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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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Here we have a wild answer at the first, All the Commandments of God are his Word, and so are all his Works which are through his Word.
Here we have a wilde answer at the first, All the Commandments of God are his Word, and so are all his Works which are through his Word.
1. To say, so are all his Works, is to say, all his Works are his Word, which yet forthwith is corrected, by saying they are through his Word: Yet of old I have read in Chrysostom of a double Book of God, the Book of his Word, and the Book of his Creatures, and that God at the first did teach his Creatures [Greek or Hebrew] by his Works, afterwards [Greek or Hebrew] by his written Word. It is most true, The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy works, Psal. 19. And the invisible things of God even his eternal Power and Godhead ⟨p. 81⟩are seen from the Creation, being considered in his works, Rom. 1.20. So by the administration of his providence in governing the world, He leaves not himself without witness, giving us rain and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness, Act. 14.17. Yet the knowledge of God hereby being gathered only by discourse of natural reason, men may fail of finding God though they grope after him, Act. 17.27. and the wisest of Philosophers hath denied the Creation, and maintained God to be a necessary Agent; And they who granted and acknowledged the beginning of the world (as all they who were before) yet utterly denied that the world was made originally out of nothing; and therefore the Apostle tells us, that by faith we believe the world was made. Not only Gods Commands are his Word, but the revelations