A92138:1938
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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4. By this Luther ••• have their desire; for actual intention that Images be lawful remembrancers of Christ, without intention of adoration, shall make Images as lawful teaching Ceremonies, as Hooker will have the sign of the Cross.
4. By this Luther ••• have their desire; for actuall intention that Images be lawfull remembrancers of Christ, without intention of adoration, shall make Images as lawfull teaching Ceremonies, as Hooker will have the sigue of the Crosse.
5. We remove not crosses from coin, no more then the Jews did the image of C•s•r. But we agree with them. Hooker being judge, in Banishing them from the worship.
5. We remove not crosses from coyne, no more then the Jewes did the image of C•s•r. But wee agree with them. Hooker being judge, in Banishing them from the worship.
6. Hezekiah then might have broken the old, and made a new Brazen Serpent, for a memorial of the miraculous cure, so ⟨p. 90⟩they had not burnt Incense to it; The remembrance of the old mercy should have been as good in the new, as in the old. But1 certainly the Brazen Serpent was not destroyed as Brass, but in all its religious use. It was not purged, but abolished.