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.
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- 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.
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- Guild, William, 1586-1657.
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- Aberdene :: Printed by Iames Brown,
- 1656.
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- Heigham, John, fl. 1639. -- Touch-stone of the reformed gospel -- Early works to 1800.
- Anti-Catholicism -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70152.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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VVHich he sayeth is contrary to Iohn 20. 23. where it is said, Whose sinnes yee forgive are for∣given them, and Math. 9. 8. wher it is said, When the multitude saw it, they marvelled & glorified God which had given such power to men. To which I answere, that this place of Iohn, proveth onlie a Ministeriall power given by Christ to his Apo∣stles and their successours, which we deny not, and which his owne words also on Math. 9. 8. doth only grant unto them, saying, Which tho they (to wit the multitude) knew to appertaine to God onlie by nature, yet they perceived that it might be done by mans Ministrie on earth.
Wherfore we say 1. with Ambrose (lib. 3. desp. Sancto c. 19. Men (says he) doeth onlie afford their Ministrie to the remission of sinnes, but they exer∣cise not any right of authoritie. Istiro∣gant,
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Divinitas donat (sayeth hee) that is, They seeke it, but God giveth it, 2. Lombard also their Master of sentences teacheth, how God only forgiveth sinnes properlie, & men Ministeriallie, saying, lib. 4. sent. dist. 18. God onlie remitteth and re∣taineth sinnes, and yet he hath given power to the Church to do so, but Hee remitteth and retaineth otherwise than the Church. For he remitteth sins on∣lie by himself (sayeth he) because he purgeth the soule from the inward spot thereof, and delivereth it from the debt of eternall death. But he hath not gi∣ven this power to Priests, notwithstan∣ding, he hath given them power of bin∣ding and loosing, that is, (sayeth he) of declaring that men ar bound or loo∣sed, as the Priest declareth the Leper to be cleane, whom first the Lord had cu∣red and made cleane. And therefore this is their Commission to preach