If he yield to you, ask him only such questions as ⟨p. 456⟩seem to be of great weight, and yet strain him up a peg higher, then you do the common people; and especially keep out the predicate usually from your Question, and put him most upon defining or distinguishing, or expounding some terms or sentences of Scripture, &c. As such questions as these may be put to him, which call for definitions, wherein its ten to one, but you will find him ignorant. E. G [What is God? What is Jesus Christ? What is the Holy-Ghost? What is Person in the Trinity? How many natures hath Christ? Was Christ a creature before his Incarnation, or the Creation? Is he called the first-born of all creatures as God, or as man? Is he called, the Image of the Invisible God, and the express Image of the Fathers person or subsistence as a creature, or as God? Was Adam bound to believe in Christ? Was one, or two Covenants made with Adam before his fall? Did the first Covenant of Nature make any promise of everlasting celestial glory? Did it threaten hell fire, or only temporal death? Did it threaten eternal torment to the soul only, or to the body also? Should there have been any Resurrection of the body, if Christ had not come to procure it? Should Christ have come, or been our Head, or have brought us to glory, if man had not fallen? What is the first Covenant? what, its conditions? What the second Covenant, and its Conditions? What was the difference between the Covenant with Adam, and that by Moses? Was it a Covenant of Works, or of Grace that was made by Moses? What were the conditions of salvation before Christs Incarnation? What is forgiveness of sin? What is Justification? ⟨p. 457⟩How are we said to be Justified by faith? how by works? What is faith? What repentance? What Sanctification, Vocation, Regeneration? Is the Covenant of Works Abrogated, or not? Is the Covenant of Grace made with the Elect only? or with all? or with whom? What is Freewill? Is there any conversion without the word? What is the true nature of special grace? and what is the proper difference of a Regenerate man from all others? What is the Catholic Church? How will you know the true Church? How know you the Scripture to be the word of God? What is Christs Priestly, Prophetical, Kingly office? Be they three offices, or but one: and be they all?] with abundance the like.
If he yield to you, ask him only such questions as ⟨p. 456⟩seem to be of great weight, and yet strain him up a peg higher, then you do the common people; and especially keep out the predicate usually from your Question, and put him most upon defining or distinguishing, or expounding some terms or sentences of Scripture, &c. As such questions as these may be put to him, which call for definitions, wherein its ten to one, but you will find him ignorant. E. G [What is God? What is Jesus Christ? What is the Holy-Ghost? What is Person in the Trinity? How many natures hath Christ? Was Christ a creature before his Incarnation, or the Creation? Is he called the first-born of all creatures as God, or as man? Is he called, the Image of the Invisible God, and the express Image of the Fathers person or subsistence as a creature, or as God? Was Adam bound to believe in Christ? Was one, or two Covenants made with Adam before his fall? Did the first Covenant of Nature make any promise of everlasting celestial glory? Did it threaten hell fire, or only temporal death? Did it threaten eternal torment to the soul only, or to the body also? Should there have been any Resurrection of the body, if Christ had not come to procure it? Should Christ have com, or been our Head, or have brought us to glory, if man had not fallen? What is the first Covenant? what, its conditions? What the second Covenant, and its Conditions? What was the difference between the Covenant with Adam, and that by Moses? Was it a Covenant of Works, or of Grace that was made by Moses? What were the conditions of salvation before Christs Incarnation? What is forgiveness of sin? What is Justification? ⟨p. 457⟩How are we said to be Justified by faith? how by works? What is faith? What repentance? What Sanctification, Vocation, Regeneration? Is the Covenant of Works Abrogated, or not? Is the Covenant of Grace made with the Elect only? or with all? or with whom? What is Freewill? Is there any conversion without the word? What is the true nature of special grace? and what is the proper difference of a Regenerate man from all others? What is the Catholike Church? How will you know the true Church? How know you the Scripture to be the word of God? What is Christs Priestly, Prophetical, Kingly office? Be they three offices, or but one: and be they all?] with abundance the like.
