A01760:1053
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ans. 1. If we should yield to this Prelate his own meaning wherein he taketh these words, yet how thinks he that the gesture of Drunkards and Gluttons, which they used when they were pampering themselves in all excess of riot, and for which also they are upbraided by the Spirit of God, was either the ordinary table gesture of the Jews, or the gesture used by Christ and his Apostles in their last Supper?
Ans. 1. If we should yeeld to this Prelate his owne meaning wherein he taketh these words, yet how thinks he that the gesture of Drunkards and Gluttons, which they used when they were pampering themselves in all excesse of riot, and for which also they are upbraided by the Spirit of God, was either the ordinary table gesture of the Iewes, or the gesture used by Christ and his Apostles in their last Supper?
2. If any gesture at all be touched in those words, which he Prelate citeth, it was their gesture they used when they lay down to sleep, and not their table gesture when they did eat. For Mitta and Ngheres, (the two words which Amos useth,) signify a Bed or a Couch wherein a man useth to lay himself down to sleep. And in this sense we find both these words Psal. 6. 7. All the night make I my bed (mittathi) to swim: I water my Couch (Ngharsi) with my tears. The Shunnamite prepared for Elisha a chamber, and there in set for him a bed (Mitta) and a Table, and a Stool, and a Candlestick, 2. Kings 4. 10. The Stool or Chair was for sitting at Table, but Mitta the Bed was for lying down to sleep. Now the Prelate I hope will not say, that the Lecti tricliniares, wherein the Jews used to sit at Table, and which compassed three sides of the same, (as hath been said,) were their beds wherein they did lye and sleep all night.
2. If any gesture at all be touched in those words, which he Prelate citeth, it was their gesture they used when they lay downe to sleep, and not their table gesture when they did eat. For Mitta and Ngheres, (the two words which Amos useth,) signify a Bed or a Couch wherein a man useth to lay himself downe to sleep. And in this sence we find both these words