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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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Yet this Doctor can tell his Reader, that this of express Scripture is the Characteristical Doctrine of that party; and that we graft our Christianity upon the stock of Judaism. Were the Jews tied up to express Scripture in all they did about the Worship of God? I think the ⟨p. 7⟩Jews had as much liberty then, as we have under the Gospel. I shall give but one instance, though I could more.
Yet this Doctor can tell his Reader, that this of express Scripture is the Characteristical Doctrine of that party; and that we graft our Christianity upon the scock of Judaism. Were the Jews tyed up to express Scripture in all they did about the Worship of God? I think the ⟨p. 7⟩Jews had as much liberty then, as we have under the Gospel. I shall give but one instance, though I could more.
The Passover was a solemn Ordinance of God; now in Exod. 12.8. there is a command given to eat it with bitter herbs; 1we supply the word herbs; but the word is only bitterness, or Res amarae. The Chaldee, Arabic and Samaritan keep the Hebrew word without any addition of herbs. Here is only a General Rule given, but what those bitter things should be, whether herbs, roots, &c. there is no determination. Hence then, I might go into several houses at that time, where they had prepared in one house such bitter herbs as Succory, Wild Lettuce, (which they say they used); in another house Wormwood, and Horehound; in another Centaury, Germander; in another bitter Almonds and Gentian, &c. so mention twenty more differences, yet if Bitternesses were observed, the rule was kept. Again, shall these bitternesses be boiled or raw, beaten into a sauce like our Mustard, as Scaliger saith the Charoseth was? here is nothing determined; be sure there be bitternesses, and the general Rule is kept.