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Male audis or An answer to Mr. Coleman his Malè dicis. Wherein the repugnancy…
Male audis or An answer to Mr. Coleman his Malè dicis. Wherein the repugnancy of his Erastian doctrine to the word of God, to the solemn League and Covenant, and to the ordinances of Parliament: also his contradictions, tergiversations, heterodoxies, calumnies, and perverting of testimonies, are made more apparent then formerly. Together with some animadversions upon Master Hussey his Plea for Christian magistracy: showing, that in divers of the afore mentioned particulars he hath miscarried as much, and in some particulars more then Mr Coleman. / By George Gillespie, minister at Edinburgh. Published by authority.Male audis or An answer to Mr. Coleman his Malè dicis. Wherein the repugnancy of his Erastian doctrine to the word of God, to the solemne League and Covenant, and to the ordinances of Parliament: also his contradictions, tergiversations, heterodoxies, calumnies, and perverting of testimonies, are made more apparent then formerly. Together with some animadversions upon Master Hussey his Plea for Christian magistracy: shewing, that in divers of the afore mentioned particulars he hath miscarried as much, and in some particulars more then Mr Coleman. / By George Gillespie, minister at Edinbrugh. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostocke, 1646
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THE Preface to the Reader.
AS I did not begin this present Controversy, so I do not desire to hold up the Ball of contention: yet having appeared in it (neither alone nor without a calling and opportunity offered) I hold it my duty to vindicate the truth of Christ, the solemn League and Covenant, the Ordinances of Parliament, the Church of Scotland, and my self; for this end was I borne, and for this end came I into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Whereunto I am so much the more encouraged, because it appeareth already in this debate, that magna est vis veritatis, great is the force of truth, and so great, that my Antagonists (though men of parts ⟨image 2⟩and such as could do much for the truth, yet) while they have gone about to do somewhat against the truth, they have mired themselves in foul errors; yea (so far as in them lieth) have most dangerously shaken and endangered the authority of Magistrates, who are Gods Vice-gerents, and particularly the authority of Parliament, and of Parliamentary Ordinances; they have stumbled and fallen, and shall not be able to rise, but by the acknowledgement of the truth.
AS I did not beginne this present Controversie, so I doe not desire to hold up the Ball of contention: yet having appeared in it (neither alone nor without a calling and opportunity offered) I hold it my duty to vindicate the truth of Christ, the solemne League and Covenant, the Ordinances of Parliament, the Church of Scotland, and my selfe; for this end was I borne, and for this end came I into the world, that I might beare witnesse to the truth. Wherunto I am so much the more encouraged, because it appeareth already in this debate, that magna est vis veritatis, great is the force of truth, and so great, that my Antagonists (though men of parts ⟨image 2⟩