ANd as the Garments, so are the many and sundry Ministeri∣all actions, which being done without them, they esteeme as not done at all, putting a barre of silence before their mouthes that refuse to make use of them; as also the certaine fees which they claime as proper unto them, called, Surplisse∣fees, for which they have no more warrant from the Word of God then the rest, which is none at all; now by these and their other fine knick-knacks which they used in their Cathedrals (as they terme them) how neare they imitate the Leviticall Priest∣hood, let themselves judge, and how by so doing they rob God of his honour, deriving that unto themselves which was fulfilled in* 1.1 Christ, converting the substance of his glorious Priesthood into an earthly pompe; farre be it therefore from Gods people to enter∣taine or renew such fopperies in the Church of Christ, but ra∣ther subscribe to the Apostles simplicity, for the comlinesse of the Church doth not consist in Cerico & auro, sed edificatione, not in silke, and gold, but in edification. Seeing then that these Ce∣remonies doe not only offend the weake, but is also a meanes to advance Popery, let us therefore relinquish them, and those also that provoke us to use them.
Obj. Ought not dayes (dedicated to Saints) to be celebrated as holy?
Ans. Dayes wherein God hath permitted man to worke in,