A01760:923
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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2. As the Ceremonies by their sacred spiritual and mystical significations, Sect. VII direct us unto a supernatural good, so they are thought to guide us unto the same, by a spiritual and supernatural way, ⟨p. 201⟩which natures light could never discover unto men. But in the Law of Nature, as we are directed unto no other good then such as is proportioned to nature, so are we guided unto the same, cNatura duce, that is to say, by such common notions, as God hath imprinted in the Nature of all men. Now I suppose our Opposites will not unwillingly reckon their sacred significant Ceremonies, among those things of the Spirit of God, dwhich a natural man can not receive, because they are spiritually discerned. What then have they to do with the Law of Nature? If it be said, that they necessarily follow upon those first principles & conclusions, which a natural man receiveth; I answer, this shall never be proven. They will say perhaps, that nature teacheth us to use certain rites in the worship of God, to observe set times for his worship, also to kneel down in reverence of God whom we worship. Ans. Be it so: but how make they up a necessary connection betwixt certain Rites, & significant Ceremonies of human institution? betwixt set times, & some moe days then one of seven: betwixt kneeling in the worship of God in generè, and kneeling at the Sacrament in Speciè; unless they say., that Nature requireth us to kneel in every act of worship, and never to worship God, without kneeling on our knees.
2. As the Ceremonies by their sacred spirituall and misticall significations, Sect. VII direct us unto a supernaturall good, so they are thought to guide us unto the same, by a spirituall and supernaturall way, ⟨p. 201⟩which natures light could never discover unto men. But in the Law of Nature, as we are directed unto no other good then such as is proportioned to nature, so are we guided unto the same, cNatura duce, that is to say, by such common notions, as God hath imprinted in the Nature of all men. Now I suppose our Opposites will not unwillingly reckon their sacred significant Ceremonies, among those things of the Spirit of God,