Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

There is a double furniture of Reason, one natural, which stands in those common maxims or principles, whose truth is inviolable, and at the very first sight apparent to all rational minds; and withal, in those conclusions, which by consequences and trains of argumentation are duly and regularly inferred from those principles. Another supernatural, which stands in the irradiations of the holy Spirit, to make us discern spiritual things spiritually. Take ⟨p. 17⟩Reason with its right natural furniture; supernatural mysteries cannot contradict it, no more than one light can oppose another; yet they do exceed it, as much as supernatural light doth natural: Hence it appears, that Reason in this sense (being not contradicted by supernatural mysteries) is a kind of negative measure of them, yet (being much exceeded by them) is not, nor indeed can be a positive one. Take Reason as illuminated by the Holy Spirit, it hath no propensity or aptitude to sit in judgment upon holy mysteries; it hath no propensity to do so, because the illumination lets in so much of the spiritual glory of them as commands an intellectual subjection to them; it hath no aptitude to do so, because (the illumination, being but in part) it cannot dive into the bottom of them, or see them in their full compass and latitude.

There is a double furniture of Reason, one natural, which stands in those common maxims or principles, whose truth is inviolable, and at the very first sight apparent to all rational minds; and withal, in those conclusions, which by consequences and trains of argumentation are duely and regularly inferred from those principles. Another supernatural, which stands in the irradiations of the holy Spirit, to make us discern spiritual things spiritually. Take ⟨p. 17⟩Reason with its right natural furniture; supernatural mysteries cannot contradict it, no more than one light can oppose another; yet they do exceed it, as much as supernatural light doth natural: Hence it appears, that Reason in this sense (being not contradicted by supernatural mysteries) is a kind of negative measure of them, yet (being much exceeded by them) is not, nor indeed can be a positive one. Take Reason as illuminated by the Holy Spirit, it hath no propensity or aptitude to sit in judgment upon holy mysteries; it hath no propensity to do so, because the illumination lets in so much of the spiritual glory of them as commands an intellectual subjection to them; it hath no aptitude to do so, because (the illumination, being but in part) it cannot dive into the bottom of them, or see them in their full compass and latitude.