A86003:10
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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CHAP. I.
That Master Coleman doth still contradict himself in the stating of this present Controversy about Church-government.
That Master Coleman doth still contradict himself in the stating of this present Controversie about Church-government.
IT was before both denied and yielded by Mr Coleman, that there is a Church government which is distinct from the Civil, and yet not merely Doctrinal. He did profess to subscribe heartily to the Votes of Parliament, and yet advised the Parliament to do contrary to their Votes, as I proved in Nihil Respondes, pag. 3. He answereth now in his Maledicis, pag. 4. I deny an Institution; I assent to Prudence; Where is the self-contradiction now? and pag. 5. The advice looks to Jus Divinum; The Parliament votes to Prudence. ⟨p. 2⟩Sir, you have spoken evil for your self; you have made the self-contradiction worse. Will you acknowledge you own words in your Sermon, pag 25. Lay no more burden of Government upon the shoulders of Ministers then Christ hath plainly laid upon them; have no more hand therein then the holy Ghost clearly gives them. The Ministers have other work to do, & such as will take up the whole man, &c. I fear an ambitious ensnarement, &c. and in your Re-examination, p. 14. He should have said, I advised the Parliament to lay no burden of Government upon them whom he this Commissioner thinks Church-officers, then had he spoken true. Now let the Reverend Brother take heed to check-meat; and that three several ways (but let him not grow angry as bad players use to do;) For 1. Eo ipso, that he denies the Institution, by his principles he denies the Prudence; For he that denieth the Institution, and adviseth the Parliament to lay no more burden of Government upon Ministers then Christ hath plainly laid upon them, is against the settling of the thing in a prudential way, because it is not instituted. But Master Coleman denies the Institution and adviseth the Parliament to lay no more burden of Government upon Ministers then Christ hath plainly laid upon them. Ergo, Master Coleman is against the settling of the thing in a prudential way, because it is not instituted. And how to reconcile this with his denying of the Institution, and yielding of the Prudence, will require a more reconciling head then Manasseh Ben Israel Conciliator himself. 2. He that adviseth the Parliament to lay no burden of Government upon Ministers, because they have other work to do which will take up the whole man and because of the fear of an ambitious ensnarement, is against the laying of any burden of corrective Government upon Ministers, so much as in a prudential way.