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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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Answ. True it is, Josiah did read the Law of the Lord to the people in the Temple, and made a covenant before the Lord, but 1. He prescribed nothing at his own pleasure, only he required of the people to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments.
Answ. True it is, Iosias did reade the Law of the Lord to the people in the Temple, and made a covenant before the Lord, but 1. He prescribed nothing at his owne pleasure, only he required of the people to walke after the Lord, and to keepe his commaundements.
2. Neither yet did he this work by himself, but did convocate a Counsel of the Prophets Priests and Elders of Israel, for the advancing of that reformation, 2. Kings. 23. 1.
2. Neither yet did he this worke by himselfe, but did convocate a Counsell of the Prophets Priests and Elders of Israel, for the advancing of that reformation, 2. Kings. 23. 1.
3. And if he had done it by himself, yet we are to remember that the reformation of a Church generally and greatly corrupted, craveth the more immediate intermeddling of Princes, and a great deal more then can be ordinarily and orderly done by them, in a Church already reformed. The slaying of the Idolatrous Priests had also the warrant and authority of the Law of God, which appointed a capital punishment for blasphemers, aor such as in ⟨p. 131⟩