assertest

English

Verb

assertest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of assert
   • 1660, Samuel Fisher, Rusticus ad Academicos in Exercitationibus Expostulatoriis, Apologeticis Quatuor. The Rustick’s Alarm to the Rabbies: or, The Country Correcting the Vniversity, and Clergy, and (Not Without Good Cause) Contesting for the Truth, Against the Nursing-Mothers, and Their Children. […], […] Robert Wilson […], page 129:

     […] for theſe thy brethren (though erring with thee, in ſtiling them the Word) tell thee of another (not humane onely) but Divine Testimony or evidence, that may be and is needful to be granted, and that God is willing to and doth alſo grant of the Scriptures being what they call it, beſide that which thou here ſo abſolutely aſſerteſt as the onely one that muſt or can be afforded, viz. the Teſtimony of the Spirit of God in the heart, and not that of the Scripture alone concerning it ſelf, or of the holy Spirit ſpeaking without us ad extra onely in the Scripture, which is the dream wherein thou draweſt aside not onely from the truth, but alſo (if it were a truth that the Letter is G ds Word) from the joynt Teſtimony of thy fellow Teſtifiers to it, […]

   • a. 1663, Edward Burrough, The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, That True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, Who Dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God, in the City of London, the Fourteenth of the Twelfth Moneth, 1662, Ellis Hookes, published 1672, page 27:

     […] all the Scriptures we own and bear witneſs unto, by that Spirit from which they were ſpoken; but thee and thy ſpirit we deny, for both you and it is of the Devil; and thou haſt devilliſhly added thy imaginations upon them, and wreſted them, which I ſhall not now mention, becauſe I do deny the thing which thou aſſerteſt, for its an abſolute lye, and do ſay unto thee, God will reward thee thou ſlanderous tongue: and whereas further thou ſayest, [in our perfection, we deny any man, being under frailty, or capableneſs to ſin, to be of our communion.]

   • 1697, John Norris, Treatises upon Several Subjects, Formerly Printed Singly, Now Collected into One Volume, London: […] S. Manship […], page 419:

     If the Light, as thou aſſerteſt, doth not formally enlighten or inſtruct, but when carefully attended to and conſulted, how then ſhould it quicken and raiſe the Soul from Death to Life, according to the multiplied experience of Holy David?