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

Here the conclusion must follow the more ineyident, and so the weaker part, which is the Major.

Pace tanti viri, here we must dissent: I would not have it said, that ullo nomine, a Divine proposition, should be deterior, than other Scientifical propositions. That stout Champion Bradwardin arguing against some Philosophers, who presumed they could know God fully, and deriding of Christians, because they believed something concerning God, which they knew not how to demonstrate by way of humane reason; after he had proved that God was infinitely more not known than known, he bids the Philosophers cease deriding Christians for believing some things divinely revealed concerning God, and his works, which they knew not how to demonstrate, ¹but knew how to defend them from their contradictory demonstrations; then, saith he ought not this to satisfy any Christian, yea, or profane man, for a Demonstration, Deus dicit? Jehovah saith, it is a Demonstration sufficient in Bradwardin's esteem and certainly if it be as impossible for God, or the Prima V••••••, to be untrue, or false, as for fire to be cold, or Sun […] dark; then if he saith it, there is as much strength in that proposition to command assent from our understandings, as in any proposition of which you can make demonstration by any humane reason. ²Justin Martyr saith, the Prophets did not compose their Writings by demonstration, but were Witnesses worthy to be believed of truth, far above all demonstration; then certainly a Divine proposition cannot be the weaker part of a Syllogism, which the conclusion must follow.

Pace tanti viri, here we must dissent: I would not have it said, that ullo nomine, a Divine proposition, should be deterior, than other Scientifical propositions. That stout Champion Bradwardin arguing against some Philosophers, who presumed they could know God fully, and deriding of Christians, because they believed something concerning God, which they knew not how to demonstrate by way of humane reason; after he had proved that God was infinitely more not known than known, he bids the Philosophers cease deriding Christians for believing some things divinely revealed concerning God, and his works, which they knew not how to demonstrate,