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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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The second distinction, which may help our light in this question Sect. XXIII about the Power of Princes, is of times: for, when the Church and Ministers thereof are corrupted and must be reformed, Princes may do much more in making Laws about things Ecclesiastical, then regularly they may, when Ecclesiastical Persons are both able and willing to do their duty, in rightly taking care of all things, which ought to be provided for the good of the Church, and conservation or purgation of Religion. For (saith yJunius) both the Church, when the joining of the Magistrate faileth, may extraordinarily do something, which ordinarily she can not: and again, when the Church faileth of her duty, the Magistrate may extraordinarily procure, that the Church return to her duty: that is, in such a case extraordinarily happening, these (Ecclesiastical Persons) and those (Magistrates) may extraordinarily do something, which ordinarily they can not. For this belongeth to common Law and Equity, that unto extraordinary evils, extraordinary remedies must also be applied. We acknowledge, that it belongeth to Princes, zto reform things in the Church as often as the Ecclesiastical Persons shall either through ignorance or disorder of the affection of covetousness or ambition, defile the Lords Sanctuary. At such extraordinary times, Princes by their coactive temporal Power, ought to procure & cause a Reformation of a buses, and the avoiding of misorders in the Church, though with the discontent of the Clergy: for which end and purpose they may not only enjoin and command the Profession of that Faith, and the Practise of that Religion which Gods Word appointeth, but also prescribe such an order and policy in the circumstances of Divine Worship, as they in their judgement of Christian Discretion, observing and following the Rules of the Word, shall judge and try to be convenient for the present time and case, and all this under the commination of such temporal losses, pains, or punishments, as they shall deprehend to be reasonable.
The second distinction, which may help our light in this question Sect. XXIII about the Power of Princes, is of times: for, when the Church and Ministers thereof are corrupted and must be reformed, Princes may doe much more in making Lawes about things Ecclesiasticall, then regularly they may, when Ecclesiasticall Persons are both able and willing to doe their duty, in rightly taking care of all things, which ought to be provided for the good of the Church, and conservation or purgation of Religion. For (saith