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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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But still I cannot see how Ceremonies, such as are in the question, can be but circumstances. For,
1st. No circumstance hath a mystical signification of any spiritual grace or duty. If it hath a spiritual signification, it is by some superadded Divine Institution; then it ceaseth to be a circumstance. Place in it self is a circumstance, but such a place as the Temple, is more than a circumstance, it is essential to Ceremonial-worship by a Divine Institution.
2ly. The Ceremonies of the Law which signified that purity, holiness, &c. that ought to be in Saints, were not circumstances; and these do the same. These Ceremonies imposed upon us are not circumstantial, but Doctrinal, and of Moral signification.
3ly. Circumstances cannot well be said to be subject to circumstances, where then shall we end? but mystical ceremonies are subject to time, place, order, decency, &c.