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ERRONEOVS PROPOSITIOVNS.
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to haue cair heirof, this is superstitioun vnmeit for the Kirk
of Christ, and dangerous for the pepole, and thairfore oght
to be remoued.
The XII. Pro.
It is consonant to Gods word to pray for the dead.
12
If that be consonant vnto Gods word or conuenient vnto
the Scripteur, quhilk ather from ignorance of the benefites
of Christ hes flouit,1 or fra vnbeleef or incredulitie hes pro-
cedit : or fra an humane affectioun hes cumit halelie disreulit 10
hauing but the name of charitie, the prayers for the deade
ar then to be halden agreable to Gods word. Bot seing in the
blood of Christ our sinnes ar waschin away. Be it far from
vs, that so ignorant of this benefeit we suld be or sa incredu-
lus1 in esteming that the prayers of men may mair awaill
then the mereits of Christ, or that we sould think God to be
so inhumane that he wald haue payment efter the obligatioun
is rent I mene, that he hes forgeuin vs in Christ our debt &
not the punischemen[t] thairof, quhilk rather the Papeists
teaches sould be remouit be prayers of men, ringing of Beilis, 20
offring of siluer, and to be extenuat through passing vnto
pilgramagis.
Ad. This is prouin by the 2. buik of the Macab. the 12. chap,
quhairin it is said yat it is an haly and hailsome prayer to pray for
the deid that they may be delyuerit from thair sinnes, /
[P. 23.] An. Bot quhat autoritie suld be geuin to that buik, it is
E.2 iiij. euident by the hinmest verse of the saming, quhairin the autor
cravis pardoun quhair he failleth, nather is the haly spreit
to be ascryuit vnto it, quhilk the authour ascryuis vnto his
Note. awin diligence, for in it thair are many contrarieties. First 30
as concerning the death of Antiochus. Seing in the I. buik,
& 6. cha It is writtin that he dyit of a fewer. In the 2. & I ch.
it is said that he was slaine in spuilzeing the Kirk of Nanea.
& in the 9 chap, of that same buik, it is writtin he was strukkin 34
1 Corr. 2 Misprinted A.
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to haue cair heirof, this is superstitioun vnmeit for the Kirk
of Christ, and dangerous for the pepole, and thairfore oght
to be remoued.
The XII. Pro.
It is consonant to Gods word to pray for the dead.
12
If that be consonant vnto Gods word or conuenient vnto
the Scripteur, quhilk ather from ignorance of the benefites
of Christ hes flouit,1 or fra vnbeleef or incredulitie hes pro-
cedit : or fra an humane affectioun hes cumit halelie disreulit 10
hauing but the name of charitie, the prayers for the deade
ar then to be halden agreable to Gods word. Bot seing in the
blood of Christ our sinnes ar waschin away. Be it far from
vs, that so ignorant of this benefeit we suld be or sa incredu-
lus1 in esteming that the prayers of men may mair awaill
then the mereits of Christ, or that we sould think God to be
so inhumane that he wald haue payment efter the obligatioun
is rent I mene, that he hes forgeuin vs in Christ our debt &
not the punischemen[t] thairof, quhilk rather the Papeists
teaches sould be remouit be prayers of men, ringing of Beilis, 20
offring of siluer, and to be extenuat through passing vnto
pilgramagis.
Ad. This is prouin by the 2. buik of the Macab. the 12. chap,
quhairin it is said yat it is an haly and hailsome prayer to pray for
the deid that they may be delyuerit from thair sinnes, /
[P. 23.] An. Bot quhat autoritie suld be geuin to that buik, it is
E.2 iiij. euident by the hinmest verse of the saming, quhairin the autor
cravis pardoun quhair he failleth, nather is the haly spreit
to be ascryuit vnto it, quhilk the authour ascryuis vnto his
Note. awin diligence, for in it thair are many contrarieties. First 30
as concerning the death of Antiochus. Seing in the I. buik,
& 6. cha It is writtin that he dyit of a fewer. In the 2. & I ch.
it is said that he was slaine in spuilzeing the Kirk of Nanea.
& in the 9 chap, of that same buik, it is writtin he was strukkin 34
1 Corr. 2 Misprinted A.
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