The doubting conscience resolved. In answer to a (pretended) perplexing question, &c. Wherein is…

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 ⟨p. 135⟩ready at hand without any more ado than the bare transcribing of them. Now this light being not of a nature communicable unto others, we meddle not with it in disputing upon any other point of Divinity with Papists or any other.

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 untill this last and worst Age of the world, when Cajetan the Cardinall, a great School-Divine, first encountred with Martin Luther, and found that no Authority prevailed with him but Scripturall, hereupon hee was moved to study Scripture, and wrote Commentaries upon it in his old age. But Silvester 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 compleat must be pieced up with