The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

3 The third thing in the definition expresseth what this formal act is, and here we have 1 The essential Antecedens. 2 The essential constituens.

3 The third thing in the definition expresseth what this formall act is, and here wee have 1 The essentiale Antecedens. 2 The essentiale constituens.

1 The essential Antecedens, essentially pre-requisite to the justifying Act, and this is knowing and assenting, which two I might separate for the better discovery of our adversaries error, in their implicit Faith, who hold that it is sufficient for some only to believe as the Church believeth, although they know not themselves any thing that they believe, to maintain which blind Faith, they say that Justifying Faith may be without knowledge, nay, that it were better to be defined by ignorance, than by knowledge.

1 The essentiale Antecedens, essentially pre-requisite to the justifying Act, and this is knowing and assenting, which two I might separate for the better discovery of our adversaries error, in their implicit Faith, who hold that it is sufficient for some only to beleeve as the Church beleeveth, although they know not themselves any thing that they beleeve, to maintain which blind Faith, they say that Justifying Faith may bee without knowledge, nay, that it were better to bee defined by ignorance, than by knowledge.

But we must not stand to answer every thing that cometh in the way, for so we should stay long enough at the threshold.

But wee must not stand to answer every thing that commeth in the way, for so wee should stay long enough at the threshold.