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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11588	A briefe exposition vvith notes, vpon the second epistle to the Thessalonians. By VVilliam Sclater Doctor of Diuinitie, and minister of Pitmister in Summerset.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1627 (1627)	STC 21830; ESTC S116803	223,255	316

Tim. 3.15 17 wise to saluation 2 to furnish the man of God the Minister to euery good worke of his calling 3 Wherefore wee are limited a Isai 8.20 to Law and Testimony 4 Wherefore also amongst fathers the Argument is of force It s not written therefore not matter of necessary faith or practise Scriptum doceat Hermogenis officina aut timeat vae illud c. Tertullian Adoro Scripturae plenitudinem In his quae apertè posita sunt in Scripturâ continentur ea omnia quae continent fidem moresque viuendi Austin alibi Credo quòd etiam hinc diuinorum Eloquiorum clarissima Authoritas esset si homo illud sine dispendio promissae salutis ignorare non posset Caetera vide supra Contents of Scripture you must vnderstand not onely what is expressed in so many letters and syllables but whatsoeuer may thence by manifest and necessary consequence be deduced sweetly b Lib. 5. de Theologid Nazianzen Quaedam sunt dicuntur in Scripturis quaedam verò sunt in Scripturis tametsi non dicuntur As that the father is vnbegotten is not expressed in so many syllables in Scripture yet is collected from what is written Thus informe your selues 1 Where generals are deliuered there are all particulars comprised in those generals intentionally deliuered because generals comprehend their particulars 2 Where principles and causes are deliuered there effects are also intended as being vertually contained in their principles 3 Where one equall is taught all of like reason is taught quia parium par ratio and where is par ratio there is par lex where is like reason there is like law So take contents of Scripture no instance of any point of necessary or but conuenient faith and practise can be giuen but what is deliuered in the written word As to this Scripture to children it will appeare to afford no Argument for their conclusion for what when it s yeelded they must hold fast not onely what Paul wrote in his Epistles but those things also which he taught them by liuely voice followes it thence that something of necessary faith taught in no Scripture Resp What if those other things taught by word were contained in other Scriptures then though as well written as not written in these Epistles yet no other thing then was written Act. 26.22 Testifying and saying nothing else but what Prophets and Moses spake should come to passe Else how Paul taught many things which he wrote not Resp Who doubts as other Apostles and Prophets but as Augustine what they taught and wrote not belonged rather ad vbertatem Cognitionis then ad Authoritatem Religionis Obiect But these of necessary obseruation Resp I yeeld it yet followes not the generall conclusion therefore something necessary not contained in any Scripture Pauls Epistles to Thessalonians are not all Pauls Epistles much lesse all Scripture There is Moses Prophets Euangelists and other holy men that wrote as they were c 2 Pet. 1.21 inspired by the holy Ghost in any of whose writings if Pauls dictates were contained it sufficeth to shew inualidity of the inference The paralogisme is too childish to deceiue wise men q.d. something of necessary faith was taught by Iames which is not contained in his Epistle as the Incarnation Passion Resurrection of our Sauiour Ergo No Scripture containes these necessary Articles of faith or Ergo something is of necessary faith which is not comprised in Iames his Epistle which who doubts and yet stands the conclusion firme Nothing is of necessary faith or practise but what is contained in Scriptures vniuersally taken we returne to Pauls purpose and heede his aduise as most necessary and anaileable to preuent seducement by Antichrist and other Heretiques to keepe vs close without sweruing to Propheticall and Apostolicall doctrine that is a a 2 Pet. 1.19 most sure word there while we hold vs we are safe compare 1 Tim. 6.3 4 20 21. 2 Timo. 1.13 14. and 3.14 15. Titus 3.9 Galat. 1.8 9. True but this doctrine was in part tradita onely not written Resp 1 Then was Irenaeus and other ancients deceiued whose sentence is that they worte the materials of what they preached and left them so to bee rule of faith 2 Yet who so could assure mee of any thing taught by Paul which hee wrote not I should not deny it greatest reuerence and credit Beatius est dare quàm accipere though I read not in Euangelicall storie yet I reuerence as Christs speach because Luke hath recorded it And that prophecie of Enoch mentioned by Saint Iude I doubt not to haue beene his prophecie But as to the Cardinals rules to trie Apostolicall traditions I finde them vncertaine For how will he assure mee That any the points betwixt vs controuersed and pretended to haue foundation vpon Apostolicall tradition were vniuerfally receiued by the whole Church When all ages haue afforded men most Orthodoxe that haue otherwise belieued and practised Once I am sure what they wrote is theirs what else they spake no authoritie can ascertaine me 3 The rule is certaine they deliuered nothing doctrinall to bee receiued that is contrariant to what they wrote for did not the same spirit guide their tongue that their pen What now When I finde direct or consequentiall repugnancie and contradiction twixt their pretended traditions and writings Must I thinke such traditions Apostolicall Heed what is deliuered by Apostles and Prophets sith vpon no certainetie thou canst be resolued except by their writings what they deliuer to be obserued there to hold thee fast without declining in all matter of faith and morall practise Vse 1 Lord that foretimes had beene so prouidently heedfull How doe I perswade my selfe Antichrist had beene yet to seeke his faith and religion Else so palpable in heresie and superstition as neuer to conuey his iniquitie in mysterie But whiles men thought to mend by adding to written prescripts and ouercredulously gaue way to titles Apostolicall withall grew wanton and luxuriant in glossing and inferring from the sacred text mixing withall their Philosophicall conceits and language ouer hyperbolicall vnwittingly they hatcht that Cockatrice egge whereout hath issued the Serpent of Papisme In euery age inclinations of doctrine are well obserued by the century-writers out of which rags of Fathers heedlesse opinions they haue patcht vs vp their Poperie Yet would God wee could by that harme learne caution I haue long obserued the c Apoe 11.3 two witnesses to Prophecie in sackcloth And learning of higher straine then what simplicitie of Scriptures affords to bee much affected by professed diuines Fathers who saue he that knowes them not but reuerenceth But it s strange when Saint Paul must be forced to accord with Saint Augustine else scarcely bee deemed Authentique Harsh when liberty is not permitted with reason and saluá reuerentia to dissent from their opinions Saint Augustine desired not to be so read nor did himselfe so read others Too too shamefull when