A01760:632
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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Thereafter he addeth. Quid sit fides, quid sit pietas, quid sit charitas, verbo Dei demonstratur. Quid ad haec conducat, seu reputando rem in universum, seu reputando rem quatenus singulis competit, pendet ex cognitione circumstantiarum. Jam id definire Deus voluit esse penes Ecclesiam, hac tamen lege, ut quod definit Ecclesia conveniat generall definitioni Dei.
Thereafter he addeth. Quid sit fides, quid sit pietas, quid sit charitas, verbo Dei demonstratur. Quid ad haec conducat, seu reputando rem in universum, seu reputando rem quatenus singulis competit, pendet ex cognitione circumstantiarum. Iam id definire Deus voluit esse penes Ecclesiam, hac tamen lege, ut quod definit Ecclesia conveniat generall definitioni Dei.
The matter he illustrates with this one Example: Gods Word doth define in the general, that we are to fast, and that publicly, But in the particular we could not have the definition of the Word, because there are infinite occasions of a public Fast, as it is said in the Schooles individua esse infinita: so that it is the Churches part, to look to the occasion, & this depends upon the consideration of the circumstances. This discourse of his cannot satisfy the attentive Reader, but deserveth certain animadversions.
The matter he illustrates with this one Example: Gods Word doth define in the generall, that we are to fast, and that publikely, But in the particular wee could not have the definition of the Word, because there are infinite occasions of a publike Fast, as it is said in the Schooles individua esse infinita: so that it is the Churches part, to looke to the occasion, & this depends upon the consideration of the circumstances. This discourse of his cannot satisfy the attentive Reader, but deserveth certaine animadversions.
First then, it is to be observed, how he is drawn into a manifest Sect. IV contradiction: for whereas he saith, that Gods Word doth exserte & diserte commend unto us generatim, such things as conduce to Faith and manners, & that concerning things of this nature we have a general Law in Scripture, how can this stand with that which he addeth, namely, that it is in the Churches power to define what things do conduce to faith, piety, & charity, even reputando rem in universum?