A92138:414
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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II. Conclusion. Grosser Papists go a subtler way to work, and do avouch that the very Latreia and supreme worship that is proper to God, is given to the Image.
II. Conclusion. Grosser Papists go a subtiler way to work, and do avouch that the very Latreia and supream worship that is proper to God, is given to the Image.
Though the creature saith rSuarez cannot, Primo, & per se, principally, kindly, and of it self be worshipped or adored with Latreia, the supreme worship due to God, yet it may be co-adored, with the same honour that is given to Christ, as is the Kings purple Robe: So the first Distinction is of Adoration and co-Adoration, or Adoration kindly, ⟨p. 163⟩and by it self, and Adoration with another. Henriquez ssaith, It is a fault that it is not preached to the people, that the image of Christ is to be adored with supreme worship called Latreiat. Crabrera saith, many Schoolmen are of this mind; and so doth wAzorius xArchangelus Rubeo yJacobus de Graphiis, Let us worship (saith he) every Image with that same worship, with which we worship the sampler: That is, let us bestow the worship highest of Latreia, upon the Image of God and Christ, and the sign of the Cross, as it bringeth us in mind of Christs suffering: The second distinction is, that the Image is truly properly adored, as the material object no less then the sampler: Hence they reprove Durandus, Picus Mirandula, Hulcot, and others, who say that Images are improperly adored, &