A01760:215
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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V. An active Scandal is given (and so is faulty) many ways. If it be in a thing lawful, then it makes our brother condemn our lawful deed, yea animates him by our example, to that which in his conscience he condemneth, both which are sin. If it be in a thing unlawful, then is the Scandal given and peccant, if either our brother be made to fall into the outward act of sin; or 2. If he be made to stumble in his conscience, and to call in question the way of trueth; or 3. If it do so much as to make him halt, or weaken his plerophory or full assurance; or 4. If it hinder his growth and ⟨p. 30⟩[…] ⟨p. 31⟩[…] ⟨p. 32⟩going forward, and make him, though neither to fall, nor to stumble, nor to halt, yet to have a smaller progress. Or 5. If none of these evils be produced in our brother, yet when either through our intention, and the condition of the deed together, or through the condition of the deed alone, occasion is given him of sinning any one of these ways. Opus nostrum (r) saith a great Proctor for Popish Ceremonies, quot•s sive natura sua, sive superaddito accidente alicujus circumstantiae, 1est inductivum proximi ad peccatum, sive causativum magni mali, sive turbativum boni spiritualis; sive impeditivum fidei &c. quamvis etiam effectus non s•queretur, malum est & peccatum.
V. An active Scandall is given (and so is faulty) many wayes. If it be in a thing lawfull, then it makes our brother condemne our lawfull deed, yea animates him by our example, to that which in his conscience he condemneth, both which are sinne. If it be in a thing unlawfull, then is the Scandall given and peccant, if either our brother be made to fall into the outward act of sinne; or 2. If he bee made to stumble in his conscience, and to call in question the way of trueth; or 3. If it doe so much as to make him halt, or weaken his plerephory or full assurance; or 4. If it hinder his growth and ⟨p. 30⟩