A95413:70
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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3. Lastly, the Consequence is as untrue, as it is weak and absurd; for the cause of this difference may be in the darkness of their understanding, who take upon them to interpret it, rather than in the darkness of the Scripture it self, which whether we consider the Law or the Gospel, each of them is termed light by the Spirit of God. Thy Law is a Lantern to my feet, and a light unto my paths, saith David, Psal. 119. And of the ⟨p. 31⟩Gospel our Saviour speaks, Light came into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, Joh. 3. the greater will be their condemnation.
3. Lastly, the Consequence is as untrue, as it is weak and absurd; for the cause of this difference may be in the darkness of their understanding, who take upon them to interpret it, rather than in the darkness of the Scripture it self, which whether we consider the Law or the Gospell, each of them is termed light by the Spirit of God. Thy Law is a Lanthorn to my feet, and a light unto my pathes, saith David, Psal. 119. And of the ⟨p. 31⟩Gospell our Saviour speaks, Light came into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, Joh. 3. the greater will be their condemnation.
And as for the instance proposed to prove the Consequence, of two Physicians, 1. The particular proposed is most inficete, and a mere fiction without all colour.
And as for the instance proposed to prove the Consequence, of two Physicians, 1. The particular proposed is most inficete, and a meer fiction without all colour.