A86004:9
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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A Discovery of the extreme unsatisfactoriness of Master Colemans Piece, published last week under the Title of, A Brotherly Examination re-examined.
A Discovery of the extreame unsatisfactorinesse of Master Colemans Peece, published last week under the Title of, A Brotherly Examination re-examined.
After that Master Coleman had Preached and Printed such Doctrine as I was in my conscience fully persuaded was contrary to the Covenant of the three Kingdoms, and destructive (if it were put in practice) to the Reformation of Religion: he having also flatly and publicly imputed to the Commissioners from the Church of Scotland, a great part of the fault of hindering union in the Assembly here. I thought my self obliged in duty and in the trust which I bear, to give a public testimony against his Doctrine, (which others did also) upon occasion not sought, but by Divine Providence, and a public Calling then offered, first for Preaching, and after for Printing; in either of which I think there did not appear the least dis-respect or bitterness ⟨p. 2⟩towards the Reverend Brother. The Lord knows my intention was to speak to the matter, to vindicate the truth, and to remove that impediment of Reformation by him cast in: And if he, or any man else had in meekness of spirit, gravely and rationally, for clearing of truth, endeavoured to confute me, I ought not, I should not have taken it ill; but now when this piece of his against me, called A Brotherly Examination re-examined (I think he would or should have said examined, for this is the first examination of it) I find it more full of railing than of reasoning, of gibing than of gravity; and when polemics do so degenerate, the world is abused, not edified. He tells me if I have not work enough I shall have more; I confess the answering of this Piece is no great work, and the truth is, I am ashamed I have so little to make answer unto, yet I shall do my best to improve even this work to edification. When other work comes I wish it be work indeed, and not words. Res cum re, ratio cum ratione concertet, as the father said; Arguments Sir, Arguments, Arguments, if there be any: you have affirmed great things, and new things which you have not proved. The Assertions of such as are for a Church Government in genere, and for the Presbyterial Government in specie, are known; their Arguments are known, but your Solutions are not yet known. If Mr. Prynnes Book against the suspension of scandalous persons from the Sacrament be the work for the present, which he means, I hope it shall be in due time most satisfactorily spoken unto both by others and by my self;