A01760:1017
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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Ans. 1. This rule is most false, for it followeth from it, that the example of the Apostles making choice of the Element of Water in ⟨p. 21⟩Baptism, and requiring a Confession of Faith from the person who was to be baptised; the example also both of Christ and his Apostles, using the Elements of Bread and Wine in the Holy Supper: a Table at which they did communicate, and the breaking of the Bread, are not left to be imitated of us; because these things are ceremonial, but not particularly commanded in the Gospel. So that according to the rule which the Bishop holdeth, we sin in imitating Christ and his Apostles in those things, for as much as they are not exemplary, nor left to be imitated of us.
Ans. 1. This rule is most false, for it followeth from it, that the example of the Apostles making choice of the Element of Water in ⟨p. 21⟩Baptisme, and requiring a Confession of Faith from the person who was to be baptised; the example also both of Christ and his Apostles, using the Elements of Bread and Wine in the Holy Supper: a Table at which they did communicate, and the breaking of the Bread, are not left to be imitated of us; because these things are ceremoniall, but not particularly commanded in the Gospell. So that according to the rule which the Bishop holdeth, we sinne in imitating Christ and his Apostles in those things, for as much as they are not exemplary, nor left to be imitated of us.
2. His weapons fight against his own fellows, who allege (as we have showed belsewhere) the Custom of the Church, is a sufficient warrant for certain Ceremonies questioned betwixt them and us, which are not particularly commanded by any precept in the Gospel. These the B. doth unwittingly strike at, whiles he holdeth, that such Customs of the Church are not exemplary, nor left to be imitated of us.