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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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CHAP. III.
Whether there be any thing indifferent In actu exercito.
For our better light in this question, I will premit these considerations, Sect. I 1. When we measure the goodness or the badness of a human action, we must not only measure it by the object, and the end, but by all the circumstances which accompany it. qFed. Morellus upon those words of Seneca, Refert quid, cui, quando, quare, ubi, &c. saith, that without those circumstances of things, ⟨p. 7⟩persons, times, places, facti ratio non constat. Circumstances sometimes constituunt rerum earum quae aguntur speciem, rsay our Divines, meaning that circumstances do make an action good or bad. Humani actus say the Schoolmen, non solum ex objectis, verum ex circumstantiis boni vel mali esse dicuntur. It is not every mans part, (saith tone of our 4Opposites) to judge de circumstantia, quae reddit actionem vel bonam vel malam. Some circumstances saith