The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

15. We have had hot and scandalous Disputes among Christians, de Resolutione Fidei; each Party invalidating the others Foundations, as if it had been our work to persuade the Infidel World, that they are in the right. And I thought it the only way to end that Controversy, to open all the Causes of our Faith. The Roman Party may here perceive our Grounds, and better know into what we resolve our Faith, than if we named only one sort of Cause, and said, I resolve it into this: As if all the Frame had but one Wheel? Faith hath variety of Causes and Objects, into which respectively it may be said to be resolved: (by those that will not use an insignificant Word, to make People ⟨image 6⟩believe there is a difference, where there is none; and to keep men from understanding the matter it self.) Augustine saith of his Friend Nebudius (Ep. 23. Bonif.) That he exceedingly hated a short Answer to a great Question, and took it ill where he might be free, of any that did expect it from him: [Answer me in a word] is the Command of an ignorant or a slothful person, or of a Deceiver, when a Word is not capable of the necessary Answer.

15. We have had hot and scandalous Disputes among Christians, de Resolutione Fidei; each Party invalidating the others Foundations, as if it had been our work to perswade the Infidel World, that they are in the right. And I thought it the only way to end that Controversie, to open all the Causes of our Faith. The Roman Party may here perceive our Grounds, and better know into what we resolve our Faith, than if we named only one sort of Cause, and said, I resolve it into this: As if all the Frame had but one Wheel? Faith hath variety of Causes and Objects, into which respectively it may be said to be resolved: (by those that will not use an insignificant Word, to make People ⟨image 6⟩believe there is a difference, where there is none; and to keep men from understanding the matter it self.) Augustine saith of his Friend Nebudius (Ep. 23. Bonif.) That he exceedingly hated a short Answer to a great Question, and took it ill where he might be free, of any that did expect it from him: [Answer me in a word] is the Command of an ignorant or a slothfull person, or of a Deceiver, when a Word is not capable of the necessary Answer.