A01760:1091
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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This much being said for the binding power of that Oath of the Church of Scotland: let us now consider what shifts our Opposites use Sect. VI to elude our Argument, which we draw from the same; where first, there occureth to us one ground which the Bishop of Edinburgh doth every where beat upon, in the trace of this Argument: taken out of the 21. Article of the Confession of Faith, wherein we find these words. Not that we think that any Policy and an order in Ceremonies, can be appointed for all ages, times, and places: for as Ceremonies, such as men have devised, are but temporal, so may and ought they to be changed, when they rather foster superstition, then that they edify the Kirk using the same. Whereupon the B. concludeth, pthat none who sware the foresaid Article, could without breach of this Oath, swear that the Ceremony of sitting at the receiving of the Sacrament, could be appointed for all ages, times, and places.
This much beeing said for the binding power of that Oath of the Church of Scotland: let us now consider what shifts our Opposits use Sect. VI to elude our Argument, which we drawe from the same; where first, there occureth to us one ground which the Bishop of Edinbrug doth every where beat upon, in the trace of this Argument: taken out of the 21. Article of the Confession of Faith, wherein we find these words. Not that we thinke that any Policie and an order in Ceremonies, can be appointed for all ages, times, and places: for as Ceremonies, such as men have devised, are but temporall, so may and ought they to be changed, when they rather foster superstition, then that they edify the Kirke using the same. Whereu•on the B. concludeth, pthat none who sware the foresaid Article, could without breach of this Oath, sweare that the Ceremony of sitting at the receiving of the Sacrament, could be appointed for all ages, times, and places.
- ppart. 2. pag. 5.