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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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5ly. Circumstances are necessary, inseparable from the Worship of God, as time and place, order and decency ought to be; they are inseparable, virtute praecepti; but these are separable, and of no necessity. Peter Lombard puts no necessity in the Popish Ceremonies, as you may clearly see in his inquiring into the nature of Baptism, Lib. 4. D. 3. c. 1.
5ly. Circumstances are necessary, inseparable from the Worship of God, as time and place, order and decency ought to be; they are inseparable, virtute praecepti; but these are separable, and of no necessity. Peter Lumbard puts no necessity in the Popish Ceremonies, as you may clearly see in his inquiring into the nature of Baptism, Lib. 4. D. 3. c. 1.
6ly. Circumstances depend not on the bare will of man; but these Ceremonies depend wholly on mans will.
7ly. The ordering of circumstances in particular, is not determinable in the Holy Scripture. I do not say what the infinite wisdom of God could have done; but upon supposition of the bounds which God did set to his written word. Circumstances are many, and so changeable, that to set down the ordering of every particular circumstance that must occur in the Church and Worship of God to the end of the world, would have hindered our Pocket Bibles. Individua sunt Infinita. But for significant Ceremonies, all the Mosaical Ceremonies were set down, to the pins of the Tabernacle; and if God had liked Ceremonies as we do, he could have set down twice as many as Popery affords.