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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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3. They say, All this may be said against your Circumstances of time and place, for they are appropriated to Religious uses, and not for that made holy parts of Divine Worship. 2. Time and place, are new things as our Ceremonies are. 3. Spiritual signification maketh ⟨p. 137⟩Ceremonies so much the better, but hindereth them not, but that they1 may be Rites of mere Order: Burges.
3. They say, All this may be said against your Circumstances of time and place, for they are appropriated to Religious uses, and not for that made holy parts of Divine Worship. 2. Time and place, are new things as our Ceremonies are. 3. Spirituall signification maketh ⟨p. 137⟩Ceremonies so much the better, but hindreth them not, but that they1 may be Rites of meer Order: Burges.
- 1Burges, rejoinder, c. 1. S. 15. p. 57, 58.Burges, rejoynder, c. 1. S. 15. p. 57, 58.
Ans. Time, Place, Pulpit, Table-cloth, are new, Physically, often, not new Morally, or Religiously, they have no Spiritual influence in worship. A civill declamation hath the same time, place,1 pulpit with a Preaching; for then, if for application, you call them Religious, as D. Ammes saith well, An hill whereon a Preacher Preacheth, a Judge persuadeth a Law, a Captain speaketh to his Soldiers, is both a Sacred, a judicial, a Military hill, 2. Signification spiritual, maketh Ceremonies capable of being ordered: for Surplice wearing, and Crossing, being Doctrinal, as teaching signifying, stirring up the dull affections, as doth the Word and Sacrament, they require order and decency: Now things of mere order, requireth no ordering, as time & place require not other time & place to circumstance them right. 2. This is that which Papists say (as