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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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They place as great a necessity in the Ceremonies, as Papists place in theirs, whereby it shall also appear, how superstitiously they place worship in them, for quaecunque obseruatio quasi necessaria commendatur, continuo censetur ad cultum Dei pertinere, saith xCalvin. yThe Rhemists think, that meats of themselves, or of their own nature, do not defile, but so far as by accident they make a man to sin: as the disobedience of Gods commandment, or of our Superiors, who forbid some meats for certain times and causes, is a sin. And they add; that neither flesh nor fish of it self doth defile, but the breach of the Churches precept defileth. zAquinas defendeth that trin-immersion is not de necessitate baptismi, only he thinks it a sin to baptise otherwise, because this rite is Instituted and used by the Church. Do not formalists place the same necessity in the Ceremonies, while-as they say they urge them not as necessary in themselves, but only as necessary in respect of the determination of the Church, and the ordinance of those, who are set over us? Nay Papists place not so great necessity in many ordinances of their Church, as Formalists place in the Ceremonies. If the cause be doubtful aAquinas sends a man to seek a dispensation from the Superior. But sicausa sit evidens, per se ipsum licite potest homo statuti observantiam praeterire. What formalist dare yield us such liberty, as by our selves, and without seeking a dispensation from Superiors, to neglect the observation of their statutes, when we see evident cause for so doing? they think that we have no power at our own hand to Judge, that we have an evident cause of not obeying those who are set over us, yet thus much is allowed by this Papist, who also belsewhere acknowledgeth that there is nothing necessary in baptism, ⟨p. 5⟩but the form, the minister, & the washing of water, and that all the other Ceremonies which the Church of Rome useth in baptism, are only for solemnity.