z.Peç.r.zs. C H A P.1, An Expofit ion vpon thefecond V E R o. the Nature of Faith, difcriminating it from other habits and Ads of the vnderfianding, might heere bee obferued. As that it hath for the material/ obiell, fomething tef ified : forcheformall obie 7,the verity and e4uthority of the Te- fÈis. This being the Reafon of affenting, the Real, or fuppofed truth, and authority of him that tefiifieth. Intel- /caw , they fay, is of principles, whole light is fo cleere, that there needes no medium to induce their enterrains_ ment for true.Science, of Conclufions,by force of a medi- um neceffary anddemonfiratiue.Faith of things ineuident in themfelues, indemonfirable by Arguments neceffarie : ofConclufions or Articles aboue Reafon, in diuine faith infufed : the affent being wrought not by argument,or o- ther euidence,but onely by authority and verity of him that teftifieth. What moues me to affent to the Article of the Trinity? Onely the Tefiimony of God, who alone knowes himfelfe, and the manner of his owne exifience. Now whither thisTefiimony diuine be immediate or me- diate, it matters not to the nature ofdiuine Faith,fo it be a diuine Teftimony whereon we refs. Not onely that voice of God from heauen,This is my 6elouedSonne, But that al- fo of Prophets and Apofiles,(peaking as they were d ánf red by the holy ghost(, is this diuine Tefiimony. whither that alfo of the Church ordinary that now is, is matter of queflion,but impertinent to this occafìon. At that day.Returne to fpecification of the,Time before mentioned : which before he had thus periphrafed; At the Revelation of the Lord Iefus from heauen,ver.7. When hee fhaflcome to be glorified in the Saints,ver. r o. I fay, at that day (hall tribulation be rendred to them that trouble you; Reff,to you that are troubled. I fay as the Ap ofile.Beflállandpdtient your hearts vntil the comming of the Lord : So much the rather for that that day drawethnigh. t .
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