The new command renewed, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity…The new command renew'd, or, Love one another being an endeavour after the unity…

The seventh Principle.

7. ¹In all discourses and disputations, use proper Media or arguments to prove your tenets by; bring not Scriptures to your reason, but your reason to Scripture, or judge reason by reason, and Scripture by Scripture. Moral arguments are not fit and proper to prove natural Principles by, nor in many things rational Arguments to prove or disprove Scripture by. Prove spiritual things by spiritual Arguments, as the Apostle hints to us, ²1 Cor. 2.13. which things also we speak, not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the holy ⟨p. 19⟩Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual; or judging spirituals with spirituals. The Apostle did not borrow words or Arguments from without, but fitted spiritual Arguments to prove spiritual things. Never draw Ecclesiastical conclusions from Political premisses.

7. ¹In all discourses and disputations, use proper Media or arguments to prove your tenets by; bring not Scriptures to your reason, but your reason to Scripture, or judge reason by reason, and Scripture by Scripture. Morall arguments are not fit and proper to prove naturall Principles by, nor in many things rationall Arguments to prove or disprove Scripture by. Prove spirituall things by spirituall Arguments, as the Apostle hints to us, ²