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…

Now sixthly saith Mr. Sprint, it unjustly condemneth the Harmony Sect. V of all true Churches that ever were Primitive, and Reformed, and all sound Teachers of all times and places, whose universal Doctrine it hath been, that conformity to inconvenient Ceremonies is necessary, in case of deprivation. Ans. That the Ceremonies practised by the Apostles and Apostolic Churches were not inconvenient, it hath been already showed. That since their times, sundry Churches both ancient and reformed have practised inconvenient Ceremonies, we deny not: yet (q) Mr. Sprint himself will not defend all the practises of those Churches, whose practise he allegeth against us. But that all sound Teachers, of all times and places, have taught the necessity of conformity to inconvenient Ceremonies, in case of deprivation, he neither doeth, neither can make good. ⟨p. 8⟩It is but a bare and a bold affirmation to deceive the minds of the simple. ^rDid not the good old Waldenses, notwithstanding of all the hot persecutions raised against them, constantly refuse to conform unto any of those Ceremonies of the Church of Rome, which they perceived to have no necessary use in Religion, and to occasion superstition, rather then to serve for edification? And we verily rejoice to be ranked with those Waldenses, of whom ^sa Popish Historiographer speaketh thus: Aliis in libris Cathari dicuntur, quibus respondent qui hodie in Anglia puriorem doctrinam prae see ferunt. Moreover, it can not be unknown, to such as are acquainted with the History of the Reformation, how that not Flacius Illiricus only, but ^tmany others, among whom was ^uCalvin, and ^xthe Magdeburgian Doctors, and ^yall the Churches of nether Saxony subject to Maurice, opposed themselves to those inconvenient & hurtful Ceremonies of the Interim, urged by the Adiaphorists. And howsoever they perceived many great & grievous dangers, ensuing upon their refusing to conform to the same, yet they constantly refused: and