A01760:52
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 can blame us for standing to the defence of our Christian liberty, which we ought to defend and pretend in rebus quibusvis Sect. I xsaith Bucer? shall we bear the name of Christians, and yet make no great account of the liberty which hath been bought to us, by the dearest drops of the precious blood of the Son of God? Sumus empty ysaith Pareus: non igitur nostri juris ut nos mancipem• hominum servitio: id enim manifesta cum injuria redemptoris Christi fieret: sumus liberti Christi. Magistratui autem zsaith Tilen, & Ecclesia praepositis, non nisi usque ad aras obtemperandum, neque ullum certamen aut periculum pro libertatis per Christum nobis partae defensione defugiendum, siquidem mortem ipsius irritam fieri, Paulus asserit, si spiritualis servitutis jugo, nos implicari patiamur. aLet us stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. But that the urging of the Ceremonies as necessary, doth take away our Christian liberty, I will make it evident in four points.
WHo can blame us for standing to the defence of our Christian liberty, which we ought to defend and pretend in rebus quibusvis Sect. I xsaith Bucer? shall we beare the name of Christians, and yet make no great account of the liberty which hath beene bought to us, by the dearest drops of the precious bloud of the Sonne of God? Sumus empti ysaith Pareus: non igitur nostri juris ut nos mancipem• hominum servitio: id enim manifesta cum injuria redemptoris Christi fieret: sumus liberti Christi. Magistratui autem zsaith Tilen, & Ecclesia praepositis, non nisi usque ad aras obtemperandum, neque ullum certamen aut periculum pro libertatis per Christum nobis partae defensione defugiendum, siquidem mortem ipsius irritam fieri, Paulus asserit, si spiritualis servitutis jugo, nos implicari patiamur.