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Updated: June 13, 2025
Touching the importance of the thing, Gravissima, &c.: “Most weighty matters in the church,” saith Gerhard, and the same saith Zanchius also, “ought not to be undertaken without the consent of the whole ecclesiastical body;” and, as Pope Leo writeth, “Such things as pertain unto all ought to be done with the consent of all.
Because they have been dedicated and consecrated to the service of idols. 2. Because they have been deeply polluted, and commonly employed in idolatrous worship. For both these reasons does Zanchius condemn the surplice, and such like popish ceremonies left in England, because the whore of Rome has abused, and does yet abuse them, ad alliciendos homines ad scortandum.
J. Rainolds rejecteth the popish ceremonies, partly because they are Jewish, and partly because they are heathenish. The same argument Beza useth against them. In the second command, as Zanchius expoundeth it, we are forbidden to borrow anything, ex ritibus idololatrarum Gentium.
This makes Zanchius to call those ceremonies the relics and symbols of popish idolatry and superstition.
Things which are most indifferent in themselves become evil in the case of scandal, and so may not be used. So hold the Century writers; so Pareus; so Zanchius; so Chemnitius; so Augustine; and so hath the Apostle taught. But that out of the practice of the ceremonies there groweth active scandal unto the weak, we have most clearly proven.
For example, saith Zanchius, Nestorius said, that we are saved by the blood, not of the Son of God, but of the Son of man. Now if any, suppressing that negative, should say, we are saved by the blood of the Son of man, though this might receive a right explication, yet it hath an appearance of evil, because from it Nestorius might confirm his heresy.
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