a
speciall
honor
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
.
-
But
to
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Divine
Worship
,
is
such
a
Conformitie
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
,
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
,
in
that
manner
aforesaid
,
is
to
give
speciall
honor
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
.
The
Proposition
is
without
exception
:
For
if
it
should
bee
a
speciall
honor
to
the
Bishops
of
England
&
their
conformed
Cleargie
:
For
the
Churches
of
Scotland
,
voluntarily
to
leave
conformitie
to
the
Churches
of
the
low
Countries
,
France
,
&
Germanie
,
and
to
conforme
them selves
in
Ceremonies
,
and
Forme
of
Divine
worship
to
the
Prelaticall
Cleargie
of
England
:
It
must
needes
bee
a
speciall
honour
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
,
for
anie
to
doe
the
like
to
them
.
The
Assumption
is
thus
proved
:
-
For
a
Minister
of
Iesus
Christ
to
conforme
him self
in
such
peculiar
Rites
,
Ceremonies
and
formes
of
Divine
Service
to
Antichrist
and
his
members
,
as
all
other
reformed
Churches
have
reiected
for
vaine
,
foolish
,
and
superstitious
,
is
in
a
speciall
manner
derogatorie
to
all
other
reformed
Churches
.
-
But
to
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Controversie
,
is
in
that
manner
to
Conforme
him selfe
.
-
Ergo
,
It
is
in
a
speciall
manner
derogatorie
to
all
other
Reformed
Churches
.
Both
partes
of
the
Syllogisme
are
such
as
may
easilie
bee
prooved
,
if
they
bee
denied
.
The
3.
Argument
.
-
All
worship
more
then
Civill
,
performed
to
any
besides
God
,
is
a
sinne
.
-
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
manner
and
forme
prescribed
,
is
to
performe
a
more
then
civill
honor
(
even
a
Religious
)
onely
to
a
humane
Power
and
Authoritie
,
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
,
is
to
sinne
.
The
Proposition
needs
no
proofe
,
For
there
is
no
midle
Honor
betweene
Civill
and
Divine
,
and
therefore
that
which
is
more
then
Civill
,
is
Divine
.
Now
Divine
Honor
is
to
be
given
only
to
God
,
who
will
not
have
his
Glorie
given
unto
another
.
The
Assumption
is
thus
proved
:
-
If
these
Ceremonies
bee
Religious
Ceremonies
,
and
all
Religious
Ceremonies
bee
a
part
of
Divine
worship
,
performed
to
that
authoritie
that
instituteth
&
commaundeth
them
.
If
also
the
authoritie
that
instituteth
and
commandeth
them
,
is
but
meerely
humane
,
Then
the
Assumption
is
true
.
-
But
the
first
is
true
:
-
Ergo
,
The
latter
is
true
also
.
The
Proposition
can
not
be
denied
of
any
reasonable
creature
.
The
Assumption
hath
three
partes
:
I.
That
these
Ceremonies
are
Religious
Ceremonies
.
This
needes
no
proofe
:
For
what
shall
we
make
to
be
Religious
Ceremonies
,
If
those
Ceremonies
be
not
,
That
are
prescribed
by
the
Church
,
to
the
Church
only
,
tied
to
Religion
only
,
and
Religious
functions
,
offices
,
&
persons
:
To
be
acted
and
performed
onely
in
exercises
of
Religion
and
Divine
Worship
,
and
are
mysticall
shadowes
&
types
of
Religious
Doctrine
.
II.
That
all
Religious
Ceremonies
are
partes
of
Divine
Worship
.
This
neither
should
need
any
proofe
,
If
those
that
are
adversaries
unto
us
in
this
cause
,
did
not
to
much
presume
of
the
weaknes
of
our
discourse
,
and
the
strength
of
their
owne
wit
.
For
there
being
an
externall
Divine
Worshipp
which
properly
consists
in
the
outward
Rites
and
Ceremonies
of
Religion
:
What
Ceremonies
can
be
called
parts
thereof
,
if
such
Religious
Ceremonies
as
these
,
bee
not
?
For
if
bowing
the
knee
,
&c.
in
Divine
Worship
(
though
it
be
used
also
in
Civill
Worship
)
be
a
part
of
Divine
Worship
,
much
more
are
those
Ceremonies
that
are
peculiarly
appropriated
to
Divine
Service
&
Worship
,
&
wherein
part
of
the
forme
thereof
is
made
to
consist
.
But
it
may
(
for
further
satisfying
of
men
)
be
thus
proved
:
-
All
meere
and
immediate
Actions
of
Religion
are
partes
of
Divine
Worship
.
-
All
Religious
Ceremonies
,
are
meere
and
immediate
Actions
of
Religion
.
-
Ergo
,
They
are
partes
of
Divine
Worship
.
Further
,
how
can
a
man
imagine
that
a
meere
Religious
and
Ecclesiasticall
Act
,
done
by
a
Servant
of
God
in
the
solemne
Service
and
Worship
of
God
,
by
precise
Canon
of
the
Church
should
be
no
part
of
Divine
Worship
,
Sith
all
the
solemne
Rites
&
Ceremonies
that
are
used
in
the
solemne
Services
of
Civil
States
,
(
especially
such
as
are
done
in
their
presence
)
have
bene
ever
reputed
partes
of
Civill
Honor
&
Worship
.
Lastlie
,
considering
that
God
in
his
Divine
Worship
,
doeth
require
the
whole
heart
,
and
all
the
powers
of
the
Soule
during
the
act
of
his
Worship
,
It
were
great
presumption
for
any
mortall
Creature
,
to
prescribe
any
Action
to
man
during
the
same
Act
that
is
no
part
thereof
:
Considering
that
every
Action
so
prescribed
must
of
necessitie
pull
a
part
of
the
heart
from
Divine
Worshipp
.
III.
That
authoritie
that
instituted
them
is
but
merely
Humane
.
This
is
most
certaine
,
for
if
they
were
●nstituted
by
Divine
authoritie
,
They
could
not
bee
esteemed
Matters
indifferent
:
and
should
not
be
in
the
power
●nd
discretion
of
the
Magistrate
to
disannull
them
.
The
4.
Argument
.
-
If
it
be
lawfull
for
a
Minister
of
the
Gospell
without
sinne
to
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Divine
Worship
:
It
is
lawfull
for
him
upon
the
same
occasion
to
use
any
Iewish
,
Turkish
,
Paganish
or
Popish
Ceremonie
whatsoeuer
.
-
But
it
is
not
lawfull
for
the
Minister
of
the
Gospell
to
use
in
Divine
Worship
,
upon
the
same
occasion
,
any
Iewish
,
Popish
,
Paganish
or
Turkish
Ceremonie
.
-
Ergo
,
Hee
cannot
without
sinne
use
these
.
The
Assumption
cannot
for
shame
be
denied
,
We
prove
the
consequent
of
the
Proposition
.
-
If
any
Iewish
,
Turkish
,
Paganish
,
or
Popish
Ceremonies
and
Rite
bee
a
thing
in
it
owne
Nature
as
indifferent
as
these
Ceremonies
are
and
either
have
,
or
may
haue
by
such
like
institution
as
good
use
,
then
the
consequent
of
the
Proposition
is
true
.
-
But
the
first
is
true
.
-
Ergo
,
The
latter
is
true
also
.
The
Proposition
,
as
I
think
,
cannot
be
denied
nor
the
Assumption
,
but
by
bringing
som
contrarie
instance
in
som
of
their
Ceremonies
:
When
any
such
●hall
be
given
,
this
Argument
shal
bee
●urther
prosecuted
.
The
5.
Argument
.
-
Everie
scismaticall
action
done
by
a
Minister
of
the
Gospell
is
a
Sinne
.
.
-
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
controversie
are
scismaticall
actions
.
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
is
Sinne
.
.
The
Proposition
will
bee
graunted
.
I
must
proove
the
Assumption
.
-
All
Actions
of
irregularitie
and
n●●
conformitie
to
the
Catholike
church
wherin
we
liue
,
are
scismaticall
Actions
.
-
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
controversie
,
are
actions
of
irregularitie
,
and
non
conformitie
to
the
Catholike
church
wherei●
we
live
.
-
Ergo
,
The
use
of
these
Ceremonies
in
controversie
are
scismaticall
Actions
.
The
Proposition
cannot
be
denie●
for
if
we
be
branded
with
the
cole
〈◊〉
scisme
iustly
,
for
denying
conformitie
in
some
Ceremonies
,
but
to
some
of
our
owne
particular
Churches
wherein
we
live
,
though
we
be
content
,
to
ioyne
with
them
that
use
them
in
Divine
worship
:
much
more
scismatiks
are
they
that
are
not
conformable
in
Rites
and
Ceremonies
to
the
Catholike
Church
wherein
they
live
.
I
proove
the
Assumption
.
-
If
all
the
Protestants
,
Pastors
,
Ministers
&
Governors
living
this
day
in
Europe
,
and
all
the
painefull
resident
Pastors
of
our
owne
countrey
(
except
some
Nonresidents
,
Idoll
shepheards
,
som
that
depend
upon
the
prelacie
,
and
some
other
that
are
forced
and
constreyned
to
use
them
against
their
will
)
doe
not
only
refuse
to
use
these
Ceremonies
,
but
esteeme
them
vaine
,
foolish
and
superstitious
:
Then
the
use
of
these
Ceremonies
are
actions
of
irregularitie
and
non
Conformitie
to
the
Catholike
Church
.
-
But
the
first
wil
be
prooved
true
,
-
Ergo
,
The
latter
is
true
also
.
