A86003:55
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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First, In his Epistle to the Parliament, he hath divers passages against Synodical Votes, he will have no putting to the Vote; For Votes, saith he, pag. 6 are of no other use but to gather parties, and ought no where to be used but by those that have the power of the Sword. And pag. 3. he will have the business of Assemblies to be only Doctrinal, and by dispute to find out truth; their Disputes ought to end in a brotherly accord, as in Act. 15. much disputing, but all ended in accord, no putting to the Vote. And pag. 5. he will have things carried with strength, of Argument and unanimous consent of the whole Clergy. Behold how he joineth issue with the Remonstrants against the Contra-Remonstrants, to introduce not only an Academical,1 but a Sceptical and Pyrrhonian Dubitation and uncertainty, so that there shall never be an end of controversy, nor any settlement of truth and of the Ordinances of Jesus Christ, so long as there shall be but one tenacious Disputer to hold up the ball of contention. One egg is not liker another, then Master Husseys Tenet is like that of the Arminians, for which see the Synod of Dort Sess. 25. It was the ninth condition which the Arminians required in a lawful and well constituted Synod, that there might be no decision ⟨p. 26⟩of the controverted Articles, but only such an accommodation as both sides might agree to. And generally they hold that Synods ought not to meet for decision, or determination, but for examining, disputing, discussing. So their Examen Censurae, cap. 25. and their Vindiciae, lib. 2. cap. 6. pag. 131. 133.
First, In his Epistle to the Parliament, he hath divers passages against Synodicall Votes, he will have no putting to the Vote; For Votes, saith he, pag. 6 are of no other use but to gather parties, and ought no where to be used but by those that have the power of the Sword. And pag. 3. he will have the businesse of Assemblies to be only Doctrinall, and by dispute to finde out truth; their Disputes ought to end in a brotherly accord, as in Act. 15. much disputing, but all ended in accord, no putting to the Vote. And pag. 5. he will have things carried with strength, of Argument and unanimous consent of the whole Clergy. Behold how he joyneth issue with the Remonstrants against the Contra-Remonstrants, to introduce not onely an Accademicall,