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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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But they have yet more advantage from our Formalists: for they like very well the course of Conformity, as the way of returning to Sect. II Popery, and some of them tell us in broad terms, that they hope we are coming fast home to them. They perceive us receiving & retaining their Roman Rites and Popish policy, which makes them resolve to stay where they are, promising, that themselves are in the surest hold, and looking for our returning back to them. This was ere now, both foreseen and foretold by the wiser sort.
But they have yet more advantage from our Formalists: for they like very well the course of Conformity, as the way of returning to Sect. II Popery, and some of them tell us in broad tearmes, that they hope we are comming fast home to them. They perceave us receaving & retaining their Roman Rites and Popish policy, which makes them resolve to stay where they are, promising, that themselves are in the surest hold, and looking for our returning backe to them. This was ere now, both foreseene and foretold by the wiser sort.
gZanchius told, that he seemed to himself, to hear the Monks & Jesuits saving among themselves, Ipsa quoque Regina Angllae doctissima & prudentissima, paulatim incipit ad Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae redire Religionem; resumptis jam Sanctissimis & Sacratissimis Clericorum vestibus: sperandum est fore ut reliqua etiam omnia, &c. Papists count all to be Calvino-Papistae, i. e. half Papists, who are not Puritans, and daily invite them to an association with them against the Puritans, as hParker showeth out of a Treatise entitled, Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae in Anglia contra Calvino ⟨p. 25⟩Papistas & Puritanos. And we may perceive out of iFranciscus a Sancta clara, that they despair of any agreement with Puritans, yet hoping that Formalists will agree with them. In these hopes they are still more and more confirmed, whiles they observe this conformity in Ceremonies to be yet prevailing and proceeding, and not like to take a stand. Whereupon they (poor souls) delight to stay still in Babylon, finding us so fast turning back thither, as if we repented we come out from thence.