But they say, by a command of God, we must have no other faith except in some few fundamentals, and no man since Adam died (except the man Christ) ever knew or could determine how few, or how many, so our faith in fundamentals in that, totters, for they say, these precepts and commands of the Holy Ghost. Try the spirits whither they be of God or no. Try all things, hold that which is ⟨p. 78⟩good, & the example of the noble Bereans who examined Pauls doctrine, by the Scriptures, doth lay a divine command in them to beleeve non-fundamentals with a reserve. Yea they say with the Arminians, &c. that it is against liberty of prophesying, whereas liberty of lying in the name of the Lord is of the devil, who hath taken liberty or rather hellish licence to lye from the beginning, & they say, it is against our growing in knowledge, and the prayers of the Saints that God would open their eyes to see the wonders of his Law, and lead them into all truth, and against the prophesies that in the last days the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun, as the light of seven days, and the day star shall arise in the hearts of many, and the spirit shall be poured on all flesh, young and old, maids and children. To all which I say, either the Spirit of God moves men to the faith of this (there is no Church visible on earth, but such as is constituted of believers, such as those of Corinth, and Rome, and others were, after they were planted and watered by the Apostles) or no. If no, they have not faith of it, and so it is. 1. No truth of God to Independents, &c. for which they can suffer, but a mere opinion, then they cannot suffer for it in faith, and to believe any truth of God because the Lord so saith,1 is wrought only by the Holy Ghost, if it be wrought by the Holy Ghost, then it is a truth of God, and a divine truth, for the Holy Ghost moves no man to believe a lye, for a truth of God, if it be a divine truth then doth not the Holy Ghost will you so to believe it for a truth, as you must upon a new light believe the contrary to morrow. For I renew the argument in its full strength, touching the faith of the contradicent which you believed the last day, either the Holy Ghost must move you to believe that contradicent as a truth of God, or no: I• no, It is not divine faith you have of it;
But they say, by a command of God, we must have no other faith except in some few fundamentals, and no man since Adam died (except the man Christ) ever knew or could determine how few, or how many, so our faith in fundamentals in that, totters, for they say, these precepts and commands of the Holy Ghost. Try the spirits whither they be of God or no. Try al things, hold that which is ⟨p. 78⟩good, & the example of the noble Bereans who examined Pauls doctrine, by the Scriptures, doth lay a divine command in them to beleeve non-fundamentals with a reserve. Yea they say with the Arminians, &c. that it is against liberty of prophesying, whereas liberty of lying in the name of the Lord is of the devil, who hath taken liberty or rather helish licence to lye from the beginning, & they say, it is against our growing in knowl•dge, and the prayers of the Saints that God would open their eyes to see the wonders of his Law, and lead them into all truth, and against the prophesies that in the last days the earth shal be filled with the knowledg of the Lord, the light of the moon shal be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun, as the light of seven days, and the day star shal arise in the hearts of many, and the spirit shall be powred on all flesh, young and old, maids and children. To all which I say, either the Spirit of God moves men to the faith of this (there is no Church visible on earth, but such as is constituted of beleevers, such as those of Corinth, and Rome, and others were, after they were planted and watered by the Apostles) or no. If no, they have not faith of it, and so it is. 1. No truth of God to Independents, &c. for which they can suffer, but a meer opinion, then they cannot suffer for it in faith, and to beleive any truth of God because the Lord so saith,1 is wrought only by the Holy Ghost, if it be wrought by the Holy Ghost, then it is a truth of God, and a divine truth, for the Holy Ghost moves no man to beleeve a lye, for a truth of God, if it be a divine truth then doth not the Holy Ghost will you so to beleeve it for a truth, as you must upon a new light beleeve the contrary to morrow. For I renew the argument in its full strength, touching the faith of the contradicent which you beleeved the last day, either the Holy Ghost must move you to beleeve that contradicent as a truth of God, or no: I• no, It is not divine faith you have of it;
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