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The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…
The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianism ... / by Giles Firmin ...The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianisme ... / by Giles Firmin ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Must the Sovereign Law-giver reveal nothing for us to assent to, and believe, but what we can grasp with our reason? Hath he said he will not? Our Reason saith, this is sufficient reason, Thus saith the Lord: And our Reason thinks it very well becoming, that thrice dreadful Majesty, our Sovereign Absolute Lord, and Law-giver, who is truth, and cannot possibly lye, to give to his Creature Propositions to be believed barely upon his Authority.
Must the Soveraign Law-giver reveal nothing for us to assent to, and believe, but what we can grasp with our reason? Hath he said he will not? Our Reason saith, this is sufficient reason, Thus saith the Lord: And our Reason thinks it very well becoming, that thrice dreadful Majesty, our Soveraign Absolute Lord, and Law-giver, who is truth, and cannot possibly lye, to give to his Creature Propositions to be believed barely upon his Authority.
Yet a little further, That which is Supra Captum Rationis, what exceeds their reason, that it cannot reach and comprehend, this they will not believe, nor receive for an Article of Faith: upon this ground eight or nine of the chief Articles of our Faith are rejected by these Ministers of Reason. Hence Socinus saith, Although the Scripture ⟨image 11⟩it self should speak any thing that fights with, or opposeth Reason, (their Reason it must be) it must not be believed, that the Scripture intends, or means as it speaketh, but there is some other hidden sense in that Scripture; (though Socinus speaks more broadly, Etiamsi Scriptura dicat, tamen non esse credendum quod cum ratione pugnat.) Hence come those torturings of the Scripture, those corrupt and vile glosses which they put upon plain Texts, while they tell us the hidden sense that lies in those Scriptures, which do plainly oppose their corrupt Doctrines. That any thing in the Scripture is contrary to, or fights with sound Reason, we deny: No more of that now.
Yet a little further, That which is Supra Captum Rationis, what exceeds their reason, that it cannot reach and comprehend, this they will not believe, nor receive for an Article of Faith: upon this ground eight or nine of the chief Articles of our Faith are rejected by these Ministers of Reason. Hence Socinus saith, Although the Scripture