A conference with a lady about choice of religion
         Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
      
       
         
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             A conference with a lady about choice of religion
             Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
          
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           Conference
           with
           a
           Lady
           about
           choice
           of
           Religion
           .
        
         
           Printed
           at
           Paris
           .
           1638.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           
             MADAME
             ,
          
        
         
           My
           being
           conscious
           to
           my selfe
           how
           confusedly
           and
           intricately
           ,
           I
           haue
           deliuered
           my
           conceptions
           vnto
           your
           ladyshippe
           vpon
           the
           seuerall
           occasions
           of
           discourse
           we
           haue
           had
           together
           concerning
           that
           important
           subiect
           of
           what
           faith
           and
           religiō
           is
           the
           true
           one
           to
           bring
           vs
           to
           eternall
           happinesse
           (
           wherein
           your
           Ladyshipp
           
           is
           so
           wisely
           and
           worthily
           inquisitiue
           and
           sollicitous
           )
           hath
           begotten
           this
           following
           writing
           ;
           in
           the
           which
           I
           will
           ,
           as
           nere
           as
           I
           can
           ,
           summe
           vp
           the
           heads
           of
           those
           cōsiderations
           I
           haue
           somtimes
           discussed
           vnto
           you
           in
           conuersation
           .
           And
           I
           will
           briefely
           and
           barely
           lay
           them
           before
           you
           without
           any
           long
           enlargement
           vpon
           them
           ;
           as
           haueing
           a
           better
           opinion
           of
           the
           reflections
           that
           your
           Ladyshipps
           great
           vnderstanding
           and
           strong
           reasoning
           soule
           will
           by
           your selfe
           make
           vpon
           the
           naked
           subiect
           sincerely
           proposed
           ,
           then
           of
           any
           commentary
           I
           can
           
           frame
           vpon
           it
           .
           And
           indeed
           such
           discourses
           as
           these
           ,
           are
           deeper
           loked
           into
           ,
           whē
           they
           are
           pōdered
           by
           a
           prudentiall
           iudgement
           ,
           then
           when
           they
           are
           examined
           by
           scientificall
           speculations
           .
        
         
           But
           with
           your
           leaue
           I
           shall
           take
           the
           matter
           a
           little
           higher
           then
           where
           the
           chiefe
           difficulty
           seemeth
           to
           be
           ,
           at
           which
           your
           Ladyshipp
           sticketh
           ;
           conceiuing
           that
           if
           we
           begin
           at
           the
           roote
           and
           proceede
           on
           steppe
           by
           steppe
           ,
           we
           shall
           find
           our
           search
           the
           easyer
           ,
           and
           the
           securer
           ,
           and
           our
           assent
           to
           the
           conclusions
           we
           shall
           collect
           ,
           wil
           be
           the
           
           more
           firme
           and
           vigorours
           .
        
         
           We
           will
           therfore
           begin
           with
           considering
           why
           faith
           and
           Religion
           is
           needfull
           to
           a
           man
           ,
           before
           we
           determine
           the
           meanes
           how
           to
           find
           out
           the
           right
           faith
           :
           for
           that
           being
           once
           setled
           in
           the
           vnderstāding
           ,
           we
           shall
           presently
           without
           further
           dispute
           reiect
           :
           what
           Religiō
           soeuer
           is
           but
           proposed
           ,
           that
           hath
           not
           those
           proprieties
           which
           are
           required
           to
           bring
           that
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           Religion
           in
           its
           owne
           nature
           aymeth
           at
           .
           And
           this
           must
           be
           done
           by
           taking
           a
           suruey
           of
           some
           of
           the
           operations
           of
           a
           human
           soule
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           impressions
           
           made
           in
           it
           by
           the
           obiects
           it
           is
           conuersant
           withall
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Your
           Ladyshipp
           may
           be
           pleased
           thē
           to
           cōsider
           in
           the
           first
           place
           .
           That
           it
           is
           by
           nature
           ingrafted
           in
           the
           soules
           of
           all
           mankinde
           to
           desire
           beatitude
           .
           (
           By
           which
           word
           I
           meane
           an
           intire
           ,
           perfect
           ,
           and
           secure
           fruition
           of
           all
           such
           obiects
           as
           one
           hath
           vehement
           affections
           vnto
           ,
           without
           mixture
           of
           any
           thing
           one
           hath
           auersion
           from
           .
           )
           For
           the
           soule
           haueing
           a
           perpetuall
           actiuity
           in
           it
           ,
           must
           necessarily
           haue
           something
           to
           entertaine
           it selfe
           about
           :
           and
           according
           to
           the
           two
           
           chiefe
           powers
           of
           it
           (
           which
           are
           the
           vnderstanding
           and
           the
           will
           )
           it
           employeth
           it selfe
           ,
           first
           in
           the
           search
           and
           inuestigatio
           of
           what
           is
           true
           and
           good
           ;
           and
           then
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           iudgement
           it
           maketh
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           will
           followeth
           and
           with
           affectiōs
           graspeth
           at
           it
           ,
           which
           if
           it
           happen
           to
           seize
           vpon
           ,
           the
           soule
           is
           at
           content
           and
           at
           rest
           ;
           but
           if
           it
           misse
           ,
           it
           is
           vnquiet
           ,
           and
           laboureth
           with
           all
           vehemence
           to
           compasse
           it
           :
           and
           if
           any
           thing
           happen
           that
           is
           repugnant
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           it
           ,
           it
           vseth
           all
           industry
           and
           efficacious
           meanes
           to
           ouercome
           and
           banish
           it
           :
           so
           that
           all
           the
           actions
           
           and
           motions
           of
           it
           ,
           tend
           to
           gaine
           contentment
           and
           beatitude
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           In
           the
           next
           place
           you
           may
           please
           to
           consider
           that
           this
           full
           beatitude
           which
           the
           soule
           thirsteth
           after
           ,
           cannot
           be
           enioyed
           in
           this
           life
           .
           For
           it
           is
           apparent
           ,
           that
           intellectuall
           goods
           ,
           as
           sciēce
           ,
           contemplation
           and
           fruition
           of
           spirituall
           obiects
           and
           contentments
           ,
           in
           theire
           owne
           nature
           are
           the
           chiefe
           goods
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           and
           affect
           her
           much
           more
           strongly
           and
           violently
           thē
           corporall
           and
           sensuall
           ones
           can
           doe
           :
           for
           they
           are
           more
           agreeable
           to
           her
           nature
           ,
           ād
           therfore
           moue
           her
           more
           