The
Proposition
is
evident
,
by
their
owne
principles
:
For
an
irregularitie
&
non-Conformitie
to
the
Pastors
and
Governours
of
Churches
,
is
an
irregularitie
and
non-Conformitie
to
the
Churche
,
for
they
are
reputed
the
CHVRCH
REPRESENTATIVE
:
and
if
they
be
to
be
anathematized
,
&
excommunicated
that
deny
The
Bishops
and
other
Ministers
assembled
in
the
Convocation
,
to
be
the
Church
of
England
representative
,
then
surely
are
all
the
Pastors
of
the
visible
Churches
in
Europe
,
the
Catholike
Church
representative
,
&
those
particular
Ministers
in
this
Realme
,
that
shall
use
not
onely
different
Ceremonies
;
but
such
as
they
have
renounced
and
forsaken
,
are
scismatikes
and
irregular
persons
.
The
Assumption
is
evident
in
it self
.
The
6.
Argument
.
-
All
spirituall
Communion
with
those
Idolatours
amongst
whom
we
live
in
the
mysteries
of
their
Idolatrie
and
Superstition
,
is
sinne
.
-
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Divine
worship
,
is
a
spirituall
Communion
with
the
Idolatrous
Papistes
(
That
doe
not
onely
border
round
about
us
,
but
are
tollerated
in
infinite
numbers
to
live
amongest
us
)
in
the
mysteries
of
their
Idolat.
and
Superstition
.
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
is
to
sinne
.
The
Proposition
is
his
M.
own
,
if
Master
B.
have
made
a
true
report
of
the
Conference
at
Hampt
.
Court
,
for
therein
his
Ma.
confesseth
,
That
if
wee
lived
amongst
Idolators
,
we
ought
not
then
to
communicate
with
them
in
their
Rites
and
Ceremonies
.
The
Assumption
is
thus
prooved
.
-
If
Papistes
be
Idolators
,
if
we
be
not
onely
in
league
with
whole
kingdomes
of
Papistes
bordering
upon
us
and
neare
unto
us
,
but
have
many
Thousande
professed
ones
living
amongst
us
:
if
these
Ceremonies
be
speciall
mysteries
of
their
Superstition
if
to
use
the
same
Rites
that
they
do
in
theirs
in
our
spirituall
and
Divine
Service
,
he
spiritually
to
communicate
with
them
in
the
same
:
Then
is
the
Sentence
of
the
Assumption
true
.
-
But
wee
shall
be
able
to
prove
,
as
sone
as
any
shall
deny
,
that
the
first
and
every
parte
and
parcell
thereof
is
true
.
-
Ergo
,
The
later
is
true
also
.
The
7.
Argument
.
-
To
mingle
Profane
things
with
Divine
,
is
to
sinne
.
-
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Divine
Worship
is
to
mingle
Profane
things
with
Divine
.
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Divine
Worship
,
is
to
sinne
.
The
Proposition
shineth
in
the
eyes
of
the
very
Heathen
,
who
have
esteemed
it
a
dishonor
to
their
Religion
&
worshippe
,
that
any
profane
persons
should
be
Actors
in
it
,
much
more
that
any
profane
Actions
should
bee
mingled
with
it
.
The
Assumption
is
thus
proved
.
-
All
peculiar
Actions
done
in
Divine
Worship
,
that
are
neither
Civill
nor
holy
,
are
profane
.
-
These
Ceremonies
are
peculiar
actions
done
in
Divine
Worship
,
that
are
neither
civill
nor
holy
.
-
Ergo
,
They
are
Profane
.
The
Proposition
cannot
with
any
shew
of
reason
be
denied
,
there
being
no
meane
betweene
these
in
such
actions
as
are
prescribed
to
be
done
in
Divine
Service
by
Canon
and
Law
:
For
though
spitting
,
coughing
,
hemming
,
&c.
if
they
be
used
for
necessitie
,
bee
neither
civill
,
holy
,
nor
profane
Actions
:
Yet
if
there
should
be
an
Ecclesiasticall
Canon
that
should
require
the
Minister
to
spit
at
every
full
period
;
or
the
people
to
hem
,
and
hauke
at
every
transition
in
a
Sermon
,
they
must
needs
then
be
referred
to
one
of
these
three
heades
,
as
shall
easily
be
proved
if
it
be
denyed
.
The
Assumption
is
as
cleare
.
For
first
his
Ma.
(
with
words
of
great
disgrace
and
contempt
of
those
,
that
hold
the
contrarie
)
:
hath
lately
protested
that
they
are
not
urged
as
holy
&
Religious
matters
:
And
that
they
are
not
Civill
Actions
,
hath
beene
proved
before
,
for
there
beeing
an
opposition
in
Reason
betweene
things
Civill
&
Ecclesiasticall
,
though
they
haue
some
things
common
to
both
(
as
all
opposites
haue
)
yet
it
is
ridiculous
to
affirme
that
those
things
are
Civill
,
that
are
meerely
Ecclesiasticall
,
and
are
Actions
peculiarly
appropriated
and
tied
to
Divine
Worship
:
For
Civill
Actions
,
are
performed
in
Civill
affaires
,
and
though
there
is
a
common
Civilitie
also
to
be
observed
even
in
Divine
matters
:
Yet
those
Actions
cannot
be
called
Civill
,
that
are
used
onely
in
Divine
Offices
and
duties
,
no
more
then
those
can
be
called
Ecclesiasticall
and
Divine
that
are
used
onely
in
Civill
affaires
.
For
it
may
be
affirmed
by
as
good
reason
,
that
an
Ecclesiasticall
Officer
imployed
onely
in
Ecclesiasticall
matters
,
is
a
Civill
Officer
only
.
Or
a
Civill
Officer
imployed
onely
in
Civill
matters
is
an
Ecclesiasticall
Officer
only
;
as
that
a
meere
Ecclesiasticall
action
,
done
in
and
by
the
Church
onely
,
should
be
a
Civill
Action
.
The
8.
Argument
.
-
If
it
be
lawfull
to
use
these
Ceremonies
in
Divine
worship
,
it
is
therefore
lawfull
because
they
are
either
lawfull
in
themselves
;
or
being
things
in
their
owne
Nature
indifferent
,
are
made
lawfull
by
the
commaundment
of
the
Magistrate
to
bee
used
in
Divine
Service
.
-
But
they
are
neither
lawfull
in
themselves
to
be
used
,
nor
therefore
lawfull
because
the
Magistrate
commaundes
them
so
to
be
used
,
though
they
bee
Matters
in
their
owne
Nature
indifferent
.
-
Ergo
,
They
are
unlawfull
to
be
used
in
Divine
Worship
.
The
Proposition
I
think
can
not
be
denied
,
when
it
is
,
I
hope
it
may
bee
prooved
.
The
first
part
of
the
Assumption
is
cleare
:
For
if
they
were
in
themselves
lawfull
,
to
be
used
,
then
might
a
Minister
of
the
Gospel
being
left
to
his
own
discretion
,
by
the
Magistrate
,
invent
,
institute
,
and
use
the
like
Ceremonies
,
in
the
same
maner
without
sinne
.
For
any
man
left
to
him selfe
,
may
lawfully
doe
that
which
of
it selfe
is
lawfull
and
indifferent
.
But
a
Minister
should
sinne
against
God
,
if
hee
should
of
his
owne
head
institute
,
&
use
the
like
Ceremonies
to
these
,
though
permitted
by
the
Magistrate
;
Except
wee
should
hold
,
that
it
is
lawfull
,
for
a
Minister
to
doe
any
indifferent
thing
in
Gods
Service
,
for
a
man
may
of
any
indifferent
thing
,
make
a
Ceremonie
like
unto
one
of
these
.
The
second
part
of
the
Assumption
is
thus
proved
.
-
If
they
bee
therefore
lawfull
,
because
beeing
things
in
their
owne
Nature
indifferent
,
the
Magistrate
commaunds
them
to
be
done
in
Divine
Service
,
Then
whatsoever
thing
(
being
in
it
owne
Nature
indifferent
)
is
or
shal
be
commaunded
by
the
Magistrate
is
lawfull
to
bee
done
in
Divine
Service
.
-
But
all
things
that
are
in
them selves
matters
indifferent
,
are
not
lawfull
to
bee
done
in
Divine
Service
,
though
the
Magistrate
should
commaund
them
.
-
Ergo
,
They
are
not
therefore
lawfull
to
be
used
in
Divine
service
,
because
the
Magistrate
commandes
them
,
though
they
be
things
in
their
owne
nature
indifferent
.
The
Proposition
cannot
be
denied
,
For
if
some
things
indifferent
in
their
owne
Nature
being
commaunded
by
the
Magistrate
,
are
unlawfull
:
It
can
be
no
good
Argument
to
say
,
These
things
being
indifferent
are
commaunded
by
the
Magistrate
.
Ergo
,
They
may
lawfully
be
done
.
Much-lesse
therefore
they
ought
to
be
done
.
Or
as
the
Doctors
of
Oxef
.
affirme
that
they
binde
the
conscience
.
The
Assumption
is
more
cleare
then
the
Proposition
.
If
it
be
considered
either
what
things
are
indifferent
indeed
,
or
goe
under
the
name
and
title
of
indifferent
things
.
Eating
&
drincking
;
the
avoiding
the
superfluities
of
Nature
;
due
benevolence
betweene
man
and
wife
;
spinning
and
carding
;
killing
of
Oxen
and
sheep
,
&c.
which
of
themselves
have
in
them
neither
vertue
nor
vice
,
are
therfore
indifferent
Actions
;
and
yet
I
thinke
none
except
professed
Atheistes
,
but
will
hold
it
a
foule
sinne
to
doe
some
of
these
Actions
in
any
Assembly
,
much
more
in
the
solemne
worship
of
God
,
though
the
Magistrate
should
commaund
the
same
even
upon
paine
of
death
.
But
if
it
be
further
considered
,
That
Carding
and
Dicing
,
Masking
and
Dauncinge
;
for
Men
to
put
on
Woomens
apparell
,
and
women
mens
:
Drincking
to
healthes
;
Ribald
,
Stage-playes
,
&c.
are
things
indifferent
to
be
done
even
vpon
the
Lords
owne
day
:
May
a
Minister
of
the
Gospell
uppon
the
Magistrates
commaundement
doe
any
of
these
in
Divine
Worship
.
