A01760:356
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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Fifthly, our proposition is backed with a twofold reason, for things which have been notoriously abused to Idolatry, should be Sect. 6 abolished, 1. quia monent, 2. quia movent: first then, they are monitory, & preserve the memory of Idols, monumentum in good things, is both monimentum & munimentum, but monumentum in evil things, (such as Idolatry,) is only monimentum, which monet mentem to remember upon such things as ought not to be once named among Saints, but should lye buried in the eternal darkness of silent oblivion. Those relics therefore of Idolatry, quibus quasi monumentis posterit as admoneatur (as eWolphius rightly saith,) are to be quite defaced and destroyed, because they serve to honour the memory of cursed Idols. God fwould not have, so much as the name of an Idol, to be remembered among his people, but commanded to destroy their names, as well as themselves. Whereby we are admonished, as gCalvin saith, how detestable Idolatry is before God, cujus memoriam vult penitus deleri, ne posthac ullum ejus vesligium appareat, hyea he requireth, eorum omnium memoriam deleri, quae semel dicata sunt idolis. If iMordecai would not give his countenance, nor do any reverence to a living monument of that nation, whose name God had ordained kto be blotted out from under heaven; much less should we give connivance, and far less countenance, but least of all reverence to the dead and dumb monuments of those Idols which God hath devoted to utter destruction, with all their naughty appurtenances, so that he will not have their names to be once mentioned or remembered again. But secondly, movent too: such Idolothyous remainders move us to turn back to Idolatry. For usu compertum habemus, superstitiones etiam postquam explosae essent, si qua relicta fuissent earum monumenta, cum memoriam sui ipsarum apud homines, tum id tandem ut revocarentur obtinuisse, saith l