A01760:301
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. That sentence of choosing the least of two evils, must be understood of evils of punishment, not of evils of sin, as I show dbefore, so that he is in a foul error, whiles he would have us to choose the least of two scandals.
2. That sentence of choosing the least of two evills, must be understood of evills of punishment, not of evills of sinne, as I shew dbefore, so that he is in a foule error, whiles he would have us to choose the least of two scandalls.
- dsupr• cap. 1.
3. As for the example which he allegeth, he deceiveth himself to think that Peter had given scandal to the Jews, by his eating with the Gentiles. Cum Gentibus cibum capiens, recte utebatur libertate Christiana, say ethe Magdeburgians: but when certain Jews came from James he withdrew himself, fearing the Jews, and so quod ante de libertate Christiana edificarat, rursus destruebat: By eating then with the Gentiles he gave no scandal, but by the contrary he did edify. And further I say, that his eating with the Gentiles was a thing necessary, and that for shunning of two great scandals; the one, of the Gentiles, by compelling them to judaize; the other, of the Jews, by confirming them in Judaism, both which followed upon his withdrawing from the Gentiles; so that by his eating with the Gentiles no scandal could be given, and if any had been taken, it was not to be cared for. Wherefore there was but one scandal, which Peter and his companions were in danger of, which also they did give, & for which Paul reprehended them, namely, their withdrawing of themselves from the Gentiles, & keeping company only with the Jews;