A86003:36
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
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
To the next instance from 1 Tim. 5. 19. Against an Elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses: The Reverend Brother answereth, It is either in relation to the judgement of charity, or ministerial conviction, as the verses following. Answ. 1. That of two or three witnesses, is taken from the Law of Moses, where it is referred only to a forensicall proceeding. But in relation either to the judgement of charity, or ministerial conviction, it is not necessary that there be two or three witnesses. If a scandalous sin be certainly known to a Minister, though the thing be not certified by two or three witnesses, yet a Minister upon certain knowledge had of the fact, may both believe it, and ministerially convince the offender. But there may not be a Consistorial proceeding without two or three witnesses. 2. Since he appealeth to the following verses, let vers. 22. decide it: Lay hands suddenly on no man. To whom the laying on of hands or ordination did belong, to them also it did belong to receive an accusation against an Elder: But to the Presbytery did belong the laying on of hands or ordination, 1 Tim. 4. 14. Ergo, to the Presbytery did belong the receiving of an accusation against an Elder. And so it was not the act of a single Minister, as ministerial conviction is.
To the next instance from 1 Tim. 5. 19. Against an Elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses: The Reverend Brother answereth, It is either in relation to the judgement of charity, or ministeriall conviction, as the verses following. Answ. 1. That of two or three witnesses, is taken from the Law of Moses, where it is referred onely to a forensicall proceeding. But in relation either to the judgement of charity, or ministeriall conviction, it is not necessary that there be two or three witnesses. If a scandalous sin be certainly known to a Minister, though the thing be not certified by two or three witnesses, yet a Minister upon certain knowledge had of the fact, may both beleeve it, and ministerially convince the offender. But there may not be a Consistoriall proceeding without two or three witnesses. 2. Since he appealeth to the following verses, let vers. 22. decide it: Lay hands suddenly on no man. To whom the laying on of hands or ordination did belong, to them also it did belong to receive an accusation against an Elder: But to the Presbytery did belong the laying on of hands or ordination,