Baxter - BX1763 B28

(64) VL You adde, [The Prelatick Protefiant wonders at the 7urita,ls nicenefs, that he can b no means be perfivnded to bow at the Name of 7efus : when Nature teacheth its a Relative Reverence, &c. The found of the Name 7ef-s is vanifhedand gone, before the fuperl?iti-ó. worPipper can make his inimical Congie : whereas the Piyiure, a far more lively reprefentationofthe fame great Lord, remains.] "inf..t. The Puritans think it not unlawful to bow when God or Jefus are named. But, i. They are loth to ferve thole men, that would turn all ferious Religion into a dead Image of it. 2. And they like not bowing at the Name Jefus, and not at the Nam. [Go_l],or [Chrift, or Immanuel, or Jehovah, or theHoly G?o9. ] 2. As to Images, Iwill but refer you to Dr. stilling- fleet's laft Book again& Godwin, which hath fully pro- ved, that you ufe them as truly Idolatroufly as did the Heathens. VII. Your next Inftance is, [The conf f4rneffs rej " ing the Popifh Girdle, stole, and Capable, and yet wondring at the Puritans rejeling the Burp ice,] Anf. The former An'wers Cerve to this Some P:íri- tans would uie the Surplice, if that would Jerk, e and ä- tisfie. But they fee, that if they fay [ ,i ] firft, ..hey muff fay [B] next, and fo on to the endof your Alpha- bet. But you tell us what great things your ne<. Re- ligion loth confift of, and what great caule you h Id to turn fromthePuritans to the Papifls ? If you had known nomore than Books can tell you, and your Grandfather had not known better thanBaronies himfelf, what the Apoftles did and inftituted, weMould never haveknown that the Religionwhich is integrated by a surplice, Gir- d'e, stole, andCafuble, had been herein Apollolical, and not rather a novel thing. VIII. Your

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