More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…

So that really if Commonness go with you for a proof that any point is of natural instinct and certainty as a Notitia Communis, this will be one of the chiefest of them, that [Religion consisting in the notice of, and due respect to things absent, invisible, past and future; is to be maintained in the world by divine Revelation and Faith, and not by the immediate evidence of things, nor by mere discursive Collections from things so evident.] So that Mans weakness with the quality of the Objects maketh Revelation so necessary, that without it, the vulgar (who are the main body of the World) would have next to no Religion; And on the contrary how easy and pleasant, and satisfactory ⟨p. 147⟩is it for all these poor People (yea to the most learned) to have these mysterious truths brought by Revelation to their hands. Now through Gods mercy, all our common People, Women and Children, Servants and day-Labourers, may know more with ease, than ever Democritus, Epicurus, Antisthenes, Zeno, yea Socrates, Plato or Aristotle could reach by all their studies to the last: More I say of Religious necessary knowledge.

So that really if Commonuess go with you for a proof that any point is of natural instinct and certainty as a Notitia Communis, this will be one of the chiefest of them, that [Religion consisting in the notice of, and due respect to things absent, invisible, past and future; is to be maintained in the world by divine Revelation and Faith, and not by the immediate evidence of things, nor by meer discursive Collections from things so evident.] So that Mans weakness with the quality of the Objects maketh Revelation so necessary, that without it, the vulgar (who are the main body of the World) would have next to no Religion; And on the contrary how easie and pleasant, and satisfactory ⟨p. 147⟩is it for all these poor People (yea to the most learned) to have these mysterious truths brought by Revelation to their hands. Now through Gods mercy, all our common People, Women and Children, Servants and day-Labourers, may know more with ease, than ever Democritus, Epicurus, Antisthenes, Zeno, yea Socrates, Plato or Aristotle could reach by all their studies to the last: More I say of Religious necessary knowledge.