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…

2. That which the Church may lawfully prescribe by her Laws Sect. 6 and ordinances, as a thing left to her determination, must be one of such things as were not determinable by Scripture, for that reason which Camero hath given us, namely, because Individua are Infinita. We mean not in any wise to circumscribe the infinite power & wisdom of God: only we speak upon upposition o• the bounds & limits which God did set to his written word, within which he would have it contained, and over which he thought fi•t that it should not exceed. The case being thus put, as it is, we say truly of those several and changeable circumstances, which are left to the determination of the Church, that being almost infinite, they were no• particularly determinable in Scripture; for the partic lar definition o• those occurring circumstances, which were to be rightly ordered in the works of Gods service, to the end of the World, and that ever according to the exigency o• every present occasion and different case, should have filled the whole world w•h b•okes. But as for other things pertaining to Gods worship, which are not to be reckoned among the circumstances of it, they being neither in number many, nor in change various, were most easily and conveniently determinable in Scripture. Now, since God would have his word, (which is our rule in the works o• his service) not to be delivered by tradition, but to be written and sealed un o us, that by this means, for obviating Satanical subtlety, and succouring humane imbecility, we might have a more certain way for conservation of true religion, and for the instauration of it when it faileth among men: how cab we but assure our selves, that every such acceptable thing pertaining a•y way to religion, which was particularly and conveniently determinable in Scripture, is indeed determined in it, and consequently hat no such thing as is not a mere alterable circumstance, is left to the determination of the Church?

2. That which the Church may lawfully prescribe by her Lawes Sect. 6 and ordinances, as a thing left to her determination, must be one of such things as were not determinable by Scripture, for that reaon which Camero hath given us, namely, because Individua are Infinita. We meane not in any wise to circumcribe the infinite power & wisdome of God: only we speake upon upposition o the bounds & limits which God did set to his written word, within which he would have it contained, and over which he thought fit that it should not exceed. The case being thus put, as it is, we say truely of those severall and changeable circumstances, which are left to the determination of the Church, that being almost infinite, they were no particularly determinable in Scripture; for the partic lar definition o those occurring circumstances, which were to be rightly ordered in the workes of Gods service, to the end of the World, and that ever according to the exigency o every present occasion and different case, should have filled the whole world wh bokes. But as for other things pertaining to Gods worship, which are not to be reckoned among the circumstances of it, they being neither in number many, nor in change various, were most easily and conveniently determinable in Scripture. Now, since God would have his word, (which is our rule in the workes o his service) not to be delivered by tradition, but to be written and sealed un o us, that by this meanes, for obviating Satanicall subtilty, and uccouring humane imbecillity, we might have a more certaine way for conservation of true religion, and for the instauration of it when it faileth among men: how cab we but assure our selves, that every such acceptable thing pertaining ay way to religion, which was particularly and conveniently determinable in Scripture, is indeed determined in it, and consequently hat no such thing as is not a meere alterable circumstance, is left to the determination of the Church?