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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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He tells us p 419. That all Ecclesiastical Constitutions must be in themselves certainly lawful.
By lawful I hope you mean agreeable to the Law of God; make but this good, and they shall certainly be obeyed. But this is the thing we much desire, which Law of God do these agree with? I see and hear enough of the 1 Cor. 14. ult. but that this Text will warrant Ceremonies thus instituted by men in the Worship of God, I must see and hear more than ever I saw or heard to this day.
Bellarmine and Vasquez, I see, make much use of this Text for all their Popish Trinkets; and Bellarmine tells us, that Holy garments, lighting of Wax-candles, and their other Ceremonies, may be as well proved from this Text, as bowing the knee in Prayer. But the Jesuit wanted a Candle here I am sure.
I have often wondered how men of Learning, that had read over the 1 1th and the 14th Chap. of this Epistle, where we may plainly see what the Apostle points at, by his reproving the undecency and disorder in their Congregation, should make this Text a ground to set up humane Ceremonies of Doctrinal or Moral signification, in the House and Worship of God.