{"passage":["Colossians 2:20–22"],"results":[{"document":"lbcf1689","id":"21.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689/paragraphs/21.2","segments":[{"text":"is to betray true Liberty of Conscience; and the requiring of an","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1689-modernized","id":"21.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689-modernized/paragraphs/21.2","segments":[{"text":"is to betray true Liberty of Conscience; and the requiring of an","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1677","id":"21.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1677/paragraphs/21.2","segments":[{"text":"is to betray true liberty of Conscience; and the requiring of an","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"21.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/21.2","segments":[{"text":"is to betray true Liberty of Conscience; and the Requiring of an","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"20.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/20.2","segments":[{"text":"So that, to beleeve such Doctrines, or to obey such Commands, out of Conscience, is to betray true Liberty of Conscience:","proofs":["Colossians 2:20","Colossians 2:22–23"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"20.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/20.2","segments":[{"text":"So that, to believe such Doctrines, or to obey such Commands, out of Conscience, is to betray true Liberty of Conscience:","proofs":["Colossians 2:20","Colossians 2:22–23"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"46.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/46.1","segments":[{"text":"which is the only Rule he hath left, for the Consciences of all Men to be ruled, and regulated, and guided by, through the assistance of his Spirit. And therefore the obedience to any Command, or Decree, that is not revealed in, or consonant to his Word, in the holy Oracles of Scripture, is a betraying of the true Liberty of Conscience.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/30","segments":[{"text":"for one of these two things must be true, that either Jesus is not a complete Saviour; or that they, who by a true faith receive this Saviour, must find all things in him necessary to their salvation.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/80","segments":[{"text":"so that the mass at bottom is nothing else than a denial of the one sacrifice and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and an accursed idolatry.","proofs":["Colossians 2:22–23"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/109","segments":[{"text":"all superstitious devices,","proofs":["Colossians 2:21–23"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"113","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/113","segments":[{"text":"superstitious,","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–22"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"109","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/109","segments":[{"text":"all superstitious devices,","proofs":["Colossians 2:21–23"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"113","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/113","segments":[{"text":"superstitious,","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–22"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"It is when things are either abhorred or observed with a zealous or fearful, but erroneous relation to God: by means of which the superstitious serve either the true God with needless Offices, or defraud him of necessary Duties; or bestow such honours and service upon others, as is proper for, and should be peculiar for him only. Or, More plainly thus, It is the worshipping of God in any other way, or by any other means than what he hath appointed in his Word; called Ordinances, the Commandments and Doctrines of men.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–23"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–23"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"The worshipping of the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist, out of a false and groundless perswasion, that they are substantially changed into the Body and Blood of Christ. 2. The worshipping and invocation of Saints and Angels; and particularly of the Virgin Mary, which hath now for some Ages been a principal part of their Religion. 3. Their worshipping of Images: Which practice (notwithstanding all their distinctions about it, which are no other but what the Heathens used in the same case) flies as full in the face of the second Commandment, as deliberate and malicious killing of a man is against the sixth. Acts 17. 29. Rom. 1. 23. 4. Their superstitious Fasting, and ab staining from Flesh in Lent; Their superstitious Holy-daies; Their adding Cream, Oyl, and Spittle to the water in Baptism, and their Baptizing of Bells; Their praying upon Beads, and mary more superstitious customs! For which there is not the least command in the Scriptures.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–21"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Because we do hereby follow the pernicious waies of that Adulterated Church which holds such doctrines that do very much endanger it.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–23"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"63","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/63","segments":[{"text":"But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–23"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/80","segments":[{"text":"No, this in Scripture is condemned as Will-worship,","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"The Superstition forbidden in the second Commandment, is the worshipping of God in any other way, or by any other means than what he hath appointed in his Word; and thus adding Humane Inventions unto Gods Institutions, which is Will-worship, and condemned by the Apostle, Why, as though living in the world, are ye subject unto Ordinances (touch not, taste not, handle not; which all are to perish with the using) after the Commandments and Doctrines of men; which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in Will-worship.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–23"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"88","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/88","segments":[{"text":"We ought not to make use of any Ordinances which are of mans appointment only in order unto Salvation, because this is will worship, which is both vain and offensive; and we cannot groundedly expect the blessing of the Lord upon, or to receive any true benefit by any Ordinances but by those alone which are of his own appointment only. Why are we subject to Ordinances after the Commandements and Doctrines of men; which things have a shew of wisdom in will worship, &c.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20, 22–23"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"56","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/56","segments":[{"text":"Touch not, taste not, handle not after the commandments and doctrines of men,","proofs":["Colossians 2:21–22"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"93","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/93","segments":[{"text":"Why are we subject to ordinances after the commandments of men?","proofs":["Colossians 2:20"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"(3) Because, the Apostle says, Believers are dead with Christ, from the Rudiments of the World: that is, from the Ceremonial Commands; as is evident from the Context. Why says he, as though living in the World, are ye subject to ordinances? That is, as if your life, and happiness, consisted in these outward worldly principles: but suffer your selves to be burdened, by such Teachers, with humane institutions, and ordinances. The Apostle indeed; in these last words, is reasoning against the institutions, and ordinances of men, from this Medium, which is an argument from the greater, to the lesser: if ye be dead with Christ from the Ceremonies of the Law instituted in the Old Testament, by God himself, much more are ye free, from the institutions, and ordinances of men, which are only grounded upon their own good pleasure;","proofs":["Colossians 2:20–21"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"(6) because, the Apostles themselves forbids all will-worship, such as the Popish Ceremonies are;","proofs":["Colossians 2:18, 21–23"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Which doctrine, ordinances, & workes whatsoeuer (besides, ouer, and aboue that which God hath reuealed, and imposed, is called of the Apostle, somtimes ordinances of the world,","proofs":["Colossians 2:20"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"either ceremoniall,","proofs":["Colossians 2:16, 20"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Or for their weight, ouer heauie, and greiuous to be borne; like the Iewish constitutions.","proofs":["Colossians 2:20"]}]}]}