           efficaciously
           when
           they
           are
           duely
           relished
           .
           But
           such
           intellectuall
           goods
           cannot
           be
           perfectly
           relished
           and
           inioyed
           as
           long
           as
           the
           soule
           is
           immersed
           in
           the
           body
           ,
           by
           reason
           that
           the
           sensuall
           appetite
           maketh
           continuall
           warr
           against
           the
           rationall
           part
           of
           the
           soule
           ;
           and
           in
           most
           men
           mastereth
           it
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           perfectest
           ,
           this
           earthly
           habitation
           doth
           soe
           drawe
           downe
           and
           clogge
           and
           benumme
           the
           noble
           inhabitant
           of
           it
           (
           which
           would
           allwayes
           busie
           it selfe
           in
           sublime
           contemplations
           )
           as
           it
           may
           be
           sayd
           to
           be
           but
           in
           a
           iayle
           whiles
           it
           resideth
           
           heere
           .
           And
           experience
           cōfirmeth
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           that
           the
           sparkes
           of
           knowledge
           we
           gaine
           heere
           are
           not
           pure
           ;
           but
           haue
           the
           nature
           of
           salt
           water
           ,
           that
           increaseth
           the
           thirst
           in
           them
           who
           drinke
           most
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           we
           swallowe
           the
           purest
           streames
           like
           men
           in
           a
           dropsie
           ,
           who
           the
           more
           they
           drinke
           are
           still
           the
           greedier
           of
           more
           .
           Therfore
           to
           haue
           this
           greedinesse
           of
           knowing
           satisfied
           ,
           and
           to
           exercise
           the
           powers
           of
           our
           soule
           in
           the
           pure
           and
           abstracted
           contemplation
           of
           truth
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           sincere
           fruiction
           of
           spirituall
           obiects
           ,
           we
           must
           haue
           patience
           vntill
           
           she
           arriue
           vnto
           an
           other
           state
           of
           life
           ,
           wherein
           being
           separated
           from
           all
           corporall
           feces
           ,
           impediments
           ,
           and
           contradictions
           ,
           she
           may
           wholly
           giue
           herselfe
           vp
           to
           that
           which
           is
           her
           naturall
           operation
           ,
           and
           from
           whence
           resulteth
           her
           true
           and
           perfect
           delight
           .
           Besides
           ,
           euen
           they
           who
           haue
           attayned
           to
           the
           greatest
           blessings
           (
           both
           inward
           and
           outward
           )
           that
           this
           world
           can
           afforde
           ,
           yet
           are
           farr
           from
           being
           completely
           happy
           :
           for
           that
           state
           admitteth
           noe
           mixture
           of
           the
           contrary
           ,
           which
           who
           was
           euer
           yet
           free
           from
           ,
           were
           his
           fortune
           neuer
           so
           specious
           ?
           
           The
           very
           feare
           of
           loosing
           them
           ,
           that
           must
           allwayes
           necssarily
           accompagny
           those
           blessings
           ,
           is
           such
           a
           spoonefull
           of
           gall
           to
           make
           their
           whole
           draught
           bitter
           ,
           as
           that
           alone
           ,
           must
           needes
           take
           of
           the
           edge
           and
           vigour
           of
           the
           contentment
           that
           else
           they
           might
           enioy
           .
           How
           little
           can
           any
           man
           relish
           the
           obiects
           of
           delight
           which
           with
           neuer
           so
           great
           affluence
           beset
           him
           round
           about
           ,
           when
           he
           knoweth
           a
           sharpe
           and
           heauy
           sword
           hangesh
           by
           a
           slender
           thread
           ouer
           his
           head
           ,
           and
           at
           length
           must
           fall
           ,
           and
           euer
           after
           seuer
           
           him
           from
           them
           ?
           A
           litle
           distemper
           ,
           an
           accidentall
           feauer
           ,
           and
           ill
           mingled
           draught
           (
           such
           a
           one
           as
           the
           miracle
           of
           witt
           and
           learning
           Lucretius
           mett
           withall
           )
           is
           enough
           to
           turne
           the
           braines
           of
           the
           wisest
           man
           that
           is
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           few
           houres
           to
           blott
           out
           all
           these
           notions
           he
           hath
           bin
           all
           his
           life
           labouring
           to
           possesse
           himselfe
           of
           ,
           and
           to
           render
           him
           of
           a
           more
           abiect
           ,
           and
           despicable
           condition
           then
           the
           meanest
           wretch
           liuing
           that
           hath
           but
           the
           common
           vse
           of
           reason
           .
           The
           Genius
           that
           presideth
           ouer
           human
           affaires
           ,
           delighteth
           in
           perpetuall
           changes
           and
           
           variation
           of
           mēs
           fortunes
           ,
           so
           that
           he
           who
           late
           sate
           enthroned
           in
           greatest
           dignity
           ,
           is
           all
           of
           a
           suddaine
           precipitated
           head-long
           vnto
           a
           condition
           most
           opposite
           therunto
           :
           he
           that
           but
           yesterday
           had
           all
           his
           ioyes
           enlarged
           and
           swelled
           vp
           to
           their
           full
           height
           by
           the
           communication
           of
           a
           perfect
           and
           entire
           friend
           (
           without
           which
           can
           there
           by
           any
           true
           ioye
           ?
           )
           hath
           to
           day
           lost
           the
           comfort
           of
           all
           that
           the
           world
           can
           afford
           him
           by
           the
           irrecouerable
           losse
           of
           that
           one
           friend
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           death
           growing
           dayly
           vpon
           him
           ,
           and
           encroaching
           vpon
           his
           
           outworks
           ,
           and
           by
           houres
           reducing
           him
           into
           a
           narrower
           circle
           ,
           at
           leingth
           seizeth
           vpon
           himselfe
           and
           maketh
           an
           eternall
           diuorce
           betweene
           him
           and
           what
           was
           dearest
           to
           him
           heere
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Our
           next
           consideration
           then
           shall
           be
           to
           discouer
           what
           will
           result
           out
           of
           our
           swifte
           passadge
           through
           this
           vayle
           of
           miseries
           ,
           and
           what
           impressions
           we
           shall
           carry
           with
           vs
           out
           of
           this
           pilgrimage
           ;
           since
           we
           cannot
           suspect
           it
           is
           aiourney
           assigned
           vs
           in
           vaine
           ,
           being
           the
           ordinary
           and
           naturall
           course
           prescribed
           by
           the
           wise
           author
           of
           nature
           to
           all
           
