A01760:812
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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PROPOS. I. Princes may and ought to provide and take care, that men of those Ecclesiastical orders, and those only, which are instituted in the new Testament, by divine authority, have vocation and office in the Church.
PROPOS. I. Princes may and ought to provide and take care, that men of those Ecclesiasticall orders, and those only, which are instituted in the new Testament, by divine auctority, have vocation and office in the Church.
Now beside the Apostles, Prophets, and Evangelists, which were not ordained to be ordinary and perpetual offices in the Church, tthere are but two Ecclesiastical orders or degrees instituted by Christ in the new Testament, vix. Elders and Deacons. Excellenter Canons d•os tantum sacros ordines appellari censent, Diaconatus scilicet & Presbyterat•, quia hos solos primitiva Ecclesia legitur habuisse, & de hi• sol• praeceptum ⟨image 140⟩Apostli habe•, saith wthe Master of Sentences. As for the order and degree of Bishops, superior to that of Elders, that there is no divine Ordinance nor institution for it, it is not only holden by Calvin, Beza, Bucer, Martyr, Sadeel, Luther, Chemnitius, Gerard Balduine, the Magdeburgians, Musculus, Piscator, Hemmingius, Zanchius, Polanus, Junius, Pareus, Fennerus, Danaeus, Morney, Whittakers, Willets, Perkins, Cartwright, the Professors of Leiden, and the far greatest part of Writers in reformed Churches, but also by Hierome, who upon Tit. 1. and in his Epistle to Fvagrius speaketh so plainly, that