SECT. 1. About the forming of this argument, and the generall answer given thereto.
IN the former Argument as being most essentiall, I suffered my pen to run a larger course, then in the be∣ginning I intended. Heere I purpose to hold it shor∣ter. Passing over therefore by-matters,
1. The Argument was thus propounded in the A∣bridgement: It is contrary to Gods word, to use (much more to command the use of) such Ceremonies in the worship of God as man hath devized, if they bee notoriously knowne, to have beene of olde, and still to be abused unto Idolatrie, and Super∣stition, by the Papists, especially, if the same be now of no ne∣cessary use in the Church. But our Ceremonies are such. Ergo.
The Def. his answer was so set downe, that (by the Rej. his owne confession) no sense could be discerned in it. But the said Rej. (after three patchings of the words, and the distinctions, about abolishing, abused, and necessa∣ry) bringeth, for account, this answer, out of all: If by