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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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zAugustine complaining of some Ceremonies, wherewith the Church in his time was burdened, thought it altogether best that they should be cut off, etiamfi fidei non videantur adversari; quia religionem quam Christus liberam esse voluit, servilibus oneribus premunt. Yea, he thought this Yoke of servitude greater bondage, and less tolerable, then the servility of the Jews, because they were subject to the burdens of the Law of God, and not to the presumptions of men. The Yoke and Bondage of Christians in respect of Feasts, is heavier, then the Yoke of the Jews, not only for the multitude of them, but because Christianorum Festa▪ ab hominibus tantum, judaeorum vero a Deo fuerint instituta, saith aHospinian. Have not we then reason to exclaim against our Holy-days, as a Yoke of bondage, heavier then that of the Jews, for that our Holy days are mens inventions, and so were not theirs? The other reason, Gal. 4. 9. holdeth as good against our Holy days. They are Rudimental & Pedagogical Elements, which beseem not the Christian Church, for as touching that which bTilen objecteth, that many in the Church of the New Testament, are still babes to be fed with milk, it maketh as much against the Apostle, as against us, for by this reason, he may as well throw back the Apostles ground of condemning Holy days among the Galatians, and say, because many of the Galatians were babes, therefore they had the more need of those Elements and Rudiments. The Apostle, Gal. 4. 3. compareth the Church of the old Testament, to an infant, and insinuateth, that in the days of the New Testament, the infancy of the Church hath taken an end. And whereas it might be objected, that in the Church of the New Testament there are many babes, and that the Apostle himself speaketh of the Corinthians & Hebrews as babes. It is answered by cPareus. Non de paucis personis, sed de statu totius Ecclesiae intelligendum est quod hic dicitur. There were also some in the Church of the old Testament adulti fide heroes: but in respect of the state of