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…

2. They say, they give no Scandal by the Ceremonies, because Sect. VIII they have no such intent as to draw any into sin by them. Ans. A scandalous and inordinate quality, or condition of an action any way inductive to sin, maketh an active Scandal, though the doer have no intention to draw into sin. This I made good in my 4. Proposition; and it is further confirmed by that great Scandal whereby Peter compelled the Gentiles to judaize Gal. 2. 14. He constrained them saith ⁿPerkins, by the authority of his example, whereby he caused them to think that the observation of the Ceremonial Law was necessary. It was then the quality of his action which made the Scandal active, because ⟨p. 40⟩that which he did was inductive to sin, but we are not to think that Peter had an intention to draw the Gentiles to sin. ^oCardinal Baronius laboureth to make Peter blameless, & his fact free of all fault; quia praeter ipsius spem id acciderat, and it fell forth only ex accidenti & inopinato, ac praeter intentionem ipsius. ^pM. Ant. de dominis consuteth him well: Est scandalum & cum peccato, quando quis licet non intendat peccatum alterius, facit tamen opus aut ex se malum aut apparenter, ex quo scit, aut scire debet, consequuturum alterius peccatum, aut quodcunque malum: nam etiam dicitur illud volentarium interpretative.

2. They say, they give no Scandall by the Ceremonies, because Sect. VIII they have no such intent as to drawe any into sinne by them. Ans. A scandalous and inordinat quality, or condition of an action any way inductive to sinne, maketh an active Scandall, though the doer have no intention to draw into sinne. This I made good in my 4. Proposition; and it is further confirmed by that great Scandall whereby Peter compelled the Gentiles to judaize Gal. 2. 14. He constrained them saith ⁿ