An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 41. But this last is a mixed act, and a rational Conclusion helped by Grace, whereof the major only is de fide [He that believeth is justified] but not the Minor [I believe.] Therefore we usually call it a fruit of Faith.

§. 41. But this last is a mixt act, and a rational Conclusion helped by Grace, whereof the major only is de fide [He that believeth is justified] but not the Minor [I believe.] Therefore we usually call it a fruit of Faith.

§. 42. Some incautious Divines in the heat of Dispute do indeed say, That it is de fide divina, or a Divine Word, that [I am a true Believer.] And Chamier too unhappily goeth about to prove it by saying, That it is the Word of the Spirit in us, which is the [Word of God:] As if the Spirit spake in us new Articles of Faith, or a new Word to be believed, whose work in those that are not inspired Prophets, is but, 1. to cause us to believe that ⟨p. 238⟩Word already given: 2. To be a witnessing Evidence that we are God's Children, by making us holy as he is holy, as similitude witnesseth a Child to be his Fathers. 3. And to help us to discern that Holiness or Evidence, and to exercise it, and to gather Comfort from such discerning it, and exercise.

§. 42. Some incautelous Divines in the heat of Dispute do indeed say, That it is de fide divina, or a Divine Word, that [I am a true Believer.] And Chamier too unhappily goeth about to prove it by saying, That it is the Word of the Spirit in us, which is the [Word of God:] As if the Spirit spake in us new Articles of Faith, or a new Word to be believed, whose work in those that are not inspired Prophets, is but, 1. to cause us to believe that ⟨p. 238⟩Word already given: 2. To be a witnessing Evidence that we are God's Children, by making us holy as he is holy, as similitude witnesseth a Child to be his Fathers. 3. And to help us to discern that Holiness or Evidence, and to exercise it, and to gather Comfort from such discerning it, and exercise.