A01760:660
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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3. Our Ceremonial Laws are not backed with such grounds & reasons, as might be for the satisfying and quieting of tender consciences, but we are borne down with will and authority: whereof I have said enough delse-where.
3. Our Ceremoniall Lawes are not backed with such grounds & reasons, as might be for the satisfying and quieting of tender consciences, but we are borne downe with will and authority: whereof I have said enough delse-where.
- dSupra part. 1. cap. 4. & 6
2. If the Ceremonies be lawful to us, because the Law and Ordinance Sect. 9 of the Church prescribes them, then either the bare and naked prescription of the Church, having no other warrant then the Churches own authority, makes them to be thus lawful; or else the Law of the Church, as grounded upon and warranted by the Law of God and nature. Not the first; for eDivines hold, legem humanam ferri ab hominibus, cum ratione procedunt ab illis alijs antegressis legibus. Nam legis humanae regula proxima est duplex. Una innata quam legem naturalem dicimus altera inspirat•, quam divinam, &c. Ex his ergo fontibus lex humana procedit: haec incunabula illius, a quibus se aberr•, lex degener est; indigna legis nomine. We have also the testimony of an Adversary. For saith not fPaybody himself: I grant it is unlawful to do in Gods worship any thing upon the mere pleasure of man.