A01760:721
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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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⟩contempt of God, and to rub some ignominy upon his name, did traduce his doctrine and religion, and either detract from him and attribute to Idols that which appertained properly unto him, or else attributed unto him either by enunciation or imprecation, such things as could not stand with the glory of the Godhead. Concerning the abolishing of Idolatry and all the relics thereof, we have answered that it was commanded by God. The keeping of the passover was also commanded in the Law: so that when Hezekiah enjoined it, he did but publish Gods own express ordinance.
3. And if he had done it by himselfe, yet we are to remember that the reformation of a Church generally and greatly corrupted, craveth the more immediate intermedling of Princes, and a great deale 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 capitall punishment for blasphemers,