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Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since
Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years since by Edward Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since by Edvvard Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock, 1638
MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE LORDS LAST SUPPER. › Chapter 19
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Natural Reason then being (notwithstanding any remainders of strength, or vigour in it) too impotent to discover the certainty of Gods Word, and unable alone to present the Gospel, as objectum credibile, and as the infallible Oracle of God. It remaineth that we consider by what further means this may be effected. And, in one word, there is a three-fold different, but subordinate causality requisite to the founding of this Assent.
Naturall Reason then being (notwithstanding any remainders of strength, or vigour in it) too impotent to discover the certainty of Gods Word, and unable alone to present the Gospell, as objectum credibile, and as the infallible Oracle of God. It remaineth that wee consider by what further meanes this may bee effected. And, in one word, there is a three-fold different, but subordinate causality requisite to the founding of this Assent.
The first is ministerial, dispositive, and introductory by Ecclesiastical dispensation, which is likewise two-fold. First, to those that are bred in her bosom, and matriculated by Baptism, and so from their infancy trained up to have a reverend and due esteem of her authority, there is her act of Tradition, ⟨p. 208⟩delivering to her children in this age,1 as she her self by a continued succession hath also received, this as an indubitate principle to be rested on, that holy Scriptures are the Word of God. Secondly, If the Church meet with such as are without her bosom, and so will not ascribe any thing to her maternal Authority in Testification and Tradition, except she can by strength of argument evince what she affirmeth, she is not in that case destitute of her Arma praelusoria, valid and sufficient arguments to make preparation in minds not extremely possessed with prejudice and perverseness for the entertaining of this principle.
The first is ministeriall, dispositive, and introductory by Ecclesiasticall dispensation, which is likewise two-fold. First, to those that are bred in her bosome, and matriculated by Baptisme, and so from their infancie trained up to have a reverend and due esteeme of her authority, there is her act of Tradition,