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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
CHAP. X.
Of new Lights, and how to keep off from splitting either upon the Charybdis of pertinacy and tenaciousness, or upon the Scylla of Levity, Wavering and Scepticism.
Of new Lights, and how to keep off from splitting either upon the Charybdis of pertinacy and tenaciousnesse, or upon the Scylla of Levity, Wavering and Scepticisme.
Tis pleaded by some who pretend to more tenderness of conscience then others, that to establish by the Law of the Land a Confession of Faith, or a Directory of the worship of God, and of the Government of the Church, and to appoint penalties or punishments upon such as maintain the contrary Doctrines or practises, ⟨p. 124⟩is to hold out and shut the door upon new Light. That as the State and Church hath discovered the evil of diverse things, which were sometime approved and strengthened by the Law of the Land, so there may be afterwards a discovery made by the light of Experience, and a further search of the Scripture, to make manifest the falsehood of those Doctrines which are now received as true, and the evil of that Government and way which is now embraced as good, for [Greek or Hebrew].
TIs pleaded by some who pretend to more tendernesse of conscience then others, that to establish by the Law of the Land a Confession of Faith, or a Directory of the worship of God, and of the Government of the Church, and to appoint penalties or punishments upon such as maintaine the contrary Doctrines or practises, ⟨p. 124⟩is to hold out and shut the doore upon new Light. That as the State and Church hath discovered the evill of diverse things, which were sometime approved and strengthned by the Law of the Land, so there may be afterwards a discovery made by the light of Experience, and a further search of the Scripture, to make manifest the falshood of those Doctrines which are now received as true, and the evil of that Government and way which is now imbraced as good, for .