A01760:1123
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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10. The Ceremonies as urged upon us, are also full of Superstition: Holiness and Worship are placed in them: as nwe have Sect. X proven by unanswerable grounds, and by Testimonies of our Opposites ⟨p. 47⟩themselves. Therefore were they never so indifferent in their own general nature, this placing of them in the state of worship, maketh them cease to be indifferent.
10. The Ceremonies as urged upon us, are also full of Superstition: Holinesse and Worship are placed in them: as nwe have Sect. X proven by unanswerable grounds, and by Testimonies of our Opposites ⟨p. 47⟩themselves. Therefore were they never so indifferent in their owne generall nature, this placing of them in the state of worship, maketh them cease to be indifferent.
- nsupra part. 3. c. 1.
11. The Ceremonies against which we dispute, are more then Sect. XI matters of mere order, forsomuch as sacred and mysterious significations are given unto them, and by their significations they are thought to teach men effectually, sundry mysteries, and duties of Piety. Therefore they are not free nor indifferent, but more then men have power to institute: For except Circumstances and matters of mere order, there is nothing which concerneth the Worship of God, left to the determination of men. And this Argument also ohath been in all the parts of it fully explained and strengthened by us, which strongly proveth that the Ceremonies are not indifferent, so much as quo ad speciem. Quare doctrina a nobis tradita (these be