A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Tis pleaded by some who pretend to more tenderness of conscience then others, that to establish by the Law of the Land a Confession of Faith, or a Directory of the worship of God, and of the Government of the Church, and to appoint penalties or punishments upon such as maintain the contrary Doctrines or practises, ⟨p. 124⟩is to hold out and shut the door upon new Light. That as the State and Church hath discovered the evil of diverse things, which were sometime approved and strengthened by the Law of the Land, so there may be afterwards a discovery made by the light of Experience, and a further search of the Scripture, to make manifest the falsehood of those Doctrines which are now received as true, and the evil of that Government and way which is now embraced as good, for [Greek or Hebrew].

TIs pleaded by some who pretend to more tendernesse of conscience then others, that to establish by the Law of the Land a Confession of Faith, or a Directory of the worship of God, and of the Government of the Church, and to appoint penalties or punishments upon such as maintaine the contrary Doctrines or practises, ⟨p. 124⟩is to hold out and shut the doore upon new Light. That as the State and Church hath discovered the evill of diverse things, which were sometime approved and strengthned by the Law of the Land, so there may be afterwards a discovery made by the light of Experience, and a further search of the Scripture, to make manifest the falshood of those Doctrines which are now received as true, and the evil of that Government and way which is now imbraced as good, for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.

For satisfaction in this difficulty, First of all, I do not deny but most willingly yield, yea assert as a necessary truth, that as our knowledge (at its best in this world) is imperfect, (for we know but in part) so it ought to be our desire and endeavour to grow in the knowledge of the mind of Christ, to follow on to know the Lord, to seek after more and more light, for the path of the Just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,