A26869:97
The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed
The arrogancy of reason against divine revelations, repressed, or, Proud ignorance the cause of infidelity, and of mens quarrelling with the word of God
London: printed by T.N. for Tho. Underhil, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. Consider, What a stream of experience do you sin against in this Arrogancy. Doth not every Study that you fall upon, and every days business that you are engaged in, most plainly discover the weakness of your understandings? Why else do you learn no faster, and know no more? Why are you not yet absolute masters in all Sciences and Arts? Yea why are you so defective in all? And yet will you presume to dispute with God, and reject his Truths as unreasonable, after all this experience of your own infirmity, and of your unfitness for works that are so much lower?
4. Consider, What a stream of experience do you sin against in this Arrogancy. Doth not every Study that you fall upon, and every days business that you are engaged in, most plainly discover the weakness of your understandings? Why else do you learn no faster, and know no more? Why are you not yet absolnte masters in all Sciences and Arts? Yea why are you so defective in all? And yet will you presume to dispute with God, and reject his Truths as unreasonable, after all this experience of your own infirmity, and of your unfitness for works that are so much lower?
5. Consider, Whether by this sinful Arrogancy you do not equal your understandings with Gods? For if you must be able to see the Reason of all his Truths and ways, and will control them because you see not the reason of them, doth not this imply that you suppose your self to equal him in understanding? And what greater madness can you be guilty of, then such a conceit? So also when you quarrel with the word as if it contained things that are unrighteous, and strengthen your unbelief by such conceits, what do you but say, that you are more righteous then God? Oh think not that the foolishness of man is wiser then God, or that our darkness is comparable to his incomprehensible light, or our unrighteousness to his perfect Justice; or that we are fit Judges of these his perfections. Hear that voice that Eli•haz heard, from the Spirit that passed before him in the Visions of the night, Job 4. 13, 14, 15, ⟨p. 53⟩