A01760:737
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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The general rule of all indifferent things, is, let all things be done to edification: And Rō. 15. 1. 2. let every man please his neighbour to edification, even as Christ pleased not himself, but others. Whatsoever then is of this rank, which either would weaken or not edify our ⟨p. 135⟩brother, he it never so lawful, never so profitable to our selves, never so powerfully by earthly authority enjoined; Christians who are not borne unto themselves, but unto Christ, unto his Church, and fellow members, must not dare to m•ddle with it, saith tone well to our purpose.
The generall rule of all indifferent things, is, let all things be done to edification: And Rō. 15. 1. 2. let every man please his neighbour to edification, even as Christ pleased not himself, but others. Whatsoever then is of this ranke, which either would weaken or not edify our ⟨p. 135⟩brother, he it never so lawfull, never so profitable to our selves, never so powerfully by earthly authority injoyned; Christians who are not borne vnto themselues, but vnto Christ, vnto his Church, and fellowe members, must not dare to m•ddle with it, saith tone well to our purpose.
- tTaylor on Tit. 1. 15. pag. 295.
A third Proposition I premit, which is this. Since the power Sect. 16 of Princes to make Laws about things Ecclesiastical, is not absolute, but bound and adstricted unto things lawful and expedient, which sort of things, and no other, we are allowed to do for their commandments: and since Princes many times may and do not only transgress those bounds and limits, but likewise pretend that they are within the same, when indeed they are without them, and enjoin things unlawful and in convenient, under the name, title, and show of things lawful and convenient: Therefore it is most necessary as well for Princes to permit, as for Subjects to take liberty to try and examine by the judgement of discretion, every thing which authority enjoineth whether it be agreeable or repugnant to the rules of the word, and if after trial it be found repugnant to abstain from the doing of the same.