A86003:41
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. 3.
That Master Colemans and Master Husseys opposing of Church-Government, neither is, nor can be reconciled with the solemn League and Covenant.
That Master Colemans and Master Husseys opposing of Church-Government, neither is, nor can be reconciled with the solemne League and Covenant.
Master Colemans Doctrine was by me charged to be a violation of the solemn League and Covenant. This he acknowledged in his Re-examination, page 13. 17. to be a very grievous charge, and a greater fault in him then in divers others, if made out: and he desired seriously, yea challenged it by the right of a Christian, and by the right of a Minister, that I should prosecute this charge; whereupon I did in my Nihil Respondes prosecute it so far, that by five strong Arguments I did demonstrate the repugnancy of his Doctrine to the Covenant. About a Month afterward comes out Master Husseys Book, wherein the charge it self (before desired to be prosecuted) is declined expressly by Master Coleman in the few lines by him prefixed (which are ranked together with the Errata) in which he desires that the argumentative part may be so prosecuted, as that the charge of Covenant-breaking may be laid aside, which if it be taken up, he lets me know before-hand it shall be esteemed by them a Nihil Respondes. It is also declined by Mr. Hussey, page 15. The Argument of the Covenant is too low to be thought on in this Discourse: we are now in an higher region then the words of the Covenant, &c. A Tenet looked upon by the reformed Churches, as proper to those1 that are inspired with the Ghost of Arminius, for the Remonstrants both at and after the Synod of Dort, did cry down the Obligation of all National Covenants, Oaths, &c. in matters of religion, under the colour of taking the Scripture only for a rule. Well, we see the charge declined as nothing; but this is not all: almost two months after