A01760:777
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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how hCamero could so far forget himself as to say, that in things pertaining unto Religion, dirigere atque disponere penes magistratum est proprie, penes Ecclesiasticos ministerium atque executio proprie, telling us further, that the directing and disposing of such things, doth then only belong to Ecclesiastical Persons, when the Church suffereth persecution, or when the Magistrate permitteth, that the matter be judged by the Church.
how hCamero could so farre forget himself as to say, that in things pertaining unto Religion, dirigere atque disponere penes magistratum est proprie, penes Ecclesiasticos ministerium atque executio proprie, telling us further, that the directing and disposing of such things, doth then only belong to Ecclesiasticall Persons, when the Church suffereth persecution, or when the Magistrate permitteth, that the matter be judged by the Church.
- hPralect. tom. 2. pag. 50.
Our Writers have said much of the power of the Church to make laws. But this man (I perceive) will correct them all, and will not acknowledge, that the Church hath any power of making laws, about things pertaining to Religion, (except by accident, because of persecution, or permission) but only a power of executing what Princes please to direct. More fully to deliver our mind, we say; that in the making of Laws about things which concern the worship of God, the Prince may do much […] act• i•os, but nothing p•r act• •licitos. ⟨image 134⟩