Constancy did the Christians own and make profession of him. And this was a sign professing Christ, which at the sight of Jews and Infidels, in the Markets, and any where else was of common use among the Christians, used at their Meals many times, and Transla∣ted to Baptism. When the Empire became Christian, Constantine used it, and others in their Ensigns of War, to signifie, Christ Cru∣cified was the God they owned, and expected Victory in Battel from him. In their Coats of Arms, in their Coynes at this day, it is used as of Old, to shew the Religion of the Persons, or the Coun∣tries, that they were Christians. If any Object that was a Civil use of it, and not Religious, I say it was of Religious signification there. Yet indeed with Peter Martyr, for mine own part, I wish that all things may be done simplicissime, most free from Humane mixtures in the Worship of God; Again, Its signification and use is, ad homi∣nem, and not ad Deum. For first, If it were permanent, and im∣printed on the Forhead (which in Scripture is used to signifie boldness and confidence, in a good, and in all ill sense, as Ezek. 3.8. Jer. 3.3. And so the sign of the Cross made there signifieth of the Child boldness, Christian Courage and Confidence, that he shall not be asha∣med, &c.) it would signifie to Men, and not to God; unto Chri∣stians, that he was one of their number. Secondly, The use of it among the Primitive Christians was to signifie to Christians among themselves, or more especially to Jews and Heathens their Christian Profession. Thirdly, The Dissenters call them significant teaching signs, and bring that as an Argument against them, but do we teach God or Man, surely Man is fit for Instruction. And as to Addition, the Curse is equally against diminishing, as adding: But the Love∣kiss, Signaculum reconciliationis; Washing the Disciples Feet a token of Humility; The Feasts of Charity mention'd at the Sacrament by St. Jude; the Community of Goods, the Deaconesses, &c. Things of this Nature are not of the substance of the Word, or the Ordinan∣ces, but are Circumstantials, and may be changed, added, or taken away safely. I could cite too an Eminent Nonconformist, where he saith, it cannot be called an Addition in Scripture sense, unless the Governours stamp Holyness upon it, or Necessity, as a necessary Du∣ty, Doctrinal Necessity he means: Or unless by adding they mean, giving the same Efficacy to Humane Institutions as God doth to his, by making them to confer Grace upon the rightly disposed; and by di∣minishing that the Service is not compleat without it. I shall conclude