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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70152	An ansvver to a popish pamphlet called the touch-stone of the reformed gospell. made speciallie out of themselves. By William Guild, D.D. and preacher of Gods word.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing G2202; ESTC R221580	101,567	372

upon this place And that Christ spake not of their owne doctrine but of Moses doctrine and the Law which they were to deliver The publication onlie being theirs but the doctrine the Lords as we see Math. 28. 19. The next place which hee bringeth is Luke 10. 16. where our Saviour sayeth to his Apostles Hee that heareth you heareth me To which my former answer may suffice Therefore also sayeth Ferus It is heerby evident that the Apostles themselves were to be heard in so farre only as they were Apostles that is Did Christs message and preached and taught what he commanded them but if they should teach otherwise or any doctrine contrarie to Christs then they were not Apostles but seducers sayeth he and therefore not to bee heard His third place is Math. 16. 19. where our Saviour sayeth to Peter What soever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven c. giving us to understand sayeth he that not onlie the bands of sinnes but all other knots difficulties in matters of faith are to be loosed by S. Peter and his successours To whom I answere 1. Their own Cardinall Cusanus speaketh thus de concord Cathol lib. 2. cap. 13. There was nothing said to Peter which was not said to all the rest Likewise for as it was said to Peter whatsoever thou shall bind on earth c. was it not said also to all the rest whatsoever yee bind on earth ● sayeth he whence it will follow that all knots and difficulties in matters of faith are to be loosed by the successours of all the rest of the Apostles wheresoever aswell as by S. Peter's pretended successours Next if by loosing the solving of all doubts and difficulties in matters of faith bee meaned then by binding which is cōtrar to loosing the making of knots difficulties in matters of faith must be meaned whernone were before which is absurd to affirme And which when Peter's successours doth on earth God must also do the same in heaven As Cardinall Cusanus sayth Epist 2. ad Bohemos p 838. That when the Church changeth her judgement God also changeth his Which is open blasphemy 3 THat the Scriptures ar easie to be understood and therefore none ought to be restrained from reading them VVHich sayeth hee is contrary to the expresse words of 2. Pet. 3. 16. Where Peter speaking of Pauls Epistles sayeth In which are some thinges hard to bee understood To which I answere 1. That by saying some thinges ar hard to bee understood it followeth that the rest which is the greater part are not hard but easie to bee understood For the exception of some onlie cleareth the rest from obscuritie therfore from the greater part of the Scripture easie to be understood which concerne faith manners necessary to salvation wee rather conclude the plainnesse of Scripture● that people should reade the same then because some thinges are hard to be understood to put obscuritie upon the whole Scripture and therefore to debarre people frō reading thereof Cheiflie seing not onely Augustin lib. 2. de doctr Christ cap. 9. But Bellarmin also consenting to Augustins words lib. 4. de verbo cap. 11. § ultimo testifieth That all doctrines which are simplie necessary for all men to salvation are plainlie set downe in scripture wher upon speaking to the people in his 55. sermon de tempore hee sayeth Neither let it suffice you that yee heare the holie Scriptures read in the Church but also in your own houses either reade thē your selves or desire others to reade them And so likewise sayth Chrisostome con 32. de Lazaro hom 2. in Math. The next place which he bringes is Act. 8. 30. where Philip sayeth to the Eunuch Vnderstandeth thou what thou readeth who said how can I without a guide Whereunto I answere 1. This place was a prophecie and such are hard to be understood till they be fulfilled and the Eunuch was a Proselyte and a Novice onelie in religion therefore from one place which was propheticall and dark to a Novice in religion to conclude that the Scriptures in whole are dark obscure and therefore not to bee read by people is an absurd consequence Yea this place rather maketh against papists seing the Eunuchs practise heere was reading of the Scripture which Philip did not reprehend in him as popish Priests would haue done but only explaineth unto him the Prophesie of whom it was meaned and that it was fulfilled by Christs suffering and so maketh him thereby to bee a Christian convert the occasion of which benefit the reading of the Scripture did afford unto him Wherupon sayeth their owne Carthusian Great was the care of that Heathen man sayeth hee and his diligence condemneth our negligence in learning holie Scriptures Therefore also Chrisostome giveth this directiō to people in reading holy scriptures saying in his 10. homilie on Iohn That which is easie to be understood get by heart and these things that are obscure reade thē over often and if by doing so you cannot findout the meaning go to thy teacher The third place which he brings is Luke 24. 25. where Christ expoundeth to his Disciples al things concerning himselfe To which I answere that this maketh nothing against peoples reading of scripture commanded by Christ himselse Iohn 5. 39. injoyned by the Apostle Eph. 6. 17. Coloss 3. 16. and for which Timothy was commended 2. Tim. 3 15. That from a childe he had knowne the scriptures but only showeth that hard places specially such as prophecies are to be expouned to people as Christ did heere to his disciples as the former place Act. 8. 30. and that speach of Chrisostome showeth The fourth place which he adduceth is Revel 5. 1. concerning the sealed booke which none was able to open and which this pamphleter would have to be the booke of scripture whereunto I will onely answere in the Iesuit Ribera's words on that place saying The prophecie of these things which shall fall out in the last times is here only meaned as Andrew Archbishope of Caesarea expoundeth it sayeth hee proveth that hereby the book of the scripture cannot be meaned because evē then Iohn saw this book sealed whē this revelation was made unto him before which time most of the Apostles were dead So that if by this sealed booke the scripture were understood then it would follow sayeth he that the rery Apostles upon whom the holie ghost descended in their time understood not the scripture but it was sealed even to Peter and Paull and to the rest who died before this revelation was made unto Iohn which were absurd to say But I cannot but marvell that he should bring so manyplaces of scripture to prove that people should not be permitted to reade the scripture because of the obscurity thereof seing that their late and famous Bishope Espenseus on Titus 2. testifieth that the with-holding of the scripture from the people was neither in the Apostles times or