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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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Letter: THE APPROBATION OF That Reverend Father of the Church, Joseph Hall, Bishop. of NORWICH.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE APPROBATION OF That Reverend Father of the Church, Joseph Hall, Bishop. of NORWICH.
In a Letter to his worthily respected friend, Mr. W. S.
Worthy Sir,
I Return you many thanks for the favour you have done me, in affording me the view of this solid and seasonable piece of Dr. Twice, in full answer to this pretended Questionist; who under the colour of a Perplexing Case of Conscience from a Preacher of the Gospel, sends forth a ⟨image 4⟩foolish kind of challenge to all Protestant Divines. Had you not named the Author of the satisfactory Answer, and seconded it by another's attestation, I could both have known and avouched him. There is a face of a style, by which we Scholars know one another, no less than our persons by a visible countenance; whosoever hath read the witty & acute exercitations of this Author upon the writings of Doctor Jackson, will easily find him in this Tractate both for form and matter. This skulking and disguised Challenger could not have met with a meeter Combatant; a man so ⟨image 4⟩eminent in School-Divinity, that the Jesuits have felt, and (for ought I see) shrunk under his strength, in their Scientia Media, and whom the States of the Netherlands out of the fame of his worth, would fain have tempted away with large proffers to a Public Professorship in one of their Universities. I only wish he had met with a more able Adversary: For certainly, as I intimated to you in my last, this Beagle, whosoever he be, whether out of misprision or craft, hunts counter, and runs all the while upon a wrong ground; vainly supposing, that differences in points not fundamental, make