A01760:352
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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Thirdly, the Churches of Pergamos and Theatyra are reproved for suffering the use of Idolothyts, Apoc. 2. 14. 20. Where the eating Sect. 4 of things sacrificed to Idols is condemned as Idolatry and spiritual adultery, as nPerkins noteth. Paybody therefore is greatly mistaken, when he thinks, that meats sacrificed to Idols, being the good Creatures of God, were allowed by the Lord, out of the case of scandal, notwithstanding of Idolatrous pollution, for Apoc. 2. the eating of things sacrificed to Idols, is reproved as Idolatry, and 1. Cor. 10. 20. the cating of such things, is condemned as a fellowship ⟨p. 18⟩with Devils. Now Idolatry and fellowship with devils, I suppose are unlawful, though no scandal should follow upon them. And whereas he thinks meats sacrificed to Idols, to be lawful enough out of the case of scandal, for this reason, because they are the good Creatures of God, he should have considered better the Apostles mind concerning such Idolothyts. Which oZanchius setteth down thus, Verum est, per so haec nihil sunt, sed respectu eorum quibus immolantur aliquid sunt: quia per haec, illis quibus immolantur, nos consociamur. Qui isti? Daemones. For our better understanding of this matter, we must distinguish two sorts of Idolothyts, both which we find 1 Cor. 10. Of the one, the Apostle speaks from the 14 Verse of that Chapter, to the 23. Of the other, from the 23. verse to the end; This is Beza his distinction in his Annotations on that Chapter. Of the first sort, he delivers the Apostles mind thus; that as Christians have their holy banquets, which are badges of their communion both with Christ and among themselves, and as the Israelites by their sacrifices did seal their copulation in the same religion, so also Idolaters cum suis idolis aut potius daemonibus, solemnibus illis epulis copulantur. So that this sort of p