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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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What shall I say more? Do other Religions want civill learning? There are found amongst them sufficiently ⟨image 10⟩learned and ingenious men, and oftentimes they have much better and fitter means for the advancement of Learning, than the Lutherans have; especially the Papists, who make choice of the best wits, whom they employ in a manner from their cradles to their full age in nothing else but study, meditation, and continual exercises, and do abundantly supply them with all things which serve or seem to serve for their furthering and forwarding, and with all care and diligence do remove and take away whatsoever causeth, or seems to cause any hindrance of their course. They study the Scriptures and Fathers night and day, and refuse no labour in learning the foundation of their own Religion, and in knowing and understanding the Errors of others. Nay, the method and manner of learning, of comparing the Scriptures, of interpreting according to the [Greek or Hebrew] of Faith, of bringing no sense to the Scriptures, and such other rules, cannot be unknown to them.
What shall I say more? Doe other Religions want civill learning? There are found amongst them sufficiently ⟨image 10⟩learned and ingenious men, and oftentimes they have much better and fitter means for the advancement of Learning, than the Lutherans have; especially the Papists, who make choice of the best wits, whom they imploy in a manner from their cradles to their full age in nothing else but study, meditation, and continuall exercises, and do abundantly supply them with all things which serve or seem to serve for their furthering and forwarding, and with all care and diligence do remove and take away whatsoever causeth, or seems to cause any hindrance of their course. They study the Scriptures and Fathers night and day, and refuse no labour in learning the foundation of their own Religion, and in knowing and understanding the Errors of others. Nay, the method and manner of learning, of comparing the Scriptures, of interpreting according to the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of Faith, of bringing no sense to the Scriptures, and such other rules, cannot be unknown to them.