A01760:357
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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shall we suffer a pit to be open, wherein the precious souls of men and women, which all the world can not ransom, are likely to fall? Did God command nto make a battlement for the roof ⟨p. 21⟩of a house, and that for the safety of mens bodies? And shall we not only not put up a battlement, or object some bar for the safety of mens souls, but also leave the way sl•pty and full of snares? Read we not that the Lord, who knew what was in man, & saw how propense he was to Idolatry, did not only remove out of his peoples way, all such things as might any way allure or induce them to Idolatry, (even to the cutting of the names of the Idols out of the land, Zecbar. 13. 2.) but also hedge up their way with thorns, that they might not find their paths, nor overtake their Idol-Gods, when they should seek after them, Hos. 2. 6. 7? And shall we by the very contrary course, not only not hedge up the way of Idolatry with thorns, which may stop and stay such as have an inclination aiming forward, but also lay before them, the inciting and enticing occasions, which add to their own propension, such delectation as spurreth forward with a swift facility?
shall we suffer a pit to be open, wherein the pretious soules of men and women, which all the world can not ransone, are likely to fall? Did God command nto make a battlement for the roofe ⟨p. 21⟩of a house, and that for the safety of mens bodies? And shall we not only not put up a battlement, or object some barre for the safety of mens soules, but also leave the way sl•pty and full of snares? Reade we not that the Lord, who knewe what was in man, & saw how propense he was to Idolatry, did not only remove out of his peoples way, all such things as might any way allure or induce them to Idolatry, (even to the cutting of the names of the Idolls out of the land, Zecbar. 13. 2.) but also hedge up their way with thornes, that they might not find their paths, nor overtake their Idol-Gods, when they should seeke after them,