           mankinde
           ,
           and
           the
           ineuitable
           through-fare
           for
           euery
           man
           in
           particular
           .
           Therfore
           to
           proceed
           on
           in
           this
           methode
           ,
           our
           third
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           what
           soeuer
           iudgemēt
           the
           soule
           once
           frameth
           in
           this
           life
           ,
           that
           iudgement
           and
           that
           affection
           will
           perpetually
           remaine
           in
           the
           soule
           ,
           vnlesse
           some
           contrary
           impression
           be
           made
           in
           it
           to
           blot
           it
           out
           ;
           which
           only
           hath
           power
           to
           expell
           any
           former
           one
           .
           For
           iudgements
           and
           affections
           are
           caused
           in
           a
           man
           by
           the
           impression
           that
           the
           obiects
           make
           in
           his
           soule
           :
           and
           all
           that
           any
           agent
           aymeth
           at
           
           in
           any
           operation
           whatsoeuer
           (
           be
           it
           neuer
           so
           forcible
           in
           action
           )
           is
           but
           to
           produce
           a
           resemblance
           of
           it selfe
           in
           the
           subiect
           it
           worketh
           vpon
           ;
           and
           therefore
           it
           excludeth
           nothing
           that
           it
           findeth
           formerly
           there
           (
           which
           in
           our
           case
           is
           the
           soule
           )
           vnlesse
           it
           be
           some
           such
           impression
           as
           is
           incompatible
           with
           what
           it
           intendeth
           to
           effect
           there
           ;
           or
           that
           the
           subiect
           is
           not
           large
           enough
           ,
           both
           to
           retayne
           the
           old
           and
           receaue
           the
           new
           ;
           in
           which
           case
           the
           first
           must
           be
           blotted
           out
           to
           make
           roome
           for
           the
           latter
           .
           But
           of
           iudgements
           ,
           and
           affections
           ,
           none
           are
           incōpatible
           
           to
           one
           another
           ,
           but
           those
           that
           are
           directly
           opposite
           to
           one
           another
           by
           contradiction
           :
           Therfore
           only
           such
           haue
           power
           to
           expell
           one
           another
           ;
           and
           all
           that
           are
           not
           such
           ,
           are
           immediatly
           vnited
           to
           the
           very
           substāce
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           which
           hauing
           an
           infinite
           capacity
           ,
           it
           can
           neuer
           be
           filled
           by
           any
           limited
           obiects
           whatsoeuer
           :
           so
           that
           they
           alwayes
           reside
           in
           the
           soule
           ,
           although
           they
           doe
           not
           at
           all
           tymes
           appeare
           in
           outward
           act
           ;
           which
           proceedeth
           from
           hence
           ,
           that
           new
           and
           other
           images
           are
           by
           the
           fantasie
           represented
           to
           the
           soule
           ,
           and
           she
           seemeth
           
           to
           busy
           herselfe
           onely
           about
           what
           she
           findeth
           there
           ,
           which
           being
           but
           one
           distinct
           Image
           at
           a
           tyme
           (
           for
           corporall
           organs
           haue
           limited
           comprehensions
           ,
           and
           are
           quickly
           filled
           with
           corporall
           species
           )
           she
           therupon
           seemeth
           to
           exercise
           but
           one
           iudgement
           ;
           or
           but
           one
           affectiō
           at
           a
           tyme.
           But
           as
           soone
           as
           the
           soule
           shall
           be
           released
           out
           of
           the
           body
           (
           which
           is
           like
           a
           darke
           prison
           to
           wall
           it
           in
           )
           then
           she
           will
           at
           one
           and
           the
           same
           instant
           actually
           knowe
           and
           loue
           all
           those
           things
           she
           knewe
           ,
           and
           loued
           in
           the
           body
           ;
           with
           only
           this
           difference
           ,
           that
           her
           
           knowledges
           will
           then
           be
           much
           more
           distinct
           and
           perfect
           ,
           and
           her
           affections
           much
           more
           vehement
           then
           they
           were
           in
           this
           life
           ,
           by
           reason
           that
           her
           coniunction
           heere
           with
           resistent
           matter
           was
           a
           burden
           ,
           and
           a
           clogge
           vnto
           her
           ,
           and
           hindered
           the
           actiuitie
           and
           force
           of
           her
           operations
           .
           The
           difference
           of
           these
           states
           ,
           may
           in
           some
           measure
           be
           illustrated
           by
           a
           grosse
           ād
           materiall
           exāple
           :
           Represent
           vnto
           your selfe
           a
           man
           walled
           vp
           in
           a
           darke
           tower
           ,
           that
           is
           so
           close
           as
           noe
           ayre
           nor
           light
           can
           come
           into
           it
           ,
           excepting
           only
           at
           one
           little
           hole
           ,
           and
           
           that
           hole
           too
           affordeth
           no
           cleare
           and
           free
           passage
           to
           the
           sight
           ,
           but
           hath
           a
           thick
           and
           muddy
           glasse
           before
           it
           .
           Now
           if
           this
           man
           would
           looke
           vpon
           any
           of
           the
           obiects
           that
           are
           about
           this
           tower
           ,
           he
           must
           gett
           them
           to
           be
           placed
           ouer
           against
           that
           hole
           ,
           vnto
           which
           he
           must
           lay
           his
           eye
           ;
           and
           then
           ,
           he
           can
           discerne
           but
           one
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           and
           that
           but
           dimmely
           nether
           ,
           and
           if
           he
           will
           see
           seuerall
           bodies
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           by
           so
           many
           seuerall
           iterated
           actes
           as
           they
           are
           in
           number
           .
           But
           suppose
           some
           Earthquake
           or
           exteriour
           violence
           to
           breake
           a
           sunder
           and
           throwe
           downe
           to
           
