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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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But out of the case of scandal or contempt, Divines teach, that conscience Sect. V is not bound by the Canon of the Church made about order and policy. Extra casum scandali & destinatae rebellionis, propter commune bonum, non peccat qui contra constitutiones istas fecerit, saith fJunius. If a Law gsaith Perkins concerning some external Rite or thing indifferent, be at some time, or upon some occasion omitted, no offence given, nor contempt showed to Ecclesiastical Authority, there is no breach made in the conscience. Alsted his rule is (h) Leges humanae non obligant quando omitti possunt sine 3impedimento finis ob quem feruntur sine scandalo aliorum, & sine contemptu Legislatoris. And Tilen teacheth us, that when the Church hath determined the mutable circumstances, in the worship of God, for public edification, iPrivatorum conscientiis liberum est quandoque ista omittere, modo offendicula vitentur, nihilque ex contemptu Ecclesiae ac Ministerii publici petulanti [Greek or Hebrew] vel [Greek or Hebrew] facere videantur.
But out of the case of scandall or contempt, Divines teach, that conscience Sect. V is not bound by the Canon of the Church made about order and policie. Extra casum scandali & destinatae rebellionis, propter commune bonum, non peccat qui contra constitutiones istas fecerit, saith fIunius. If a Law gsaith Perkins concerning some externall Rite or thing indifferent, be at some time, or upon some occasion omitted, no offence given, nor contempt shewed to Ecclesiastical Auctority, there is no breach made in the conscience. Alsted his rule is (h) Leges humanae non obligant quando omitti possunt sine 3impedimento finis ob quem feruntur sine scandalo aliorum, & sine contemptu Legislatoris. And Tilen teacheth us, that when the Church hath determined the mutable circumstances, in the worship of God, for publike edification,