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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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X. If once you yield to these English Ceremonies, think not that thereafter you can keep yourselves back from any greater 1evils or grosser corruptions which they draw after them. For as it is just with God oto give such men over to strong delusions, as have not received the love of the Trueth, nor taken pleasure in the sincerity of his worship: so there is not a more deceitful and dangerous tentation then in yielding to the beginnings of evil. He that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much psaith he who could not lye. When Uriah the Priest had once pleased King Ahaz, in making an Altar like unto that of Damascus, he was afterward led on to please 4him in a greater matter, even in forsaking the Altar of the Lord, and in offering all the Sacrifices upon the Altar of Damascus. All your winning or losing of a good conscience, is in your first buying: for such is the deceitfulness of sin, and the cunning conveyance of that old Serpent, that if his head be once entering in, his whole body will easily follow after, and if he make you handsomely to swallow gnats at first, he will make you swallow Camels ere all be done. O happy they, rwho dash the little ones of Babylon against the stones!
X. If once you yeeld to these English Ceremonies, think not that thereaf•er you can keep yourselves backe from any greater 1evills or grosser corruptions which they draw after them. For as it is just with God oto give such men over to strong delusions, as have not receaved the love of the Trueth, nor taken pleasure in the sincerity of his worship: so there is not a more deceitfull and dangerous tentation then in yeelding to the beginnings of evill. He that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much