The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

2. Hence are the Minds and Inventions of men wonderful fertile in coining Objections against Evangelical Truths, and raising cavils against them. Seldom to this purpose do they want an endless number of sophistical Objections, which because they know no better, they themselves judge insoluble. For carnal Reason being once set at liberty under the false notion of Truth, to act it self freely and boldly against spiritual mysteries, is subtle in its arguings, and pregnant in its Invention of them. How endless, for instance, are the Sophisms of the Socinians against the Doctrine of the Trinity, and how do they triumph in them as unanswerable. Under the shelter of them they despise the force of the most evident Testimonies of the Scripture, and those multiplied on all occasions. In like manner they deal with the Doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ, as the Pelagians of old did with that of ⟨p. 297⟩his Grace. Wherefore he that will be startled at the Appearance of subtle or plausible Objections, against any Gospel mysteries that are plainly revealed, and sufficiently attested in the Scripture, is not likely to come unto much stability in his Profession of them.

2. Hence are the Minds and Inventions of men wonderful fertile in coyning Objections against Evangelical Truths, and raising cavils against them. Seldom to this purpose do they want an endless number of sophistical Objections, which because they know no better, they themselves judge insoluble. For carnal Reason being once set at liberty under the false notion of Truth, to act it self freely and boldly against spiritual mysteries, is subtile in its arguings, and pregnant in its Invention of them. How endless, for instance, are the Sophisms of the Socinians against the Doctrine of the Trinity, and how do they triumph in them as unanswerable. Under the shelter of them they despise the force of the most evident Testimonies of the Scripture, and those multiplied on all occasions. In like manner they deal with the Doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ, as the Pelagians of old did with that of ⟨p. 297⟩his Grace. Wherefore he that will be startled at the Appearance of subtile or plausible Objections, against any Gospel mysteries that are plainly revealed, and sufficiently attested in the Scripture, is not likely to come unto much stability in his Profession of them.