           the
           ground
           the
           wals
           of
           this
           tower
           ,
           leauing
           the
           man
           vntouched
           and
           vnhurt
           ;
           then
           at
           one
           instant
           ,
           and
           with
           one
           cast
           of
           his
           eyes
           ,
           he
           beholdeth
           distinctly
           ,
           clearly
           ,
           ād
           at
           ease
           ,
           all
           those
           seuerall
           obiects
           that
           with
           so
           much
           labour
           and
           tyme
           he
           tooke
           but
           a
           mistakinge
           suruey
           of
           before
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           The
           fourth
           consideration
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           after
           the
           first
           instant
           wherein
           the
           soule
           is
           separated
           from
           the
           body
           ,
           she
           is
           then
           in
           her
           nature
           no
           longer
           subiect
           or
           liable
           to
           any
           new
           impression
           mutatiō
           or
           chāge
           whatsoeuer
           .
           For
           that
           which
           should
           cause
           any
           such
           effect
           ,
           
           must
           be
           ether
           a
           materiall
           or
           a
           spirituall
           agent
           :
           But
           a
           materiall
           one
           cannot
           worke
           vpon
           it
           ,
           for
           that
           requireth
           quantitie
           in
           the
           patient
           ,
           whereby
           it
           may
           be
           applyed
           unto
           it
           to
           exercise
           its
           operation
           vpon
           it
           :
           Nor
           cā
           any
           spirituall
           agēt
           cause
           any
           succession
           of
           new
           alteration
           ;
           But
           all
           that
           spirits
           worke
           one
           vpō
           another
           is
           done
           at
           once
           and
           at
           one
           instant
           :
           which
           we
           shall
           discerne
           the
           clearer
           by
           examining
           the
           reason
           why
           there
           is
           succession
           and
           tyme
           taken
           vp
           in
           the
           alteratiōs
           that
           are
           wrought
           amongst
           materiall
           things
           ,
           for
           in
           them
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           
           their
           quantity
           that
           causeth
           an
           extention
           and
           distance
           of
           the
           parts
           ,
           the
           agent
           ,
           allthough
           it
           haue
           neuer
           so
           much
           disposition
           and
           efficacy
           to
           worke
           ,
           must
           haue
           his
           seuerall
           parts
           applyed
           to
           the
           seuerall
           parts
           of
           the
           patient
           by
           locall
           motion
           ;
           which
           requireth
           tyme
           for
           the
           performance
           thereof
           .
           And
           besides
           ,
           euen
           in
           the
           agent
           it selfe
           ,
           the
           grossenesse
           ād
           heauinesse
           of
           the
           matter
           giueth
           an
           allay
           and
           is
           a
           clogge
           to
           the
           actiuity
           of
           the
           forme
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           were
           pulleth
           it
           backe
           whiles
           it
           is
           in
           action
           .
           But
           this
           is
           not
           so
           in
           spirituall
           substances
           ,
           and
           therfore
           
           we
           may
           conclude
           that
           among
           them
           in
           the
           same
           instant
           that
           the
           agent
           is
           disposed
           to
           worke
           ,
           the
           action
           is
           performed
           ,
           for
           on
           his
           part
           there
           is
           nothing
           to
           retarde
           it
           ,
           nor
           is
           there
           required
           any
           locall
           motion
           which
           should
           take
           vp
           tyme
           ;
           and
           likewise
           by
           the
           same
           reason
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           instant
           that
           the
           patient
           is
           disposed
           to
           receiue
           any
           impression
           ,
           it
           is
           wrought
           in
           it
           :
           And
           thus
           ,
           allthough
           there
           were
           neuer
           so
           many
           agents
           ,
           and
           euery
           one
           of
           them
           to
           performe
           neuer
           so
           many
           actions
           ,
           they
           would
           be
           all
           done
           ,
           and
           ended
           in
           one
           and
           the
           same
           instant
           .
        
         
         
           5.
           
           The
           next
           consideration
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           those
           persons
           who
           in
           this
           world
           had
           strong
           and
           predominant
           affections
           to
           sensible
           and
           materiall
           obiects
           ;
           and
           dyed
           in
           that
           state
           ;
           shall
           be
           eternally
           miserable
           in
           the
           next
           ,
           for
           by
           what
           we
           haue
           sayed
           ,
           it
           appeareth
           that
           those
           affections
           will
           eternally
           remaine
           in
           the
           soule
           ;
           and
           that
           after
           the
           separatiō
           of
           it
           from
           the
           body
           ,
           they
           can
           neuer
           be
           blotted
           out
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           changed
           ;
           And
           the
           affections
           of
           a
           separated
           soule
           are
           much
           more
           ardent
           and
           vehement
           then
           whiles
           it
           is
           in
           the
           body
           .
           But
           it
           is
           impossible
           they
           
           should
           euer
           attayne
           in
           that
           state
           to
           the
           fruitiō
           of
           what
           they
           so
           violently
           couet
           and
           loue
           ,
           and
           yet
           for
           its
           sake
           they
           neglect
           all
           other
           goods
           whatsoeuer
           that
           they
           might
           haue
           ,
           whose
           beauty
           and
           excellēcy
           ,
           notwithstanding
           they
           plainly
           discerne
           :
           they
           cannot
           choose
           therfore
           but
           execrate
           themselues
           for
           their
           fondly
           misplaced
           (
           yet
           thē
           eternally
           necessary
           )
           affecctions
           ,
           and
           pine
           awaye
           (
           if
           so
           I
           may
           say
           )
           with
           perpetuall
           anguish
           and
           despaire
           of
           what
           they
           so
           impatiently
           ,
           and
           enragedly
           desire
           and
           ueuer
           can
           obtayne
           .
        
         
           6.
           
