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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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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.
2. What can be answered to rthat which the Abridgement propoundeth touching this matter? It is much lesse Lawfull, (say those Ministers,) for man to bring significant Ceremonies into Gods worship, now, then it was under the Law. For God hath abrogateth his owne (not only such as prefigured Christ, but such also as served by their signification, to teach morall duties,) so as now (without great sinne) none of them can be continued in the Church, no not for signification. Whereupon they inferre: If those Ceremonies which God himselfe ordained, to teach his Church by their signification, may not now be used, much lesse may those which man hath devised.
- rAmes fresh suite Pag. 266.
Fourthly, sacred significant Ceremonies devised by man, are to Sect. 6 be reckoned among those Images forbidden in the second commandment. sPolanus saith, that omnis figura illicita is forbidden in the second Commandment. tThe Professors of Leiden call call it Imaginem quamlibet, sive mente conceptam, sive manu effictam.