And
yet
ther
is
none
of
these
,
but
may
have
applied
unto
them
by
the
Witt
of
Man
,
a
Mysticall
and
Religious
Sence
;
and
then
by
this
Bish.
of
Canterburies
Rule
,
They
must
needes
be
good
and
lawfull
Ceremonies
:
for
his
principall
Argument
to
proove
them
lawfull
at
his
last
Cōvention
of
London
Ministers
before
him
,
was
this
.
-
They
are
Ceremonies
that
teach
good
Doctrine
,
-
Ergo
They
are
good
Ceremonies
.
Whereas
the
filthiest
actions
and
thinges
that
are
may
teach
good
doctrine
.
The
holy
Ghost
resembleth
the
soule
polluted
with
sinne
,
to
a
menstrous
cloth
:
A
man
fallen
againe
into
sinne
,
to
a
Sowe
wallowing
in
the
mire
:
might
therfore
a
filthie
sow
and
such
uncelane
clothes
be
brought
into
the
Church
,
to
be
visible
shadowes
,
&
representations
of
such
thinges
?
Nay
,
what
may
not
by
this
meanes
bee
brought
into
Gods
worship
,
&
yet
by
this
reason
be
defended
to
bee
a
good
Ceremonie
if
the
Magistrates
and
Bishops
should
decree
the
same
?
A
fooles
coate
and
a
beggers
,
worne
in
Divine
Service
,
may
fitly
teach
this
doctrine
Not
many
Wise
,
not
many
Noble
:
A
Minister
clothed
in
such
apparel
as
those
that
act
the
Divels
part
in
a
playe
may
teach
this
,
That
by
Nature
we
are
lymmes
of
Sathan
and
firebrands
of
hell
,
Men
might
weare
Womens
apparell
,
and
Womens
Men
,
The
one
to
teach
,
That
the
Church
is
Christes
Wife
;
The
other
to
teache
,
That
Women
in
Christ
are
equall
to
Men.
Beare-bayting
may
teache
us
,
How
Christ
was
bayted
before
the
Tribunals
of
the
Pharisies
,
or
the
combate
betweene
the
flesh
and
the
spirit
.
But
the
grossenes
of
these
Assertions
will
appeare
in
our
Speciall
Reasons
against
the
Ceremonies
in
particular
.
The
9.
Argument
.
-
To
Administer
unto
the
Church
of
God
,
Sacramentes
that
are
not
of
Divine
institution
,
is
to
sinne
.
-
To
use
divers
of
these
Ceremonies
,
viz.
The
Crosse
in
Baptisme
,
the
Ring
in
Mariadge
,
the
Surplice
,
&c.
is
to
administer
unto
the
Church
of
God
Sacraments
that
are
not
of
Divine
institution
:
-
Ergo
,
To
use
these
Ceremonies
,
is
to
sinne
.
The
Proposition
is
graunted
of
all
,
both
Papist
and
Protestant
.
The
Assumption
is
thus
prooved
.
-
All
mysticall
bodily
Rites
and
Signes
of
spirituall
grace
,
administred
to
the
Church
of
God
in
his
solemne
service
,
to
confirme
grace
,
and
that
by
him
that
representes
the
person
of
Christ
,
are
Sacramentes
.
-
The
greatest
part
of
these
Ceremonies
in
controversie
are
such
,
&
not
of
any
Divine
Institution
.
-
Ergo
,
To
use
them
,
is
to
administer
Sacramentes
that
are
not
of
Divine
Institution
.
The
Proposition
is
most
evident
,
&
can
not
bee
denied
of
any
that
beares
the
face
of
a
Divine
.
The
Assumption
is
as
evident
,
only
this
one
clause
may
bee
doubted
of
:
Whether
these
Ceremonies
bee
administred
to
confirme
Grace
,
whiche
is
thus
proved
.
-
Those
Ceremonies
that
are
administred
to
edifie
the
soule
and
consciences
,
are
administred
to
confirme
grace
.
-
These
Ceremonies
are
administred
to
edifie
the
soule
and
conscience
.
-
Ergo
,
They
are
administred
to
confirme
Grace
.
The
Proposition
can
not
with
anie
colour
be
excepted
against
.
For
to
edifie
the
soule
,
to
confirme
grace
in
the
soule
,
and
to
feede
the
soule
,
are
equivalent
.
The
Sacrament
of
the
Supper
therfore
being
for
this
onely
cause
a
Sacrament
,
because
it
is
a
Mysticall
Rite
,
whereby
the
soule
spiritually
feedeth
uppon
Christ
.
i.
is
edified
in
Christ
:
These
being
Mystical
Rites
also
,
wherby
the
soule
is
edified
,
which
it
cannot
be
but
also
by
feeding
upon
Christ
,
It
must
needes
follow
,
That
these
Ceremonies
are
Sacramentes
.
The
Assumption
is
their
owne
,
for
when
they
are
urged
with
this
,
That
all
things
must
be
done
to
edification
,
They
hold
all
with
one
consent
,
That
they
doe
edifie
.
The
10.
Argument
.
-
It
is
a
Sinne
against
Christ
the
sole
Head
of
the
Church
,
For
any
one
of
his
Ministers
,
(
especially
in
the
Administration
of
Divine
things
)
either
by
Worde
or
Signes
,
solemnely
to
professe
and
acknowledge
a
spirituall
Homage
,
to
a
usurped
spirituall
authoritie
in
the
Church
.
-
But
to
use
these
controverted
Ceremonies
in
manner
and
forme
prescribed
,
is
even
in
the
solemne
Service
of
Christ
,
by
solemne
Signes
,
to
acknowledge
a
spirituall
Homage
,
to
the
spirituall
authoritie
of
Lord
Archbishops
and
Bishops
,
which
is
usurped
.
-
Ergo
,
It
is
a
sinne
to
use
these
Ceremonies
.
The
Proposition
may
not
be
gainesaid
:
For
all
spirituall
power
usurped
over
the
Churches
of
God
,
is
an
Antichristian
authoritie
,
and
to
professe
spirituall
homage
thereunto
,
is
to
professe
spirituall
homage
unto
Antichrist
,
which
must
needs
be
a
sinne
.
The
Assumption
hath
two
partes
.
I.
That
these
Ceremonies
are
an
acknowledging
by
solemne
signes
,
a
spirituall
Homage
to
the
spirituall
authoritie
of
Archbishops
and
Bishops
.
Which
is
most
evident
;
for
it
having
bene
proved
before
,
that
they
are
meere
Ecclesiasticall
,
Religious
&
spirituall
Actions
,
injoyned
by
an
Ecclesiasticall
and
spirituall
authoritie
,
They
must
needes
be
Signes
of
spirituall
homage
to
the
same
authoritie
.
For
either
the
doing
of
a
Religious
and
spirituall
Action
,
in
obedience
to
a
spirituall
authoritie
,
is
a
Signe
of
spirituall
homage
,
or
no
Actions
can
bee
a
Signe
thereof
.
As
therefore
a
serving
man
being
a
civill
person
,
upon
the
Bishops
pleasure
,
wearing
a
Tawnie
Cote
,
and
a
Chaine
of
Golde
,
holding
vp
his
Trayne
,
Going
bare-headed
before
him
;
holding
a
Trencher
at
his
Table
:
lighting
him
to
the
house
of
office
:
dressing
his
meate
,
rubbing
his
Horses
,
&c.
doeth
by
these
Actions
,
as
it
were
by
solemne
Signes
acknowledge
Civill
homage
to
him
,
being
a
Civill
Lord
and
Maister
:
So
a
Minister
of
the
Gospell
and
a
Pastor
of
a
particular
Congregation
,
beeing
by
his
office
a
mere
spirituall
man
;
beeing
commaunded
by
the
Bishop
,
as
he
is
a
spirituall
Lord
and
Maister
over
the
Church
of
God
,
To
weare
a
Tippet
,
a
square
cap
,
a
Priestes
Gowne
&
Cloke
,
a
Surplice
:
to
make
Crosses
upon
childes
faces
;
To
put
Rings
on
Brides
fingers
,
&c.
and
all
this
in
their
Divine
Service
.
I
say
a
Minister
doeth
thereby
give
solemne
Signes
and
Tokens
of
spirituall
homage
to
their
spirituall
Lordships
,
even
as
by
preaching
the
Word
&
Administration
of
Sacramentes
&
prayer
,
he
professeth
by
solemne
Signes
a
spirituall
homage
to
the
spirituall
authoritie
of
Christ
.
If
they
shall
peremptorilie
affirme
,
That
they
are
onely
Civill
matters
(
as
some
in
high
place
have
done
to
my self
)
Then
this
will
follow
of
it
;
Wheras
the
Bishops
commaunde
now
Ministers
To
weare
a
Surplice
,
a
Priestes
Cloke
,
&c.
hee
may
commaund
them
to
weare
Tawnie
Cotes
,
&
livry
clokes
;
&
in
their
courses
to
waite
and
attend
upon
him
,
as
serving
Creatures
:
For
there
is
no
more
civill
authoritie
shewed
in
requiring
the
one
,
them
the
other
,
If
the
one
as
well
as
the
other
bee
civill
matters
.
Neither
will
it
helpe
their
cause
,
That
the
Magistrate
requireth
these
things
to
be
done
.
For
the
Magistrate
com̄aunding
Ecclesiasticall
matters
to
be
done
,
his
commaundement
doth
no
more
make
them
civill
,
than
his
commanding
the
Sacraments
&
other
partes
of
Divine
worship
to
bee
administred
,
duly
doeth
make
them
,
civill
matters
.
