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…

2. Superstition is that which exhibits divine worship, vel cui non Sect. 3 debet, vel non co modo quo debet, saith the ^cSchoolmen; Now our Ceremonies, though they exhibit worship to God, yet this is done inordinately, and they make the worship to be otherwise performed then it should be; for example, though God be worshipped by the administration of the Sacraments in private places, yet not so as he should be worshipped. The ^dProfessors of Leiden condemn private Baptism as inordinate, because Baptism as publici ministerij, non privatae exhortationis est appendix. It ^eis marked in the fourth century both out of Councils & Fathers, that it was not then permitted, to communicate in private places, but this custom was thought inordinate and unbeseeming. If it be said, that the communion was given to the sick privately, in the ancient Church. I answer: sometimes this was permitted, but for such special reasons as do not concern us; for as we may see plainly by the 14 Canon of the first council of Nice (as those Canons are collected by Ruffinus;) the 69 Canon of the Council of Eliberis; and the 6 Canon of the Council of Ancyra, the communion was only permitted to be given in private houses to the Paenitentes, who were abstenti and debarred from the Sacrament, some for three years, some for five, some for seven, some for ten, some for thirteen, some longer; and who should happily be overtaken with some dangerous and deadly sickness, before the set time of abstention were expired. As for the judgment of our own Divines, Calviniani saith ^fBalduine, morem illum quo Eucharistia ad aegrotos tanquam viaticum defertur, improbant, tamque non nisi in caetibus publicis usurpandam censent. For this he allegeth Beza, Aretius, & Musculus. It was a better ordinance then that of Perth, which said ^gnon oportet in domibus oblationes ab Episcopis sive Presbyteris fieri: but to return.

2. Superstition is that which exhibites divine worship, vel cui non Sect. 3 debet, vel non co modo quo debet, saith the