I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

3. Though you do make use of Reason in the things of God, yet your very Reason is to be mortified, crucified; Crucifigamus istam pestem, quare, says Luther; we must crucify that Pest, and Plague, Why? Deus non vult, non esse quaristas, vel rationistas: God would not have us that are Christians, to be Quarists, or Whereforeists: naked, simple obedience, is best in the Eyes of God. With man (says he) we must consider, Quid, what it is that is Commanded; but in our Obedience to God, we must consider, Quis, who it is that commandeth: And this is to be the Ground of our Faith, and Obedience; as we must renounce our Will, so we must deny our Reason: But we must not deny the Scripture, nor crucify the Scripture, nor renounce ⟨p. 35⟩the Scripture. Surely therefore, t•e Light of the Scripture, and the Word written, is beyond, and more excellent than all humane Reason, and the Light thereof. And thus I have done with the Seventh Instance.

3. Though you do make use of Reason in the things of God, yet your very Reason is to be mortified, crucified; Crucifigamus istam pestem, quare, saies Luther; we must crucifie that Pest, and Plague, Why? Deus non vult, non esse quaristas, vel rationistas: God would not have us that are Christians, to be Quarists, or Whereforeists: naked, simple obedience, is best in the Eyes of God. With man (saies he) we must consider, Quid, what it is that is Commanded; but in our Obedience to God, we must consider, Quis, who it is that commandeth: And this is to be the Ground of our Faith, and Obedience; as we must renounce our Will, so we must deny our Reason: But we must not deny the Scripture, nor crucifie the Scripture, nor renounce ⟨p. 35⟩the Scripture. Surely therefore, t•e Light of the Scripture, and the Word written, is beyond, and more excellent than al humane Reason, and the Light thereof. And thus I have done with the Seventh Instance.