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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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8. Our Opposites themselves acknowledge no less, then that which I have been pleading for. To devise new rites and Ceremonies saith bD. Bilson, is not the Princes vocation, but to receive and allow such ⟨p. 154⟩as the Scriptures and Canons commend, and such as the Bishops and Pastors of the place shall advise. And saith not cthe Bishop of Salisbury, Ceremonias utiles & decoras excogitare, ad Ecclesiasticos pertinet, tamen easdem comprobare, & toti populo observandas imponere, ad Reges spectat. dCamero saith, that it is the part of a Prince to take care for the health of mens souls, even as he doth for the health of their bodies, and that as he provideth not for the curing or preventing of bodily diseases directly and by himself, but indirectly and by the Physicians, so he should not by himself prescribe cures & remedies for mens spiritual maladies. Perinde Principis est curare salutem animarum, ac ejusdem est saluti corporum prospicere: non est autem Principis providere ne morbi grassentur directe, esset enim Medicus, at in directe tamen Princeps id sludere debet. Whence it followeth, that even as when some bodily sickness spreadeth, a Princes part is not to prescribe a cure, but to command the Physicians to do it: just so, when any abuse, misorder, confusion, or scandal in the Church, requireth or maketh it necessary that a mutation be made of some rite or order in the same, & that wholesome Laws be enacted, which may serve for the order, decency, & edification of the Church, a Prince may not do this by himself, but may only command the Pastors and Guides of the Church, who watch for the souls of men, as they who must give account, to see to the exigency of the present state of matters Ecclesiastical, and to provide such Laws as they being met together in the name of the Lord, shall after due and free deliberation, find to be convenient, and which being once prescribed by them, he shall by his royal authority confirm, establish, and press.
8. Our Opposites themselves aknowledge no lesse, then that which I have beene pleading for. To devise new rites and Ceremonies saith