A01760:402
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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As for any other of our Opposites; who have made such answers Sect. 12 as they could, to the Argument in hand; I hope the strength and force of the same hath been demonstrated to be such, that their poor shifts are too weak for gainstanding it. Some of them (as I touched before) are not ashamed to profess, that we should come as near to the Papists as we can, and therefore should conform our selves to them in their Ceremonies, (only purging away the superstition) because if we do otherwise, we exasperate the Papists, and alienate them the more from our Religion and Reformation. Ans. 1. nJoh. Bastwick, propounding the same objection, Si quis obijciat nos ipsos pertinaci Ceremoniarum Papalium contemptu, Papistis offendiculum posuisse, quo minus se nostris Ecclesiis associent, he answereth out of the oApostle, that we are to please every one his neighbour only in good things to edification, & that we may not wink at absurd or wicked things, nor at any thing in Gods worship, which is not found in Scripture. 2. pI have showed, that Papists are but more and more hardened in evil, by this our conformity with them in Ceremonies. 3. qI have showed also the superstition of the Ceremonies, even as they are retained by us, and that it is as impossible to purge the Ceremonies from superstition, as to purge superstition from it self.
As for any other of our Opposites; who have made such answers Sect. 12 as they could, to the Argument in hand; I hope the strength and force of the same hath been demōstrated to be such, that their poore shifts are too weake for gainstanding it. Some of them (as I touched before) are not ashamed to professe, that we should come as neare to the Papists as we can, and therefore should conforme our selves to them in their Ceremonies, (onely purging away the superstition) because if we doe otherwise, we exasperate the Papists, and alienate them the more from our Religion and Reformation. Ans. 1. nIoh. Bastwick, propounding the same objection, Si quis obijciat nos ipsos pertinaci Ceremoniarum Papalium contemptu, Papistis offendiculum posuisse, quo minus se nostris Ecclesiis associent, he answereth out of the