A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part

SECT. XIX. XX.

IN the next place the Papists are alledged as persons offended by Non-conformity, because they a••e ut∣terly unperswadeable to ent••r into a Church where all an∣cient rites are professedly rejected. But 1. the refusing of conformity by the Ministers, doe not, I hope, make these ancient rites (much lesse all) to be professedly rejected by our Church, For then we may plead the profession of our mother as well as the Defendant: which he I am sure will not grant. 2. This assertion which is given as a reason, is evidently false. For in Scotland, France, the Low countries, and such like Churches, where none of these ceremonies are retained, the power of Gods word (which doth not depend on humaine Ceremo∣nies (is as effectuall to the conversion of Papists, as in England. 3. How doth this agree with that which the Defendant hath so often told us, that our ceremonies are not the same with the Papists Ceremonies: and that the Pa∣pists have no great conceit of our ceremonies, cap. 2. sect. 11. 4. If our contentions about these things bee a scandall to the Papist, let them looke to it that cast these apples of contention into the Church, under the pretense of peace and uniformity. 5. One minister without con∣formity, as old M. Mids••y of Ratsdell, who was after silenced for his labour, hath converted more Papists

then any (I might say then all) of the Bishops in England, with all his Ceremoniall observations. 6. It is well knowne that there are farre more Papists and Popishly affected in those places where ceremonies are most ob∣served, then where they have beene difused. 7. It is answered in the Abridgement, pag. 47.48. that ceremo∣nies are not for the aedification of the Papists, but for the hardening of them. And that Papists are not so much to be respected as brethrē. To the latter of which words, the Defendant replyeth with a descant upon the tearme brethren, sect. 20. but sayth nothing at all to the purpose. 8. What manner of converts they are usually who are addicted to humaine ceremonies, we may see in the Archbishop of Spalato, and such others.