A92138:1959
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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6. Learned and godly Cartwright, the Author of the book of Discipline; Amesius and others have cited Councils, as Concil. Braca. 73. decreed, That Christians should not deck their houses with Bay leaves, and green boughs, that they should not keep the first day of the month, because the Pagans did so. And another Council, Concil. African. c. 27. forbade Christians to Celebrate Feast•, on the Birth day of the Martyrs, because Pagans did so▪ Tertullian would not have Christians to sit after they had prayed▪ because Pagans did so.
6. Learned and godly Cartwright, the Author of the booke of Discipline; Amesius and others have cited Councels, as Concil. Braca. 73. decreed, That Christians should not deck their houses with Bay leaves, and greene boughs, that they should not keepe the first day of the moneth, because the Pagans did so. And another Councell, Concil. African. c. 27. forbade Christians to Celebrate Feast•, on the Birth day of the Martyrs, because Pagans did so▪ Tertullian would not have Christians to sit after they had prayed▪ because Pagans did so.
7. The mark and Character of the Beast is an external discriminating note, of its own nature, indifferent. Yet to receive it, is a matter of Plague• and wrath from God, Rev. 13.1 15 1•. To these they reply. 1. Those same Ceremonies▪ because the sa•••, which the heathen used, were not forbidden the Jews. But, thse things (saith M. Hooker) are not indifferent being used as signs of immoderate and hopeless lamentation, for the dead, and in effect, it is that which Paul saith,