tongue of it owne, yet its speaks by the mouth of the Prelats appointing, and their substitutes the ministers acting this image.
3. Consider that which is made end of our Cerem. that our Cerem. are able, or at least are conceaved to be able to attaine, for every rationall meanes can reach the end, now this is the end of the crosse his institution, the white at which it shoots, and the minister makes it spell this lesson, even our dedication unto Christ▪ and our continuall perseverance in his service, so that as the end is, so the meanes are, the end is properly holy, and religious, ergo, the meanes appointed thereunto (such this is) must be holy religious and efficacious ther∣unto, in the intendement of the institutor.
4. Those which are of the same ranke, and sett in the same roome, with Gods owne Cere. they must be con∣ceaved to have holines, and efficacy in them, for so Gods ordinances have. But these significant Cere. thus insti∣tuted, are of the like nature with some of Gods owne spirituall rites, As the Phylacteries Nub. 15.39. were ap∣pointed by God, for this end, to be remembrances, and admonishers of the law to those that used them: the same place our Cerem. supply, and are ordained for the same purpose.
If it be here sayd, that God himself appointed his, and therfore they are holy and religious, but ours being instituted by man have no more then man can give them, I answ: God appoints his, and therfore they are truely holy, and religious, and ought to be embraced: Mens inventions being sett in the same ranke, are holy,