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The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is…
The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is evidently proved, that the holy Scriptures (not the pope) is the foundation whereupon the Church is built. Or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by holy Scriptures. By William Twice D.D. Prolocutor of the Assembly of Divines. Written at the desire of Samuel Hartlib, Esquire, for the satisfaction of his friends beyond the seas; and now divulged in print for more public edification.The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is evidently proved, that the holy Scriptures (not the pope) is the foundation whereupon the Church is built. Or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by holy Scriptures. By William Tvvisse D.D. Prolocutor of the Assembly of Divines. Written at the desire of Samuel Hartlib, Esquire, for the satisfaction of his friends beyond the seas; and now divulged in print for more publick edification.
London: printed for Thomas Matthews, 1652
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This Author seems to be taken with the beauty of the Whore of Babylon, he is so much in love with Papists as to obtrude upon us an acknowledgement that they have the fruits of the Spirit, and consequently without any denial that they have the Spirit. To proceed one degree further, were to profess Antichrist to be Christ, and Christ Antichrist.
This Author seems to be taken with the beauty of the Whore of Babylon, he is so much in love with Papists as to obtrude upon us an acknowledgement that they have the fruits of the Spirit, and consequently without any deniall that they have the Spirit. To proceed one degree further, were to profess Antichrist to be Christ, and Christ Antichrist.
To understand the Scriptures is but to acknowledge the true meaning of them, and this we deny that Papists have; as touching all the points of difference between us, which they pretend to ground upon Scripture, yea and in many other particulars they are wide of the right understanding of them; so may our Divines be also, and ⟨p. 74⟩like enough, that as M. Hooker saith, there are some depths of Scripture, the searching out whereof will hold us as long as the world lasts. Yet I deny not but a Reprobate may have the knowledge of the Scriptures as well as an Elect, this being no grace of Sanctification, but of Edification; but to know the Scriptures to be the Word of God, the Wisdom of God, and the Power of God, that I take to be peculiar to a regenerate spirit in whom the Spirit of God dwells as the fountain of the life of grace, of which in-dwelling of the Spirit a child of God may be conscious in a comfortable manner without boasting.
To understand the Scriptures is but to acknowledge the true meaning of them, and this we deny that Papists have; as touching all the points of difference between us, which they pretend to ground upon Scripture, yea and in many other particulars they are wide of the right understanding of them; so may our Divines be also, and ⟨p. 74⟩