A96223:143
The answer of the Assembly of DivinesThe ansvver of the Assembly of Divines
The answer of the Assembly of Divines by authority of Parliament now sitting at Westminster. Unto the reasons given in to this Assembly by the Dissenting Brethren, of their not bringing in a model of their way. And since published in print, under the title of A copy of a remonstrance. Which answer was humbly presented to the Right Honourable the House of Peers assembled in Parliament. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that this answer be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown, cler. Parliamentorum.The ansvver of the Assembly of Divines by authority of Parliament now sitting at Westminster. Unto the reasons given in to this Assembly by the Dissenting Brethren, of their not bringing in a model of their way. And since published in print, under the title of A copy of a remonstrance. Which answer was humbly presented to the Right Honorable the House of Peers assembled in Parliament. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that this answer be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown, cler. Parliamentorum.
London: printed by John Field for Ralph Smith, 1646
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XXIII. If what they would now bring in, should be undertaken to be answered by the Assembly: yet they are sensible of so much remediless prejudice, by being bound from replying again, as makes them justly wary.
XXIII. If what they would now bring in, should be undertaken to be answered by the Assembly: yet they are sensible of so much remedilesse prejudice, by being bound from replying again, as makes them justly wary.
And surely if what they should now give in, be in their own power (as afterwards they say it is; Although our former Reasons given in former Disputes to both Houses, ••••rding to their Ordinance were therefore not our own, but to be disposed of by their appointment: yet what we might now give in, we conceive to be in our own power.)
And surely if what they should now give in, be in their own power (as afterwards they say it is; Although our former Reasons given in former Disputes to both Houses, ••••rding to their Ordinance were therefore not our own, but to be disposed of by their appoinment: yet what we might now give in, we conceive to be in our own power.)
If this can be made good, that it is in their own power, viz. In their power to Reply, then is their fear of being prejudiced by being bound up from replying, but pretended: But if there be indeed any such Restraint, it is from the Honourable Houses, not from us: whose Wisdom and Piety we doubt not will provide, that controversies shall not be lengthened to eternity, whatsoever some have threatened; nor doth it stand with reason and equity, that they who are first heard in their own cause, should speak last also. If by being in their own power, they mean in their own power to divulge or to publish as it seems by the publishing of what they now gave in that they thought so indeed: But to this we Answer, that there is no greater obligation on them in this kind, then is on the whole Assembly, and they have no Reason to complain of that to us.