For
the
ratification
by
civill
authoritie
the
Constitutions
of
Ecclesiasticall
authoritie
,
doeth
no
more
make
them
civill
matters
than
the
ratification
and
confirmation
of
civill
matters
,
by
Ecclesiasticall
authoritie
doeth
make
them
Ecclesiasticall
or
spirituall
matters
.
Though
therefore
there
is
none
of
us
that
stande
out
in
these
matters
,
but
have
ever
been
content
to
yeeld
unto
their
Lordships
all
civill
honor
,
such
as
is
given
to
Barons
,
Earles
,
Dukes
,
and
Princes
,
yet
except
they
were
Gods
&
Christes
,
wee
have
no
reason
,
to
give
spirituall
homage
unto
them
;
which
is
it
that
in
very
deede
they
require
in
these
things
:
And
therefore
hence
it
comes
to
passe
,
That
as
they
turne
out
of
their
Pallaces
,
Those
servauntes
that
refuse
their
liveries
,
and
to
doe
their
civill
Services
,
So
as
though
they
were
Lords
&
Masters
in
the
Church
,
They
turne
the
Ministers
out
of
their
offices
,
&
shut
them
out
of
the
Church
,
if
they
refuse
to
weare
their
spirituall
Liveries
,
and
to
doe
them
spirituall
and
Religious
Service
.
But
I
come
to
the
second
part
of
the
Assumption
.
II.
That
the
authoritie
of
our
Lorde
Archbishops
and
Bishops
,
is
a
usurped
authoritie
.
This
is
sufficiently
proved
of
late
by
Mai.
Iacob
in
his
I.
Assertion
by
many
reasons
,
Onely
because
the
weight
of
the
Argument
leaneth
upon
it
,
I
will
use
one
Reason
.
-
Those
Officers
and
Rulers
in
the
Church
that
make
claime
to
be
of
Divine
institution
,
chalenge
to
them selves
Apostolicall
authoritie
and
Iurisdiction
as
the
onely
Successours
of
the
Apostles
;
to
sitt
onely
in
Moses
chaire
;
To
have
sole
power
of
the
Keys
;
To
cut
from
the
visible
Church
,
&
receyue
againe
:
To
haue
power
of
creating
&
displacing
all
other
Ecclesiasticall
Officers
;
To
bee
the
Vniversall
Pastors
of
whole
Dukedomes
and
Kingdomes
,
under
whom
all
other
Pastors
are
as
Curates
,
&c.
And
yet
for
all
this
,
are
such
as
stand
&
are
supported
only
by
humane
Traditions
and
Ceremonies
,
such
as
a
civill
Magistrate
may
without
sinne
,
put
out
of
the
Church
,
And
such
as
the
true
Churches
of
God
may
renounce
(
and
yet
continue
the
true
Church
)
as
Antichristian
Vsurpers
and
spirituall
Tyrants
.
(
I
say
)
all
such
Officers
&
Rulers
exercise
a
usurped
authoritie
in
the
Church
:
-
But
our
Archbishops
&
Bishops
are
such
Rulers
and
Officers
as
are
aforesaid
.
-
Ergo
,
They
execute
a
Vsurped
power
over
the
Church
.
The
Proposition
may
easily
be
iustified
.
For
it
inferiour
officers
,
viz.
Pastors
of
particular
Congregations
,
have
had
and
may
have
firme
continuance
in
the
Church
,
without
these
humane
devises
&
inventions
;
If
the
Magistrate
cannot
without
sinne
put
them
out
of
the
Church
;
And
if
those
can
bee
no
true
Churches
that
renounce
to
haue
perticular
Pastors
and
Ministers
over
them
,
It
must
much
more
hold
in
such
church-Officers
&
Rulers
as
these
are
,
if
their
authoritie
be
lawfull
and
good
:
For
whilest
the
Apostles
lived
,
They
needed
not
any
humane
Traditions
&
divises
to
support
their
authoritie
:
The
Magistrates
that
sought
to
putt
them
downe
sinned
with
a
high
hande
:
And
that
was
no
Church
,
that
renounced
and
disclaimed
their
Office
,
Authoritie
and
Iurisdiction
.
The
Assumption
is
as
easilie
iustified
.
For
1.
They
make
claime
and
Title
to
all
those
Prerogatives
before
rehearsed
in
the
first
part
of
the
Proposition
,
and
unto
more
then
that
,
as
shal
be
proved
if
it
be
denied
,
2.
It
is
an
Embleme
of
their
own
,
NO
CEREMONIE
,
NO
BISHOP
.
Ergo
,
No
humane
Tradition
and
Invention
,
no
Bishop
,
Ergo
,
The
office
of
a
Bishop
is
supported
by
them
either
only
or
specially
.
3.
Their
Ecclesiasticall
Iurisdiction
is
derived
from
the
King
,
els
it
is
a
flat
deniall
of
his
Supremacie
.
Also
them selves
graunt
in
their
last
Tables
of
Discipline
,
That
the
King
hath
power
to
increase
or
diminish
the
Circuit
of
a
Bishopricke
:
That
he
may
make
two
or
more
Bishopricks
of
one
,
&
one
Bishoprick
to
be
two
or
more
:
Yea
what
should
hinder
but
that
he
may
divide
the
Bishoprike
of
London
into
800.
For
where
God
hath
not
defined
the
number
of
Parishes
that
a
Bishop
is
to
raign
over
,
it
must
needes
bee
a
thing
indifferent
:
in
which
by
their
owne
Doctrines
the
King
hath
authoritie
without
sinne
,
to
dispose
.
If
therefore
the
King
may
as
well
(
notwithstanding
any
thing
in
the
Law
of
God
)
Give
the
Keyes
of
the
Church
to
everie
particular
Pastour
of
a
Congregation
,
over
his
owne
Congregation
,
as
to
a
Bishop
over
a
Diocesse
,
which
taketh
away
the
very
Essence
of
an
English
Bishop
,
He
may
without
sinne
take
away
the
very
Office
of
the
Bishop
,
which
consistes
in
having
Iurisdiction
over
many
Congregations
.
Also
it
being
not
defined
by
the
word
of
God
,
but
left
free
what
attire
Bishops
shall
weare
,
as
also
what
maintenance
they
shal
have
,
The
K.
having
absolute
power
in
things
indifferent
,
according
to
their
owne
Doctrine
,
hee
may
turne
them
out
of
their
Rochetts
and
Parliament
Robes
.
Thrust
them
out
of
their
Pallaces
,
and
put
them
to
their
stipendes
,
to
live
upon
voluntarie
devotions
of
poore
Christian
people
,
and
then
a
man
may
easily
imagine
what
the
office
of
a
Bishop
would
bee
worth
:
For
he
that
hath
authoritie
to
prescribe
to
a
Bishop
and
other
Ministers
,
the
Formes
,
Rites
and
Ceremonies
of
their
Divine
Service
,
hath
also
power
much
more
,
To
prescribe
,
moderate
and
appointe
their
Apparell
,
Diet
,
and
manner
of
maintenance
.
So
that
it
is
cleare
,
That
the
King
may
without
sinne
disanull
the
authorities
,
dignities
and
prerogatives
of
Bishops
.
Any
of
which
shal
be
(
if
it
bee
denied
)
prooved
to
be
matters
of
greater
indifferencie
,
and
therefore
more
appertayning
to
his
Supremacte
,
then
the
prescribing
of
Formes
of
Divine
Service
and
mysticall
Rites
of
Religion
.
For
let
the
King
take
from
the
Bishop
all
indifferent
things
(
which
he
may
doe
by
their
owne
doctrine
)
and
a
Bishop
will
be
no
Bishop
,
as
shal
be
prooved
,
if
it
be
denied
.
4.
There
is
no
true
and
sober
Christians
but
will
say
that
the
Churches
of
Scotland
,
Fraunce
,
the
low
Countries
,
and
other
places
(
that
renounce
such
Archbishops
&
Bishops
(
as
ours
are
)
as
Antichristian
and
usurping
Prelates
)
are
true
Churches
of
God
:
which
they
could
not
bee
,
if
the
authorities
&
prerogatives
they
claime
to
them selves
,
were
of
Christ
,
and
not
usurped
.
For
if
it
were
the
ordinance
of
Christ
Iesus
,
That
in
every
Kingdom
,
that
receaveth
the
Gospel
,
There
should
bee
one
Archbishop
over
the
whole
Kingdome
:
One
Bishop
over
many
hundred
Pastors
in
a
kingdome
,
and
all
they
invested
with
that
authoritie
and
iurisdiction
Apostolicall
which
they
claime
iure
Divino
,
to
be
due
vnto
them
,
and
to
reside
in
them
,
by
the
ordinance
of
Christ
,
certainly
that
church
that
should
renounce
and
disclaime
such
an
authoritie
,
ordayned
in
the
Church
,
cannot
be
a
true
Church
but
a
Synagogue
of
Sathan
.
For
they
that
should
renounce
and
denie
such
,
must
needes
therein
renounce
and
denie
Christ
him selfe
.
Thus
the
Assumption
,
is
cleared
.
The
11.
Argument
.
-
All
humane
Traditions
and
Rites
enioyned
to
bee
performed
in
Gods
Worship
,
as
necessarie
to
Salvation
,
are
unlawfull
.
-
These
Ceremonies
in
controversie
,
beeing
but
Humane
Traditions
,
are
enioyned
to
bee
performed
in
Gods
worship
,
as
necessarie
to
Salvation
.
-
Ergo
,
These
Ceremonies
are
unlawfull
.
The
Proposition
is
freely
graunted
of
all
our
Adversaries
hitherto
.
If
anie
heereafter
bv
reason
of
some
difficulties
,
the
cause
may
bee
thrust
into
by
graunting
the
same
,
shal
be
desperate
as
to
denie
the
same
:
we
shal
be
readie
to
make
it
good
at
any
time
.
The
Assumption
is
thus
prooved
.
