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…

Seventhly, our own Writers do sufficiently confirm us in Sect. 10 this Argument. The bringing of Heathenish, or Jewish Rites into the Church, is altogether condemned by ^uthem, yea ^xthough the Customs & Rites of the Heathen, be received into the Church for gaining them, and drawing them to the true Religion, yet is it condemned, as proceeding ex [Greek or Hebrew] seu prava Ethnicorum imitation. ^yI. Rainoldes rejecteth the Popish Ceremonies, partly because they are Jewish, and partly because they are Heathnish. The same Argument, ⟨p. 43⟩^zTh. Biza useth against them. In the second command, as ^aZanchius expoundeth it, we are forbidden to borrow any thing ex ritibus idololatrarum Gentium. Fidelibus saith ^bCalvin fas non est ullo symbolo ostendere, sibi cum superstitiosis esse consensum. To conclude then, since not only Idolatry is forbidden, but also as c Pareus noteth, every sort of communicating with the occasions, appearances, or instruments of the same, and since as ^dour Divines have declared, the Papists are in many respects gross Idolaters, let us choose to have the commendation, which ^ewas given to the ancient Britons, ⁹for being enemies to the Roman Customs, rather then as ^fPope Pius the 5. was forced to say of Rome, that it did more Gentilizare, quam Christianizare; so they who would gladly wish, they could give a better commendation to our Church, be forced to say, that it doth not only more Anglizare, quam Scotizare, but also more Romanizare, quam Evangelizare.