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…

First, they are imposed with a necessity of practise. B. Spotswood Sect. II (b) tells us, that public constitutions must be obeyed, and that private ¹men may not disobey them, and thus is our practise adstricted in the use of things which are not at all necessary, and acknowledged gratis by the urgers to be indifferent, adstricted (I say) to the one part without liberty to the other, and that by the mere authority of a human constitution, whereas Christian liberty gives us freedom, both for the omission, and for the observation of a thing indifferent, except some other reason do adstrict & restrain it, then a bare humane constitution. Chrysostom speaking of such as are subject to Bishops, ^csaith, In potestate positum est obedire vel non. Liberty in things indifferent ^dsaith Amandus Pol•s, est per quam Christiani sunt libe•i in usu vel abstinentia rerum adiaphorarum. Calvin speaking of our liberty in things indifferent, ^esaith, We may •as nunc usurpare nunt omittere indifferenter, and places this ^fliberty, tam in abstinendo quam in utendo. It is marked ⟨p. 5⟩of the Rites of the ancient Church ^gthat liberae fuerunt horum Rituum observations in Ecclesia. And what meaneth the Apostle whiles he saith, ^hIf ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (touch not, taste not, handle not, which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and Doctrines of men? Sure he condemneth not only ⁱ