B00150:57
A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
if each a new history, there could appear no steps of consent; when they relate the same story with the same circumstances, they have their use, one sometimes speaking more plainly then the other; and when they agree in matter, but seem to dissent in circumstance, the truth is the more confirmed, ⟨p. 25⟩an argument of fuller credit may be drawn out of that dissent; for as the Heathen man observeth, too exact diligence is neither approved of all, neither doth it want suspicion. To this sweet agreement of holy Scripture with it self, it might be further added, that it agreeth with all other truth whatsoever; there is nothing true in divinity, which is false in Philosophy; nothing in Philosophy is repugnant to the truth in divinity, but it may be overthrown by the principles of right and true Philosophy.
if each a new history, there could appeare no steps of consent; when they relate the same story with the same circumstances, they haue their vse, one sometimes speaking more plainely then the other; and when they agree in matter, but seeme to dissent in circumstance, the truth is the more confirmed, ⟨p. 25⟩an argument of fuller credit may be drawne out of that dissent; for as the Heathen man obserueth, too exact diligence is neither approoued of al, neither doth it want suspition. To this sweete agreement of holy Scripture with it selfe, it might be further added, that it agreeth with all other truth whatsoeuer; there is nothing true in diuinity, which is false in Philosophie; nothing in Phylosophie is repugnant to the truth in divinity, but it may be ouerthrowne by the principles of right and true Phylosophie.
15. The matter entreated of in holy Scripture is divine and wonderful. It explicates unto us, th• nature, properties, and high acts of God, purely and holily. It describes the person of Christ, so fitly, excellently, and conveniently, that if the mind of man consider it attentively, of necessity it must acknowledge, that it doth exceed the reach of a finite understanding. It discovers unto us the misery and corruption of man by nature, incomprehensible love of God in Jesus Christ towards man, that happy reconciliation (if we may so speak) of his justice