A53669:202
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. The Objections these men principally insist upon, are merely against the Explanations we use of this Doctrine; not against the Primitive Revelation of it, which is the principal object of our faith, which how preposterous and irrational a course of proceeding it is, hath been declared.
5. The Objections these men principally insist upon, are meerly against the Explanations we use of this Doctrine; not against the Primitive Revelation of it, which is the principal object of our faith, which how preposterous and irrational a course of proceeding it is, hath been declared.
6. It is a Rule among Philosophers; that if a man on just grounds and reasons have embraced any opinion or persuasion, he is not to desert it, merely because he cannot answer every Objection against it. For if the Objections wherewith we may be entangled, be not of the same weight and importance, with the reason on which we embraced the ⟨p. 130⟩opinion, it is a madness to forego it on the Account thereof. And much more must this hold amongst the common sort of Christians, in things spiritual and divine. If they will let go, and part with their faith in any truth, because they are not able to answer distinctly some Objections that may be made against it, they may quickly find themselves disputed into Atheism.
6. It is a Rule among Phil•sophers; that if a man on just grounds and reasons have embraced any opinion or perswasion, he is not to desert it, meerly because he cannot answer every Objection against it. For if the Objections wherewith we may be entangled, be not of the same weight and importance, with the reason on which we embraced the ⟨p. 130⟩opinion, it is a madness to forego it on the Account thereof. And much more must this hold amongst the common sort of Christians, in things spiritual and divine. If they will let go, and part with their faith in any truth, because they are not able to answer distinctly some Objections that may be made against it, they may quickly find themselves disputed into Atheism.