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

Is the obscurity as to the proposition, whether this be an Article divinely revealed? Then the minor is but in vain. I would never trouble my self to know whether I believe in this Christ Mediator or not: But is that yielded it is an Article of Divine faith?

Is the obscurity as to the proposition, whether this be an Article divinely revealed? Then the minor is but in vain. I would never trouble my self to know whether I believe in this Christ Mediatour or not: But is that yielded it is an Article of Divine faith?

Is the obscurity in the word believe? Then the minor must be as obscure: Is it in the object of this faith, Christ the Mediator? That is a Mystery indeed, his person, and his work; but still the minor will be as obscure; for the minor Proposition assumes the Tertium argumentum out of major Proposition, and disposeth it with the subject of the question; and if it be obscure there, it must be so here. In the next words cannot be the obscurity. But this I am sure of, in the minor that I believe, there may be obscurity, rising from a person, where though there be light, yet there is also much darkness: but in God there is light and no darkness, not so much as the shadow of a lye.

Is the obscurity in the word believe? Then the minor must be as obscure: Is it in the object of this faith, Christ the Mediatour? That is a Mystery indeed, his person, and his work; but still the minor will be as obscure; for the minor Proposition assumes the Tertium argumentum out of major Proposition, and disposeth it with the subject of the question; and if it be obscure there, it must be so here. In the next words cannot be the obscurity. But this I am sure of, in the minor that I believe, there may be obscurity, rising from a person, where though there be light, yet there is also much darkness: but in God there is light and no darkness, not so much as the shadow of a lye.