An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning, Title page – To the reader
AN ANSVVERE to M.I. Forbes of Corse, His peaceable Warning.
2. Cor. 11.14.15.
14. And no marvell, for Sathan himselfe is transformed into an Angell of light.
15. Therefore there is no great thing, if his Ministers also bee transformed, as the Ministers of righteousnesse, whose ends shall bee according to their workes.
Printed, Anno Dom. 1638.
TO THE READER.
I Doe not believe (good Reader) that any judicious man is perswaded, that our Confession of Faith, solemnely sworne and subscribed by persons of all rankes throughout the whole Kingdome, is worne out of date, for any thing hee hath seene in M. I. F. of Corse his late Pamphlet: Yet lest any of weake judgment give credite to his allegations, I have undertaken to cleare the Trueth for thy farther information and their confirmation, Hee hath entituled it, A peaceable Warning, whereas it tendeth to division, & to annihilate the authoritie of that generall Confession sworne and subscribed universally now the third time. Ieremie complaineth▪ that from the Prophet to the Priest everie one dealeth falsly: Icr. 3.11.for they have healed the hurt of my daughter slightly, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace. So now many pretend a care for the peace of the Kirk, when they intend no peace farther than their opinions shal bee followed, and the course they have layed down to themselves. It is true, hee hath disclamed what hee hath written amisse, or to the offence of any in his former copies spread abroad in writ. But is that a sufficient satisfaction for these vile imputations of rebellion, sedition, disobedience, refractarinesse, temeritie, unduetifulnesse to Ministers, and reproching them as blind guides. Howsoever hee now seemeth more modest, yet you may take up of what spirit hee is. But I wil not, nor need not make Apologie, but proceed to my answere to this Copie, directing the same to the Author himselfe.