(173) and fince, firt known: the Major Vote ofthe Chriflians, or were they converted by the foreknown Infallibility or Authority oftheMajority ? (or ofthe Pope?) Some will fay, we fee theMadnefs ofthis Popery, but how thendo you fay that the faith muff 6e received, if notfrom the Church ? I anfwer I have told you at large in a Treadle called The ReaJons of the Chrifian Religion,' and briefly in a fmaller Treatife called The certainty of Chrif1i.usitywithout Popery Briefly, judging is one thing, andTeaching is another thing. BeforeI fubmit to the Decifion ofa judge I muff know his commifion or Authority; and I mull then ftand tohis Sentence whichway ever he decide theCafe. Men be not converted to Chriftianity by fuch wages, but by Te zchers ; Nor will Ibelieve the Judge ifhe fay there is no Chrift, no Life to come, &c. But a Teacher is to make intelligible tohis Hearer or Scholar, the evidence oftruth which is in thematter taught, and to draw men . tobelieve by telling them thofe true reafons upon which he did believe himfelf: And no man takes him for his Teacher that he is perfwaded knoweth no more than himfelf. And the greater reputation of Knowledge and H hefty theTeacher hath, the eafier we apply our minds to learn ofhim, and a humane trill or faith prepareth us to receive that evidence of truthwhich maybeget a.Di- vine Faith by the help of Grace. But till the Learner truly believeth no more than he thus learneth. And I may hear aftranger tell what he hath to fay, and be con- vinced by the evidence that he giveth meof the truth, though I knownot ofany Authority that he hath to teach me, much lets judicially to decide the Cafe. I little-doLbt but mol that wereconverted by theApoflles themfelves, were perfwaded to believe in Quilt by the evidence of true j,
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