Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

In this point, I have let some passages fall by the way, which may serve to discover and dissolve the vanity and weakness of that Dilemma, wherein Bellarmine plays the wilful egregious Sophister: it runs thus:

In this point, I haue let some passages fall by the way, which may serue to discouer and dissolue the vanity and weakenesse of that Dilemma, wherein Bellarmine playes the wilfull egregious Sophister: it runs thus:

The Protestants teach, saith he, that a man is justified by special ¹faith, whereby he persuadeth himself, that he is just. Now then he reasoneth thus: When I begin to believe that I am just, I am either just or unjust. If just, then I am not justified by faith, by which I believe my self to be just, because this faith is after my justification. If unjust, then this faith is false, and so a man should be justified by a lye.

The Protestants teach, saith he, that a man is iustified by speciall ¹faith, whereby he perswadeth himselfe, that he is iust. Now then he reasoneth thus: When I begin to beleeue that I am iust, I am either iust or vniust. If iust, then I am not iustified by faith, by which I beleeue my selfe to bee iust, because this faith is after my iustification. If vniust, then this faith is false, and so a man should be iustified by a lye.

1. 1Bell. de notis Ecclesiae, cap. 11▪ Sect. Sectarij nostri temporis.]