A01760:214
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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IV. A Scandal given or active, is not only such a word or deed, whereby we intend the fall of our Brother, but qalso, such a word Sect. III or deed, quod de sui ration• habet, quod sit inductivum ad peccandum, puta cum aliquis publice facit peccatum, vel quod habet similitudinem peccati. Joh. 16. 2. Put the case a man stay away from the Christian Assemblies, and public worship of God, intending to employ his studies all this time, for the good of the Church by writing; such a man doth not only not intend the fall of others, but by the contrary he intendeth edification; yet doth he scandalize them, because ratio & conditio operis is scandalous and inductive to sin.
IV. A Scandall given or active, is not onely such a word or deed, whereby we intend the fall of our Brother, but qalso, such a word Sect. III or deed, quod de sui ration• habet, quod sit inductivum ad peccandum, puta cum aliquis publice facit peccatum, vel quod habet similitudinem peccati. Ioh. 16. 2. Put the case a man stay away from the Christian Assemblies, and publike worship of God, intending to employ his studies all this time, for the good of the Church by writing; such a man doth not onely not intend the fall of others, but by the contrary he intendeth edification; yet doth he scandalize them, because ratio & conditio operis is scandalous and inductive to sinne.
- qAquin. 2. 2a. q. 43. art. 1. Marc. Ant. de dom. de Rep. Eccl. lib. 5. cap. 10. n. 44.