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A95414	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.	Twisse, William, 1578?-1646.	1656 (1656)	Wing T3424; Thomason E1698_2; ESTC R209446	47,921	167

their opposites so I finde wnat of judgment in this Author who puts it upon a mans Oath to clear himself of going against his conscience in the Tenets he maintaineth for he that saith a thing against his conscience is next door by to the swearing of it But these are such idle and addle conceits that it causeth no small indignation in me to wast precious time in them which might be better spent on worthier subjects Disc Obj. 3. It may be objected Perhaps they may be forestalled with preconceived opinions Ans I answer How You will say they accustome themselves from their cradles to their own Religion forsaking the Bible and other Books I answer This is true in Popery but not in Calvinists and others which urge the Bible more than we do These have more freedom than we have to trie other Religions Do not the children of the Lutherans also inure themselves to trie Religion from their childhood Do they learn a Popish or Calvinisticall Catechism before they have learned a Lutheran one Is not that a mans Religion to which he accustoms himself How doth a child or a Lay-man that hath been taught no Religion know what is Lutheranism or Calvinism Doth he not take that Religion which is first offered to him Besides no fore-conceited Opinion is so fast rooted but that it will give place to clear demonstrations which is confessed among all Therefore we shall never be able to confute any Religion with the Objection of fore-conceived opinions What shall I say more Doe other Religions want civill learning There are found amongst them sufficiently 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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Faith of bringing in sense to the Scriptures and such other rules cannot be unknown to them Consid Who is not forestalled with preconceived opinions Is not every one brought up in the Religion of his Parents which yet breeds but a naturall complying with it be it the best Religion untill God by his Spirit of Regeneration opens their eyes to apprehend the power of God and the wisdom of God therein without which in their most zealous profession of it for their fathers sake and their education sake they will prove no better than hypocrites and factious rather than conscionable in the maintenance of it which yet may be done with as great strength of learning as a naturall man is capable of And though it be a false way wherein they have been brought up and bred and they as zealous and factious in maintaining it as ever Saul was who made havock of the Church and entred into every house and drew out both men and women and put them in prison yet the Lord in the middest of his persecutions met with him in the way and confounded him and struck him with blindness naturall to minde him thereby of his blindness spirituall but afterwards opened his eyes and brought him out of darkness unto light and made him not onely a Professor of that way of the Gospell which before he persecuted but a famous Preacher of it also even the great Doctor of the Gentiles So saith Peter of the Jewes to whom hee wrote that they were redeemed from their vain consersation received by Tradition of their Fathers And as this was true of the Jewes so of the Gentiles also as Jeremiah prophesied Jer. 16.19 The Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the world and shall say surely our fore-fathers have inherited lies and vanity wherein there was no profit And Isaiah also I have been sought of them that asked not I was found of them that sought me not I said Behold me behold me to a Nation that was not called by my Name Some while the Apostles and Evangelists abstained from preaching to the Gentles and Peter was called in question for going in and preaching Christ unto the Gentiles Act. 11.19 And they that were scattered abroad because of the persecution that arose about Stephen went throughout till they came unto Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the Word to no man but the Jews only v. 20. Now some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene which when they were come to Antioch spoke unto the Grecians and preached the Lord Jesus v. 21. And the hand of the Lord was with them so that a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. See how suddenly they turned from Idolls to serve the living God quite contrary to the Traditions received of their fore-fathers So true is that of Leo Vbi Deus Magister est quam citò dissitur quod docetur So that these were as little trained up in the Bible and other Books of Christian Religion as the Papists yea and far less Any man hath freedom to try other Religions have not we Christians freedom to try the Religion of the Jews and of the Turks and God abandons some to turn Turks and Papists have liberty to try our Protestant Religion Vergerius did so a Popish Bishop with a purpose to refute it but the hand of God was with him to open his eyes as with Saul and he turned Protestant By these words Calvinists and others urge the Bible more than we doe it appears this Author is no Calvinist so by the words following Do not the children of the Lutherans also inure themselves to their Religion from their childhood also do argue that this Author is no Lutheran so that what to make of him I know not for he would not seem to be a Papist it seems he is yet to choose his Religion And yet if this course of his be serious it is considerable but he needs not go far for an Answer to so superficiary a Discourse as this It is true naturally every one is apt to be of the Religion he received of his Fathers but without illumination divine though he be in the right way yet shall he have no comfortable apprehension of it and by illumination divine Saul of a Persecutor shall become a Preacher and the Gentiles shall have their eyes opened and be brought out of darkness into light and from the power of Satan unto God though blindness come upon Israel as they have been held under it now for 1600.