A86003:98
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.
CHAP. VII.
Calumnies confuted, and that Question briefly cleared, Whether the Magistrate be Christs Vice-gerent.
Master Hussey in his Title page tells us he hath prosecuted the argumentative part without any personal reflections; yet I could instance divers personal reflections in his Book which any moderate impartial man will extremely dislike; but what should this be to the edifying of my Reader, the end which next to the glory of God and the promoting of Reformation, I have proposed to my self? Yet I must needs take notice of some calumnies.
MAster Hussey in his Title page tels us he hath prosecuted the argumentative part without any personall reflections; yet I could instance divers personall reflections in his Book which any moderate impartiall man will extremely dislike; but what should this be to the edifying of my Reader, the end which next to the glory of God and the promoting of Reformation, I have proposed to my self? Yet I must needs take notice of some calumnies.
First, In his Epistle pag. 8. he offereth it to be examined whether I was not beside my Text, Mal. 3. 2. when I pressed from it Reformation by Ecclesiastical Discipline? whether that refiners fire and fullers soap, doth not point at another, and a nearer operation upon the souls and spirits of men by the Blood, Word, Spirit, and Grace of Christ? and whether such handling of a similitude in a Text be to preach the mind of God, or mens own fancy? It is no discontent to me but I shall rejoice in it, that men of piety and judgement examine my Doctrine by the Word of God, and hold fast what they find agreeable to the Scriptures, and no more. But i this brotherly, or fair, or conscionable dealing, to offer my Sermon to be examined under such a notion, when he hath not only said nothing, to confute any of my Doctrines, as not arising from my Text, or any of my applications, as not arising from my Doctrines; but hath also untruly represented my Sermon, as coming short of, or not expressing