Polhill - Houston-Packer Collection BT770 .P7 1675

neciotlo fait& this fiory,A man vexed with doubts in Articles of Faith,at laft came to fuch a certainty in them, that he no more doubted of them then of his own life ; and this he had (faith he) Non ex ra- tione aut demonftratione, fed ex humiliatione ac admirabili quâdam Dei illuminatione àmontibus £terns. All grace,b ecaufe divine,hath an eftabli- íhing property,and among the reft, fo hath the light of faith, becaufe it comes from the eternal mountains. Seventhly,Meer notions are very apt to fume up into niceties and vain curiofities. A famous inftance of this we have in the School -men, whole books are the fpiders houfe,made of cob- webs and fine fubtleties, and thofe fpun up into the Palace of the celeflial King,and there faftned upon the ineffables of God and the facred Tri- nity, as if thefe might be wrapped up in the quiddities of reafon and Philofophy ; infomuch as a learned Divine, ftartled at this audacious vanity,faith,he reads the School -men about fuch things,as he hears men fwear or take Gods name in vain,even feldom,unwillingly,and with lior- ror.And thedearned Capito,who profeffed Scho- laftical Divinity,was loonweary thereof,becaufe there is fubtilitatis multum, utilitatk parum, found therein. But fupernatural light doth not vapor upwards into niceties and curious que- ¡lions, but influence downwards into the will and aífe6tions.It brings the day of power into the heart,and makes a willing people,the holy unEci- on drops from the head to the heart,and fets all on a flame with love to God and Christ and hea- venly

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