A01760:63
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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And we may hitherto apply that which Gerson, the Chancellor of Paris saith, qThe wisest and best among the guides of Gods Church had not so ill a meaning, as to have all their Constitutions and Ordinances taken for Laws properly so named, much less strictly binding the conscience, but for Threatenings, Admonitions, Counsels, and Directions only, and when there groweth a general neglect, they seem to consent to the abolishing of them again, for seeing, lex instituitur, cum promulgatur, vigorem habet, cum moribus ut entium approbatur.
And we may hitherto apply that which Gerson, the Chancelour of Paris saith, qThe wisest and best among the guides of Gods Church had not so ill a meaning, as to have all their Constitutions and Ordinances taken for Lawes properly so named, much lesse strictly binding the conscience, but for Threatnings, Admonitions, Counsels, and Directions only, and when there groweth a generall neglect, they seeme to consent to the abolishing of them againe, for seeing, lex instituitur, cum promulgatur, vigorem habet, cum moribus ut entium approbatur.
- qapud field of the Church lib. 4 cap. 34.
But as we have seen in what respect the Laws of the Church do Sect. IV not bind, let us now see how they may be said to bind. That which bindeth is not the Authority of the Church, nor any force which the Church can give to her Laws. It must be then somewhat else which maketh them able to bind, when they bind at all, and that is, Ratio Legis, the Reason of the Law, without which the Law it self can not bind, and which hath the chiefest and most principal power of binding. An Ecclesiastical Law rsaith Junius [Greek or Hebrew] sive depositio, non vere lex est, sed [Greek or Hebrew] aut Canon, ac proinde dirigit quidem ut Canon agentem voluntarie: non autem necessitate cogit, ut Lex, etiam involuntarium quod si forte ante accedit coactio, ea non est de natura Canonis sed aliunde pervenit. An Ecclesiastical Canon