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…

But, 3. the place must be yet more exactly opened up. That word which is turned in our English books, they lie, cometh from the Radix Schachav, which in Pagnin's Lexic on is turned dormire. We find Ruth 3. 7. Lischcav, which Arias Montanus turneth Ad dormiendum, to sleep Our own English translation. 2. Sam. 11. 9. saith, Uriah slept, where the original hath Vajischcav. And the very same word is put most frequently in the books of the Kings and the Chronicles, where they speak of the death of the Kings of Judah and Israel. Pagnine turneth it, & dormivit: and our English translators every where, And he slept with his Fathers, &c. These things being considered, we must with Calvin read the place of Amos, thus; Qui decumbunt vel dormiunt in lectis. The other word which the Prophet useth, is Seruchim. Our English version turneth, They stretch themselves out. But Pagnine, Buxtorf, Tremellius, and Tarnovius, come nearer the sense, who read Redundantes, Superstuentes, or Luxuriantes. Which sense the English translation also hath in the margin. The Septuagints followed the same sense, for they read [Greek or Hebrew] i. e. Living in pleasure. So, 1 Tim. 5. 6. she that liveth in pleasure [Greek or Hebrew]. And Jam. 5. 5. Yea have lived in pleasure [Greek or Hebrew]. The Radix is Sarach, Redundavit, or Luxuriavit. So Exod. 26. 12. Sarach, and vers. 13. Saruach, ⟨p. 30⟩is put for a surplusage or superfluous remainder, redundans & supersluum, as Tremellius readeth. Now then, it is evident, that the thing which Amos layeth to the charge of those who were at ease in Zion, in the words which the Prelate citeth against us, is, that they slept upon beds of ivory (such was their softness and superfluity,) and swimmed in excessive pleasures upon their couches. And incontinent this filthy and muddy stream of carnal delicacy and excessive voluptuousness, which defiled their beds, led him back to the unclean fountain out of which it issued, even their riotous pampering of themselves at Table: Therefore he subjoineth, And eat the lambs out of the flock, &c. For Ex mensis itur ad cubilia, ex gula in venerem saith Cornelius a lapide commenting upon the same Text. Thus have I cleared he place in such sort, that the B. can not but shoot short of his aims. Wherefore I go on to other replies.