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A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereofA discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof
A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keep good conscience.A discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keepe good conscience.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate, 1596Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate, 1596
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Arg. 4. Joh. 21. Christ saith to Peter, [[Greek or Hebrew]] […] my […]: that is, (as the word importeth) […] and rule my sheep. Answ. This feeding and ruling stands not in making new laws, but in teaching and governing the Church of God according to the doctrine which they had received from Christ. And this action of feeding is ascribed to all Christians Revelat. 3. 27. who can not thereupon challenge a power of making laws to the conscience.
Arg. 4. Ioh. 21. Christ saith to Peter, [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] 〈…〉 my 〈…〉: that is, (as the word importeth) 〈…〉 and rule my sheepe. Answ. This feeding and ruling stands not in making new lawes, but in teaching and gouerning the Church of God according to the doctrine which they had receiued from Christ. And this action of feeding is ascribed to all Christians Revelat. 3. 27. who can not therupon chalenge a power of making lawes to the conscience.
Argum. 5. Joh. 20. As my father sent me, so I send you: but Christ was sent of his father not only with power of preaching and ministering the sacraments, but also with authority of commanding and giving judgement. Answ. Is this kind of reasoning may stand, all the Apostles shall be made redeemers; for they were all sent as Christ was: and he was sent not only to preach the redemption of mankind, but also to effect and work the same. It this be absurd, ⟨p. 46⟩then it is a flat abusing of scripture to gather from this saying of Christ, that the Apostles had power of binding conscience because he had so. It is true indeed that there is a similitude or analogy between the calling of Christ and his Apostles; but it wholly stands in these points. Christ was ordained to his office before all worlds, & so were the Apostles: Christ was called of his father immediately, and so were they of Christ: Christ was sent to the whole world, & so were they: Christ received all power in heaven and earth as being necessary for a mediator; and they received an extraordinary authority from him with such a plentiful measure of the spirit as was necessary for the Apostolical function. Lastly Christ was sent even as he was man to be a teacher of the Jews: & therefore be is called the minister of circumcision,