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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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but as for the rest let him impute it to my ignorance, that know not so much as what is the way of his passion, for he seems to me to be neither Lutheran nor Calvinist, and would not seem to be a Papist, though I am most ⟨p. 133⟩prone to conceive it to be the trick of some Papist; least of all do I know his person or Country.
but as for the rest let him impute it to my ignorance, that know not so much as what is the way of his passion, for he seems to me to be neither Lutheran nor Calvinist, and would not seem to bee a Papist, though I am most ⟨p. 133⟩prone to conceive it to be the trick of some Papist; least of all doe I know his person or Countrey.
But let every sober Christian consider well, and inquire, whether that since the beginning that Gods Word was committed to writing, there were at any time any such questions moved until this last and worst Age of the world, when Cajetan the Cardinal, a great School-Divine, first encountered with Martin Luther, and found that no Authority prevailed with him but Scriptural, hereupon he was moved to study Scripture, and wrote Commentaries upon it in his old age. But Sylvester Prierius of Rome, he thought that way too far about, and therefore took a shorter course, and maintained that the Scriptures contained not all things necessary to salvation, and therefore the rule of faith to be made complete must be pieced up with ⟨p. 134⟩the unwritten Word added to the written Word, which unwritten Word they called Traditions. Since that the Papists have strengthened themselves with the Authority of the Church, yet confess the true Church cannot be known to be a true Church, nor the Authority thereof known, but by the Scriptures, and the issue of the resolution of the Church must be the resolution of the Pope concerning the true interpretation of Scripture, shamefully obtruding upon us that we make the resolution of our faith into our own private spirit, whereas we to the contrary extend the testimony of the spirit only to each private mans best satisfaction, and teach no other herein than the Papists themselves acknowledge to be most true, as touching the resolution physical of our faith, as I am able to prove by variety of pregnant evidences