The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

2. There is a certainty of science, or knowledge arising from first principles, received by all, that are proved by their own light, that cannot be demonstrated a priori, because there is nothing true before them; as a man cannot show you the Sun but by its own light; So I certainly know that both parts of a contradiction cannot be true; so I certainly know, that the whole is greater than any particular part.

2. There is a certainty of science, or knowledge arising from first principles, received by all, that are proved by their own light, that cannot bee demonstrated a priori, because there is nothing true before them; as a man cannot shew you the Sun but by its own light; So I certainly know that both parts of a contradiction cannot bee true; so I certainly know, that the whole is greater than any particular part.

3. There is certainty of authority, or testimony, if the testimony be Humane, it begets but a moral persuasion; for no humane testimony is of necessary verity, because truth is not necessarily, but contingently and mutably in the man that gives this testimony, and the testimony hath not its cogency or validity from it self, but from the qualifications of the person that bears the testimony, whence there is a gradual certainty in humane testimonies; only God is so necessarily true, that it should imply a contradiction that he should be God, and yet lye. God cannot lye; Tit. 1.2. So that a Divine testimony begets a certainty of divine Faith, for what God saith, I undoubtedly know to be true, because truth is^e essential to him; for if truth be necessary to the testator, the truth of the testimony must necessarily ⟨p. 307⟩be^f true, so I know that the impenitent unbelieving person that dyeth without grace, and an interest in Christ, shall certainly