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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.
5. His objections doth strike against that connection and concatenation of the means of salvation, which the Apostle holdeth forth, and there is no more strength in that which he objecteth, then as if one should argue, the deaf may believe, therefore faith may be without hearing. Look how hearing is necessary, in the same sense, is Preaching, and the sending of the Preacher necessary, Neither doeth it make any thing against our sense of the Text, that some may be converted, by those who are not Ministers, for tho Preaching of the word by those that are sent to the Ministry of preaching, is the standing Ordinance and ordinary mean of conversion and faith by this Text: and even those who perhaps have been first wrought upon by prayer or conference with other Christians, are hearers of those who are Ministerially s•nt: it will be hard to prove that any believe, who can hear the word preached by Ministers lawfully called and sent, and do not hear it.
5. His objections doth strike against that connexion and concat•nation of the means of salvation, which the Apostle holdeth forth, and there is no more strength in that which he objecteth, then as if one should argue, the deaf may beleeve, therefore faith may be without hearing. Look how hearing is necessary, in the same sence, is Preaching, and the sending of the Preacher necessary, Neither doeth it make any thing against our sence of the Text, that some may be converted, by those who are not Ministers, for tho Preaching of the word by those that are sent to the Ministery of preaching, is the standing Ordinance and ordinary mean of conversion and faith by this Text: and even those who perhaps have been first wroght upon by prayer or conference with other Christians, are hearers of those who are Ministerially s•nt: it will bee hard to prove that any beleeve, who can hear the word preached by Ministers lawfully called and sent, and doe not hear it.
Except. 4. That Erastian before cited, the Composer of ⟨p. 42⟩