A86004:20
Nihil respondes
Nihil respondes: or, A discovery of the extreme unsatisfactoriness of Master Colemans piece, published last week under the title of A brotherly examination re-examined. Wherein, his self-contradictions: his yielding of some things, and not answering to other things objected against him: his abusing of Scripture: his errors in divinity: his abusing of the Parliament, and endangering their authority: his abusing of the Assembly: his calumnies, and namely against the Church of Scotland, and against my self: the repugnancy of his doctrine to the solemn League and Covenant, are plainly demonstrated. / By George Gillespie minister at Edinburgh. Published by authority.Nihil respondes: or, A discovery of the extream unsatisfactorinesse of Master Colemans peece, published last weeke under the title of A brotherly examination re-examined. Wherein, his self-contradictions: his yeelding of some things, and not answering to other things objected against him: his abusing of Scripture: his errors in divinity: his abusing of the Parliament, and indangering their authority: his abusing of the Assembly: his calumnies, and namely against the Church of Scotland, and against my selfe: the repugnancy of his doctrin to the solemne League and Covenant, are plainly demonstrated. / By George Gillespie minister at Edenburgh. Published by authority.
London: printed for Robert Bostock, 1645
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He hath not yet (though put in mind) produced the least exception against the known Arguments for Excommunication and Church Government, drawn from Mat. 18. and 1 Cor. 5. he tells the affirmer is to prove; But the affirmers have proved: and their Arguments are known, (yea he himself pag. 1. saith; I have had the opportunity to hear almost what man can say in either side, speaking of the controversy of Church Government) therefore he should have made a better answer, then to say that those places did not take hold of his Conscience, yet if he have not heard enough of those places he shall I trust ere long hear more.
He hath not yet (though put in minde) produced the least exception against the known Arguments for Excommunication and Church Government, drawn from Mat. 18. and 1 Cor. 5. he tells the affirmer is to prove; But the affirmers have proved: and their Arguments are known, (yea he himselfe pag. 1. saith; I have had the opportunity to heare almost what man can say in either side, speaking of the controversie of Church Government) therefore he should have made a better answer, then to say that those places did not take hold of his Conscience, yet if he have not heard enough of those places he shall I trust ere long heare more.
He had said, I could never yet see how two Coordinate Governments exempt from superiority and inferiority, can be in one State, Page 35. I gave him three Instances, a General and an Admiral, a Father and a Master, a Captain and a Master of a Ship; This pag. 8. he doth not deny, nor saith one word against it; only he endeavoureth to make those Similes to run upon four feet, and to resemble the general Assembly, and the Parliament in every circumstance; but I did not at all apply them to the general Assembly, and the Parliament. Only I brought them to overthrow that general Thesis of his concerning the inconsistency of two Co-ordinate Governments, which if he could defend; why hath not he done it?