The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise

1. Get a distinct knowledge of Fundamentals: It is the emptiness of our minds that we be preposterous in our searches. Many a Christian loseth himself in a sea of opinions, before he hath squared himself with the first grounds of Religion.

1. Get a distinct knowledge of Fundamentals: It is the emptinesse of our minds that we be preposterous in our searches. Many a Christian loseth himselfe in a sea of opinions, before he hath squared himselfe with the first grounds of Religion.

Remember this, that the ⟨p. 211⟩first truths do support and maintain the rest, (as the corner-stone the rest of the building) and are as the original Will, which decides many scruples in Law. Hence is it, ¹that some men doubt about special conclusions, because they are ignorant of the general principles; which were they distinctly known, the falsity of any conclusion would easily become evident unto them. Men usually dispute first, and know last: As if a ²Soldier would range an Army, before he hath learned to handle his weapons. How ordinary is it to hear disputes ³of Original sin, of Predestination, of Redemption, of Faith and Justification, of Assurance and Obedience, of the degrees of grace and duty, of the direct and absolute way of life? &c. I say it is ordinary to hear some arguing of these, who yet ⟨p. 212⟩are ignorant of the nature of these. But,

Remember this, that the ⟨p. 211⟩