The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

Let none say that this leaveth the Christian Religion, or the Scriptures uncertain: I have fully answered that elsewhere. 1. Christian Religion, that is, The Material parts of the Scripture on which our salvation lieth, hath much fuller evidence, than each particular Text or Canonical Book hath. And we need not regard the perverse zeal for the Scriptures of those men that would make all our Christianity as uncertain, as the authority of a particular Text or book is. And ⟨p. 65⟩therefore God in mercy hath so ordered it, that a thousand Texts may be uncertain to us, or not understood (no not by any or many Divines) and yet the Christian faith be not at all shaken, or ever the more uncertain for this: When as he that understandeth not or believeth not every essential Article of the faith, is no Christian. 2. And those books and Texts of Scripture, are fully certain by the subservient help of History and usage, which would be uncertain without them. Therefore it is the act of an enemy of the Scriptures, to cast away, and dispute against that History which is necessary to our knowledge of its certainty, and afterwards to plead that they who take in those necessary helps do make it uncertain: Even as if they should go about to prove that all writings are uncertain, and therefore that they make Christs doctrine uncertain, who rest upon the credit of writings, that is, the Sacred Scriptures.

Let none say that this leaveth the Christian Religion, or the Scriptures uncertain: I have fully answered that elsewhere. 1. Christian Religion, that is, The Material parts of the Scripture on which our salvation lyeth, hath much fuller evidence, than each particular Text or Canonical Book hath. And we need not regard the perverse zeal for the Scriptures of those men that would make all our Christianity as uncertain, as the authority of a particular Text or book is. And ⟨p. 65⟩therefore God in mercy hath so ordered it, that a thousand Texts may be uncertain to us, or not understood (no not by any or many Divines) and yet the Christian faith be not at all shaken, or ever the more uncertain for this: When as he that understandeth not or believeth not every essential Article of the faith, is no Christian. 2. And those books and Texts of Scripture, are fully certain by the subservient help of History and usage, which would be uncertain without them. Therefore it is the act of an enemy of the Scriptures, to cast away, and dispute against that History which is necessary to our knowledge of its certainty, and afterwards to plead that they who take in those necessary helps do make it uncertain: Even as if they should go about to prove that all writings are uncertain, and therefore that they make Christs doctrine uncertain, who rest upon the credit of writings, that is, the Sacred Scriptures.