A86003:91
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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Master Coleman's wronging of the Church of Scotland.
Master Coleman ends his Maledicis with a resentment of accusations charged upon him by a stranger, a Commissioner from another Church. The lot of strangers were very hard, if when they are falsely accused to Authority, they may not answer for themselves. He may remember the first accusation was made by himself, when in his Sermon to the Parliament, he did flatly impute to the Commissioners from the Church of Scotland, a great part of the fault of hindering Union in the Assembly of Divines, as having come biassed with a National determination: his Doctrine also at that time being such, as did not only reflect upon the Government of the Church of Scotland, but tend to the subversion of the Covenant in one principal Point, without which there can be small or no hopes of attaining the other ends of the Covenant▪ Since that time he did in his Re-examination, and now again in his Maledicis fall foully upon the Church of Scotland, not only by gross mistakes and misrepresentations of our way, but by most groundless aspersions, and most uncharitable and unjust calumnies. I am sure I am not so much a stranger to his Doctrine as he is to the Church of Scotland, of which notwithstanding he boldly speaks his pleasure, in divers particulars which he will never be able to make good.
MAster Coleman ends his Maledicis with a resentment of accusations charged upon him by a stranger, a Commissioner from another Church. The lot of strangers were very hard, if when they are falsely accused to Authority, they may not answer for themselves. He may remember the first accusation was made by himself, when in his Sermon to the Parliament, he did flatly impute to the Commissioners from the Church of Scotland, a great part of the fault of hindering Union in the Assembly of Divines, as having come byassed with a Nationall determination: his Doctrine also at that time being such, as did not onely reflect upon the Government of the Church of Scotland, but tend to the subversion of the Covenant in one principall Point, without which there can be small or no hopes of attaining the other ends of the Covenant▪ Since that time he did in his Re-examination, and now again in his Maledicis fall foully upon the Church of Scotland, not onely by grosse mistakes and misrepresentations of our way, but by most groundlesse aspersions, and most uncharitable and unjust calumnies. I am sure I am not so much a stranger to his Doctrine as he is to the Church of Scotland, of which notwithstanding he boldly speaks his pleasure, in divers particulars which he will never be able to make good.