-
What
soever
,
Humane
Tradition
,
Ceremonie
,
or
Action
,
That
may
without
sinne
,
or
inconvenience
to
any
part
of
the
Worship
of
God
,
bee
omitted
in
the
same
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
are
inioyned
and
urged
as
more
necessarie
,
then
those
Actions
that
are
by
the
woord
of
God
necessarie
to
Salvation
:
I
saye
,
such
humane
Ceremonies
and
Traditions
,
are
inioyned
as
necessarie
to
Salvation
.
-
But
these
Ceremonies
are
such
,
as
may
without
any
sinne
,
or
any
inconvenience
to
any
part
of
the
Worship
of
God
,
bee
omitted
in
the
same
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
are
inioyned
as
more
necessarie
for
Christians
to
doe
,
then
those
Actions
that
are
necessarie
to
Salvation
by
the
Woord
of
God
.
-
Ergo
,
These
Ceremonies
in
controversie
are
inioyned
,
&c.
as
necessarie
to
salvation
.
He
hath
no
blood
of
shame
running
in
his
veines
,
that
will
deny
the
Proposition
.
The
Assumption
hath
two
partes
:
The
first
is
this
.
That
these
Ceremonies
are
such
as
may
without
sinne
or
any
inconvenience
to
anie
part
of
the
worship
of
God
,
bee
omitted
.
This
is
evident
:
For
1.
if
they
could
not
bee
omitted
without
sinne
in
Divine
Worship
,
they
were
Divine
&
not
Humane
Ordinances
.
For
example
:
Though
to
go
clothed
to
the
Congregation
be
a
Civill
action
,
yet
because
it
is
a
sinne
,
for
any
to
goe
naked
to
the
Congregation
,
It
is
a
Divine
Ordinance
,
That
men
should
goe
clothed
thither
.
And
in
this
case
(
as
in
any
other
case
of
sinne
)
a
man
ought
rather
never
Worship
God
publicklie
,
then
to
goe
naked
to
the
Congregation
.
For
the
omission
of
a
Good
action
is
no
sinne
,
when
it
can
not
be
done
,
but
by
committing
of
a
sinne
?
2.
Divine
Worship
consisting
in
Prayer
,
the
Sacraments
,
and
the
Word
,
no
witt
of
man
can
shew
wherein
the
bare
omission
of
any
one
of
these
Ceremonies
is
inconvenient
to
any
one
of
these
partes
.
For
what
inconvenience
can
a
man
(
that
is
not
drunk
with
the
dreggs
and
lees
of
popish
superstition
)
finde
it
to
publike
prayer
,
to
bee
saide
in
the
Congregation
without
a
Priestes
Surplice
?
The
omission
of
ordinarie
Pawses
&
Accentes
pointes
&
stoppes
,
the
suppressing
of
the
voice
,
or
a
lowd
whopping
and
hollowing
out
of
the
words
,
or
an
undistinct
soundinge
of
them
,
were
such
Actions
as
common
reason
will
teach
are
inconvenient
,
for
prayer
,
and
so
inconvenient
that
a
man
ought
never
to
praye
publikelie
in
the
Congregation
,
as
the
voyce
thereof
,
that
should
by
Canon
be
tied
thereto
:
And
the
Magistrate
(
though
there
were
no
Canon
to
the
contrarie
)
ought
to
turne
such
out
of
the
Ministery
that
should
omitt
such
matters
in
prayer
.
But
for
a
Minister
to
pray
without
a
Surplice
,
can
be
in
reason
no
more
inconvenient
,
then
for
him
to
pray
without
booke
,
without
a
paire
of
Spectacles
upon
his
nose
.
And
there
may
bee
as
good
reason
given
to
proove
it
convenient
,
for
a
man
that
saith
a
thinge
without
booke
,
to
putt
on
a
paire
of
Spectacles
,
as
there
can
be
to
prove
it
convenient
for
him
that
is
to
praye
in
the
Church
,
to
putt
upon
him selfe
a
white
linnen
garment
.
The
second
part
of
the
Assumption
is
this
:
That
they
are
inioyned
as
more
necessary
for
Christians
to
doe
,
then
those
actions
that
by
the
worde
of
God
are
necessary
to
Salvation
.
Which
I
proove
by
this
collection
of
Reasons
;
-
1.
If
the
whole
Solemne
Worship
and
Misterie
of
Iesus
must
stoupe
and
yeelde
to
these
;
And
these
must
not
stoupe
or
yeeld
to
them
.
2.
If
those
that
will
yeeld
to
these
are
dispenced
with
for
omission
of
some
duties
that
God
requires
of
the
Minister
to
be
performed
as
necessarie
to
Salvation
,
and
those
that
are
willing
to
doe
all
necessarie
Services
tending
to
the
Salvation
of
Man
,
can
not
be
dispenced
with
for
the
Omission
of
these
,
but
must
bee
turned
out
of
Christes
Service
.
3.
If
those
that
refuse
onely
Conformitie
to
these
are
worse
then
Idolatrous
Papistes
.
4.
If
the
bare
omission
of
these
,
though
upon
tendernesse
of
Cosscience
,
bee
Sedition
,
Scisme
,
Disloyaltie
,
Rebellion
,
a
deniall
of
the
Kings
Supremacie
,
Anabaptistrie
,
Frenzie
,
Worthie
imprisonment
,
Banishment
,
losse
of
Goods
and
living
.
5.
If
all
that
professe
these
to
bee
unlawfull
,
are
to
be
delivered
up
to
Sathan
,
and
anathematized
as
men
holding
wicked
&
damnable
errours
.
6.
If
a
man
beeing
in
that
Church
,
ought
not
to
be
of
it
where
these
Ceremonies
are
omitted
.
7.
If
the
bare
omission
of
these
,
make
a
Minister
by
our
law
:
more
subiect
to
deprivation
and
suspension
,
then
the
commission
of
the
foulest
Crimes
,
even
Drunkennes
,
Blasphemie
,
grosse
Ignorance
,
Vncleannesse
.
8.
If
her
late
Excellent
Ma.
Religion
consisted
in
these
:
I
say
,
If
all
these
Assertions
bee
true
,
then
are
they
inioyned
as
more
necessarie
to
bee
done
,
then
those
Actions
that
by
the
worde
of
God
are
necessarie
to
Salvation
.
-
But
all
these
8.
pointes
are
to
bee
iustified
.
-
Ergo
,
These
Ceremonies
are
enioyned
as
more
necessarie
to
bee
done
,
then
some
Actions
that
are
necessarie
to
Salvation
.
The
Proposition
can
not
be
gainesayed
.
It
being
a
Topick
Axiom
.
Cuius
privatio
est
deterior
,
illud
ipsum
est
melius
:
to
wit
,
The
worse
the
Privation
of
a
thing
is
,
the
better
the
thing
is
.
For
example
:
If
blindnes
be
worse
than
deafnesse
:
Then
is
the
positive
habit
of
seeing
better
then
that
of
hearing
.
So
,
if
Non-Conformitie
be
worse
then
drunkennes
,
blasphemie
,
Idolatrie
,
Filthines
of
body
,
&c.
It
must
needs
follow
,
that
Conformitie
is
a
more
excellent
thing
in
it selfe
,
then
Sobrietie
;
the
true
worship
of
God
;
the
glorifying
of
the
name
of
God
,
then
a
chaste
and
honest
life
:
But
all
these
are
urged
by
the
worde
of
God
,
as
necessarie
meanes
to
Salvation
.
For
the
holy
Ghost
saith
:
No
Murderer
,
Adulterer
,
Vncleane
person
,
Idolator
,
&c.
shall
enter
into
the
kingdome
of
heaven
.
If
therefore
Conformitie
be
more
urged
by
our
lawes
,
then
these
,
and
the
Privation
more
punished
.
If
this
be
more
strictly
required
of
Christians
,
yea
of
principall
Christians
,
even
the
Ministers
of
the
word
,
then
the
other
,
They
must
needes
bee
urged
more
necessarie
to
Salvation
,
then
the
other
.
For
of
the
more
excellencie
a
Christian
vertue
is
,
the
more
necessarie
to
Salvation
it
is
.
The
Assumption
in
every
part
and
parcell
thereof
may
be
iustified
by
the
practise
and
Assertions
of
our
Adversaries
,
not
onely
privately
but
in
publique
.
For
the
1.
God
must
not
by
Canon
bee
Worshipped
solemnely
in
England
,
except
these
be
mingled
with
it
,
Though
without
them
he
might
be
never
so
well
worshipped
.
For
the
2.
Those
that
yeeld
to
these
,
neede
not
preach
at
all
in
our
church
except
they
will
,
No
nor
to
doe
any
other
parte
of
Divine
Service
in
their
owne
person
,
if
they
will
maintayne
a
Curate
,
that
will
keepe
the
Ceremoniall
Law
,
and
fairely
Read
or
Sing
the
Kings
Service
,
as
they
call
it
:
And
yet
if
preaching
were
not
necessarie
to
Salvation
,
Paule
that
was
above
an
Archbishop
,
should
not
haue
been
under
a
woe
,
if
hee
had
not
done
it
.
For
no
Minister
of
the
Gospell
is
under
a
woe
That
performeth
all
services
to
the
Churches
of
God
,
that
are
necessarie
to
Salvation
.
Neither
was
Paules
preaching
,
A
reading
of
Homilies
,
or
of
a
Service
booke
.
For
the
3.
Nothing
is
more
notorious
then
for
us
that
make
scruple
of
these
things
to
be
reputed
worse
then
Papistes
:
One
that
is
a
great
Iudge
in
these
causes
Ecclesiasticall
,
affirmed
it
unto
my selfe
.
Another
openly
at
Paules
Crosse
in
myne
owne
hearing
,
made
no
doubt
but
the
Papistes
were
in
the
Church
,
but
he
made
great
doubt
whether
the
Puritanes
were
.
