A01760:509
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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If any man reply, that though after the coming of Christ, we Sect. 5 are liberate from the Jewish and typical significant Ceremonies, yet ought we to embrace those Ceremonies, wherein the Church of the New Testament placeth some Spiritual signification.
If any man reply, that though after the comming of Christ, we Sect. 5 are liberate from the Iewish and typicall significant Ceremonies, yet ought we to embrace those Ceremonies, wherein the Church of the New Testament placeth some Spirituall signification.
I answer. 1. That which hath been said in this Argument, holdeth good against significant Ceremonies in general. Otherwise when we read of the abrogation of the Ceremonial Law, we should only understand the abrogation of those particular ordinances, which Moses delivered to the Jews, concerning the Ceremonies that were to endure to the coming of Christ; and so notwithstanding all this, the Church should still have power to set up new Ceremonial Laws in stead of the old, even which & how many she listeth.
I answer. 1. That which hath been said in this Argument, holdeth good against significant Ceremonies in generall. Otherwise when we reade of the abrogation of the Ceremoniall Law, we should only understand the abrogation of those particular ordinances, which Moses delivered to the Iewes, concerning the Ceremonies that were to endure to the comming of Christ; and so notwithstanding all this, the Church should still have power to set up new Ceremoniall Lawes in stead of the old, even which & how many she listeth.
2. What can be answered to rthat which the Abridgement propoundeth touching this matter? It is much less Lawful, (say those Ministers,) for man to bring significant Ceremonies into Gods worship, now, then it was under the Law. For God hath abrogateth his own (not only such as prefigured Christ, but such also as served by their signification, to teach moral duties,) so as now (without great sin) none of them can be continued in the Church, no not for signification. Whereupon they infer: If those Ceremonies which God himself ordained, to teach his Church by their signification, may not now be used, much less may those which man hath devised.