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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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That the Ceremonies are unlawful, because they are monuments of by-past idolatry, which not being necessary to be retained, should be utterly abolished, because of their idolatrous abuse: all which is particularly made good of kneeling.
That the Ceremonies are unlawfull, because they are monuments of by-past idolatry, which not being necessary to be retained, should be utterly abolished, because of their idolatrous abuse: all which is particularly made good of kneeling.
I Have proven the Ceremonies to be superstitious; now I will prove them to be Idolatrous. These are different arguments, Sect. for every Idolatry is superstition, but every superstition is ⟨p. 16⟩not Idolatry, as is rightly by gsome distinguished. As for the Idolatry of the controverted Ceremonies, I will prove that they are thrice Idolatrous. 1. reductivè, because they are monuments of bypast Idolatry. 2 participativè, because they are badges of present Idolatry. 3. formaliter, because they are Idols themselves. First then, they are Idolatrous, because having been notoriously abused to Idolatry heretofore, they are the detestable and accursed monuments, which give no small honour to the memory of that by-past Idolatry, which should lie buried in hell. hDr. Burgess reckons for Idolatrous, all Ceremonies devised and used, in and to the honouring of an Idol, whether properly or by interpretation such. Of which sort saith he, were all the Ceremonies of the Pagans, and not a few of the Papists. If an opposite writing against us be forced to acknowledge this much, one may easily conjecture, what enforcing reason we have to double out our point. The Argument in hand I frame thus:
I Have proven the Ceremonies to be superstitious; now I will prove them to be Idolatrous. These are different arguments, Sect. for every Idolatry is superstition, but every superstition is