A86004:54
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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Fourthly, He professeth to subscribe to the Votes of Parliament concerning Church-Government, page 11. and yet he still pleadeth that all Ecclesiastical Government is merely Doctrinal, ibid. the Parliament having Voted that power to Church-Officers which is not Doctrinal (as I showed before) And he adviseth the Parliament to keep wholly in their own hands the corrective part of Church-Government, page 14. though the Parliament hath put into the hands of Elderships a power of suspension from the Sacrament, which is corrective.
Fourthly, He professeth to subscribe to the Votes of Parliament concerning Church-Government, page 11. and yet he still pleadeth that all Ecclesiasticall Government is meerely Doctrinall, ibid. the Parliament having Voted that power to Church-Officers which is not Doctrinall (as I shewed before) And he adviseth the Parliament to keep wholy in their own hands the corrective part of Church-Government, page 14. though the Parliament hath put into the hands of Elderships a power of suspention from the Sacrament, which is corrective.
Fifthly, he did deliver in that Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, divers particulars, which being justly excepted against, and he undertaking a Vindication, yet he hath receded from them, or not being able to defend them, as that concerning two co-ordinate Governments in one Kingdom, and his Argument concerning the fear of an ambitious ensnarement in Ministers; these being by me infringed he hath not so much as offered to make them good.
Fifthly, he did deliver in that Sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, divers particulars, which being justly excepted against, and he undertaking a Vindication, yet he hath receded from them, or not being able to defend them, as that concerning two co-ordinate Governments in one Kingdome, and his Argument concerning the feare of an ambitious ensnarement in Ministers; these being by me enfringed he hath not so much as offered to make them good.