A01760:779
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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For proof of these things I add, 1. Politic government, versatur Sect. XXVI circa res terrenas & hominem externum (saith ione of our Writers) Magistratus saith kanother) instituti sunt a Deo rerum humanarum quae hominum societati necessariae sunt respectu, & ad earum curam. But they are Ecclesiastical Ministers, who are lordained for men in thing pertaining to God, that is, in things which pertain unto Gods worship. It belongeth not therefore to Princes to govern and direct things of this nature, even as it belongeth not to Pastors to govern and direct earthly things, which are necessary for the external, and civill society of men. I mean, ordinarily and regularly, for of extraordinary cases we have spoken other wise. But according to the common order and regular form, we are ever to put this difference, betwixt Civill and Ecclesiastical government, which mone of our best learned Divines hath excellently conceived after this manner. Altera differentia, &c. The other difference (saith he) taken from the matter and subject of the administrations. For we have put in our definition humane things to be the subject of civill administration: but the subject of Ecclesiastical administration, we have taught to be things divine and sacred: Things divine and sacred we call, both those which God commandeth for the sanctification of our mind and conscience, as things necessary; and also those which the decency and order of the Church requireth to be ordained and observed, for the profitable and convenient use of the things which are necessary. For example, Prayers; the ⟨p. 149⟩administration of the Word and Sacraments, Ecclesiastical censure; are things necessary, and essentially belonging to the Communion of Saints: but set days, set hours, set places, fasts, and if there be any such like, they belong to the decency and order of the Church: without which the Church can not be well edified, nor any particular member thereof rightly fashioned, and fitly set in the body. But humane things, we call, such duties as touch the life, the body, goods, and good name, as they are expounded in the second table of the Decalogue: for these are the things in which the whole civill administration standeth. Behold, how the very circumstances, which pertain to Ecclesiastical order and decency, are exempted from the compass of civill government.