A92138:1901
The divine right of church-government and excommunication
The divine right of church-government and excommunication: or a peaceable dispute for the perfection of the holy scripture in point of ceremonies and church government; in which the removal of the Service-book is justified, the six books of Tho: Erastus against excommunication are briefly examined; with a vindication of that eminent divine Theod: Beza against the aspersions of Erastus, the arguments of Mr. William Pryn, Rich: Hooker, Dr. Morton, Dr. Jackson, Dr. John Forbes, and the doctors of Aberdeen; touching will-worship, ceremonies, imagery, idolatry, things indifferent, an ambulatory government; the due and just powers of the magistrate in matters of religion, and the arguments of Mr. Pryn, in so far as they side with Erastus, are modestly discussed. To which is added, a brief tractate of scandal ... / By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Published by authority.The divine right of church-government and excommunication: or a peacable dispute for the perfection of the holy scripture in point of ceremonies and church government; in which the removal of the Service-book is justifi'd, the six books of Tho: Erastus against excommunication are briefly examin'd; with a vindication of that eminent divine Theod: Beza against the aspersions of Erastus, the arguments of Mr. William Pryn, Rich: Hooker, Dr. Morton, Dr. Jackson, Dr. John Forbes, and the doctors of Aberdeen; touching will-worship, ceremonies, imagery, idolatry, things indifferent, an ambulatory government; the due and just powers of the magistrate in matters of religion, and the arguments of Mr. Pryn, in so far as they side with Erastus, are modestly discussed. To which is added, a brief tractate of scandal ... / By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Published by authority.
London: printed by John Field for Christopher Meredith, 1646
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as to sell a whore for money to these that should profess the buying of her for […]lo••i•, were to be ⟨p. 72⟩accessory to that harlotry, especially seeing Idols formally remaining so are, ex naturâre•, for no other end but for Idolatry; they have no necessary physical use for the life of man, far more, if they be the portraitures of the Father, Son, or holy Spirit▪ if they be of stone, or of any thing, that cannot be useful for mans life, then must they be defaced and broken, le•• we lay the stumbling block of our iniquity before others. Now, if from any law of the Jews, or practise of Moses, and Hezekiah, houses builded to the honour of Saints, Silver and Gold of Idols, were to be made useless, in their physical use, in the worship of God, or for our civill use, then were we, upon that ground, to dissolve the stones and timber of such a house, and to bray and stamp the Silver and Gold into powder, as these holy Rulers did. People here fleeing from Antichrist fall evidently in Judaism, and make themselves, with the Galatians, debtors to Circumcision, and all the Ceremonies of Moses, which thing we condemn in the Anti-Christ.
as to sell a whore for money to these that should prosesse the buying of her for 〈…〉lo••i•, were to be ⟨p. 72⟩accessarie to that harlotrie, especially seeing Idols formally remaining so are, ex naturâre•, for no other end but for Idolatris; they have no necessarie physicall use for the life of man, sarre more, if they be the portraictures of the Father, Sonne, or holy Spirit▪ if they be of stone, or of any thing, that cannot be usefull for mans life, then must they be defaced and broken, le•• we lay the stumbling block of our iniquitie before others. Now, if from any law of the Iewes, or practise of Moses, and Ezechiah, houses builded to the honour of Saints, Silver and Gold of Idols, were to be made uselesse, in their physicall use, in the worship of God, or for our civill use, then were we, upon that ground, to dissolve the stones and timber of such a house, and to bray and stampe the Silver and Gold into powder, as these holy Rulers did. People here fleeing from Antichrist fall evidently in Iuaise, and make themselves, with the Galathans, debtors to Circumcision, and all the Ceremonies of Moses, which thing we condemne in the Anti-Christ.