( 222. ] faith true, can no more know that the Creed or Scripture is true, on that account. 2. The generality of Proce~ants believe not an Univerfal-Governing-Soveraign under Chrifi, but deny it; I Therefore they nevet Preach any fuch Medium of Faith : A~d can you prove that thofe tl;at are brought to Chrifiianity by Protefiant Pa– rents, Tutors or Preachers, are all yet Unchri– fiened, ~e no true ·Faith ? 7. Why ihould we make Imp)i)ffibilities neceffary, while furer and eaGer J\1ear)s are obvious ? It is impoffible to ·children, to the Vulgar, to almofi all the Priefis themfelves, to know certainly what the Major Vote of Biihops in the whole World, now think o( this or that Text or Article; (fave only c6ri(e– quently when we firft believe the Articles of Faith, we next know that he is no true ·Bifhop ' that deniech them. J And it is impoffible to knbw that Chrill: bath authorized a·soveraign Colleqge 1 , before we believe Chrifis own Aurhority and Word. But the Proteftant Method is obvious 2 vh. To hear Parents, Tutors and Preachers, as humble Learners: To believe them Fide humand ·fir.ft~ while they teach us to know the Divi~e Evi– dence of Certain, Credibility in the Creed and Scri– pcures ; andwhen they have taught us chat, to be– lieve Fide Divina, by the Light of that Divine Evi– 'dence which they have taught us: What that is, I . have opened as afore cited,and alfo in a fmall Trea· . tife againfi the Papifis, called, ' [The Certainty of Chriftianity without Popery;] in which alfo I have confuted your way: Befides what I have faid in the Second Part of The Saints ReH,] and my [More Reafom for the Chri:ftian ].?eligion.] .. 3. I cannot by all your Words und~rfiand how. ]OH
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