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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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Part 3 › Chapter 8 › Digression 2: DIGRESSION II.Part 3 › Chapter 8 › Digression 2: DISGRESSION II.
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1. The Apostolical Councils, Act. 6. 2. & 15. 6. and so many as were assembled before the first Council of Nice, were not convocated by Princes, but by Ecclesiastical persons, without the leave of Princes. Therefore in the like cases, the Church ought to use the like liberty, that is, when there is need of Synods, either for preventing, or reforming some corruptions in the Doctrine or Policy of the Church; and for avoiding such inconveniences as may impede the course of the Gospel, (Princes in the mean time being hostile Opposites to the trueth of God, and to the purity of Religion,) then to convocat the same, without their authority and leave.
1. The Apostolicall Councells, Act. 6. 2. & 15. 6. and so many as were assembled before the first Councell of Nice, were not convocated by Princes, but by Ecclesiasticall persons, without the leave of Princes. Therefore in the like cases, the Church ought to use the like liberty, that is, when there is need of Synods, either for preventing, or reforming some corruptions in the Doctrine or Policy of the Church; and for avoiding such inconveniencies as may impede the course of the Gospell, (Princes in the meane time beeing hostile Opposites to the trueth of God, and to the purity of Religion,) then to convocat the same, without their auctority and leave.
2. The Church is fully committed, (and that directly) to the Ministers whom Christ hath set to rule over the same. Therefore they ought to take care and to provide for all her necessities, as these who must give a count, & be answerable to God for any hurt which she receiveth, in things Spiritual or Ecclesiastical, for which (when they might) they did not provide a remedy: Which being so, it followeth, that when Princes will neither convocat Synods, nor consent to the convocating of them, yet if the convocating of a Synod, be a necessary mean for healing of the Churches hurt, and Ecclesiastical Persons be able, (through the happy occasion of a fit opportunity,) synodically to assemble themselves, in that case they ought by themselves to come together, unless one would say, that Princes alone, and not Pastors, must give a count to God, how it hath gone with the Church, in matters Spiritual and Ecclesiastical.