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

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^g be damned, because God hath said it, as if I saw him in his misery; and I know that the Penitent, believing, self-denying, and sin-mortifying-Christian, shall be^h saved because God hath said it, as certainly as if I saw him actually possessed of it already.

3. There is certainty of authority, or testimony, if the testimony bee Humane, it begets but a moral perswasion; 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 hee should bee God, and yet lye. God cannot lye;