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

To know who was the Father of every person mentioned in the Bibles Genealogies, to know what age each person was of whose age is there mentioned; to know the name of every person, and every Town; to know how far each City was from another whose distances are there expressed; with a multitude of such like Historical, Genealogical, Chronological, Topographical, Physical, incidental passages, is but an appurtenance, and not strictly a part (Essential or Integral) of the Christian Faith, of Holiness or Religion.

Yet remember that we maintain as certain, that they are all Liars who accuse God of Lying; And that, whatever ⟨p. 14⟩some ignorantly talk to the contrary, God cannot lie. See the excellent Amesius his Disputation, of this Question, An falsum subesse potest fidei divinae, after his Medulla Theologiae (which book with his Cases of Conscience, and Alstedius his Encyclopaediae, may (after the Scriptures and Concordance) make a good Divine, and be a better Library than the Fathers of the fourth Council. Carth. were acquainted with.) He that thinketh God can lie, destroyeth the Objectum Formale fidei divinae, and therefore can have no Faith. If God could lie in one thing, we should never be sure that he revealeth the truth, unless by sense it self and after-experience. All Faith goeth upon such a Syllogism as this [Whatsoever God saith is true: But this God saith, Ergo, it is true] So that whosoever believeth every word in the Scripture to be Gods word, must believe it all to be true, or he can believe none of it at all.

Yet remember that we maintain as certain, that they are all Lyars who accuse God of Lying; And that, whatever ⟨p. 14⟩some ignorantly talk to the contrary, God cannot lie. See the excellent Amesius his Disputation, of this Question, An falsum subesse potest fidei divinae, after his Medulla Theologiae (which book with his Cases of Conscience, and Alstedius his Encyclopaediae, may (after the Scriptures and Concordance) make a good Divine, and be a better Library than the Fathers of the fourth Council. Carth. were acquainted with.) He that thinketh God can lie, destroyeth the Objectum Formale fidei divinae, and therefore can have no Faith. If God could lie in one thing, we should never be sure that he revealeth the truth, unless by sense it self and after-experience. All Faith goeth upon such a Syllogism as this [Whatsoever God saith is true: But this God saith, Ergo, it is true] So that whosoever believeth every word in the Scripture to be Gods word, must believe it all to be true, or he can believe none of it at all.