           The
           sixt
           consideration
           
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           to
           be
           happy
           in
           the
           next
           life
           ,
           one
           must
           not
           settle
           their
           predominant
           affections
           vpon
           any
           creature
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           or
           any
           good
           that
           we
           can
           naturally
           attayne
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           in
           this
           life
           .
           For
           what
           naturall
           good
           soeuer
           we
           loue
           or
           enioy
           here
           ,
           we
           must
           by
           death
           be
           diuorced
           from
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           we
           haue
           sayd
           before
           )
           that
           separation
           will
           cause
           perpetuall
           sorrow
           ,
           because
           the
           affections
           remaine
           vnchāgeable
           .
           And
           allthough
           we
           should
           place
           our
           felicity
           in
           naturall
           knowledge
           or
           any
           other
           intellectuall
           good
           whatsoeuer
           ,
           yet
           that
           
           cannot
           satisfy
           the
           desires
           and
           fill
           the
           capacity
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           neuer
           so
           perfectly
           enioyed
           :
           for
           they
           are
           infinite
           ;
           and
           this
           can
           be
           collected
           but
           out
           of
           particular
           obiects
           (
           for
           the
           whole
           created
           vniuerse
           is
           but
           so
           )
           and
           therfore
           they
           hold
           on
           proportiō
           together
           ;
           but
           the
           soule
           haueing
           nothing
           else
           to
           fill
           it
           withall
           ,
           allthough
           it
           should
           not
           be
           tormented
           with
           the
           former
           mentioned
           corrosiues
           of
           preposterous
           affections
           ,
           yet
           it
           cānot
           be
           at
           rest
           and
           quiet
           ,
           and
           the
           thirst
           of
           it
           satisfied
           by
           that
           dropp
           of
           water
           in
           
           comparison
           of
           the
           vehement
           ardor
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           And
           thus
           it
           followeth
           ,
           that
           ether
           man
           was
           not
           created
           for
           a
           determinate
           end
           ,
           and
           for
           a
           state
           conuenient
           for
           his
           nature
           ,
           and
           able
           to
           satisfie
           the
           originall
           appetences
           of
           his
           soule
           ;
           or
           at
           the
           least
           ,
           no
           mā
           can
           by
           naturall
           meanes
           arriue
           to
           the
           end
           and
           period
           of
           happinesse
           .
        
         
           7.
           
           But
           now
           to
           proceede
           in
           the
           pursuance
           of
           this
           method
           of
           reasoning
           ,
           and
           to
           follow
           hence
           forward
           the
           conduct
           of
           a
           supernaturall
           guide
           ,
           since
           nature
           quitteth
           vs
           here
           ,
           haueing
           lead
           vs
           on
           as
           long
           as
           she
           was
           able
           
           to
           see
           ;
           we
           may
           in
           the
           seauenth
           place
           consider
           that
           God
           when
           he
           created
           man
           did
           not
           assigne
           him
           to
           remaine
           in
           the
           state
           of
           pure
           nature
           ,
           but
           did
           out
           of
           his
           goodnesse
           and
           liberality
           conferre
           something
           vpō
           him
           that
           exceeded
           the
           sphere
           of
           his
           nature
           .
           For
           else
           ,
           the
           first
           part
           of
           the
           preceedent
           consequence
           would
           follow
           ;
           which
           were
           not
           only
           impious
           ,
           but
           absurd
           to
           say
           ,
           to
           whosoeuer
           considereth
           the
           infinite
           goodnesse
           ,
           wisedome
           and
           omnipotency
           of
           God.
           For
           as
           heate
           being
           essentiall
           to
           fire
           ,
           cannot
           but
           produce
           heate
           in
           whatsoeuer
           it
           
           application
           vnto
           ;
           so
           God
           being
           in
           his
           owne
           essence
           goodnesse
           it selfe
           ,
           cannot
           chose
           but
           doe
           vnto
           whatsoeuer
           proceedeth
           from
           him
           ,
           all
           that
           good
           which
           the
           nature
           of
           it
           is
           capable
           of
           ;
           (
           whether
           by
           naturall
           or
           supernaturall
           meanes
           )
           and
           his
           wisedome
           can
           readily
           contriue
           the
           meanes
           to
           bring
           that
           to
           passe
           which
           his
           goodnesse
           disposeth
           him
           to
           doe
           ;
           And
           his
           omnipotency
           as
           easily
           acteth
           what
           his
           other
           two
           attributes
           haue
           proiected
           ;
           so
           that
           there
           wanting
           an
           infinit
           obiect
           to
           satisfy
           the
           infinite
           capacity
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           and
           without
           which
           
           she
           must
           be
           eternally
           miserable
           ;
           it
           remayneth
           ,
           that
           he
           who
           gaue
           that
           capacity
           ,
           must
           allso
           afforde
           the
           obiect
           ,
           and
           assigne
           meanes
           how
           to
           compasse
           and
           gaine
           it
           .
           All
           which
           we
           haue
           allready
           proued
           is
           out
           of
           the
           reach
           of
           nature
           to
           discerne
           :
           and
           therfore
           it
           followeth
           of
           consequence
           ,
           that
           the
           author
           of
           nature
           must
           endowe
           man
           with
           some
           supernaturall
           giftes
           ,
           if
           he
           be
           in
           a
           fit
           disposition
           to
           receaue
           them
           which
           may
           bring
           him
           to
           the
           supernaturall
           end
           he
           was
           created
           for
           .
        
         
           8
           Our
           eight
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           that
           of
           these
           supernaturall
           
           giftes
           ,
           the
           first
           and
           the
           ground
           and
           foundation
           of
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           is
           faith
           .
           For
           we
           haue
           allready
           determined
           that
           we
           cannot
           by
           any
           naturall
           meanes
           attaine
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           any
           obiect
           that
           may
           render
           vs
           completely
           happy
           in
           the
           next
           life
           ;
           And
           yet
           such
           knowledge
           must
           be
           had
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           we
           may
           direct
           our
           actions
           to
           gaine
           the
           fruition
           of
           that
           obiect
           .
           Therfore
           there
           is
           no
           way
           left
           to
           compasse
           this
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           instructions
           and
           discipline
           of
           some
           Master
           whose
           goodnesse
           and
           knowledge
           we
           can
           no
           wayes
           doubt
           of
           ;
           by
           
           which
           two
           perfections
           in
           him
           ,
           we
           may
           be
           secure
           that
           he
           nether
           can
           be
           deceaued
           himselfe
           ,
           nor
           will
           deceaue
           vs.
           Now
           the
           docctrine
           that
           such
           a
           Master
           shall
           teach
           for
           such
           an
           ende
           ,
           we
           call
           faith
           .
        
         
           9.
           
