Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…

R. 1. Still remember to distinguish between our Objective and our Subjective faith: or if you understand not those words, between Gods Revelation and Mans Belief of it: or the Divine Rule and Matter of our faith, and our faith it self. And about our own Belief you must distinguish between a mans Profession of Belief, and the Reality of his belief. All true Protestants profess to take Gods word alone, or his Revelation in Nature and Scripture, for the whole Matter of their Divine Belief and Religion▪ But who it is that sincerely believeth little do I know: nor how much of this word any singular person understandeth, and believeth, I can give you no account of. ⟨p. 157⟩If personal faith were that which we dispute of, I would be accountable for no mans but mine own. In this sense, There are as many Faiths and Religions as men: For every man hath his Own Faith and Religion: And if you know that a man erreth in one point, it followeth not that he erreth in another. They that believed that the Resurrection was past, believed a falsehood: and yet truly believed that Christ was the Messiah: They erred that thought it lawful to eat things offered to Idols; and yet they erred not in believing in Christ. No two men in the world, its like, have the same degree of personal faith and knowledge; as I oft said before. But if our professed object of faith, that is, Gods word, were false in one thing, we could not be sure that it were true in any thing. Yet here I told you before, 1. That a man may be much surer that one part of Scripture is Gods word, than another; because some Copies are doubtful in the diverse Readings of some particular words or sentences; and which of them that so differ is Gods word, we oft know not: But so much as we are sure is the word of God, we are sure is true: So if the Authority of some few books was once doubted of, (as 2 Pet. Jam. Jud. Heb. &c.) and yet be by any, it followeth not that they doubt of the truth of any, which they know to be the word of God. 2. Or if any do hold that the Penmen might be left to their natural fallibility in some by historical circumstances or words, it would not follow, that one Article of the Gospel or Christian faith is doubtful, which is plainly as the Kernel of it, delivered in all the Scripture, and also by infallible Universal Tradition, by it self, in the Sacrament, Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue.

R. 1. Still remember to distinguish between our Objective and our Subjective faith: or if you understand not those words, between Gods Revelation and Mans Belief of it: or the Divine Rule and Matter of our faith, and our faith it self. And about our own Belief you must distinguish between a mans Profession of Belief, and the Reality of his belief. All true Protestants profess to take Gods word alone, or his Revelation in Nature and Scripture, for the whole Matter of their Divine Belief and Religion But who it is that sincerely believeth little do I know: nor how much of this word any singular person understandeth, and believeth, I can give you no account of.