A86004:93
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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In the third and fourth place, the brother tells us of the opinions of Gualther, Bullinger, Erastus, Aretius. The question is of the examples of Churches, not of the opinions of men. But what of the men? As for that pestilence that walketh in darkness through London and Westminster, Erastus his book against Beza, let him make of it what he can, it shall have an Antidote by and by. In the mean while he may take notice ⟨p. 32⟩that in the close of the sixth Book Erastus casts down that which he hath built, •ust as Bellarmine did in the close of his five books of justification. But as for the other three named by the brother,1 they are ours, not his in this present controversy. Gualther expounds the fifth chapter of 1 Cor. all along of excommunication, and of the necessity of Church discipline, in so much that he expounds the very delivering to satan (the phrase most controverted by Erastus and his followers) of excommunication; and the not eating with the scandalous, v. 9, 10, 11. he takes also to import excommunication. He thinks also that Ministers shall labour to little purpose, except they have a power of government. Bullinger is most plain for excommunication, as a spiritual censure ordained by Christ: and so he understands, Matth. 18. 17.
In the third and fourth place, the brother tels us of the opinions of Gualther, Bullinger, Erastus, Aretius. The question is of the examples of Churches, not of the opinions of men. But what of the men? As for that pestilence that walketh in darknesse through London and Westminster, Erastus his booke against Beza, let him make of it what he can, it shall have an Antidote by and by. In the meane while he may take notice ⟨p. 32⟩that in the close of the sixth Book Erastus casts down that which he hath built, •ust as Bellarmine did in the close of his five books of justification. But as for the other three named by the brother,1 they are ours, not his in this present controversie. Gualther expounds the fifth chapter of 1 Cor. all along of excommunication, and of the necessity of Church discipline, in so much that he expounds the very delivering to satan (the phrase most controverted by Erastus and his followers) of excommunication; and the not eating with the scandalous, v. 9, 10, 11. hee takes also to import excommunication. Hee thinks also that Ministers shall labour to little pupose, except they have a power of government. Bullinger is most plaine for excommunication, as a spirituall censure ordained by Christ: and so he understands,