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A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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CHAP. VIII.
That Festival days take away our Christian Liberty, proved out of the Gospel.
That Festivall dayes take away our Christian Liberty, proved out of the Gospell.
MY second Argument, whereby I prove, that the imposing of the observation of Holy days, doth bereave us of Sect. I our Liberty, I take out of two places of the Apostle: the one, Gal. 4. 10. Where he finds fault with the Galatians, for observing of days, and giveth them two reasons against them: the one, vers. 3. They were a yoke of bondage which neither they nor their Fathers were able to bear: another vers 9. They were weak and beggarly rudiments, not beseeming the Christian Church, which is liberate from the Pedagogical instruction of the Ceremonial Law. The other place is, Col. 2. 16. Where the Apostle will have the Colossians, not to suffer themselves to be judged by any man in respect of an Holy day, i. e. to be condemned for not observing a Holy-day, for, njudicare hic significat culpae reum facere; and othe meaning is: suffer not your selves to be condemned by those false Apostles, or by any mortal man, in the cause of meat, that is, for meat or drink taken, or for any Holy-day, or any part of an Holy-day neglected. Two other reasons the Apostle giveth in this place, against Festival days; one, vers. 17. What should we do with the shadow, when we have the body? another, vers. 20. Why should we be subject to humane ordinances, since through Christ we are dead to them, and have nothing ado with them? Now, by the same reasons are our Holy-days to be condemned, as taking away Christian Liberty; and so that which the Apostle saith, doeth militate as well against them, as against any other Holy-days: for whereas it might be thought, that the Apostle doeth not condemn all Holy-days, because both he permitteth others to observe days,