Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth

Secondly, Let us compare the fallibility of Reason, with the infallibility of Scripture. When the Papists lift up the Pope as supreme judge in matters of Religion, it is a sufficient answer to tell them, the first Clement held the Platonical community of all things, even of wives. Marcellinus sacrificed to Idols. Liberius subscribed to Arianism. Innocent the first taught that little ones could not be saved without the Eucharist. Vigilius was an Eutychian. Honorius a Monothelite. Hildebrand a brand of hell, and impiously diabolical. John the 23th was accused in the Council of Constance of this opinion, That the souls of men dye with their bodies, even as the souls of brutes; and should such be judges in matters of Religion? When the Socinian, by subjecting articles of Faith unto Reason, makes not one, but as many Popes as men, we need say no more to him, but humanum est errare, reason is a fallible thing. The Philosophers were the Patriarchs of heretics; Platonical Philosophy in the Fathers, and Aristotelical in the Schoolmen, hath much ⟨p. 53⟩debased the truths of God, saith a great Divine. All the errors and heresies which have swarmed abroad in all ages, have been the progeny of corrupt Reason: upon this the devil begets all the black monstrous opinions which crawl within doors in the Church, or without in the Pagan world. And should such a thing as this come and sit in judgment on the pure words of God, which are surer then the voice of Angels, and stand faster then the pillars of heaven and earth, which in so many successions of Ages never contracted the least speck of falsehood, or shed a leaf in the fall of the least tittle or iota thereof? Surely, when reason thus forgets it self and its own fallibility, it degrades it self and becomes unreasonable. Thus far of the irrationality of the Socinian faith. But,

Secondly, Let us compare the fallibility of Reason, with the infallibility of Scripture. When the Papists lift up the Pope as supream judge in matters of Religion, it is a sufficient answer to tell them, the first Clement held the Platonical community of all things, even of wives. Marcellinus sacrificed to Idols. Liberius subscribed to Arianism. Innocent the first taught that little ones could not be saved without the Eucharist. Vigilius was an Eutychian. Honorius a Monothelite. Hildebrand a brand of hell, and impiously diabolical. John the 23th was accused in the Council of Constance of this opinion, That the souls of men dye with their bodies, even as the souls of brutes; and should such be judges in matters of Religion? When the Socinian, by subjecting articles of Faith unto Reason, makes not one, but as many Popes as men, we need say no more to him, but humanum est errare, reason is a fallible thing. The Philosophers were the Patriarchs of heretiques; Platonical Philosophy in the Fathers, and Aristotelical in the Schoolmen, hath much