A01760:738
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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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.
A third Proposition I premit, which is this. Since the power Sect. 16 of Princes to make Lawes about things Ecclesiasticall, is not absolute, but bound and adstricted vnto things lawfull and expedient, which sort of things, and no other, we are allowed to doe for their commandements: and since Princes many times may and doe not only transgresse those bounds and limits, but likewise pretend that they are within the same, when indeed they are without them, and inioyne things vnlawfull and in convenient, vnder the name, title, and shew of things lawfull and convenient: Therefore it is most necessary as well for Princes to permit, as for Subjects to take liberty to trie and examine by the judgement of discretion, everie thing which auctority enjoyneth whether it be agreeable or repuguant to the rules of the word, and if after triall it be found repugnant to abstaine from the doing of the same.
For 1. The word teacheth us, that the spiritual man judgeth all things 1. Cor. 2. 15. trieth the things that are different. Phil. 1. 10. hath his senses exercised to discern both good and evil.