A01760:390
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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The law saith nothing of the immoderate use of these things, but simply forbiddeth to round the head, or mar the beard for the dead; and that because this was one of the Rites, which the Idolatrous and superstitious Gentiles did use, concerning whom the Lord commanded ⟨p. 39⟩his people, that they should not do like them, because he had chosen them to be a holy and peculiar people, above all people upon the earth. So that the thing which was forbidden, if the Gentiles had not used it, should have been otherwise lawful enough to Gods people, as we have seen out of Calvins commentary.
The law saith nothing of the immoderat use of these things, but simply forbiddeth to round the head, or marre the beard for the dead; and that because this was one of the Rites, which the Idolatrous and superstitious Gentiles did use, concerning whom the Lord commmanded ⟨p. 39⟩his people, that they should not doe like them, because he had chosen them to be a holy and peculiar people, above all people upon the earth. So that the thing which was fordidden, if the Gentiles had not used it, should have beene otherwise lawfull enough to Gods people, as we have seene out of Calvines commentary.
Secondly, we have reason for that which we say, for by partaking Sect. 6 with Idolaters in their Rites and Ceremonies, we are made to partake with them in their Religion too. For, Ceremoniae omnes sunt quaedam protestationes fidei, saith kAquinas. Therefore Communio rituum est quasi symbolum communionis in religione, saith lBalduine. They who did eat of the Jewish sacrifices were partakers of the Altar, 1 Cor: 10. 18. that is, saith m