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. XX.

That necessary consequences from the written word of God, do sufficiently and strongly prove the consequent or conclusion, if Theoretical, to be a certain divine truth which ought to be believed, and if practical, to be a necessary duty, which we are obliged unto, jure Divino.

That necessary consequences from the written word of God, do sufficiently and strongly prove the consequent or conclusion, if Theoreticall, to be a certain divine truth which ought to be beleived, and if practicall, to be a necessary duty, which we are obleidged unto, jure Divino.

This assertion must neither be so far enlarged as to comprehend the erroneous reasonings and consequences from Scripture which this or that man, or this or that Church, apprehend and believe to be strong and necessary consequences. I speak of what is, not of what is thought to be a necessary consequence, neither yet must it be so far c•arctat and straitened, as the Arminians would have it, who admit of no proofs from Scripture, but either plain explicit Texts, or such consequences as are nulli non obviae, as neither are nor can be controverted by any man who is rationis compos. See there praef ante exam: cens: and their examen. cap: 25. pag. 283. By which principle, if embraced, we must renounce many necessary truths which the reformed Churches hold against the Arians, Antitrinitarians, Socinians, Papists, because the consequences and arguments from Scripture brought to prove them, are not admitted as good by the adversaries.

THis assertion must neither be so farre inlarged as to comprehend the erroneous reasonings and consequences from Scripture which this or that man, or this or that Church, apprehend and believe to be strong and necessary consequences. I speak of what is, not of what is thought to be a necessary consequence, neither yet must it be so far carctat and straitned, as the Arminians would have it, who admit of no proofes from Scripture, but either plaine explicit Texts, or such consequences as are nulli non obviae, as neither are nor can be contraverted by any man who is rationis compos. See there praef ante exam: cens: and their examen. cap: 25. pag. 283. By which principle, if imbraced, we must renounce many necessary truths which the reformed Churches hold against the Arians, Antitrinitarians, Socinians, Papists, because the consequences and arguments from Scripture brought to prove them, are not admitted as good by the adversaries.