A01760:982
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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These things are so plain and undeniable, that cD. Forbesse Sect. V himself; acknowledgeth no less, then that every individual humane action is either good or bad morally; and that there is a goodness which is necessary to every action, namely, the referring of it to the last end, and the doing of it in Faith; which goodness if it be wanting, the action is evil. Notwithstanding, he will have some actions even quo ad individuum, called indifferent, for this respect, because they are neither commanded of God, and so necessary to be done, nor yet forbidden, and so necessary to be omitted.
These things are so plaine and undeniable, that cD. Forbesse Sect. V himselfe; aknowledgeth no lesse, then that every individuall humane action is either good or bad morally; and that there is a goodnesse which is necessary to every action, namely, the referring of it to the last end, and the doing of it in Faith; which goodnesse if it be wanting, the action is evill. Notwithstanding, he will have some actions even quo ad individuum, called indifferent, for this respect, because they are neither commanded of God, and so necessary to bee done, nor yet forbidden, and so necessary to be omitted.
- cIren. lib. 1. cap. 13. §. 7. 9. 10.
Of an individual action of this kind, he saith: manet homini respectu istius actus plena arbitrij libertas moralis, tum ea quae exercitij seu contradictionis dicitur, tum etiam ea quae specificationis seu contrarietatis libertas appellatur. He holdeth, that though such an action be done in Faith, and for the right end (which general goodness, he saith, is necessary to the action, and commendeth a man to God) yet the action it self is indifferent, because it is not necessary: for a man hath liberty to omit the same, or to do another thing, which he illustrateth by this example.