A01760:642
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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Thus having sailed by those rocks of offence: I direct my Sect. V course straight, to the descrying of the true limits, within which the Churches power of enacting Laws about things pertaining to the worship of Cod, is bounded and confined, and which it may not overleap nor transgress.
Thus having sailed by those rockes of offence: I direct my Sect. V course straight, to the descrying of the true limits, within which the Churches power of enacting Lawes about things pertaining to the worship of Cod, is bounded and confined, and which it may not overleape nor transgresse.
Three conditions I find necessarily requisite, in such a thing as the Church hath power to prescribe by her Laws.
Three conditions I finde necessarily requisite, in such a thing as the Church hath power to prescribe by her Lawes.
1. It must be only a circumstance of Divine Worship, no substantial part of it, no sacred significant and efficacious Ceremony. For the order and decency left to the definition of the Church, as concerning the particulars of it, comprehendeth no more, but mere circumstances. mB. Lindsey, doth but unskilfully confound things different, when he talketh of the Ceremonies and Circumstances left to the determination of the Church. Now by his leave, though Circumstances be left to the determination of the Church, yet Ceremonies (if we speak properly) are not.
1. It must be onely a circumstance of Divine Worship, no substantiall part of it, no sacred significant and efficacious Ceremonie. For the order and decency left to the definition of the Church, as concerning the particulars of it, comprehendeth no more, but mere circumstances.