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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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Of our Opposites pleading for the Indifferency of the Ceremonies.
IF it seem to any, that it is a strange Method to speak now of Indifferency, in the end of this Dispute, which ought rather to have been handled in the beginning of it: they may consider, that the Method is not ours, but our Opposites. For they have been fleeing upon Icarus wings, and soaring so high that their wings could not but melt from them: so have they from necessity fallen down to expediency; from it to lawfulness; and from thence to indifferency.
IF it seeme to any, that it is a strange Methode to speake now of Indifferency, in the end of this Dispute, which ought rather to have been handled in the beginning of it: they may consider, that the Methode is not ours, but our Opposites. For they have been fleeing upon Icarus wings, and soaring so high that their wings could not but melt from them: so have they from necessity fallen downe to expediency; from it to lawfulnesse; and from thence to indifferency.
I knew certain of them, who after reasoning about the Ceremonies, with some of our side, required in the end no more, but that they would only acknowledge the indifferency of the things in themselves. And so being wooed & solicitously importuned by our former Arguments against the Ceremonies, they take them to the weaving of Penelope's web, thereby to suspend us, and to gain time against us: this indifferency I mean, which they shall never make out, and which themselves otherwhiles unweave again. Always, so long as they think to get any place for higher notions about the Ceremonies, they speak not so meanly of them, as of things indifferent. But when all their forces of Arguments, and answers are spent in vain: then are our ears filled with uncouth outcries and declamations, which tend to make themselves appear blameless for receiving, and us blameworthy for refusing matters of Rite and indifferency.