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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
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. Let this Confession, Creed, Symbol, or Test of ⟨p. 59⟩Communion be expressed, as near as possible, in the words of Scripture. Nihil complectatur nisi expressum eisdem etiam verbis, & loquendi formulis (quoad sciri potest) quibus ipse Dei Spiritus usus est: For there may be many men that will own and subscribe a Creed, or Confession, expressed in the words of the Holy Ghost, which peradventure may scruple that which is expressed in our own. All Protestants do grant, that all things necessary to be believed and practised, are plainly and clearly revealed, and expressed in the holy and sacred Volumes. What hinders then, but that our Symbol, Creed or Confession, may be drawn up in the words of Scripture? Do we imagine that our own words will be more apt and proper, and fitter to obviate Heretics than those of the Holy Ghost? Shall we pretend to be more wise and cautious than the Divine Spirit? Or do we know what is more or less liable to Cavils and Exceptions better than God himself? What arrogance, madness, and presumption is this? Are we wiser than God? Or are we more prudent and advised than he whose understanding is infinite?
5. Let this Confession, Creed, Symbol, or Test of ⟨p. 59⟩Communion be expressed, as near as possible, in the words of Scripture. Nihil complectatur nisi expressum eisdem etiam verbis, & loquendi formulis (quoad sciri potest) quibus ipse Dei Spiritus usus est: For there may be many men that will own and subscribe a Creed, or Confession, expressed in the words of the Holy Ghost, which peradventure may scruple that which is expressed in our own. All Protestants do grant, that all things necessary to be believed and practised, are plainly and clearly revealed, and expressed in the holy and sacred Volumes. What hinders then, but that our Symbol, Creed or Confession, may be drawn up in the words of Scripture? Do we imagine that our own words will be more apt and proper, and fitter to obviate Hereticks than those of the Holy Ghost? Shall we pretend to be more wise and cautious than the Divine Spirit? Or do we know what is more or less liable to Cavils and Exceptions better than God himself? What arrogance, madness, and presumption is this? Are we wiser than God? Or are we more prudent and advised than he whose understanding is infinite?