A86003:121
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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What hath this now to do with Church-Officers their power of suspension from the Sacrament?
What hath this now to doe with Church-Officers their power of suspension from the Sacrament?
Observe another Testimony which he addeth out of Augustine lib. de fide, Excommunicatio debet suppler locum visibilis gladii, which he Englisheth thus, Excommunication comes in only to supply the want of the civill sword. But how comes in your only Sir? Augustine's saith no such thing. And when I have expunged that word, I must tell you further, that I can find no such passage in Augustines Book de fide: But I find somewhat to this purpose in another Book of his, which is entituled de fide & operibus, a Book which he wrote against the admission of such persons to Baptism, as being instructed in the faith, are notwithstanding still scandalous in their lives (which by the way will hold • fortiori for the exclusion of notorious scandalous sinners from the Lords Supper: for they who ought not to be admitted to the Sacrament of initiation, ought much less to be admitted to the Sacrament of Confirmation) Now because divers Scriptures speak of a mixture of good and bad in the Church, Augustine takes there occasion to reprove those who abused these Scriptures against the exercise of Discipline and Church censures: the necessity whereof he showeth to be the greater, because the Magistrate doth not punish by death all such crimes as under the Law were punished by death: as namely adultery, (the scandal chiefly by him insisted upon) As for that1 passage concerning Excommunication its supplying the place of the sword, it plainly holds forth Excommunication under Christian Emperors and Magistrates, (for such they were at that time) so far it is from making against us. For these are the words which say no such thing as Mr. Coleman would make them say. And Phinehas the Priest did thrust through the adulterous persons found together, with the avenging sword. Which was signified that it ⟨p. 55⟩