(476) tion,and force{host Catechifm that containeth there? And when we have done our befl in,.publick and in private, we leave many Of them ignorant what there two Sacraments are, yea or who. Chrilt himfelf is. And mull we put them to fo much more la- bour as to learn a Rationale or expofition of all theCeremo- nies, holy dayes, &c ? We fhall but overwhelm them,or divert them.from the Efintials.. And here you may fee the unhappy iffue of humanewifdom: and falfe means. It is to be teachers of the ignorant that men . pretend there Signs, Images and Ceremonies to be ufefull. And . yet they are the eanfes of ignorance, and keep menfrom ne- ceffary knowledge. if you doubt of this, do but openyour eyes, and make ufe of experience : See whether among the. common people the moll Ceremonious are not commonly the molt ignorant ? yea and the molt ungodly too ? It is a truth . fo notorious , that it cannot be denyed. Whomore ignorantof the Sacraments, then they that rail at them that fit in the as of receiving? Who more ignorant of the'doarineof the Gape!? who more obflinate enemies of a holy life, more worldly, fell-conceited ,, liéencious, prophane defpifers of their faith fall Teachers then the molt zealous perlons for all thefe Ce- remonies? S. 23-. Rear. 21. Moreover there new Laws and fervices troduce allo a newoffice into the Church. There mull be force of pretended Power to impofe all thefe Ceremonies, and fee them executed : or elfe all is vain. And no fuch office bath Chrift appointed. Bead:: men thought it neceffary that all theChriftian world fhonld have butone way andOrder in the Ceremonious worfhip which was commonly approved, there- fore they thought there was a Neceffityof one Head tomain.;- tain this unity of order :'kY and fo came up the. Pope, (as toone taufe.) And fo in a Nation; we mull have fome one or more Mailers of Ceremonies, when Ceremonies arekept a foot. And fo whereasChrifl bath placed officers in his Church to teach and guide them,and adminifter his own Ordinances, we muff have another fort of officers, to make Laws for Myflical Sgns. and Ceremonies, and fee them executed, and punifh the neg- lleders,and teach the people the meaning and the ilk of them. the PrimitiveBithops hadother kind of work ; we finddireâi-
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