A01760:936
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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TO say nothing here of the Homonomy of the word Indifferent, Sect. I but to take it in that signification, which concerneth our present purpose; It signifieth such a mean betwixt good and evil, in humane actions, as is alike distant from both these extremes, and yet susceptive of either of them. Indifferens saith Calepine, is that quod sua natura neque bonum est neque malum. bAquinas calleth that an indifferent action, which is neither good nor evil. Rem indifferentem voco quae neque bona neque mala in se est, saith ca later Writer.
TO say nothing here of the Homonomy of the word Indifferēt, Sect. I but to take it in that signification, which concerneth our present purpose; It signifieth such a mean betwixt good and evill, in humane actions, as is alike distant from both these extreams, and yet susceptive of either of them. Indifferens saith Calepine, is that quod sua natura neque bonum est neque malum. bAquinas calleth that an indifferent action, which is neither good nor evill. Rem indifferentem voco quae neque bona neque mala in se est, saith ca later Writer.
- b1. 2a q. 18. art. 9.
- cBald. de cas. consc. lib. 2. cap. 9. cas. 9.
But dD. Forbesse liketh to speak in another language. He will have that which is indifferent, to be opponed to that which is necessary: and a thing indifferent he taketh to be such a thing, as is neither necessarily to be done, nor yet necessarily to be omitted, in respect of any necessity of the commandment of God: or such a thing as is neither remunerable with eternal life, & commendeth a man unto the reward of God, nor yet is punishable with eternal death, and polluteth a man with guiltiness. Now because he knew, that Divines define a thing indifferent to be that which is neither good nor evil.