A01760:824
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 right of Election pertaineth to the whole Church: which as it is maintained by foreign Divines, who write of the controversies with Papists; and as it was the order which this Church prescribed in the books of Discipline; so it is commended unto us by the example of the Apostles, and of the Churches planted by them. Joseph and Matthias were chosen & offered to Christ by the whole Church, being about. 120. persons. Act. 1. 15. 23. The Apostles required the whole Church and multitude of Disciples, to choose out from among them seven men to be Deacons Act. 6. 2. 3. The holy Ghost said to the whole Church at Antioch, being assembled together to minister unto the Lord, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, Act. 13. 1. 2. The whole Church chose Judas and Silas to be sent to Antioch. Act. 15. 22. The brethren who travailed in the Churches affairs, were chosen by the Church, and are called the Churches Messengers. 2. Cor. 8. 19. 23. Such men only were ordained Elders by Paul and Barnabas, as were chosen and approven by the whole Church, their suffrages being signified by the lifting up of their hands. Act. 14. 23. Albeit Chrysostom and other Ecclesiastical Writers use the word [Greek or Hebrew] for ordination by imposition of hands, yet when they take it in this sense, they speak figuratively and synecdochically, as eJunius showeth. For these two, Election by most voices, and Ordination by laying on of hands, were joined together, and did cohere, as an antecedent and an consequent, whence the use obtained, that the whole action should be signified by one word, per modum intellectus, collecting the antecedent from the consequent, & the consequent from the antecedent. Nevertheless according to the proper & native signification of the word, it noteth the signifying ⟨image 143⟩of a suffrage or election by the lifting up of the hand, for [Greek or Hebrew] is no other thing, nor [Greek or Hebrew] or [Greek or Hebrew], to lift or hold up the hands in sign of a suffrage. And so Chrysostom himself useth the word, when he speaketh properly, for he saith, that the Senate of Rome, took upon him [Greek or Hebrew], that is (as