A01760:547
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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Now to the particulars. And first, that which Christ did Matth. Sect. 4 19. 13. 15. can not commend unto us the Bishopping, or confirmation of children by prayer and imposition of hands. For as fMaldonat saith rightly, Haebre orum consuetudinem fuisse, ut qui majores erant & aliqua pollebant divina gratia, manuum impositione inferioribus benedicerent, constat ex Gen. 48. 14. 15. hac ergo ratione adducti parentes, Infantes ad Christum afferebant, ut impossit is manibus illis benediceret. And as touching this blessing of children and imposition of hands upon them, saith gCartwright, it is peculiar unto our Saviour Christ: used neither by his disciples, nor his Apostles, either before or after his Ascension. Whereunto maketh that the Children being brought, that he should pray over them, he did not pray for them, but blessed them, that is to say commended them to be blessed, thereby to show his Divine power. These being also yet Infants, and in their swaddling clouts, as by the Word which the Evangelist useth, and as by our Saviour Christs taking them into his arms, doth appear; being also in all likelihood unbaptized. Last of all, their confirmation is a notable derogation unto the holy Sacrament of Baptism, not alone in that it presumeth ⟨p. 96⟩the sealing of that which was sealed sufficiently by it: but also in that both by asseveration of words; and by specialty of the Minister that giveth it, it is even preferred unto it.
Now to the particulars. And first, that which Christ did Matth. Sect. 4 19. 13. 15. can not commend unto us the Bishopping, or confirmation of children by prayer and imposition of hands. For as fMaldonat saith rightly, Haebre orum consuetudinem fuisse, ut qui majores erant & aliqua pollebant divina gratia, manuum impositione inferioribus benedicerent, constat ex Gen. 48. 14. 15. hac ergo ratione adducti parentes, Infantes ad Christum afferebant, ut impossit is manibus illis benediceret. And as touching this blessing of children and imposition of hands upon them, saith