A92138:416
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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He addeth that it is enough that the intention of submission is referred to the sampler, and the external Adoration to the Image, for if any shall (saith he) kiss the earth (as the rude multitude in some place doth) upon an intention of inward submission of heart to God, Nequaquam vere & proprie adorat terram, he doth not truly and properly adore the earth, but only he exerciseth a material action ⟨p. 164⟩of kissing toward the earth: But I answer, all this is vanity, for such1 a one worshippeth the earth, but referreth the internal submission to God, and all this, is to say the Image doth truly partake of the Religious honour (Latreia) due to God only.
He addeth that it is enough that the intention of submission is referred to the samplar, and the external Adoration to the Image, for if any shall (saith he) kisse the earth (as the rude multitude in some place doth) upon an intention of inward submission of heart to God, Nequaquam vere & proprie adorat terram, he doth not truly and properly adore the earth, but only he exerciseth a materiall action ⟨p. 164⟩of kissing toward the earth: But I answer, all this is vanity, for such1 a one worshippeth the earth, but referreth the internall submission to God, and all this, is to say the Image doth truly partake of the Religious honour (Latreia) due to God only.
- 1Diversevasions of Papists touching the worshipping of images.
A third distinction is here, of bGabriel Biel on the Canon of the Mass, In the Adoring of images (saith he) and of other things which are adored by accident, though there be an external act of bowing both to the images and the sampler, yet there be two internal acts which are different, whereof one is terminated and bounded upon the image, not absolutely as it is such a material thing of stone, or metal, but as it is an image: This is an acknowledgement whereby I esteem the Image a thing ordained to represent Christ, or a complacency whereby I rest on such a thing, as to be honoured for Christ, and the other i a recognition, and acknowledgement immediately terminated and bounded upon the sampler, whereby it is acknowledged to be the chiefest good. But the truth is, Religious geniculation before the image, or at the presence of the image (saith