A86004:29
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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Page 14. He citeth 1 Cor. 10. 33. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Churches of Christ; to prove that all Government is either a Jewish Government, or a Church Government, or a Heathenish Government, and that there is no third; yes Sir, your self hath given a third, (for you have told three) but Transeat cum caeteris errorihus. To the matter. This is a perverting of Scripture to prove an untruth; for the Government of Generals, Admirals, Majors, Sheriffs, is neither a Jewish Government, nor a Church Government, nor a Heathenish Government. Neither doth the Apostle speak any thing of Government in that place; he maketh a distribution of all men who are in danger to be scandalized, not of Governments. And if he had applied the place rightly to the Parliament of England, he had said, They are either of the Jews, or of the Gentiles, ⟨p. 7⟩or of the Church of God, and this needeth not an answer. But when he saith; The English Parliament is either a Jewish Government, or a Church Government, or a Heathenish Government, I answer it is none of these, but it is a Civill Government.
Page 14. He citeth 1 Cor. 10. 33. Give none offence neither to the Jewes nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Churches of Christ; to prove that all Government is either a Jewish Government, or a Church Government, or a Heathenish Government, and that there is no third; yes Sir, your selfe hath given a third, (for you have told three) but Transeat cum caeteris errorihus. To the matter. This is a perverting of Scripture to prove an untruth; for the Government of Generalls, Admiralls, Majors, Sheriffes, is neither a Jewish Government, nor a Church Government, nor a Heathenish Government. Neither doth the Apostle speake any thing of Government in that place; he maketh a distribution of all men who are in danger to be scandalized, not of Governments. And if he had applyed the place rightly to the Parliament of England, he had said, They are either of the Jewes, or of the Gentiles, ⟨p. 7⟩or of the Church of God, and this needeth not an answer. But when he saith; The English Parliament is either a Jewish Government, or a Church Government, or a Heathenish Government, I answer it is none of these, but it is a Civill Government.