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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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His third condition rests, and touching it I ask, what if those Idolatrous appurtenances, be not without apparent danger of ensnaring people into Idolatry? are we not commanded to abstain from all appearance of evil? Will he correct the Apostle, and teach us, that we need not care for apparent, but for certain dangers? What more apparent danger of ensnaring people into Idolatry, then unnecessary Ceremonies, which have been dedicated to, and polluted with Idols, and which being retained, do both admonish us to remember upon old Idolatry, and move us to return to the same, as I have hbefore made evident?
His third condition rests, and touching it I aske, what if those Idolatrous appurtenances, be not without apparent danger of insnaring people into Idolatry? are we not commanded to abstaine from all appearance of evill? Will he correct the Apostle, and teach us, that we need not care for apparent, but for certain dangers? What more apparent danger of insnaring people into Idolatry, then unnecessarie Ceremonies, which have been dedicated to, and polluted with Idolls, and which being retained, doe both admonish us to remember upon old Idolatry, and move us to returne to the same, as I have hbefore made evident?
- hsupr• sect. 6.
Now as for the assumption of our present Argument, it can not Sect. 17 be but evident, to any who will not harden their minds against the light of the truth, that the Ceremonies in question, have been most notoriously abused to Idolatry and superstition, and withal, that they have no necessary use to make us retain them. I say, they have been notoriously abused to Idolatry. 1. Because they have been dedicated and consecrated to the service of Idols. 2. Because they have been deeply polluted, and commonly employed in Idolatrous worship. For both these reasons doth