The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.
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The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland: Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.
Church of Scotland -- History -- Sources
Forsuameikle as in reading in schooles, of prophane authors, qwherin
many things are written, directly impugning the grounds of religion,
and speciallie in the Philosophie of Aristotle, oft tymes the youth
being curious and of insolent spirits, drinks in erroneous and
damnable opiniones, and founding them upon the bruckle authoritie
of the prophane wryters, and maintayns their godless and prophane
opiniones, obstinatly in disputation and utherwayes, to the great
sclander of the word of God, and offence of the simple and unlearnit:
Thairfore, it is provydit, after reasonyng and good advyce, be
universall consent agreit, that in all tymes coming, the maisters,
regents, and teachers of the scholers in reading of prophane authors,
shall vigilantly take heid if there be any thing alleadgit or written
in them against the grounds and heads of Religione, and, in teaching
thereof, to mark and note the places evict, and confute the errors,
and admonische the youth to eschew the same as false and erroneous;
and namely, in teaching of philosophie, to note the propositiones
following, as erroneous, false, and against the Religione, and
condemnit be commone vote of the haill Kirk:--
1. _Omnis finis est opus aut operatio._
2. _Civilis secta et præstantissima, ejusque finis præstantissimus
et summum hominis bonum._
3. _Honesta et justa varia sunt, et inconstantia a Deo et sola
opinione constent._
4. _Juvenes et rerum imperiti et in libidinem proclives ab audienda
morum physica arcendi._
5. _Quod aliud ab aliis bonis et per se bonum est, et causa cur
cætera per se bona sunt, non est summum bonum._
6. _Dei agnitio nihil prodest artifici ad hoc ut arte sua bene
utatur._
7. _Summum bonum vel {blank space} boni accessione augeri, et reddi
potest optabilius._
8. _Pauper deformis orbus aut infans, beatus esse non potest._
9. _Bonum æternum, bono unius diei, non est majus bonum._
10. _Felicitas est actio animæ secundum virtutem._
11. _Potest aliquis sibi suo studio felicitatem comparare._
12. _Homo in hac vita et esse et did potest beatus._
13. _Post hanc vitam nemo potest vel esse vel dici beatus, nisi
propinquorum vel amicorum ratione._
14. _Natura apti ad virtutem eam agendo comparamus._
15. _Virtus est habitus electivus in ea mediocritate positus quam
ratio prudentis præscribit._
16. _Libera est nobis voluntas ad bene agendum._
17. _Mundus est physice æternus._
18. _Casus et fortuna locum habent in rebus naturalibus et humanis._
19. _Res viles et inferiores non curat Dei providenti._
20. _Animi pars una vel etiam plures sunt mortales, et quæ hinc
pendent et necessaria consequuntur:_
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