28 Plectows Saíttj. light comes from above, and is ufhered in with a kind of majefty, and therefore humbles and makes us fall down and fay,God ii in it ofei truth. Sixthly, The meerly notional knowledge is but fuperficial,a flafh and away,a light tag., filch as was in thole Apoftates,Heb.6.5.a word fown but unrooted, fuch as that in the flony ground, Mat. 13. 21. But the light of faith is another thing,it is truth in the hidden part;, Pfal.51. 6. mifdom entring into the heart, Prov. 2.10. and a word ingrafted or innaturalized in the mied, Jam.r.2 r. As an appendix to this difference, I may add another ; meer notions, being but fu perticial things floating in the brain, do noefo eftabli(h the heart in Religion,as that fupernatú ral light which intimately mixes it felf with the heart.Hence many Princes and Grandees of the Letter have been fick with it telledual bottles; and fhamefully reeled up and dówn in Articles of Faith. Some (tumbling in the mire of grofs Pelagianifin, and others rowling in the ditch of foul-Socinianifm with them Chrifts Deity is butfomnium 4thanafii, and originahfin but A guffini figmentum,fuch horrid fpui igTroni'lear'n. ed mouths bath been made on the glory of Re -' ligion.And no wonder,for the notionalitt ivatït's thatlove of thetruth,whieb is an antidote againfl: errors,and that pure conf fence, which is the Ca- binet of Divine myfteries. On the other hand, fupernatural light is a more eftablifhing thing: the Apo &le -calls it se; imux orísews, the firmament offaith,Col.2.5.all the heavenly truths are there as fo many fixed flars in their Orb.Gerfon relates this
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