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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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2. To what purpose tells he, it is their own fault? Thinks he that there are any offended without their own fault? *To be offended is ever a fault, as I show in my 3. and 6. Propositions; so that if a Scandal be not removed, where it is mens own fault that they are offended, then no Scandal shall ever be removed; because all who are scandalized, commit a fault in being Scandalized. Nihil potest esse hominicausa sufficiens peccati, quod est spiritualis ruina, nisi propria voluntas, & ideo dicta vel facta alterius hominis possunt esse solum causa imperfecta aliqualiter inducens ad ruinam, saith rAquinas; giving a reason why in the definition of Scandal, he saith not, that it giveth cause, but that it giveth occasion of ruin.
2. To what purpose tells he, it is their owne fault? Thinkes he that there are any offended without their owne fault? *To be offended is ever a fault, as I shew in my 3. and 6. Propositions; so that if a Scandall be not removed, where it is mens owne fault that they are offended, then no Scandall shall ever be removed; because all who are scandalized, commit a fault in being Scandalized. Nihil potest esse hominicausa sufficiens peccati, quod est spiritualis ruina, nisi propria voluntas, & ideo dicta vel facta alterius hominis possunt esse solum causa imperfecta aliqualiter inducens ad ruinam, saith rAquinas; giving a reason why in the definition of Scandall, he saith not, that it giveth cause, but that it giveth occasion of ruine.
- *Non enim solum scandalizare, sed etiam scandalizari peccatum, est, quia infirmitatis est saith Maldonat. upon Math. 18. 7.
- r2. 2a. q. 43 art. 1.