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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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Lastly, whereas he saith, the Ceremonies are not abused by them in England I instance the contrary in Holy-days. rPerkins saith, that the Feast of Christs Nativity, so commonly called, is not spent in praising the name of God, but in riffling, dicing, carding, masking, mumming, and in all licentious liberty, for the most part, as though it were some Heathen Feast of Ceres or Bacchus. And selsewhere he complaineth of the great abuse of Holy-days among them.
Lastly, whereas he saith, the Ceremonies are not abused by them in England I instance the contrary in Holy-dayes. rPerkins saith, that the Feast of Christs Nativity, so cōmonly called, is not spent in praising the name of God, but in riffling, dycing, carding, masking, mumming, and in all licentious liberty, for the most part, as though it were some Heathen Feast of Ceres or Bacchu•. And selsewhere he complaineth of the great abuse of Holy-dayes among them.
- rexpos. of the creed art. of Christs birth.
- scome. on Gal. 4. 10.com. on Gal. 4. 10.
As touching the rule which is alleged against the Ceremonies out of Pauls Doctrine, namely, that in those things from which Sect. XV we may lawfully abstain, we should frame the usage of our liberty with regard to the weakness of our brethren. Hooker answereth to it. 1. That the weak brethren among them, were not as the Jews, who were known to be generally weak, whereas saith he, the imbecility of ours is not common to so many, but only here and there some such a one is found. 2. He tells us, that these scandalous meats, from which the Gentiles were exhorted to abstain for fear of offending the Jews, can not represent the Ceremonies; for their using of meats, was a matter of private action in common life, where every man was free to order that which himself did; but the Ceremonies are public constitutions for ordering the Church, and we are not to look that the Church is to change her public laws and ordinances, made according to that which is judged ordinarily and commonly fittest for the whole, although it chance that for some particular men, the same be found inconvenient, especially when there may be other remedies also against the sores of particular inconveniences. Let them be better instructed.