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The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…
The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal divided into four parts ... : in each of which there are not a few choice and useful questions, very shortly and satisfyingly discussed and cleared / by ... Mr. James Durham ... who being dead (by this) yet speaketh ; and published by John Carstares ... ; to which is prefixed an excellent preface of famous Mr. Blair ... ; together with a table of the contents of the several chapters of each part.
Edinburgh: printed by Christopher Higgins, 1659
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Assert. 3. It is not to be thought that that only is conviction, 1which putteth the adverse party to silence, or that when convincing of gainsayers is commanded, that that only is intended: for, men of corrupt unruly spirits (as the Apostle saith) wax worse and worse, and do resist the truth, as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, 2 Tim. 3. 8. and are therefore called reprobate concerning the faith; yea, sometimes the more they be pinched and bound, the more they cry out, and will not yield to convincing truth, as we see, Act. 6. 9, 10, 11. and Act 13. 45, 46. and certainly there were none of Paul's opposers able to dispute with him, yet we will never almost find his adversaries silent, though he put them to silence, and did actually convince them; notwithstanding they are still muttering and contradicting, so that oftentimes he breaketh off, shaking the dust off his feet against them, when arguments did not the business. Oftentimes also, this continuing of contradiction with some dexterity to pervert Scripture to their own destruction, is to them penal and judicial, as was formerly observed, and doth follow upon their hazarding and daring to oppose the manifest truth. And who would have thought, but that these Magicians that resisted Moses, should have been convinced by so many miracles, not to have essayed further to oppose him? which yet notwithstanding they continue to do; and if it was so then, and with Paul and the other Apostles afterward, can it be expected to be otherwayes now? seeing the spirit of Jannes and Jambres, and the gainsaying of Core is marked by the Scripture to wait on such.
Assert. 3. It is not to be thought that that only is conviction, 1which putteth the adverse party to silence, or that when convincing of gainsayers is commanded, that that only is intended: for, men of corrupt unruly spirits (as the Apostle saith) wax worse and worse, and do resist the truth, as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses, 2 Tim. 3. 8. and are therefore called reprobate concerning the faith; yea, sometimes the more they be pinched and bound, the more they cry out, and will not yeeld to convincing truth, as we see,