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…

Fourthly, beware of those new lights, which not only refuse to admit some certain truths, but refuse to admit any truth, now held or professed in the reformed Churches, as sure and certain and infallible, as if, because mens judgements are not infallible, but subject to error, therefore, we cannot be sure, nor infallibly persuaded of this or that Article. The holy Scripture will teach us, that believers may attain to a certain and infallible knowledge of some truths, for it was no impossible thing that Paul prayed for, when he prayed that the Colossians might have all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. The mystery of God that he is, and that he is eternal, invisible, omnipotent, &c: his nature, and attributes, the mystery of the Father, or that there is a distinction of persons in the holy Trinity, and an eternal generation, the mystery of Christ, his person, natures, offices, birth, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and intercession: these are things of which the Apostle would have us most fully and certainly persuaded. Timothy was assured of the things he had learned, 2 Tim. 3. 14. so was Theophilus, Luke. 1. 4. A Mariner is not infallible in his judgement, yet he may be assured infallibly, that such a thing is a rock which he must avoid, and such a way, is the way he must direct his course: A Physician is ⟨p. 131⟩not infallible in his judgement concerning the symptoms, causes and cures of diseases, yet he may be most certainly persuaded, such a disease is deadly, and there is no cure for it, or such a thing may be cured, and this is the cure. So in Divinity the obnoxiousness of mens judgement to error hindereth not, but they may be infallibly persuaded of this, and this, and the other truth.

Fourthly, beware of those new lights, which not only refuse to admit some certaine truths, but refuse to admit any truth, now held or professed in the reformed Churches, as sure and certaine and infallible, as if, because mens judgements are not infallible, but subject to error, therefore, wee cannot be sure, nor infallibly perswaded of this or that Article. The holy Scripture will teach us, that beleevers may attaine to a certaine and infallible knowledge of some truths, for it was no impossible thing that Paul prayed for, when he prayed that the Colossians might have all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. The mystery of God that he is, and that he is eternall, invisible, omnipotent, &c: his nature, and attributes, the mystery of the Father, or that there is a distinction of persons in the holy Trinity, and an eternall generation, the mystery of Christ, his person, natures, offices, birth, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and intercession: these are things of which the Apostle would have us most fully and certainly perswaded. Timothy was assured of the things he had learned,