The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . pt they be alfo moft evident, our perfwaiionis not (o affured, as it is of things more evident, although in ttiemfelvcs they be lefscertain- It is as fure if not furer, that there be fpirits as that there be men
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . pt they be alfo moft evident, our perfwaiionis not (o affured, as it is of things more evident, although in ttiemfelvcs they be lefscertain- It is as fure if not furer, that there be fpirits as that there be men : but we bemore aflured of thefe than of them, becaufe thcfe are more evident- The truth of foniethings is fo evident, that no man which heareth them can doubt of them : as whea?weheAvthztafart (if anj thing is lef, than therfhole, themind isconftrained to fay,This is true- ]f it were fo in matters of Faith , then, as all men have equal certaintyof this, fo no beleiver fliould be more fcrupulous and doubtful then another- Butwe find the contrary. The Angela and Spirits of the righteous in heaven , have cer-taintv niofl evident of things ; but this they have by the light of glory. Thatwhich we fee by the light of grace, though it be indeed more certain, yet is it not tous fo evidently certain , as that wbichTence or the light of nature will not fuffer a . K k k man. 2^7 8 ^ Sermon of the certalntj man to doubt of. Proofs are vain and frivolous , except they be more certain thai!is the thing proved .• and do we not fee how the fpirit every where in the Scriptureproveth matters of faith,laboureth to confirme us in the thin,g5 which wc beleive bythings whereof we have fenfiblc knowledge? 1 conclude therefore that we have leftcertainty of evidence concerning things beleived , then concerning fenfible or natu-rally perceived. Of thefe who doth doubt at any time ? Of tlicm at fomtime whodoubtethnot? I will not here ailedge the fpndry confeflions of the perfcfteft thathave
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