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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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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. 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 speake properly) are not.
- mEpist. to the Past. of the Church of Scotland.
nB Andrewes avoucheth, that Ceremonies pertain to the Church only and to the service of God, not to civill solemnities. But so much (I trust) he would not have said of circumstances, which have place in all moral actions, and that to the same end and purpose, for which they serve in religious actions, namely, for beautifying them with that decent demeanour which the very light and law of natural reason requireth, as a thing beseeming all humane actions. For the Church of Christ being a society of men and women, must either observe order & decency in all the circumstances of their holy actions, time, place, person, form, &c. or else be deformed with that misorder and and confusion, which common reason and civility abhorreth. Ceremonies therefore, which are sacred observances, and serve only to a religious & holy use, and which may not without Sacrilege be applied to another use, must be sorted with things of another nature then circumstances. Ceremoniae, Ceremonies (saith