_Sect._ 6. 6th. Worship is placed in the ceremonies, therefore they are most superstitious. To make good what I say, holiness and necessity are placed in the ceremonies, _ergo_, worship. And, 1st, Holiness is placed in them. Hooker(447) thinks festival days clothed with outward robes of holiness; nay, he saith plainly,(448)—“No doubt, as God’s extraordinary presence hath hallowed and sanctified certain places, so they are his extraordinary works that have truly and worthily advanced certain times, for which cause they ought to be, with all men that honour God, more holy than other days.” He calleth also the cross an holy sign.(449) Dr Burges(450) defendeth that the ceremonies are and may be called worship of God, not only _ratione modi_, as belonging to the reverend usage of God’s prescribed worship, but also _ratione medii_, though not _medii per se_, of and by itself, yet _per aliud_, by virtue of somewhat else. Now, do not Papists place worship in their cross and crucifix? yet do they place no holiness in it _per se_, but only _per aliud_, in respect of Christ crucified thereby represented, and they tell us,(451) that _creaturae insensibili non debetur honor vel reverentia, nisi ratione rationalis naturae_; and that they give no religious respect unto the tree whereon Christ was crucified, the nails, garments, spear, manger, &c., but only _quantum ad rationem contactus membrorum Christi_. Saith Dr Burges any less of the ceremonies? Nay, he placeth every way as much holiness and worship in them in the forequoted place. And elsewhere he teacheth,(452) that after a sort the ceremonies are worship in themselves, even such a worship as was that of the free-will offerings under the law, and such a worship as was the building and use of altars here and there(453) (before God had chosen out the standing place for his altar), though to the same end for which the Lord’s instituted altar served. Thus we see that they offer the ceremonies as worship to God: yet put the case they did not, the school saith,(454) that a thing belongeth to the worship of God, _vel quo ad offerendum, vel quo ad assumendum_. Whereupon it followeth, that superstition is not only to be laid to their charge who offer to God for worship that which he hath not commanded, but theirs also who assume in God’s worship the help of anything as sacred or holy which himself hath not ordained. 2. They place as great a necessity in the ceremonies as Papists place in theirs, whereby it shall also appear now superstitiously they place worship in them; for _quaecunque observatio quasi necessaria commendatur, continuo censetur ad cultum Dei pertinere_, saith Calvin.(455) The Rhemists think,(456) that meats of themselves, or of their own nature, do not defile, “but so far as by accident they make a man to sin; as the disobedience of God’s commandment, or of our superiors, who forbid some meats for certain times and causes, is a sin.” And they