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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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3ly. For washings, there were Civil, Religious, and superstitious washings; let Scaliger prove that Christ conformed to the Superstitious washings: They did bless God for the washing of hands, and then washed their hands. We know how conformable Christ was to them in washing of hands, but this is washing of feet: More prorsus insolito, ⟨p. 56⟩saith Gerhard Great debate there is among Divines when this washing was, whether before, after, or in Supper time. Drusius finds such a knot here, that he that can untie it, shall be to him Magnus in Oculis.
3ly. For washings, there were Civil, Religious, and superstitious washings; let Scaliger prove that Christ conformed to the Superstitious washings: They did bless God for the washing of hands, and then washed their hands. We know how conformable Christ was to them in washing of hands, but this is washing of feet: More prorsus insolito, ⟨p. 56⟩saith Gerhard Great debate there is among Divines when this washing was, whether before, after, or in Supper time. Drusius finds such a knot here, that he that can untye it, shall be to him Magnus in Oculis.
4ly. This washing of Peter is recorded in Joh. 13.5. at that Supper; now what if that Supper were not the Paschal Supper? then all that Scaliger and Mr. Car with others have built upon it, falls to the ground.
I had my eye upon those words in the first verse, [Greek or Hebrew], before the feast of the Passover; which made me think the Supper mentioned in the 2. v. could not be the Passover; there being nothing in those words from the first verse to the second verse to force a mans reason to conceive that those words, Supper being ended, in the second verse, to be meant of the Paschal Supper; but I was fearful to declare my thoughts,