A01760:627
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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By this ground we were to say, that Pope Innocent the third held him within the bounds of Ecclesiastical power, when in the great Lateran Council, Anno 1215, he made a Decree, that all the faithful of both sexes should once in the year at least, to wit, upon Easter-day, receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist. From whence it hath come to pass, that the common people in the Church of Rome receive the Sacrament only upon Easter. Now, the time of receiving the Sacrament is a circumstance in the general necessary, for a time it must have, but it is not particularly defined in the Word, It is left indefinite 1. Cor. 11. 26. yet the Church hath no power to determine Easter-day, either as the only time, or as the fittest time, for all the faithful of both sexes to receive the Eucharist. What if faithful men and women cannot have time to prepare themselves (as becometh,) being avocated & distracted by the no less necessary then honest adoes of their particular callings?
By this ground we were to say, that Pope Innocent the third held him within the bounds of Ecclesiasticall power, when in the great Lateran Councell, Anno 1215, he made a Decree, that all the faithfull of both sexes should once in the yeare atleast, to wit, upon Easter-day, receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist. From whence it hath come to passe, that the common people in the Church of Rome receive the Sacrament only upon Easter. Now, the time of receiving the Sacrament is a circumstance in the generall necssary, for a time it must have, but it is not particularly defined in the Word, It is left indefinite 1. Cor. 11. 26. yet the Church hath no power to determine Easter-day, either as the onely time, or as the fittest time, for all the faithfull of both sexes to receive the Eucharist. What if faithfull men and women cannot have time to prepare themselves (as becommeth,) being avocated & distracted by the no lesse necessary then honest adoes of their perticular callings?
What if they can not have the Sacrament upon that day administered according to our Lords institution? What if they see Papists confirming themselves in their Easter-superstition, by