A01760:978
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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Nor lastly, may we obey men, so as to break the law of Purity, and sperform any action with a doubtful conscience, that is, whereof either the Word hath not, or we out of it have no warrant: in which case tender consciences must be tendered, rather then be racked by authority: for be the things in themselves never so lawful, &c. they are utterly unlawful to me, without such information. Whereas therefore some say, that in the use of matters indifferent, the laws of those who are set over us ought to rule us; we still answer that our practise may not be ruled by any law of man, except it be according to the rules of the Word; whereof one is this: tTantum oportere esse obedientiae studium in Christianis, ut nihil agant, quod non existiment vel potius certi sint placere Deo.
Nor lastly, may we obey men, so as to breake the law of Purity, and sperforme any action with a doubtfull conscience, that is, whereof either the Word hath not, or we out of it have no warrant: in which case tender consciences must be tendered, rather then be racked by auctority: for bee the things in themselves never so lawfull, &c. they are utterly unlawfull to me, without such information. Whereas therefore some say, that in the use of matters indifferent, the lawes of those who are set over us ought to rule us; we still answer that our practise may not be ruled by any law of man, except it be according to the rules of the Word; whereof one is this: tTantum oportere esse obedientiae studium in Christianis, ut nihil agant, quod non existiment vel potius certi sint placere Deo.
- sId. ibid. p. 289.
- tCalv. in Rom. 14. 5.