A01760:664
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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It will be answered (I know) that if the Church command any thing repugnant to Gods Word, we are not bound to do it, nor to receive it as lawful, though the Church judge so of it: But otherwise, if that which the Church judgeth to be agreeable to the Law of God and nature, (and in that respect prescribeth) be not repugnant to the Word of God, but in itself indifferent, then are we to embrace it as convenient, and consonant to the Law of God and nature, neither ought we to call in Question the lawfulness of it.
It will be answered (I know) that if the Church command any thing repugnant to Gods Word, we are not bound to doe it, nor to receive it as lawfull, though the Church judge so of it: But otherwise, if that which the Church judgeth to be agreeable to the Law of God and nature, (and in that respect prescribeth) be not repugnant to the Word of God, but in itself indifferent, then are we to embrace it as convenient, and consonant to the Law of God and nature, neither ought we to call in Question the lawfulnesse of it.
But I reply, that either we must judge a thing to be repugnant or not repugnant to the Word, to be indifferent or not indifferent in itself, because the Church judgeth so of it, or else because the Church proveth unto us by an evident reason that it is so. If the latter; we have what we would. If the former; we are just where we were; The argument is still set a foot: then we must receive every thing (be it never so bad,) as indifferent, if only the Church happen so to judge of it. For quod competit alicui qua tali, &c. So that if we receive any thing as indifferent, for this respect, because the Church judgeth it to be so, then shall we receive every thing for indifferent; which the Church shall so judge of.
But I reply, that either we must judge a thing to be repugnant or not repugnant to the Word, to be indifferent or not indiffere•t in itself, because the Church judgeth so of it, or else because the Church proveth unto us by an evident reason that it is so. If the latter; we have what we would. If the former; we are just where we were; The argument is still set a foot: then we must receive every thing (be it never so bad,) as indifferent, if only the Church happen so to judge of it. For quod competit alicui qua tali, &c. So that if we receive any thing as indifferent, for this respect, because the Church judgeth it to be so, then shall we receive every thing for indifferent; which the Church shall so judge of.