Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . THE THIRD SERMON. He b re wes u. 6. He that cotnmeth to God, mufl beleeVe thatGod isy t<rc. Ow we proceed tothat whichremaincs; wee will fliew youhow this point is to you by faith,thatG o dmade the Heavens, and theEarth. It is done after thismanner; When youbcleeve the Scriptures to bee true,and finde this let downc in the Scripture^that Godmade Heaven and earth, then youbeleevethatthere is aneternall Deity, that is the Author andMaker ofallthefe things: and thus
Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . THE THIRD SERMON. He b re wes u. 6. He that cotnmeth to God, mufl beleeVe thatGod isy t<rc. Ow we proceed tothat whichremaincs; wee will fliew youhow this point is to you by faith,thatG o dmade the Heavens, and theEarth. It is done after thismanner; When youbcleeve the Scriptures to bee true,and finde this let downc in the Scripture^that Godmade Heaven and earth, then youbeleevethatthere is aneternall Deity, that is the Author andMaker ofallthefe things: and thus faith gatherstheconcluiion: If. 45 The fecondfort of argu-ments. How this isproved byFaith. A6 Object. i Afll-M doubleI Tlmt God is* Biff rence be-twecne faithand reafon. , Realbn forchat that faithbeleeveth. If you aske me, how faith differs from reafon,and how this fccond proofe differs from the for-mer. I anfwer, after this manner: There is a doubleafifent: One is adoubtfullaiTent, which wee callOpinion, that is, when weafTent to the one part,fo as we feare the contrary to be true. The other is, a firmeaflent, and this is two-fold : Either it is grounded upon rcafon, whichwee call grounded upon theauthoritie of him that reveales it 5 and this weecall Faith. And the difference of them (lands inthis : The objeft of the firft, which wee callKnowledge, are naturall things, fuchasCWdidnot reveale bimfelfe, but rhcy lye before us, andreafon can finde them out : but Faith beleeveththings that are revealed by Cod, yet fo, as thatthere is reafon for them, as well as for the if one come and te
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