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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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Who then can think that any such special accident, as Hooker imagineth, was the reason why the Rites and Customs of Pagans were forbidden to Christians? Were not the Customs of the Pagans to be held unbeseeming for Christians, as well as the Customs of the Jews? Nay, if Conformity with Heretics (whom gHooker acknowledgeth to be a part of the visible Church,) in their Customs and Ceremonies, was condemned as a scandal, a dishonour to the Church, and an assenting unto their Heresies; ⟨p. 42⟩might he not have much more thought, that conformity with the Customs of Pagans was forbidden as a greater scandal, and dishonour to the Church, and as an assenting to the Paganism and Idolatry of those that were without?
Who then can thinke that any such speciall accident, as Hooker imagineth, was the reason why the Rites and Customes of Pagans were forbidden to Christians? Were not the Customes of the Pagans to be held unbeseeming for Christians, as well as the Customes of the Iewes? Nay, if Conformity with Heretikes (whom gHooker aknowledgeth to be a part of the visible Church,) in their Customes and Ceremonies, was condemned as a scandall, a dishonour to the Church, and an assenting unto their Heresies; ⟨p. 42⟩might he not have much more thought, that conformity with the Customes of Pagans was forbidden as a greater scandall, and dishonour to the Church, and as an assenting to the Paganisme and Idolatry of those that were without?
- geccl pol. lib. 3. s. 1.
But to proceed. In the fourth place, the Canon Law it self speaketh Sect. 9 for the Argument, which we have in hand.