The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed

13. And it somewhat addeth to this disease, That man is conscious of deceitfulness in himself, and from thence •s apt to suspect all others. B• cause he finds himself both fallible and fallacious, he is ready to think that God himself is so too: For corrupt man is prone to question, whether there be any higher virtue, then he hath experience of in himself.

13. And it somew•at addeth to this disease, That man is conscious of de•e•tfulness in himself, and from thence •s apt to suspect all others. B• cause he findes himself both fallible and fallacious, he is ready to think that God himself is so too: For corrupt man is prone to question, whe•her there be any higher vertue, then he hath experience of in himself.

14. Also it is a great occasion of this sin of Infidelity and Arrogancy, and questioning all that men do not understand, that they know not the true nature of the Christian State and Life, and build not in the order that Christ hath prescribed them. Christs method is this, That they should first understand and believe those Essentials of Christianity, without which there is no Salvation; and then engage themselves to learn of him as his Disciples; and so to set themselves to School to him, and live under his teaching, that they may know by degrees, the rest of his will. And his teaching is jointly by his Word, Ministers, and Spirit. Men must first lay the Foundation in an explicit faith, and hold to those Fundamentals as of infallible certainty, and not expect to know the rest in a moment, nor without much diligence and patience, but wait on Christ in the Condition of Disciples, to learn all the rest. All this is expressed in Christs Commission to his Apostles, Matth. 28. 19