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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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I answer, 1. May there not be as much question about the meaning of the voice of the Church, as about the meaning of Gods Word? Where doth the Church speak more authentically than in general Councils? See the Council of Trent, the Pope was unwilling to confirm it, 1till Cardinal Bond Compagio Bishop of Befirice urged him thereunto upon this ground, That withal he should publish an EDICT, forbidding all men to take upon them the interpretation thereof, and commanding them to seek that from him, and then (saith he) let us alone to devise a convenient interpretation of it without prejudices to the advantages of the Court of Rome.
I answer, 1. May there not be as much question about the meaning of the voyce of the Church, as about the meaning of Gods Word? Where doth the Church speak more authentically than in generall Councills? See the Councill of Trent, the Pope was unwilling to confirm it, 1till Cardinall Bon Compagio Bishop of Befirice urged him thereunto upon this ground, That withall he should publish an EDICT, forbidding all men to take upon them the interpretation thereof, and commanding them to seek that from him, and then (saith he) let us alone to devise a convenient interpretation of it without prejudices to the advantages of the Court of Rome.
- 1Hist. of the Council of Trent.Hist. of the Councill of Trent.
2. Again, General Councils ⟨p. 41⟩may err, as Austin observes, the former have been corrected by the later in some things.
2. Again, Generall Councills ⟨p. 41⟩