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…

CHAP. XI.

Of Stability and firmness in the truth.

Of Stability and firmnesse in the truth.

IT is good Divinity to maintain that Skepticism, fluctuation and wavering concerning those things which God hath revealed, to be believed or done by us, is a sin: and to be firm axed and established in the truth, to hold fast the profession thereof, to stand fast in the faith, is a duty commanded. I shall first prove it to be so; then give reasons for it, and thirdly, some helps to this duty, and preservatives against this sin.

IT is good Divinity to maintaine that Skepticisme, fluctuation and wavering concerning those things which God hath revealed, to be beleeved or done by us, is a sinne: and to bee firme •xed and established in the truth, to hold fast the profession thereof, to stand fast in the faith, is a duty commanded. I shal first prove it to be so; then give reasons for it, and thirdly, some helps to this duty, and preservatives against this sinne.

For proof of the thing, somewhat might be said from the very light of nature, for hath a nation changed their Gods, er: 2. 11. Religion hath the very name of it, a Religando, so far it is, a Relaxando. The heathen Greeks called a ubricus and inconstant man [Greek or Hebrew]. They said also, that he who errs or miscarries in his Religion, doth [Greek or Hebrew], drink out of a bored or foraminous cup. How firm and constant