A treatise of the vvritten VVord of God. Composed in Latin, by the Reuerend Father Iames Gordon Huntley of Scotland, Doctour of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English, by I. L. of the same Society. The first part of the first controuersy
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A treatise of the vvritten VVord of God. Composed in Latin, by the Reuerend Father Iames Gordon Huntley of Scotland, Doctour of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English, by I. L. of the same Society. The first part of the first controuersy
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Gordon, James, 1541-1620.
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[Saint-Omer :: Printed at the English College Press],
M.DC.XIV [1614]
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Bible -- Use -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XI.
That the written Word is no fit Iudge of
Controuersies, concerning matters
of fayth.
OVR Aduersaries in the begin∣ning
did stifly mayntaine that
the holy Scripture was to be the
only iudge of all Controuersies
which arise in matters of fayth, but
when they were told, that to make the
Scripture a iudge was as much as to say,
the Scripture did heare, speake, & liue, for
all these appertayne to a iudge, & that no∣thing
is more vnreasonable thē to assigne
such a iudge of Controuersies, as can ney∣ther
heare, nor speake, but is vtterly voyd
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of l••••e; changing their opinion. They be∣gin
now to ••ay that the Scripture is im∣properly
called a iudge, and that to speake
properly, the holy Ghost only is the
iudge. And thus hauing for many
yeares togeather spoken vnproperly, now
a•• last they fly to the holy Ghost, of
whome there is no doubt, but that he is
the supreme iudge of all.
2. But they should haue added fur∣ther
that the holy Ghost at this tyme
doth not immediatly propose any new
reuelations to any particuler man concer∣ning
points of fayth, but only proposeth
veri••ies already reuealed, and that by
the mouth of the Church, as shalbe shewed
heereafter in the next Controuersy where
we shall haue occasion to say more of this
matter. Whosoeuer therefore contemneth
the iudgment of the Church, in so doing,
he despiseth the iudgment of Christ, and of
the holy Ghost, for Christ himselfe saith,
he that despyseth you, despyseth me. Neyther
doth the holy Ghost speake by the Scri∣pture
but when it is rightly vnderstood,
which is neuer but when we imbrace the
interpretation of the Catholike Church,
as we haue already shewed in the fourth
Chapter.