And
yet
we
are
Puritanes
for
nothing
els
but
for
refusinge
Conformitie
to
their
Ceremonies
:
For
howsoever
they
sclaunder
us
with
manie
other
grosse
imputations
,
yet
they
can
not
laye
any
thing
to
our
charge
but
our
Conscience
in
this
.
For
all
other
matters
concerning
their
own
estats
,
and
dignityes
,
considering
how
desperate
they
are
,
and
unreformable
we
can
be
content
to
leaue
them
to
the
Iudgment
of
God
,
who
(
as
it
seemes
)
intendeth
to
gloryfie
himself
by
some
other
meanes
,
then
by
then
conversion
.
For
the
4.
Read
Scottish
.
Genevat
.
The
Survey
,
Remonstraunce
etc.
And
yea
shal
find
all
this
laid
to
their
charge
.
Also
their
practise
sufficiently
proveth
it
,
for
the
ministers
that
are
of
late
susspended
and
deprived
,
only
refusing
to
use
these
Ceremonies
,
beare
their
condemnation
vnder
these
names
and
Titles
.
The
5
and
6
is
proved
by
their
owne
late
Canons
,
ffor
yf
they
bee
to
bee
excommunicated
ipso
sacto
as
houlding
damnable
&
wicked
errours
,
that
shall
Professe
any
of
these
Ceremonies
to
bee
vnlawefull
,
a
man
ought
not
to
acknowledge
himself
a
member
of
any
such
Churche
,
as
doth
affectedly
cast
them
out
of
gods
worship
:
ffor
for
what
error
a
perticular
person
is
not
to
bee
reputed
a
member
of
the
Churche
but
as
a
heathen
and
publican
,
ffor
the
same
a
whole
church
is
not
to
be
reputed
a
church
but
a
Sinagoge
of
Sathan
.
The
7
may
be
iustified
by
many
instances
of
many
vile
and
impious
persons
of
those
kindes
tolerated
in
the
ministry
.
The
8
is
proved
by
him
that
answers
the
Plea
of
the
Innocent
.
Whoe
Saith
that
they
that
call
in
question
the
lawfulnes
of
these
Ceremonies
,
call
in
question
hir
late
Maiesties
Religion
,
which
they
could
not
doe
,
except
(
at
the
least
)
parte
of
hir
religion
consisted
in
them
.
Further
yf
this
doth
not
sufficiently
proue
the
maine
assumption
,
let
these
reasons
following
be
wayed
.
1
If
the
Church
be
necessary
to
salvation
,
and
yf
the
pillars
of
the
church
be
necessary
to
the
Church
,
and
if
the
lord
Bishops
be
the
Pillars
of
the
Church
,
and
these
or
such
like
Ceremonies
be
the
maine
Supporters
of
L.
Bishops
:
then
are
these
Ceremonies
in
the
iudgment
of
the
prelates
,
necessary
to
Salvation
.
For
no
Church
no
Salvation
,
no
pillor
of
the
church
no
Church
,
no
L.
Bishop
no
pillar
of
the
Church
,
No
ceremony
no
Lord
Bishop
.
Ergo
no
Ceremonie
of
this
kinde
,
no
Salvation
.
2
All
divine
constitutions
binding
conscience
are
necessary
to
Salvation
:
But
by
the
late
doctrine
of
the
Prelates
and
others
,
these
Ceremonies
(
being
not
vnlawefull
)
when
they
ar
commanded
by
the
Church
,
are
said
not
to
be
humane
but
divine
Constitutions
,
binding
conscience
;
therfore
they
(
as
they
are
vrged
)
are
necessary
to
Salvation
.
For
all
divine
constitutions
binding
conscience
,
are
necessary
to
Salvation
,
or
●ls
nothing
on
our
part
can
be
said
in
any
sence
to
be
necessary
thereunto
.
3
It
is
necessary
to
Salvation
,
that
men
should
not
only
worship
God
,
but
worship
him
in
a
comly
decent
and
orderly
manner
,
it
being
a
matter
of
damnation
to
worship
God
in
a
confused
vnseemely
and
disordered
manner
,
but
by
the
doctrine
of
our
Prelates
,
comelines
,
decencie
,
and
order
consists
,
in
the
vse
of
these
Ceremonies
,
Ergo
in
their
Iudgment
,
they
are
necessary
to
Salvation
.
Ob.
The
Church
doth
not
intende
to
vrge
these
thinges
as
necessary
to
Saluation
.
Ergo
,
They
are
not
urged
,
●s
necessary
to
Salvation
.
Ans.
1
The
Churche
vrgeth
not
these
things
at
all
,
but
onely
3
or
4
Bishops
in
the
Churche
,
whiche
(
if
theyr
owne
doctrine
be
true
(
are
Vsurpers
over
our
Churches
,
&
not
so
much
as
any
true
members
of
a
Church
.
2
what
if
the
Synode
should
decree
that
the
Kinge
should
hould
the
arch
bishop
stirrop
,
and
the
Prnce
&
Nobles
kisse
his
Toe
,
once
or
twice
a
year
and
withall
they
should
protest
,
that
they
doe
not
require
this
as
a
worship
or
honor
to
the
Archbishop
but
only
for
Comelines
Order
&
Edification
were
not
this
a
shamefull
shift
as
bad
,
as
the
thing
it self
.
The
12
Argument
-
All
actions
,
not
required
by
the
word
of
God
(
though
commanded
by
humane
authoritie
)
that
are
apparent
meanes
of
the
Damnation
of
the
Soules
of
infinite
numbers
of
men
,
are
directly
against
the
Lawe
of
charitie
,
and
therefore
Sin
.
-
But
these
Ceremonies
are
such
Actions
-
Ergo
The
Proposition
is
without
question
.
For
if
without
commandiment
from
God
,
I
may
vpon
the
sole
will
and
pleasure
of
the
Magistrate
,
or
governors
of
the
Church
,
doe
that
by
which
I
shal
be
a
means
of
the
damnation
of
my
brothers
Soule
,
which
is
the
greatest
breach
of
the
lawe
of
charitie
that
can
bee
.
Then
may
I
do
any
sinn
at
theyr
Commaundement
without
sinn
,
for
what
greater
sinne
can
there
be
against
the
2
Table
then
this
,
to
be
a
witting
instrument
of
my
Neighbours
Damnation
.
Which
though
it
be
but
a
matter
of
Iest
to
our
greate
Doctors
that
haue
many
Cures
,
and
no
care
of
Soules
,
yet
to
them
which
know
the
price
of
a
soul
it
is
more
then
if
vpon
the
more
will
of
the
Magistrates
they
should
be
forced
to
kill
their
owne
Children
and
d●●rest
b●loveds
,
with
their
owne
hand
.
OB.
The
Ma●●●●are
hauing
authoritie
given
him
by
God
to
commaund
things
Indifferent
,
he
commaunding
th●●
are
to
be
done
notwithstanding
〈◊〉
●candall
of
our
Nighbour
.
Answ.
1
Though
the
Subiect
ought
to
obey
his
Magistrate
in
all
Indifrent
actions
imposed
vpon
him
what
soever
,
yet
I
desier
that
it
may
be
proved
,
that
God
in
his
word
hath
given
to
any
Power
or
Potentate
vpon
Earth
,
any
such
absolute
authoritie
.
The
Magistrate
is
Gods
Leifetenaunt
,
and
the
glorie
of
the
Magistrate
consists
in
this
,
in
that
vnder
God
hee
beareth
a
sword
,
to
punish
those
that
transgresse
his
Lawes
,
but
hee
is
by
Gods
Ordinaunce
to
be
the
procurer
and
protector
of
the
christian
libertie
,
of
his
subiects
,
That
therfore
he
hath
power
graunted
him
of
God
(
vpon
his
owne
pleasure
)
to
take
away
the
same
,
especially
in
such
a
case
requires
profe
out
of
the
word
of
God
.
2.
If
he
have
such
a
power
,
yet
those
things
that
God
leaues
to
his
will
to
commaund
,
or
not
to
commaund
,
he
cannot
commaund
vnder
a
greater
penaltie
then
bodily
death
;
for
his
sword
can
cutt
no
deeper
,
and
then
in
the
case
of
Scandall
a
christian
subiect
ought
rather
to
suffer
the
Magistrate
to
take
away
his
life
,
then
to
doe
that
which
shall
procure
the
Damnation
of
his
Brothers
Soule
.
And
in
thus
doing
,
he
is
noe
contem
nor
of
the
Magistrates
Lawe
,
but
a●
fulfiller
of
the
Lawe
of
Charitie
,
in
not
distroying
his
brothers
Soule
vpon
the
mere●
pleasure
of
a
mortall
man
.
OB.
But
the
commaundiment
of
the
Magistrate
takes
away
the
scandall
.
When
the
thing
is
done
in
obedience
to
him
.
An.
This
is
a nother
desperate
shift
As
though
the
conscience
of
the
weake
brother
that
iudgeth
a
thing
indifferent
to
be
a
Sinne
wil
be
ever
the
more
satisfied
and
releeved
in
the
matter
by
the
authoritie
of
the
Magistrate
,
nothing
but
the
authoritie
of
God
either
can
or
ought
to
satisfie
a
doubting
conscience
.
And
as
for
them
that
put
superstition
in
things
Indiffrent
,
and
are
that
way
scandalized
the
authoritie
of
the
Magistrate
or
church
commaunding
them
,
their
scandall
is
increased
,
and
not
removed
by
the
same
.
OB
:
But
wee
must
more
respect
Obedience
to
the
Magistrate
,
then
the
scandall
of
inferiour
persons
,
the
thing
commaunded
being
indifferent
,
and
not
evell
.
Ans.
1
The
thing
commanded
is
not
Indiffrent
,
then
when
it
is
a
scandall
,
and
stumbling
block
to
our
brother
.
2
:
Wee
must
obay
the
Magistrate
only
in
the
Lord
,
but
this
is
not
to
obay
him
in
the
Lord
,
onely
vpon
his
pleasur
to
destroy
a
soule
for
whom
Christ
died
.
