A second part of The mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practical, in several tractates: wherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untyed, many dark places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies and errors refuted ... Whereunto are annexed, several letters of the same author, and Dr. Jeremy Taylor, concerning Original Sin. Together with a reply unto Dr. Hammonds vindication of his grounds of uniformity from 1 Cor. 14.40. By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Somersetshire.

Dr. Hammond.

And then for the Surplice: It is no newes, I hope, for severall sorts of men to have solemne Garments, for solemne actions which they doe not use at other times. The Judges upon the Bench, or the Lords at their coming to Parliament, are a sufficient evidence of this, who weare not those Robes in common occasions, which there they do, as betokening their quality. and the imployments they are about. And then what is thus customary in civill matters (viz. to difference persons and imployments, yea and dayes, by distinction of garments) and is allowed to be decent therein, this by analogy undeniable, is as fitly and decently from thence derived to solemne sacred actions also, such are the publick offi∣ces of the Priest: and the commands of our Superiours being added to this decency of the matter, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, it is, I am sure, more than undecent for inferiors to be

obstinate, and deny obedience to them. In the choice of the garment, there bath been also, as near as may be, a resemblance observed of those garments, which in Scripture are mentioned for the like solemnities, long, shining, i. e. white robes or garments. And if the constant usage of other Churches besides this of ours, Eastern as well as Western, for so many Centuries together, be considered, it will be competently able to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stablish an Ecclesiastical custome also, which, in things of this nature, externall ornaments and formalities, is a more 〈◊〉〈◊〉 onal ground, and rule or measure of decency, than any Mr. J. (or Amesius to boot) will readily he able to produce for the rejecting of them, or breaking and casting away those bands which tyed no harder a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 than this upon their shoulders.