A92138:1904
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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they were forbidden not all eating of these meats in private, but only in the presence of a weak Jew, and for the conscience of others, in the case of scandal, 1 Cor 10 28, 29. (2) They were not by the law of nature that inhibits scandal, forbidden the total use of these meats, in any case, so as they should make these meats utterly useless to themselves, or to any others. As the Jews were forbidden to make use of the Canaanitish Idols, Gold and money: And of the Cattle of the Amalekites, either secretly or openly, either in the case of scandal given to others, or not given. And Achan payed dear for his Babylonish garment, and his wedge of Gold, though he took it by theft.
they were forbidden not all eating of these meats in private, but only in the presence of a weak Iew, and for the conscience of others, in the case of scandal, 1 Cor 10 28, 29. (2) They were not by the law of nature that inhibites scandall, forbidden the totall use of these meats, in any case, so as they should make these meats utterly uselesse to themselves, or to any others. As the Iewes were forbidden to make use of the Canaanitish Idols, Gold and money: And of the Cattell of the Amalekites, either secretly or openly, either in the case of scandall given to others, or not given. And Achan payed deare for his Babilonish garment, and his wedge of Gold, though he tooke it by theft.
Ob. 2. But the reason of the law, is the soul of the law. Now the reason of the Law, Deut. 7. 25. why God forbade his people to take the Gold or Silver of the graven image, is l•st thou be ensnared therein. But this reason holdeth under the Now Testament, and is moral and perpetual. The very material house dedicated to Saints and Idol•, by Papists, is a snare to our souls; if we shall worship God in them, or if we shall name the Church from Cuthbert, Giles, or the like, except we would say, as Papists do, that we are not now, under the New Testament, so much •• clined to Idolatry, as the people of the Jews were of old.