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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88693	Suspension reviewed, stated, cleered and setled upon plain scripture-proof. Agreeable to the former and late constitutions of the Protestant Church of England and other reformed churches. Wherein (defending a private sheet occasionally written by the author upon this subject, against a publique pretended refutation of the same, by Mr W. in his book, entituled, Suspension discussed.) Many important points are handled; sundry whereof are shortly mentioned in the following page. Together with a discourse concering private baptisme, inserted in the epistle dedicatory. / By Samuel Langley, R.S. in the county palatine of Chester.	Langley, Samuel, d. 1694.	1658 (1658)	Wing L405; Thomason E1823_2; ESTC R209804	201,826	263

mean the light of solid Reason he saith here no more but this q. d. we look on no deductions from Scripture as obligatory to us unless we doe rationally discern that they are right deductions And this suits with a passage he hath a little after The Scriptures saith he were given as a sufficient and infallible Rule for the government of the whole Church so that any deduction not conformable thereunto must either be rejected as erroneous or suspected as impertinent and needlesse 2. But I submit it to the impartial Reader whether his former words do not fairly intimate q. d. That we are not obliged by consequential deductions from Scripture unless the Scripture also cleerely reveale that consequence and then indeed it ceaseth to be a deduction only For he explaines himselfe in the next words viz. For cleere Revelations of holy Scripture are the genuine principles into which our faith is resolved that by cleere Revelations he meanes the revelations of holy Scripture not the reason whereby we draw just deductions from the Scripture I desire the Reader to take Mr. W. in the most favourable sense his words are capable of But I thought meet to disclaime this latter sense least the Quakers should thinke we complyed with them in denying consequences from Scripture to be obligatory to us And the rather because I find that was a studied trick the Papists have long since taught their disciples to put upon us viz to require us to prove all we held by expresse Scriptures because we ground all the points of our Religion upon the Scriptures and not on the authority of the Church And by such like crotchets of denying syllogismes disputing by Queries c. Some of the Papists have bragged they would undertake to make a Cobler able to put the most learned Ministers of France to a non plus As may be seene with the whole Popish plot now acted in England with a little necessary variation of the method discovered in that little but very learned tract of D. Chaloner then Principal of Alban Hall in Oxford entituled Credo Ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam Printed at London 1638. long before the name of a Quaker was heard of in England and therefore appeares not devised to make them odious p. 134 135 160 161 162 c. Where he shewes the Popish designe out of their own Records agreed upon viz. to send Missionaries as they themselves called them culd out of all orders and Universities who dispersing themselves shall after Sermon ended by this method blanke the Ministers of the reformed side The which may not be unprofitable to have observed in reference to our present times and the behaviour of divers under the names of Quakers Seekers c. among us 16 M. W. addes in the page last quoted And for the sense of obscure places of Scripture we prescrre Catholique Expositions before any mans private sense or Interpretation accommodated or applyed to favour his own or his modern parties pretension For answer to this see the last quoted Author Credo Ecclesiam sanctam c. part 1. § 7. p. 150 151. And Bishop Usher in his answer to a challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland Edit London 1625. p. 32 33 34. Where he shewes that divers of the Papists themselves grant what they blame in us that a man may without arrogance dissent in interpretation of Scripture from what is given by the most of the Doctors before He quotes Fisher the Jesuite confessing that it cannot be obscure to any that many things as well in the Gospels as in the rest of the Scriptures are now more exquisitly discussed by latter wits and more cleerly understood then they have been heretofore And Cardinal Cajetan in the beginning of his Commentaries upon Moses advising the Reader not to loath the new sense of the holy Scripture for this that it dissenteth from the ancient Doctors but to search more exactly the text and context and if he finde it agree to praise God that hath not tyed the exposition of the Scriptures to the senses of the ancient Doctors As for that passage Mr. W. addes Accommodated to favour his own or his modern parties pretension it s only a begging the thing in question All acknowledge that its a wrong to interpret the Scripture in favour of an old or new errour But none will grant his own interpretation is accommodated to an errour But if Mr. W. would have kept to his own Rule he hath here given he would not have set 1 Cor. 9. 3 4. upon the rack in his Title page for the countenancing the designe of his discourse following When as those words he there sets downe Mine answer to them that examine me is this are by the stream of Interpreters I have seene referred to the preceding words v. 3. q. d. mine apology to them who question my Apostleship is this Am I not an Apostle to you doubtless I am For the seale of my Apostleship are yee in the Lord. Not to the following words as he hath by corrupting the text with his viz. inserted before Have we not power to eate and to drinke And if it should referre to the subsequent words Mine apology to them who examine mee is this have we not power to eat and to drinke have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as well as other Apostles c What then is that passage Have we not power to eat or to drinke to sacramental eating or drinking Like as much as paveant illi had to the excusing the Priest from paving Over the head of this quotation he tells us he published his book for the satisfaction of weaker consciences But what ever he thought of their consciences me thinkes he presumed of their strong stomacks and sharp set that he can proffer them such a crude morsel in the first messe a bad omen it s counted to stumble at his own threshold and it brings to minde what D. Whitaker Regius professor sometimes of Cambridge in his defence of his Answer to Campions Reasons said to Duraeus lib. 1. de sacris literis Nihil est quod metuam me tu mihi scripturarum possessionem cripias praesertim cum scripturis aut rarò admodum utaris aut imperitè ac pueriliter abutaris 17 Mr. W. it may be will not take it well if I should neglect the ornaments of his book rather then we should fall out about this I will adventure upon the Readers patience to insert some of them here especially the fine liveries he is pleased to cloath me his meanest servant with Magisterial rashness p. 8. You delude the Countrey with a loud cry p. 9. Specious cheat p. 21. And thus you may see what conscience it is that you pretend to p. 22. Majestical severity Bead roll of words as if you would charm the senses of the vulgar with your rare skill in Logick p. 30. A meere sophister p. 46. Your heterodoxal brownisme p. 53. Your malicious slander p. 72.