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Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…
Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life of Christ. Being the substance of several sermons preached at Lincolns Inn: by Edward Reynolds, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life of Christ. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne: by Edward Reynoldes, preacher to that honourable society, and late fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostocke, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again I demand, How doth it appear unto me, that the Judgment of the Church is infallible, when it alone is the warrant of my Faith? That this is it self no principle, nor to the light of natural reason primo intuit• manifest ex evidentia terminorum, is most certain. For that this company of men should not err, when other companies of men may err, cannot possibly be immediately and per see evident, since there must first needs apriori be discovered some internal difference between those men, from whence, as from an antecedent principle, this difference of erring or not erring must needs grow.
Againe I demaund, How doth it appeare unto mee, that the Iudgment of the Church is infallible, when it alone is the warrant of my Faith? That this is it selfe no principle, nor to the light of naturall reason primo intuit• manifest ex evidentia terminorum, is most certaine. For that this company of men should not erre, when other companies of men may erre, cannot possibly be immediate•y and por se evident, since there must first needs apriori be discovered some internall difference betweene those men, from whence, as from an antecedent principle, this difference of erring or not erring must needes grow.
Now then I demand, what is that whereby I do assent unto this proposition (in case it were true) That the Church cannot err? The Church it self it cannot be, since nothing bears record of it self, and if it should, the proof would be more ridiculous then the opinion, being but idem per idem, and petitio quaestionis. Above the Church a Priori there is not any light but the scriptures and the spirit. Therefore needs by these must I assent unto that one proposition at least. And if unto that by these, why then by the same light may I not assent unto all other divine truths, since evident it is, that the same light which enables me rightly to apprehend one object, is sufficient also to any other, for which a lesser light then that is presumed to suffice? So then a true faith hath its evidence and certainty grounded upon the Authority of the word, as the instrument, and of the spirit of God raising and quickening the soul to attend, and acknowledge