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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: They do so, in those things which are not clearly taught in the holy Scriptures, but in the controversies between them and Lutherans, they proceed not so, but by Scriptures they fight against Lutheran Tenets, which are confirmed by the Scriptures, and endeavour by the help of the Scriptures to sight for, and defend their own, which the Lutherans by Scriptures do condemn. Nay more, there are some (viz. the Anabaptists) that urge the Scriptures in the very ⟨p. 45⟩Letter more than the rest. The Calvinists use their reason, and out of the Scriptures draw Arguments, which thing the Lutherans also do, never suffering any of theirs to reason against the Scriptures.
I answer: They do so, in those things which are not cleerly taught in the holy Scriptures, but in the controversies between them and Lutherans, they proceed not so, but by Scriptures they fight against Lutheran Tenents, which are confirmed by the Scriptures, and indeavour by the help of the Scriptures to sight for, and defend their own, which the Lutherans by Scriptures doe condemn. Nay more, there are some (viz. the Anabaptists) that urge the Scriptures in the very ⟨p. 45⟩Letter more than the rest. The Calvinists use their reason, and out of the Scriptures draw Arguments, which thing the Lutherans also doe, never suffering any of theirs to reason against the Scriptures.
Consid. This Author will have the making of his own bed, and shapes his Reader at the first encounter to yield, acknowledging the uncontradictable nature of his former one only Argument, which yet I have showed to be both very weak, very ridiculous, and very untrue: But we keep our ground, professing to the world, that the Scriptures alone being the Word of God, are the rule of our faith, and no word of man; Papists add Traditions, which yet they account the Word of God unwritten; we abhor to make any thing the rule of our faith but the written Word of God. It is falsely said, that Calvinists add their Reason, they rather suppose Reason than ⟨p. 46⟩