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…

Thirdly let us here observe with Gerhard, a distinction between¹ corrupt reason, and renewed or rectified reason: or between natural reason arguing in divine things from natural and carnal principals, sense, experience and the like: and reason captivated and subdued to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor: 10. 4, 5. judging of divine things not by humane but by divine rules, & standing to scriptural principals, how opposite so ever they may be to the wisdom of the flesh. Tis the latter not the former reason which will be convinced & satisfied with consequences and conclusions drawn from Scripture, in things which concern the glory of God, and matters spiritual or divine.

Thirdly let us here observe with Gerhard, a distinction bebetween¹ corrupt reason, and renewed or rectified reason: or between naturall reason arguing in divine things from naturall and carnall principalls, sense, experience and the like: and reason captivated and subdued to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor: 10. 4, 5. judging of divine things not by humane but by divine rules, & standing to scriptural principals, how opposite so ever they may be to the wisedome of the flesh. Tis the latter not the former reason which will be convinced & satisfied with consequences and conclusions drawn from Scripture, in things which concerne the glory of God, and matters spirituall or divine.

1. 1Loc. Thè: de Eccl. num. 252. distinguē dum igitur est inter rationem sibirelictā ac solutam quae sine froeno discurrit, ac suis fertur logismis, quae judicat ac statuit ex suis principiis, quae sunt communes notiones, sensus, experientia, &c. & inter rationem per verbum Dei refrenatam & sub obseqnium Christi redactam, quae judicat an statuit ex proprio Theologiae principio, viz. ex verbo Dei in Scripturis sacris proposito.Loc. Thè: de Eccl. num. 252. distinguē dum igitur est inter rationem sibirelictā ac solutam quae sine froeno discurrit, ac suis fertur logismis, quae judicat ac statuit ex suis principiis, quae sunt communes notiones, sensus, experientia, &c. & inter rationem per verbum Dei refrenatam & sub obseqnium Christi redactam, quae judicat an statuit ex proprio Theologiae principio, viz. ex verbo Dei in Scripturis sacris proposito.