A01760:671
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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To the second distinction, we say that the Christian Church hath Sect. 11 no more liberty to add to the commandments of God •hen the Jewish Church had. For the second commandment is moral and perpetual, and forbiddeth to us as well as to them the additions and inventions of men in the worship of God. Nay, as gCalvin noteth, much more are we forbidden to add unto Gods Word, than they were. Before the coming of his well-beloved Son in the fl•sh, saith hJohn Knox, severely he punished all such as durst enterprise to alter or change his Ceremonies and Statutes, as in iSaul, kUzziah, lNadab, Absha, is to be read. And will he now, after that he hath opened his Counsel to the World by his only Son, whom mhe commandeth to be heard, and after that nby his holy Spirit, speaking by his Apostles, he hath established the religion in which he will his true worshippers abide to the end, will he now I say admit (o) mens inventions in the matter of Religion, &c.? For this sentence he pronounceth: pNot that which seemeth good in thy eyes, shalt thou do to the Lord thy God, but that which the Lord thy God commanded thee, that do thou: Add nothing unto it, diminish nothing ⟨p. 119⟩from it. Which sealing up his New Testament he repeateth in these words: qThat which ye have, hold till I come, &c.