           In
           the
           ninth
           place
           we
           must
           determine
           that
           this
           Master
           must
           be
           God
           and
           man.
           For
           first
           by
           our
           discourse
           vpon
           naturall
           principles
           ,
           we
           haue
           proued
           ,
           that
           to
           auoide
           misery
           in
           the
           next
           life
           ,
           we
           must
           deny
           our
           senses
           the
           content
           and
           satisfaction
           that
           they
           naturally
           desire
           in
           corporall
           things
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           must
           withdrawe
           our
           affections
           from
           all
           materiall
           obiects
           :
           
           And
           next
           we
           haue
           collected
           that
           the
           obiect
           which
           we
           must
           know
           and
           loue
           to
           be
           happy
           ,
           doth
           exceede
           the
           reach
           and
           view
           of
           any
           created
           vnderstanding
           to
           discerne
           :
           Therfore
           we
           may
           safely
           conclude
           that
           this
           doctrine
           ought
           to
           be
           deliuered
           vnto
           vs
           originally
           by
           God
           himselfe
           .
           For
           after
           the
           first
           branch
           ,
           which
           is
           of
           withdrawing
           our
           affections
           from
           sensible
           goods
           ;
           allthough
           out
           of
           naturall
           principles
           that
           doctrine
           is
           to
           be
           collected
           ,
           yet
           that
           is
           not
           a
           sufficient
           meanes
           to
           settle
           mankinde
           in
           generall
           ,
           in
           the
           beliefe
           of
           it
           :
           For
           the
           discourse
           that
           proueth
           
           it
           ,
           is
           such
           an
           abstracted
           one
           ,
           as
           very
           few
           are
           capable
           of
           it
           ,
           being
           that
           it
           requireth
           both
           a
           mature
           age
           to
           be
           able
           to
           reason
           so
           (
           before
           which
           tyme
           many
           dye
           )
           and
           likewise
           strong
           and
           vigoroux
           powers
           of
           the
           vnderstanding
           which
           we
           see
           more
           doe
           want
           then
           are
           indowed
           withall
           :
           And
           ,
           besides
           ,
           of
           those
           that
           haue
           both
           yeares
           and
           capacity
           to
           wielde
           such
           thoughts
           ,
           there
           are
           so
           few
           that
           are
           not
           in
           a
           manner
           forced
           away
           from
           such
           interiour
           recollections
           by
           their
           particular
           vacations
           and
           the
           naturall
           necessities
           they
           are
           obliged
           vnto
           ;
           as
           
           to
           beate
           it
           out
           by
           themselues
           is
           not
           a
           sufficient
           meanes
           to
           serue
           mankind
           in
           this
           case
           .
           And
           to
           thinke
           that
           those
           few
           who
           haueing
           great
           partes
           ,
           may
           with
           much
           labour
           haue
           attayned
           to
           the
           knowledge
           therof
           ,
           should
           instruct
           others
           that
           are
           simpler
           and
           are
           taken
           vp
           by
           other
           imployments
           and
           courses
           of
           life
           ,
           were
           very
           irrationall
           ;
           since
           no
           man
           ,
           be
           he
           neuer
           so
           wise
           ,
           is
           such
           but
           may
           be
           deceiued
           ;
           and
           then
           ,
           how
           can
           it
           be
           expected
           that
           another
           man
           should
           without
           sensible
           demonstration
           belieue
           his
           single
           word
           in
           a
           matter
           so
           cōtrary
           to
           sense
           ,
           
           and
           wherein
           he
           must
           forgoe
           so
           great
           contentments
           and
           present
           vtility
           ?
        
         
           And
           for
           the
           other
           branch
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           the
           instructing
           mankinde
           concerning
           the
           right
           obiect
           that
           he
           is
           to
           know
           and
           loue
           to
           be
           happy
           ,
           that
           is
           alltogether
           out
           of
           the
           reache
           of
           any
           man
           whatsoeuer
           by
           himselfe
           to
           discouer
           ;
           and
           therfore
           much
           lesse
           can
           he
           in
           his
           owne
           name
           instruct
           others
           therin
           :
           And
           if
           any
           man
           should
           goe
           about
           to
           doe
           so
           ,
           and
           to
           introduce
           a
           new
           doctrine
           of
           faith
           not
           formerly
           heard
           of
           ,
           drawing
           the
           arguments
           for
           confirmation
           therof
           onely
           out
           
           of
           his
           owne
           ratiocination
           and
           discourse
           ;
           that
           alone
           ,
           were
           enough
           to
           conuince
           him
           of
           falsehoode
           ;
           since
           he
           should
           thereby
           vndertake
           to
           know
           what
           were
           impossible
           for
           him
           of
           himselfe
           to
           attayne
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           .
        
         
           Therfore
           it
           is
           necessary
           that
           the
           author
           of
           the
           doctrine
           we
           must
           belieue
           ,
           the
           instructor
           of
           the
           actions
           we
           must
           performe
           ;
           and
           the
           promiser
           of
           the
           happinesse
           we
           may
           hope
           for
           ,
           be
           God
           himselfe
           ;
           who
           onely
           knoweth
           of
           himselfe
           what
           is
           sayed
           in
           matters
           of
           these
           natures
           ,
           and
           who
           onely
           is
           nether
           liable
           to
           be
           deceiued
           ,
           
           nor
           can
           deceiue
           others
           ;
           as
           being
           the
           prime
           verity
           it selfe
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           the
           weakenesse
           of
           our
           intellectuall
           nature
           is
           such
           ,
           whiles
           we
           remaine
           here
           in
           our
           earthly
           habitations
           ,
           imprisoned
           in
           our
           houses
           of
           clay
           ,
           as
           we
           cannot
           lift
           vp
           our
           heauy
           and
           drowsie
           eyes
           ,
           ād
           steddily
           fixe
           our
           dimme
           sight
           vpon
           the
           dazeling
           and
           indeed
           inuisible
           Deity
           ,
           nor
           entertaine
           an
           immediate
           communication
           with
           him
           (
           like
           the
           childrē
           of
           Israel
           ,
           who
           desired
           that
           Moses
           ,
           not
           God
           might
           speake
           vnto
           them
           )
           it
           was
           necessary
           that
           God
           himselfe
           should
           descend
           
           to
           some
           corporall
           substance
           that
           might
           be
           more
           familiar
           and
           lesse
           dazeling
           vnto
           vs
           ;
           And
           none
           was
           so
           conuenient
           as
           humane
           nature
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           he
           might
           not
           onely
           conuerse
           freely
           and
           familiarly
           with
           vs
           ,
           and
           so
           in
           a
           gentle
           and
           a
           sweete
           manner
           teach
           vs
           what
           we
           should
           doe
           ;
           but
           also
           preach
           vnto
           vs
           by
           his
           example
           ,
           and
           himselfe
           be
           our
           leader
           in
           the
           way
           that
           he
           instructed
           vs
           to
           take
           .
           The
           conclusion
           then
           of
           this
           discourse
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           necessary
           ,
           Christ
           ,
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           should
           come
           into
           the
           world
           to
           teach
           vs
           what
           to
           
           belieue
           and
           what
           to
           doe
           .
        
