A01760:1050
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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2. The words used by the Evangelists, signify our form of sitting, no less then the Jewish. Calepine, Scapula, and Thomasius, in their Dictionaries, take [Greek or Hebrew], & the Latin words Discumbo, Recumbo, Accumbo (used by Arias Montanus, Beza, Marlorat, Tremellius, &c, in their versions) not only for lying, but also for such sitting, as is opponed to lying; even for sitting up right at Table, after our custom.
2. The words used by the Evangelists, signify our forme of sitting, no lesse then the Iewish. Calepine, Scapula, and Thomasius, in their Dictionories, take 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, & the Latine words Discumbo, Recumbo, Accumbo (used by Arias Montanus, Beza, Marlorat, Tremellius, &c, in their versions) not only for lying, but also for such sitting, as is opponed to lying; even for sitting up right at Table, after our custome.
3. There is not so great a difference betwixt our form of sitting, and that which the Jews used, as our Opposites allege. For as lDidoclavius showeth out of Casaubon; their sitting at banquets was only with a leaning upon the left arm, and so not lying, but sitting with a certain inclination. When therefore we read of mLecti discubitorij tricliniares, in quibus inter caenandum, discumbebant, we must understand them to have been seats, which compassed three sides of the Table (the fourth side being left open and void for them who served) and wherein they did sit, with some sort of inclination.
3. There is not so great a difference betwixt our forme of sitting, and that which the Iewes used, as our Opposites alledge. For as lDidoclavius sheweth out of Casaubone; their sitting at banquets was only with a leaning upon the left arme, and so not lying, but sitting with a certaine inclination. When therefore we reade of