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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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DIGRESSION III.
Of the judging of Controversies and Questions of Faith.
There is a twofold judgement which discerneth and judgeth of Faith. The one absolute, whereby the most high God, whose supreme Authority alone, bindeth us to believe whatsoever he propoundeth to be believed by us, hath in his written Word pronounced, declared, and established; what he would have us to believe concerning himself, or his worship. The other limited and subordinate: which is either public or private. That which is public, is either ordinary or extraordinary. The Ministerial or subordinate public judgement, which I call ordinary, is the judgement of every Pastor or Doctor; who by reason of his public vocation and office, ought by his public Ministry to direct and instruct the judgments of other men, in matters of Faith. ⟨p. 177⟩Which judgement of Pastors and Doctors, is limited and restricted to the plain warrants and testimonies of Holy Scripture, xthey themselves being only the Ambassadors of the judge, to preach and publish the sentence which he hath established, so that a Pastor is not properly judex but Index. The subordinate public judgement, which is extraordinary, is the judgement of a Council, assembled for the more public and effectual establishment and declaration of one or moe points of Faith, and heads of Christian Doctrine, & that in Opposition to all contrary heresy, or error, which is broached and set a foot in the Church.