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The scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of faith, made good against the Papist
The scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of faith, made good against the Papist: or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by the Holy Scriptures. By that great and famous light of Gods Church, William Twice D.D. and prolocutor of the late assembly of divines.The scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of faith, made good against the Papist: or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by the Holy Scriptures. By that great and famous light of Gods Church, William Twisse D.D. and prolocutor of the late assembly of divines.
London: printed for Matthew Keynton, 1656
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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.