A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

Use 1 Of refutation of that Popish Error, that think it impossible that any should know his estate in Christ, or that he shall be saved; it is one of their Canons. Why doth the Apostle speak to little Children Babes in Christ thus, they may know that they are in Christ, and that by keeping his Commandments in sincerity, if it were impossible to be known? for them therefore to conclude an impossibility for a man to know that he is in Christ, is against the Doctrine of the Apostles, and against Christ,; if (I say) any man preach another Gospel than this that St. John delivered, let him be accursed Gal. 6.7.

Ʋse 1 Of refutation of that Popish Error, that think it impossible that any should know his estate in Christ, or that he shall be saved; it is one of their Canons. Why doth the Apostle speak to little Children Babes in Christ thus, they may know that they are in Christ, and that by keeping his Commandments in sincerity, if it were impossible to be known? for them therefore to conclude an impossibility for a man to know that he is in Christ, is against the Doctrin of the Apostles, and against Christ,; if (I say) any man preach another Gospel than this that St. John delivered, let him bee accursed Gal. 6.7.

Aquinas concludes, that we cannot know we are in the state of grace, certainly, but upon conjecture, which implies a contradiction, for opinion is contingentium, scientia necessariorum & certorum, yet he makes some Objections against himself.

Obj. Is it not said, Gen. 22.12. Now I know that thou fearest me, &c. that is, as he expounds it, Cognovi, i. e. Cognoscere te feci, I have made thee to know that thou fearest me, therefore saith he, he might know that he was in the