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Good generally, but given the time it is appropriate to note that Gillespie wrote that in the context of warning against compromising with worship practices which God's Word does not prescribe.
X. If once you yield to these English ceremonies, think not that thereafter you can keep yourselves back from any greater evils, or grosser corruptions which they draw after them; for as it is just with God to give such men over to strong delusions as have not received the love of the truth, nor taken pleasure in the sincerity of his worship (2 Thess. 2:10, 11); so there is not a more deceitful and dangerous temptation than in yielding to the beginnings of evil. He that is unjust in the least is also unjust in much, says he who could not lie (Luke 16:10). When Uriah the priest had once pleased King Ahaz, in making an altar like unto that at Damascus, he was afterwards led on to please him in a greater matter, even in forsaking the altar of the Lord, and in offering all the sacrifices upon the altar of Damascus (2 Kings 16:10-16). All your winning or losing of a good conscience, is in your first buying; for such is the deceitfulness of sin, and the cunning conveyance of that old serpent, that if his head be once entering in, his whole body will easily follow after; and if he make you handsomely to swallow gnats at first, he will make you swallow camels ere all be done. Oh, happy they who dash the little ones of Babylon against the stones (Ps. 137:9)!
George Gillespie, Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies, "To All the Reformed Churches (1637; Naphtali Press: 1993, rev ed. forthcoming 2013) xlv.
N.B. The footnote 20 above reads: Cent. 2, cap. 2, col. 109. That is how the text reads in all editions (1637; 1660; 1846; 1993) but it is not correct. For those who want to find the actual quotation from the Magdeburg Centuries, it is in chapter 6 and specifically, cap. 6., De Ceremoniis et ritibus (cf. 1559 ed., Century 2, col. 109, line 20.). This is just one of the many corrections I've made as I've traced all of Gillespie's references in EPC over the last year or so. These changes will be reflected in the revised Naphtali Press edition targeted to be released, Lord willing, in 2013 (the 400th anniversary of G's birth).
Another few items to note updates.
Subscudines--from subscus, dovetail like connections; clamp irons.
Hall, No Peace with Rome, sect. 2. [Cf. London: for William Pickering (1852) 15.]
Calvin, Lib. Epist., col. 298 [cf. “Calvinus Tarnovio,” CR 45 (CO 17), column 674. Throughout his Dispute, Gillespie cites Calvin’s letters from the Vignon and Chouët edition of Calvin’s works. Johannis Calvini Opera omnia theologica in septem tomos digesta, Epistolæ et Responsa, vol. 6 (Geneva: Jean Vignon, Pierre and Jacob Chouët, 1617). I've noted the appropriate places in the Corpus Reformatorum.]
Subscudines--from subscus, dovetail like connections; clamp irons.
Hall, No Peace with Rome, sect. 2. [Cf. London: for William Pickering (1852) 15.]
Calvin, Lib. Epist., col. 298 [cf. “Calvinus Tarnovio,” CR 45 (CO 17), column 674. Throughout his Dispute, Gillespie cites Calvin’s letters from the Vignon and Chouët edition of Calvin’s works. Johannis Calvini Opera omnia theologica in septem tomos digesta, Epistolæ et Responsa, vol. 6 (Geneva: Jean Vignon, Pierre and Jacob Chouët, 1617). I've noted the appropriate places in the Corpus Reformatorum.]
No need; I'm only adding the commentary where the notes at the page linked are out of date given corrections I've made. Carry on.
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