3.
An
obedience
to
the
Magistrate
so
far
as
to
the
condemnation
of
our
brothers
soule
,
must
be
a
speciall
obedience
,
in
some
speciall
good
and
iust
commandiment
which
cannot
be
verified
of
a
commaundiment
that
requireth
onely
a
thing
indifferent
,
much
les
such
an
indifferent
,
as
is
a
scandall
and
meanes
of
distruction
to
mens
soules
4
Such
a
forbeareing
of
obedience
onely
in
loue
to
the
salvation
of
our
brothers
Soule
,
being
without
apparent
contempt
of
the
Magistrate
,
and
having
adioined
with
it
,
a
meeke
submission
to
the
mercie
of
the
Magistrat●
,
cannot
be
called
a
dissobedience
.
but
is
in
deed
a
better
obedienc
then
theirs
,
that
doe
contrarie
,
whoe
in
their
obedience
bring
the
bloud
of
the
soules
they
destroy
,
both
vpon
their
owne
heads
and
the
Magistrate
which
is
a
sinn
in
the
eyes
of
God
wors
then
rebellion
.
OB.
But
by
obedience
to
these
Ceremonies
many
soules
by
meanes
of
preaching
are
saved
,
which
shall
want
the
meanes
in
the
refusall
.
Ans.
1
Wee
must
not
distroy
the
soules
of
some
,
that
we
may
saue
the
soules
of
other
,
wee
must
doe
that
which
is
iust
,
though
the
world
goe
to
wreck
for
it
.
2.
The
greatest
good
that
a
man
can
doe
,
cannot
counteervaile
the
least
evill
,
much
les
so
great
an
evell
as
to
bee
a
witting
instrument
of
the
damnation
of
a
brothers
soule
.
3
Hee
that
preacheth
cannot
assure
himself
of
the
salvation
of
one
soule
by
the
same
,
for
that
is
wrought
by
the
worke
of
the
spirite
of
God
And
he
hath
litle
cause
to
hope
for
a
blessing
vpon
that
preaching
,
which
hee
purchaseth
with
the
price
of
blood
,
yea
of
the
blood
of
soules
.
OB
:
But
the
K.
the
Magistrats
&
state
are
scandalized
also
at
the
omission
of
them
,
and
their
scandall
is
more
to
be
respected
then
the
scandall
of
inferiour
parsons
,
for
the
vseing
of
them
.
Ans.
1.
For
his
Maiestie
,
we
doubt
not
but
(
if
the
prelates
would
)
hee
would
easily
yeald
to
the
removall
of
them
,
and
therfore
he
cannot
be
scandalized
at
the
refusall
,
when
it
is
of
meere
conscience
,
though
of
conscience
deceived
.
2
The
States
and
Inferiour
Magistrates
of
the
kingdome
,
have
in
all
Parliaments
shewed
them selues
willing
,
and
ready
,
to
set
their
handes
to
the
removall
of
them
.
3
If
the
King
&
State
wil
be
scandalized
,
because
upon
their
mere
will
&
pleasure
,
I
will
not
doe
that
which
I
am
perswaded
will
be
a
meanes
of
the
destruction
of
their
soules
for
whom
Christ
died
.
They
wil
be
much
more
scandalized
at
me
if
I
doe
it
,
For
such
an
obeydience
as
this
,
must
needs
be
a
meanes
of
begetting
or
confirming
straing
sinns
in
their
soules
,
for
as
it
is
a
kind
of
deifiyng
of
themselues
,
To
require
(
even
in
the
case
of
scandall
)
a
thing
indifferent
to
be
done
;
so
they
that
shall
in
such
a
case
obey
,
cannot
but
nurish
exceedingly
that
corruption
from
wh●ch
such
a
commaudement
shall
proceed
.
4
The
soule
of
the
meanest
and
poorest
in
a
kingdom
cost
as
great
a
price
,
and
is
as
dear
to
Christ
,
as
the
soule
of
the
Noblest
,
and
in
the
matter
of
scandall
as
great
heed
is
to
be
taken
to
them
,
as
to
any
other
:
And
it
shewes
of
what
spirit
these
men
are
of
,
that
thinke
they
may
betray
the
soules
of
Christs
little
ones
.
rather
then
displease
a
mortall
man
.
Ob.
What
?
Must
the
Magistrates
lawes
be
chaunged
,
for
every
humour
that
will
pretend
scandall
?
Aunsw
.
Yea
,
such
lawes
as
commaund
onely
thinges
indifferent
,
in
cases
of
generall
scandall
are
to
be
chaunged
,
of
particular
scandall
,
are
(
at
the
least
)
to
be
dispenced
withall
;
For
if
laws
that
commaund
things
necessary
are
som
times
to
be
dispenced
with
,
and
if
of
them
it
is
said
.
Extreeme
right
,
is
Extreme
wrong
.
Much
more
then
such
lawes
as
require
onely
such
things
as
are
indifferent
.
1
Such
things
that
(
but
for
the
commaunders
pleasure
)
makes
noe
matter
whether
they
be
done
or
noe
.
Which
are
indeed
vnworthy
to
be
commaunded
of
worthies
.
2
A
pretended
scandall
in
humor
is
easily
discerned
by
those
that
are
wise
and
not
malicious
,
for
they
that
are
ready
to
performe
all
obedience
to
the
Magistrate
in
all
other
heavier
&
greater
thinges
,
are
ready
in
his
service
to
spend
their
goods
&
lyues
,
that
think
nothing
to
deare
for
the
redeēyng
of
his
safety
,
that
are
in
all
other
things
as
obedient
,
and
more
obedient
then
any
other
of
his
subiects
:
It
is
not
to
be
supposed
of
any
,
(
that
are
not
possest
with
the
malicious
spirit
of
Antichrist
.
)
That
such
should
refuse
to
obey
the
Kings
pleasure
in
a
toye
,
and
a
trifle
,
(
such
as
are
all
things
indifferent
)
except
that
in
obeying
him
,
they
were
perswaded
that
they
should
sin
against
their
own
conscience
,
which
next
vnto
God
,
they
haue
cause
to
please
,
farr
aboue
all
the
Kings
of
the
earth
,
for
it
hath
greater
power
to
torment
them
,
then
they
haue
.
But
I
proue
the
Assumption
.
-
All
apparent
meanes
of
confirmyng
men
in
Scisme
,
Superstition
,
and
Idolatry
,
by
meanes
wherof
many
haue
profesedly
lived
,
and
dyed
therein
,
without
repentaunce
:
are
apparent
meanes
of
the
damnation
,
and
destruction
of
many
soules
amongst
us
:
-
But
These
Ceremonyes
are
such
.
-
Ergo.
The
proposition
canot
be
denyed
,
for
what
action
of
man
can
be
sayde
to
be
a
meanes
of
the
damnation
and
destruction
of
anothers
soule
:
If
thes
actions
be
not
that
confirme
men
in
suche
foule
Sinnes
:
So
that
either
a
man
can
doe
nothinge
that
shall
destroy
his
brothers
soule
(
which
is
dyrectly
against
the
expresse
wordes
of
St.
Paule
,
)
Or
els
such
a
conformitie
,
in
such
actions
as
Confirme
men
in
such
Damnable
Sinnes
,
doth
destroy
his
soule
.
The
Assumption
is
as
evident
as
any
such
matter
can
be
.
For
1.
The
Papists
not
onely
amongst
vs
(
which
are
innumerable
)
but
others
also
doe
professe
,
that
by
our
vse
of
thes
Ceremonies
)
which
are
consecrated
mysteryes
of
their
owne
Religion
)
they
are
confirmed
in
the
truth
of
their
Religion
,
and
the
falshood
of
ours
.
And
good
reason
they
haue
so
to
iudge
:
For
if
the
broth
be
good
that
the
Divill
is
sod
in
,
sure
the
Divill
himself
must
needs
be
good
also
.
2
Those
christians
of
the
Seperation
that
are
called
Brownists
being
many
hundreds
,
professing
the
same
faith
that
we
doe
,
are
by
the
retayning
of
Reliques
,
confirmed
in
their
Scisme
,
and
Seperation
from
vs
;
And
liue
&
dye
in
this
opinion
:
That
our
Churches
are
noe
true
Churches
,
and
that
a
man
cannot
without
sinn
communicate
with
them
.
And
the
maine
ground
of
this
is
,
for
that
we
mingle
with
Divine
worship
these
base
&
vile
inventions
of
men
,
Yea
,
of
the
accurssed
Anti-christ
.
What
?
Is
a
linnen
ragg
,
and
a
christs
crosse
&c.
to
be
reputed
of
so
great
value
&
price
,
that
the
fellowship
&
spirituall
communion
of
so
many
christians
,
(
as
sound
in
religion
as
any
prelate
in
the
Realme
)
should
be
contenned
and
reiected
for
them
?
3
Common
experience
teacheth
us
,
that
there
are
infinit
numbers
in
this
realme
,
ignorant
&
superstitious
folk
,
that
place
as
much
,
or
more
holynes
in
these
thinges
,
then
in
the
holy
Ordinaunces
of
God
;
And
how
can
it
be
otherwise
,
when
they
shall
see
the
Rulers
of
the
Church
,
mingle
Heaven
,
Earth
,
and
Hell
together
in
this
manner
about
them
.
Cursing
and
anathematizing
all
that
shall
not
imbrace
them
.
How
can
they
but
imagin
,
that
the
sight
of
a
surplice
upon
a
preists
back
shall
bring
them
to
heaven
,
when
they
shall
see
those
that
keep
Heaven
Keyes
,
send
a
man
,
for
want
of
such
a
wedding
garment
,
ipso
facto
,
to
Hell
?
