The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed

Object. But it is certain that God never spoke contradictions. Therefore if I find contradictions in the Scriptures, may I not rationally argue that they are not the Word of God?

Object. But it is certain that God never spok• contradictions. Therefore if I finde contradictions in the Scriptures, may I not rationally argue that they are not the Word of God?

Answ. Yes, if you could certainly and infallibly prove your Minor, that Scripture hath such contradictions. But that's not a thing that a sober man can be confident of proving: because all things that men understand not, may seem to them to have contradictions. And you have far more reason to suspect your own shallow understanding, then the Word. For those things as I have showed, may be easily reconcilable by others that understand, which seem most unreconcilable to you. Are you sure there can be no way of reconciliation, but you must know it? It's easy therefore to see that your Minor cannot possibly be proved.

Answ. Yes, if you could certainly and infallibly prove your Minor, that Scripture hath such contradictions. But that's not a thing that a sober man can be confident of proving: because all things that men understand not, may seem to them to have contradictions. And you have far more reason to suspect your own shallow understanding, then the Word. For those things as I have shewed, may be easily reconcileable by others that understand, which seem most unreconcileable to you. Are you sure there can be no way of reconciliation, but you must know it? It's easie therefore to see that your Minor cannot possibly be proved.

Yea it may be easily and certainly disproved, even by him that cannot reconcile those seeming contradictions: For [God attesteth no contradictions: but God attesteth the holy Scripture. Therefore