Gabriel Barnes

“The apostle only commands that each action and ceremony of God's worship be decently and orderly performed, but gives us no leave to excogitate [contrive] or devise new ceremonies, which have not been instituted before. He has spoken in that chapter of assembling in the church, prophesying and preaching, praying and praising there. Now let all these things, and every other action of God's worship, ceremonies and all, be done decently and in order.”
― George Gillespie, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of Scotland

“There is nothing which any way pertains to the the worship of God left to the determination of human laws, besides the mere circumstances, which neither have any holiness in them, forasmuch as they have no other use and praise in sacred than which have in civil things, nor yet were particularly determinable in Scripture.”
― George Gillespie, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of Scotland

“If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?”
― George Gillespie, A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of Scotland