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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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I count it an absurd course for any to justify his interpretation of Scripture to be sound, because he hath the Spirit; we are ready to dispute the meaning we give of Scripture, and to prove it against ⟨p. 75⟩all opposites made against it; and we look not that any interpretation of Scripture we give should be received any further than we make it appear to be the truth of God to the consciences of them we deal with.
I count it an absurd course for any to justisie his interpretation of Scripture to be sound, because he hath the Spirit; we are ready to dispute the meaning we give of Scripture, and to prove it against ⟨p. 75⟩all opposites made against it; and we look not that any interpretation of Scripture we give should be received any further than we make it appear to be the truth of God to the consciences of them we deal with.
Obj. If any should here object, that the Scriptures themselves bear witness of their own clearness, according to that, Thy Word is a Lantern to my feet, and a light unto my paths.
Obj. If any should here object, that the Scriptures themselves bear witness of their own cleerness, according to that, Thy Word is a Lanthorn to my feet, and a light unto my paths.
I answer: All the Commands of God are his Word, and so are all his Works which are through his Word; for it is confessed by all, that God sets forth his Word by Nature, the Creature, Signs, Wonders, beneath, above, and by infinite ways; also the Scriptures witness that many things neither are nor can be written. Therefore the Word of his Voice is taken diversly in the Scriptures, and so by consequence, all that is called Gods