The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

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 ⟨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 lyes 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.