.,<_. . ?: ( .467 ) ,TGI ;rer:, Rát. :162 ,;42. CHAP. XIV. Realon.f again,t the In3pofing of our late controverted .Wly/tacall Ceremonies,, as (,'roJsing, Surplice, &c. 4 O W far Ceremonies are lawfull or un- F l;,4 lawful! to the ufers,I have (hewed fufi- a,,, , ciently already:and therefore may omit pk,21 ! the fourteenth Propofition as difcuf- , y/ fed before : But foeager are the minds ;,, of men to be exalting themfelvesover the whole world , and puting yoaks on their Brethrens necks, even in the matters ofGod, and let- ting up their own wills to be the Idols andLaw- givers to all others, that I take it for the principal part ofmy task, to give in my Reafons againft this diflernper, and to try if it be poilible to take men offfrom Impofing or defiring , the Impofition of unneceffary things. I durfi not defire the Irnpofìng of our Myflicall Ceremonies, but had rather they were abolifhed , or left indifferent, for thefe followings Reafons. g.2.Reaf. i. To impofenew fymbolical Rites upon the Church which Chrift bath not impofed,dotb feem to me to be an ufurpa- Lion of his Soveraign power. It belongeth to him tobe the Law giver of his Church. Noman bath Power to make him a new worfhip. Officers are but to fee his Laws executed : and to determine onlyof fuchcircumfances, as are needful! for the wed executing them. To make new Symbols or infiitut s Ooo z g
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