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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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The Proposition is proved many ways: as, 1. What is mans in Gods Worship, and came from Lord-man, is challenged as false, vain, and unlawful, because not from God, as Idols, according to their own understanding, Hos. 13. 2. So, from Israel it was, the workman made it, Hos. 8. 6. Hence, aZanchius, and bPareus infer, all invented by men, are false and vain, and so are condemned, Jer. 18. 12. The imaginations of their •vil heart, and, Psal. 106. 39. Their own devises, their own works, their own inventions, as, Act. 7. 41. Figures which y• made, Act. 7. 43. Had they been figures of Gods making, as the Cherubins and Oxen in the Temple, as 1 King. 7. They had been Lawful▪ days devised by I•rob•ams heart, 1 King. 12. 32, 33. The light of your ow•••ir•, Isa. 50. 11. A plant that the Heavenly Father planted not; Ergo, By man, Math. 15. 14.
The Proposition is proved many wayes: as, 1. What is mans in Gods Worship, and came from Lord-man, is challenged as false, vain, and unlawfull, because not from God, as Idols, according to their own understanding,