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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. I have also proven in the first part of this Dispute, that an Ecclesiastical constitution can not bind us nor take away our liberty in the using or not using of a thing indifferent in it self, except some other reason be showed us then the bare Authority of the Church. As touching the civill Magistrate, his place and power, to judge and determine in things pertaining to the worship of God, we shall see it afterwards, and so shall we know how far his decisions and ordinances in this kind of things, have force to bind us to obedience.
2. I have also proven in the first part of this Dispute, that an Ecclesiasticall constitution can not bind us nor take away our liberty in the using or not using of a thing indifferent in it selfe, except some other reason bee shewed us then the bare Auctority of the Church. As touching the civill Magistrate, his place and power, to judge and determine in things pertaining to the worship of God, we shall see it afterwards, and so shall we knowe how farre his decisions and ordinances in this kinde of things, have force to binde us to obedience.
3. He should have proven, that obedience to the Magistrate in a thing indifferent, is a better duty then abstaining from that which ⟨p. 51⟩scandalizeth many Christians: he should not have opposed pleasing and scandalizing (for perhaps a man is most scandalized when he is most pleased;) but edifying and scandalizing, according to my first Proposition. Now will any body, except Paybody, say, that obedience to the Magistrate in a thing indifferent, out of which Scandal riseth, is a better duty then forbearing for the edification of many Christian souls, and for shunning to scandalize them. This we must take to be his meaning, or else he saith nothing to the purpose.
3. He should have proven, that obedience to the Magistrate in a thing indifferent, is a better duty then abstaining from that which ⟨p. 51⟩