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Updated: June 26, 2025
Dr Forbesse speaketh to the purpose thus: Juramentum Gibeonitis praestitum contra ipsius Dei mandatum, et inconsulta Deo, non potuissent Josuae et Israelitae opere perficere nisi Deus, extraordinarie de suo mandato dispensasset, compassione poenitentis illius populi Gibeonitei, et propter honorem sui nominis, ut neque foedifragorum fautor, neque supplicium paenitentium aspernator esse videretur.
The same answer doth Dr Forbesse also return us. Ans. 1. Here is a manifest contradiction; for the Bishop saith that every man did, by this oath, oblige himself only to obey and defend that discipline which is unchangeable and commanded in the word. The Bishop doth, therefore, apparently contradict himself; or, at the best, he contradicteth his fellow-pleader for the ceremonies.
In the third place, we will look what weapons of war Dr Forbesse produceth in his Irenicum, falsely so called.
Dr Forbesse goeth about to warrant private baptism, by Philip’s baptising the eunuch, there being no greater company present, so far as we can gather from the narration of Luke, Acts viii.; as likewise by Paul and Silas’s baptising the jailer and all his in his own private house, Acts xvi. Touching the first of those places, we answer, 1.
And as touching the binding power of their laws, be they never so just, they cannot bind you any other way, nor in respect of the general end of them. For, per se, they cannot bind more than the church’s laws can. Which things Dr Forbesse hath also told you out of Calvin.
Dr Forbesse speaks unadvisedly whilst he saith, Evenit nonnunquam, &c.: “It falleth out sometimes that that which was expedient for thee to do yesterday, and to omit this day, thou mayest, notwithstanding, afterward either do it, or not do it, according to thy arbitrement:” As if, forsooth, our using of things indifferent should not evermore be determined by the rule of expediency which God’s word giveth us, but sometimes by our own will.
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