A01760:742
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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4. If we be bound to receive and obey the laws of Princes, ⟨p. 136⟩without making a free trial and examining of the equity of the same, then we could not be punished for doing […] ▪ willingly and in ignorance, things unlawful prescribed by them. Whereas every soul that sinneth shall dye; and when the blind leads the blind, he who is led falls in the ditch as well as his leader.
4. If we be bound to receive and obey the lawes of Princes, ⟨p. 136⟩without making a free triall and examining of the equity of the same, then wee could not be punished for doing 〈…〉 ▪ willingly and in ignorance, things unlawfull prescribed by them. Whereas every soule that sinneth shall dye; and when the blind leads the blind, he who is ledde falls in the ditch as well as his leader.
5. No man is permitted to do every thing which seemeth right in his eyes, and to follow every conceit which takes him in the head: but every man is bound tto walk by a rule: But the Law of a Prince cannot be a rule, except it be examined, whether it, be consonant to the Word of God. Index secundum legem, and his Law is only such a rule as is ruled by a higher rule: In so far as it is ruled by the own rule of it, in as far it is a rule to us: and in so far as it is not ruled by the own rule of it, in as far it is not a rule to us. Quid ergo? an non licebit Christiano cuique convenientiam regula & regulati (ut vocant observare? saith wJunius.