A01760:662
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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If they take them, (as needs they must,) to the latter part, then let them either say, that the Ceremonies are lawful unto us, because the Church judgeth them to be agreeable to the Law of God & nature, or because the Church proveth unto us by evident reasons, that they are indeed agreeable to these Laws. If they yield us the latter, then it is not the Churches Law, but the Churches reasons given for her ⟨image 118⟩Law, which can warrant the lawfulness of the• •to us: which doth elude and elide all that which they allege for the lawfulness of them from the power and authority of the Church.
If they take them, (as needs they must,) to the latter part, then let them either say, that the Ceremonies are lawfull unto us, because the Church judgeth them to be agreable to the Law of God & nature, or because the Church proveth unto us by evident reasons, that they are indeed agreeable to these Lawes. If they yeeld us the latter, then it is not the Churches Law, but the Churches reasons given for her ⟨image 118⟩Law, which can warrant the lawfulnesse of the• •to us: which doth elude and elide all that which they alleadge for the lawfulnesse of them from the power and authority of the Church.
And further, if any such reasons be to be given forth for the Ceremonies, why are they so long kept up from us? But if they hold them at the former, thereupon it will follow, that it shall be lawful for us to do every thing which the Church shall Judge to be agreeable to the Law of God and nature, and consequently to use all the Jewish, Popish and Heathnish Ceremonies, yea to worship Images; If it happen that the Church judge these things to be agreeable to the Law of God and nature.