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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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I come now to examine what is the judgment of Formalists, touching Sect. VIII the binding of the conscience by Ecclesiastical Laws. Dr. Field, (h) saith, that the question should not be proposed, whether 1humane laws do bind the conscience, but, Whether binding the outward man to the performance of outward things, by force and fear of outward punishment to be inflicted by men, the not performance of such things, or the not performance of them with such affections as were fit, be not a sin againest God, of which the conscience will accuse us, &c. Unto this question thus proposed, and understood of humane Laws, and where no ⟨p. 12⟩[…] ⟨p. 13⟩[…] ⟨p. 12⟩more is considered, as giving them power to bind, but only the Authority of those who make them; some Formalists do give (as I will show,) and all of them (being well advised) must give an affirmative answer. And I pray what did iBellarmine say more, when expressing how conscience is subject to humane Authority, he taught, that conscience belongeth ad humanum forum, quatenus homo ex praecepto ita obligatur ad opus externum faciendum, ut si non faciat, judicat ipse in conscientia sua see male facere, & hoc sufficit ad conscientiam obligandam? but to proceed particularly.
I come now to examine what is the judgment of Formalists, touching Sect. VIII the binding of the conscience by Ecclesiasticall Lawes. Dr. Field, (h) saith, that the question should not be proposed, whether 1humane lawes doe binde the conscience, but, Whether binding the outward man to the performance of outward things, by force and feare of outward punishment to be inflicted by men, the not performance of such things, or the not performance of them with such affections as were fit, be not a sinne againest God, of which the conscience will accuse us, &c. Vnto this question thus proposed, and understood of humane Lawes, and where no ⟨p. 12⟩