A01760:317
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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For first, superstition is the opposite vice to Religion, in the excess Sect. 2 as our Divines describe it, for it exhibits more in the worship of God then he requires in his worship. Porro saith bZanchius in cultum ipsum excessu peccatur, si quid illi quem Christus instituit, jam addas, aut ab aliis additum sequaris: ut si Sacramentis à Christo institutis, alia addas Sacramenta: ⟨p. 2⟩si Sacrificiis, alia sacrificia: si Ceremoniis cujusvis Sacramenti, alios add. is Ritus: qui merito omnes superstitionis nomine appellantur. We see he accounteth superstition to be in the addition of Ceremonies, not instituted by Christ, as well as in the addition of more substantial matters. Superstitio, (as some derive the word) is that which is done supra statutum; and thus are the controverted Ceremonies superstitious, as being used in Gods worship, upon no other ground then the appointment of men.
For first, superstition is the opposite vice to Religion, in the excesse Sect. 2 as our Divines describe it, for it exhibites more in the worship of God then he requires in his worship. Porro saith bZanchius in cultum ipsum excessu peccatur, si quid illi quem Christus instituit, jam addas, aut ab aliis additum sequaris: ut si Sacramentis à Christo institutis, alia addas Sacramenta: ⟨p. 2⟩si Sacrificiis, alia sacrificia: si Ceremoniis cujusvis Sacramenti, alios add. is Ritus: qui merito omnes superstitionis nomine appellantur. We see he accounteth superstition to be in the addition of Ceremonies, not instituded by Christ, as well as in the addition of more substantiall matters. Superstitio, (as some derive the word) is that which is done supra statutum; and thus are the controverted Ceremonies superstitious, as being vsed in Gods worship, vpon no other ground then the appointment of men.
- blib. 1. de vit ext. cult oppos. Col. 501. 502.