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

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.

Again, whereas the learned Author saith, Propositions de fide are more certain than Scientifical propositions. If they be more certain, then my assent unto such Propositions must needs be more certain. If the question then be, to which of these Propositions

He that believes in Christ the Mediator, his sins are pardoned. I believe in Christ the Mediator.

He that believes in Christ the Mediatour, his sins are pardoned. I believe in Christ the Mediatour.