An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 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.

§. 43. We now commonly disown all such Assertions; I meet with no sober Divine that owneth them, because we grant, that Conclusio semper sequitur partem debiliorem: But yet we find that those few that call it de fide, do most of them mean no more, but that it's partly de fide, because the Major Proposition is so; and so they differ but about a Logical Notion.