         
           10.
           
           The
           tenth
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           those
           vnto
           whom
           Christ
           did
           immediatly
           preach
           this
           faith
           ,
           and
           vnto
           whome
           he
           gaue
           commission
           to
           preach
           it
           vnto
           others
           and
           spread
           it
           through
           the
           world
           ,
           after
           he
           ascended
           to
           heauen
           ,
           ought
           to
           be
           belieued
           as
           firmely
           as
           he
           himselfe
           .
           The
           reason
           of
           this
           assertion
           is
           ,
           that
           their
           doctrine
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           deliuered
           by
           secondary
           mouthes
           ,
           yet
           it
           proceedeth
           from
           the
           same
           fountaine
           :
           which
           is
           God
           himselfe
           ,
           that
           is
           the
           prime
           verity
           ,
           and
           cannot
           deceiue
           ,
           
           nor
           be
           deceiued
           .
           But
           all
           the
           difficulty
           here
           in
           is
           ,
           to
           know
           who
           had
           this
           immediate
           commission
           from
           Christ
           ,
           and
           by
           what
           seale
           we
           should
           discerne
           it
           to
           haue
           bin
           no
           forged
           one
           .
           The
           solution
           of
           this
           ariseth
           out
           of
           the
           same
           argument
           which
           proueth
           that
           Christ
           himselfe
           was
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           doctrine
           he
           taught
           was
           true
           and
           diuine
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           the
           miracles
           and
           workes
           he
           did
           ,
           exceeding
           the
           power
           of
           nature
           ,
           and
           that
           could
           be
           effected
           by
           none
           but
           by
           God
           hmiselfe
           :
           for
           he
           being
           truth
           it selfe
           ,
           cannot
           by
           any
           action
           immediatly
           proceeding
           from
           
           him
           ,
           witnesse
           and
           confirme
           à
           falsehoode
           :
           In
           like
           manner
           the
           Apostles
           doing
           such
           admirable
           workes
           and
           miracles
           as
           nether
           by
           nature
           nor
           by
           art
           magicke
           could
           be
           brought
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           must
           necessarily
           inferre
           God
           himselfe
           cooperated
           with
           them
           to
           iustifie
           what
           they
           sayd
           ;
           it
           is
           euidēt
           that
           their
           doctrine
           (
           which
           was
           not
           their
           owne
           ,
           but
           receaued
           from
           Christ
           )
           must
           be
           true
           and
           Diuine
           .
        
         
           11.
           
           Te
           eleauenth
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           this
           faith
           thus
           taught
           by
           Christ
           and
           propagated
           by
           the
           Apostles
           and
           necessary
           to
           
           mankinde
           to
           belieue
           (
           as
           well
           that
           part
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           is
           written
           ,
           as
           the
           whole
           which
           is
           not
           )
           dependeth
           intrinsecally
           vpon
           the
           testimony
           of
           the
           Catholicke
           Church
           ;
           which
           is
           ordayned
           to
           conserue
           and
           deliuer
           it
           from
           age
           to
           age
           .
           (
           By
           which
           Catholike
           Church
           ,
           I
           meane
           the
           congregation
           of
           the
           faithfull
           that
           is
           spread
           through-out
           the
           whole
           world
           )
           for
           we
           haue
           proued
           before
           ,
           that
           the
           way
           to
           the
           true
           faith
           ought
           to
           be
           open
           and
           playne
           to
           all
           men
           ,
           of
           all
           abilities
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           ages
           ,
           that
           haue
           a
           desire
           to
           embrace
           it
           :
           and
           this
           cannot
           be
           but
           ether
           
           by
           the
           immediate
           preaching
           of
           Christ
           ;
           or
           else
           by
           the
           information
           (
           ether
           in
           writing
           or
           by
           word
           of
           mouth
           )
           of
           them
           that
           learned
           it
           from
           him
           ,
           and
           their
           deliuering
           it
           ouer
           to
           others
           ,
           and
           so
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           vntill
           any
           particular
           tyme
           you
           will
           pitch
           vpon
           .
           But
           from
           Christs
           owne
           mouth
           ,
           none
           could
           haue
           it
           but
           those
           who
           liued
           in
           the
           age
           when
           he
           did
           ,
           therfore
           there
           remaineth
           no
           other
           meanes
           to
           haue
           it
           deriued
           downe
           to
           after
           ;
           ages
           then
           by
           this
           deliuery
           ouer
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           of
           the
           whole
           congregation
           of
           fathers
           or
           elders
           dispersed
           
           throughout
           the
           world
           ,
           to
           the
           whole
           congregation
           of
           sonnes
           or
           youngers
           ;
           which
           course
           of
           deducing
           faith
           from
           Christ
           we
           call
           tradition
           ,
           so
           that
           this
           conclusion
           proueth
           that
           the
           Church
           is
           the
           conseruer
           both
           of
           the
           whole
           doctrine
           of
           faith
           necessary
           for
           saluation
           ,
           and
           likewise
           of
           the
           diuine
           writ
           dictated
           by
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           and
           written
           by
           the
           Prophetes
           ,
           Euangelists
           and
           Apostles
           ,
           which
           we
           are
           also
           bound
           to
           belieue
           .
           And
           the
           same
           assent
           that
           we
           are
           to
           giue
           to
           the
           truth
           of
           Scriptures
           (
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           the
           Scriptures
           we
           haue
           are
           
           true
           Scriptures
           )
           the
           very
           same
           we
           are
           to
           giue
           to
           other
           articles
           of
           faith
           proposed
           vnto
           vs
           by
           the
           Church
           :
           for
           they
           alike
           depend
           of
           the
           same
           authority
           ;
           which
           is
           the
           veracity
           of
           the
           Church
           proposing
           and
           deliuering
           thē
           vnto
           vs
           to
           be
           belieued
           .
           And
           we
           may
           as
           well
           doubt
           that
           the
           Church
           hath
           corrupted
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           as
           that
           she
           hath
           corrupted
           any
           article
           of
           fayth
           .
        
