(4" ) pretend'to it ¢ and they areboth deceived (in this) andwould deceive lift They are none of our Lords, as I have elfewbete proved. Rut if you seed not otIlvefrAl Concord in your Myffieal tgns and Ceremonies j then i g Why should ou eaff our your fresehers anti brethren, for thole things which other Netions be to well without r and hold communion with forr-eigners that avoid them, and deny Cotnttiunion to tfeighbo a as good, that are of the fame mind ? And 2. This will make - forreign Churches and you to grudge at oneanother, and the diverfity will caufe difaffeetion : efpecially when you perfecute your members for the caufe thats theirs. We find now by experi- ence, that the Images, Exorcifm, Croffing, d-c. ofthe Lutherans Both exceedingly hinder their Peace with other Churches, while others cenfure them as fuper4itious ; and they by cuflome are grown fo highly to value their own Ceremonies, as to cenfure and difdain thofe that are not oftheir mind. g. zr. Reaf. 19. It eafily breedeth and cherifheth ignorance and formality in the people. Youcannot keep. them from pla- cing their Religion in thefe Ceremonies : and fo from deceiving their fouls by loch a Pharifaical Religioufnefs, in wafhings and obfervances : And fo in vainwill they worship God, while theip worfhip is but a Conformity to the do&rines, traditions, and inventions ofmen.- Mat. 15'. g.22. Real. 20. Toprevent thefe evils (and yet, in vain ) your Rites and Signs mull bring New doctrines, and new la. boors into the Church, which will exceedingly hinder the do&rine and work of Chrift. The Minifters mull teach the people the meaningand ufe ofall,thefe Ceremonies (or elfe they will be dumb lips, contrary to your intent, and the ufe of them will be vain) And ifwe mull fpend our time in opening to our people the meaningof every ceremony that you will impofe z. h will be but an unfavoury kind of preaching. 2. It will divert them and us from greater and moreneedful things. Yea we mull teach them, with what Cautions, in what manner, to what ends, &c. toufe all thefe Ceremonies ; or elfe they will turn them all to fin ; if not to Popifh, yea to heathenifh forma- lities. And alas, howmuch ado have we to get our people to underftand the Creed, and the Kernel ofthe Gofpel, the effen- tials ofCbriflianity, and the two Sacraments of Chrifis inflitu- Ppp Lion,
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