4
If
it
be
but
considered
,
that
all
other
Protestant
Churches
haue
reiected
them
as
menstrous
clothes
,
that
more
then
the
greatest
number
of
Pastors
in
our
owne
Land
,
that
desires
the
name
of
faithfull
&
painfull
Teachers
,
either
count
them
impious
,
or
at
least
the
burdens
,
or
reproches
of
our
Churches
:
that
the
first
appoynters
of
them
,
(
after
our
seperation
from
Rome
)
intended
only
a
toleration
of
them
,
that
the
most
scandalous
and
lewd
persons
in
our
congregations
,
are
the
hottest
for
them
,
that
every
Parliament
since
hir
Maiesties
raigne
hath
been
forward
in
the
removing
of
them
,
that
the
defence
of
them
hath
driven
men
to
runne
into
the
broching
of
many
grosse
and
popish
e●●o●●●
And
that
so
many
ministers
,
(
a
catalogue
of
whose
names
and
states
,
I
could
wish
were
published
to
all
posterity
,
that
it
may
see
the
wonderfull
milde
&
moderate
goverment
of
prelates
)
haue
indured
and
expected
daylie
to
indure
the
greatest
extremityes
for
the
same
:
I
say
,
if
these
thinges
be
duely
considered
,
a
man
shall
easily
see
,
that
these
ceremonyes
are
stumbling
blocks
,
layd
by
the
Devill
and
his
Agents
in
the
wayes
of
all
the
people
of
this
Realme
,
to
hinder
the
progresse
of
the
Gospell
,
and
to
make
all
men
stumble
in
the
wayes
of
Salvation
.
How
long
Lord
Iesus
.
AN
ADDITION
.
NOt
onely
our
Conformers
unto
Rome
,
but
they
also
that
abhorre
the
same
,
can
hardly
indure
to
heare
,
that
these
ceremonyes
are
parts
of
divine
worship
,
for
whose
further
satisfaction
I
ad
this
one
Argument
.
-
Whatsoever
being
vsed
in
dyuine
worshipe
is
directly
contrary
to
the
.2
.
Commaundement
,
is
a
part
of
dyuine
w
rshipe
.
-
The●
Ceremonies
are
vsed
in
Dyuine
Worship
&
are
directly
contrary
to
the
2.
commaundement
.
-
Ergo
The
Proposition
is
evident
,
for
all
outwarde
Idolatry
is
Dyuine
worshipp
&
nothing
but
Outwarde
Idolatry
is
directly
forbidden
in
the
.2
.
Commaundement
.
The
.2
.
part
of
the
Assumption
is
thus
proued
,
-
All
inventions
and
devises
of
man
,
grounded
only
vpon
the
will
of
man
,
and
not
upon
any
necessitie
of
nature
,
or
civility
,
set
a
part
〈◊〉
God
outward
wo●ship
are
contrary
to
the
s●c●●d●
c●mmaund●m●nt
.
-
These
c●●●m●nye
are
such
,
-
Ergo.
The
proposition
we
proue
thus
.
-
Either
all
such
devises
and
inventions
are
contrary
vnto
t●e
second
commaundement
,
●r
el●
their
is
no
[
*
](A16624-e13860-b)
*
A
trope
or
figure
o●
s●each
wherin
vnder
o
e
k●nde
of
Idola●●●
a●●●ts
dden
.
Synechdoche
theirin
,
-
But
ther
is
a
Synechdoche
in
the
2
commaunddement
.
-
Ergo.
The
Assumption
or
latter
part
of
this
Syllogysme
cannot
be
denyed
of
any
,
but
such
as
shall
desperatly
sett
themselues
,
against
the
truth
of
God
.
For
if
their
were
no
figure
or
Trope
in
the
commaundement
,
then
to
bowe
downe
vnto
,
&
to
worship
the
Sunn
,
Moone
and
Starrs
,
or
any
other
of
Gods
creatures
,
yea
,
or
any
image
made
by
any
other
,
should
be
no
breach
of
this
commaundement
,
much
les
to
offer
Iewish
Sacrifices
of
sheep
&
Oxen
,
to
circumcise
,
to
goe
a
pilgrimage
to
Saints
,
to
kisse
the
Paxe
,
to
sprinckle
with
holy
water
,
to
Baptise
Bells
,
or
to
use
any
other
Popish
rites
,
in
which
if
a
man
sinne
not
against
the
second
commaundement
,
he
sinneth
not
against
any
.
Againe
,
it
would
be
demaunded
,
against
what
commaundement
,
Nadab
and
Abihu
sinned
,
when
they
offred
strang
fire
.
The
Israelits
when
they
abused
Gideons
Ephod
,
Iudg.
8
27.
The
Corinthians
in
eating
meate
offred
to
Idols
in
the
Idols
temples
,
1
Cor.
9.
Either
they
sinned
not
again●●
this
commaundement
,
and
by
consequent
against
none
,
or
els
there
must
needs
be
,
a
wonderfull
large
Trope
in
the
same
,
which
I
think
never
any
divine
Iew
or
Christian
,
Protestant
or
Papist
ever
denyed
before
now
.
The
proposition
is
as
evident
if
it
be
considered
,
that
in
the
2
commaundement
,
literally
a
〈…〉
o●
speach
,
nothing
is
forbidd●n
〈…〉
o●
im●ge●●or
worship
,
〈◊〉
vnto
them
,
and
wors●●●
〈◊〉
the●
,
now
i●
there
be
a
Synechdoche
〈◊〉
co●●●●ndement
,
ther
must
of
nec●●●●●
〈◊〉
not
onely
other
kindes
of
false
out●●
a●d
wor●●●p
of
Id●latry
,
different
in
forme
from
making
,
&
bowing
downe
unto
Images
&
Ido●●
,
but
their
mu●t
be
a●so
some
common
ca●●
or
ground
,
u●on
which
makeing
&
bo●●●●
unto
Images
is
●●●●●dden
,
which
must
〈…〉
Argument
,
and
reason
by
which
〈…〉
outward
worship
are
〈…〉
images
,
and
con●e●●●●
〈◊〉
at
,
els
●t
were
sencelesse
to
make
a●y
thinge
t●at
attempt
a
bowinge
downe
vnto
●●●ges
t●
〈…〉
●der
that
name
&
〈…〉
is
condemned
vnd●●
an●ther
,
it
is
●●c●●e
that
thing
doth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
ate
with
i●
i●
the
same
cause
for
〈◊〉
it
is
c●●●●mned
●tor
example
i●
un●●●
〈…〉
vnto
Images
▪
Iew●●h
C●●
〈…〉
for
a●
〈…〉
an●●●n●e
be
called
〈…〉
some
〈…〉
f●r●●
〈…〉
vnto
t●●m
〈…〉
wh●ch
mu●●
be
as
it
〈…〉
vnto
it
●n●
them
.
Now
let
all
the
witts
in
the
world
lay
theyr
heades
together
&
they
shall
neuer
be
able
to
devise
any
such
common
g●nu●
that
shal
be
the
commen
cause
why
not
only
b●
w●
downe
t●
ma●●s
,
but
why
un●er
it
an
other
●●nde
or
Idolatry
and
false
worships
is
condemned
,
but
this
.
for
that
they
were
●●mane
devices
,
&
inventions
,
and
therefore
under
the
most
u●uall
and
generall
receaved
invention
of
man
,
God
condemneth
all
other
〈◊〉
v●ed
to
the
same
end
.
If
this
be
not
the
reason
then
ther
are
&
may
be
infinite
,
Out●ar●e
Idolatries
&
Superstitions
that
cannot
with
any
reason
be
referred
to
this
commaundement
.
Therfore
it
must
needs
follow
that
either
ther
is
no
tr●●e
in
the
commaundemente
or
that
all
such
inv●ntions
of
man
are
forbid●en
in
the
same
.
An
advertis●ment
.
I
had
thought
(
good
re●●er
)
to
haue
fortified
some
other
poynts
in
the
Arguments
,
which
to
them
that
doe
not
consider
may
seem
weake
,
but
I
forbeare
●or
some
speciall
reasons
,
I
am
●nly
to
admon●●h
thee
of
one
de●e●t
amongst
others
t●at
〈…〉
me
.
viz.
The
mi●ta●●ng
of
the
A●c●●●●●ps
Argument
thoug●
I
〈◊〉
it
better
t●●●
was
,
●or
thus
it
is
,
and
〈…〉
been
pour●ed
.
-
〈…〉
good
,
are
lawfull
and
good
ceremonyes
.
-
The
doctrine
of
these
ceremonyes
is
sound
and
good
,
-
Ergo.
Which
is
subiect
to
the
very
same
absurdityes
that
the
other
and
more
also
.
For
1
the
doctrine
of
them
is
unsound
&
false
,
for
the
doctrine
of
them
is
this
,
that
they
are
matters
indifferent
,
of
order
decency
,
and
edification
,
no
parts
of
Divine
worship
,
that
they
are
Scismatickes
that
will
not
conforme
unto
them
,
enimyes
to
the
Supremacy
and
State
,
that
it
is
a
wicked
error
to
hould
them
unlawfull
&
superstitious
that
they
are
to
be
excommunicated
that
affirme
them
to
be
so
.
etc.
All
which
is
unsound
doctrine
concernyng
them
.
2
Graunt
the
doctrine
sound
,
yet
it
followeth
not
that
the
Ceremonyes
are
good
,
for
the
thing
may
be
wicked
,
and
yet
the
doctryne
of
it
sound
.
For
,
There
is
a
sound
doctrine
of
all
Vices
.
3
In
what
respect
doth
he
affirme
the
doctrine
to
be
sound
and
good
?
Is
it
not
from
the
use
and
end
that
is
assigned
unto
them
by
himself
?
Because
they
are
appoynted
for
such
&
such
ends
?
Hence
will
follow
the
very
same
absurdities
,
that
I
haue
observed
in
the
former
.
For
then
any
ridiculous
or
base
Ceremony
,
may
be
instituted
,
so
it
be
under
pretence
of
a
good
end
.