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

Whence the Socinians must either expunge that Topic of Argumentum inartificial, which Reason will not suffer, or confound artificial and inartificial Arguments, making the Membra divisionis, which ought to be contraria at least, to be the same, which is good Logic; for Argumen tum is distributed into artificial and inartificial. Not that we wholly deny the use of Reason in the Divine Mysteries; we will allow Reason a judicium Discretivum, but not judicium ⟨image 12⟩Docisivum, this we give wholly to the Scriptures. Scriptura judicat de veritate sententiarum Theologicarum. Ratio judicat de veritate connexionum, regulae consequentiarum pertinent ad rationem: But the Socinians make humane Reason the Judge of all Theological Controversies, to conclude this Head. If then God in the holy Scriptures reveals and teacheth me, that the Divine Essence is singular, or but one; yet reveals again that this Divine Essence is predicated of three Suppositae, or distinct Subsistences, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. How can this be, saith humane Reason, I cannot reach it, this is supra captum Rationis meae, what then? Must I not therefore believe it, when God reveals it, because I cannot demonstrate the Truth by my Reason? Let God be true, and humane Reason a Liar. Essentia Divina licet sit singularis, refert tamen naturam universalis in eo quod sicut universale de pluribus praedicatur, sic Essentia Divina de pluribus distinctis suppositis aut personis contra ingenium aliorum singularium, & tamen manet singularis: quia est de natura universalis, ut in iis de quibus praedicatur natura ejus multiplicetur; ut natura humana multiplicatur in Petro & Paulo, &c. That the holy Scriptures are clear in asserting the Divinity as well as the Humanity of Christ, the Disciples of Mahomet ^*will acknowledge, if we own Paul's Epistles to be Canonical; therefore in their Disputations with us Christians, upon that Point, about the Divinity of Christ, they decline the Authority of Paul's Epistles, and say, they were adulterated by the Christians: this is very strange, that Mahometans can see this, and the Socinians, that own these Epistles, and dare not ⟨image 13⟩say they are adulterated, yet cannot read this. It is something, that we have these Mahometans determining for us, that those who own those Epistles to be authentic, must own Christ to be God.