         
           12.
           
           The
           twelueth
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           that
           into
           the
           Catholike
           Church
           noe
           false
           doctrine
           in
           any
           age
           can
           be
           admitted
           or
           creepe
           in
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           
           no
           false
           proposition
           whatsoeuer
           can
           euer
           be
           receiued
           and
           imbraced
           by
           the
           Catholike
           Church
           as
           a
           proposition
           of
           faith
           .
           For
           whatsoeuer
           the
           Church
           beleeueth
           as
           a
           proposition
           of
           faith
           ,
           is
           vpon
           this
           ground
           ,
           that
           Christ
           taught
           it
           as
           such
           vnto
           the
           Church
           he
           planted
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           so
           it
           left
           it
           in
           truste
           to
           be
           by
           it
           deliuered
           ouer
           to
           the
           next
           age
           .
           And
           the
           reason
           why
           the
           present
           Church
           belieueth
           any
           proposition
           to
           be
           of
           faith
           ,
           is
           because
           the
           immediate
           preceeding
           Church
           ,
           of
           the
           age
           before
           ,
           deliuered
           it
           as
           such
           .
           And
           so
           you
           may
           driue
           it
           on
           frō
           
           age
           to
           age
           vntill
           you
           come
           to
           the
           Apostles
           and
           Christ.
           Therefore
           to
           haue
           any
           false
           proposition
           of
           faith
           admitted
           into
           the
           Church
           in
           any
           age
           ,
           doth
           Suppose
           that
           all
           they
           of
           that
           age
           must
           vnanimously
           conspire
           to
           deceiue
           their
           children
           and
           youngers
           ,
           telling
           them
           that
           they
           were
           taught
           by
           theire
           fathers
           to
           belieue
           ,
           as
           of
           faith
           ,
           some
           proposition
           which
           indeed
           they
           were
           not
           .
           Which
           being
           impossible
           (
           as
           it
           will
           euidently
           appeare
           to
           any
           prudent
           person
           that
           shall
           reasonably
           ponder
           the
           matter
           )
           that
           so
           many
           men
           spread
           
           throughout
           the
           whole
           world
           ,
           so
           different
           in
           their
           particular
           interests
           and
           endes
           ,
           and
           of
           such
           various
           dispositions
           and
           natures
           ,
           should
           all
           agree
           together
           in
           the
           forgery
           of
           any
           precise
           lye
           ;
           it
           is
           impossible
           that
           any
           false
           doctrine
           should
           creepe
           into
           the
           Church
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           the
           force
           of
           this
           argument
           may
           peraduenture
           not
           appeare
           at
           the
           first
           sight
           to
           your
           Ladyshipp
           ,
           that
           happily
           hath
           not
           had
           much
           occasion
           to
           make
           deepe
           reflection
           vpon
           the
           certainty
           that
           must
           needs
           be
           in
           the
           asseueration
           of
           any
           history
           of
           matter
           of
           fact
           subiect
           to
           
           the
           sense
           ,
           which
           shall
           be
           made
           by
           a
           great
           company
           of
           men
           so
           distant
           from
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           of
           such
           different
           interests
           and
           affections
           as
           they
           cannot
           conspire
           together
           in
           the
           forgery
           of
           a
           falsehood
           ;
           But
           that
           you
           may
           happily
           thinke
           ,
           since
           any
           one
           man
           is
           lyable
           to
           be
           deceiued
           ,
           or
           out
           of
           some
           indirect
           end
           may
           be
           iuduced
           to
           deceiue
           another
           ,
           it
           is
           also
           possible
           that
           a
           whole
           multitude
           of
           men
           (
           be
           it
           neuer
           so
           great
           )
           consisting
           of
           particular
           men
           ,
           may
           allso
           deceiue
           or
           be
           deceiued
           :
           I
           will
           therefore
           for
           a
           further
           declaration
           of
           this
           matter
           ,
           
           propose
           for
           the
           thirteenth
           Conclusion
           ,
           that
           fayth
           thus
           deliuered
           ,
           is
           absolutly
           more
           certaine
           and
           infallible
           then
           any
           naturall
           science
           whatsoeuer
           .
           And
           yet
           sciences
           are
           so
           certaine
           (
           I
           meane
           such
           as
           depend
           of
           experience
           and
           demonstration
           )
           as
           he
           were
           not
           a
           rationall
           man
           that
           should
           refuse
           his
           assent
           vnto
           them
           :
           And
           consequently
           he
           would
           incurre
           the
           like
           cēsure
           that
           should
           not
           yield
           credēce
           to
           faith
           ,
           in
           this
           manner
           proposed
           vnto
           him
           .
           In
           the
           proofe
           of
           this
           conclusion
           I
           must
           vse
           two
           wordes
           appropriated
           to
           philosophy
           (
           to
           wit
           
           matter
           and
           forme
           )
           which
           is
           contrary
           to
           my
           intention
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           which
           was
           to
           abstaine
           from
           all
           termes
           of
           artificiall
           learning
           ,
           and
           make
           onely
           a
           familiar
           discourse
           that
           should
           require
           no
           preceedent
           helpe
           of
           study
           ,
           but
           onely
           a
           cleere
           and
           strong
           iudgement
           (
           such
           as
           yours
           is
           )
           to
           weigh
           the
           strength
           of
           the
           reason
           :
           Butt
           I
           am
           the
           lesse
           srcupulous
           to
           auoide
           these
           words
           ,
           because
           I
           know
           your
           La
           :
           vnderstandeth
           what
           is
           meaned
           by
           them
           ;
           and
           they
           haue
           often
           occurred
           in
           our
           discourses
           .
           To
           come
           then
           to
           the
           examination
           
           of
           this
           cōclusiō
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           that
           faith
           dependeth
           on
           these
           two
           propositions
           ;
           first
           ,
           that
           whatsoeuer
           God
           sayth
           is
           true
           ;
           Next
           ,
           that
           God
           sayd
           this
           (
           whatsoeuer
           it
           be
           )
           that
           is
           deliuered
           thus
           by
           the
           tradition
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           For
           the
           former
           of
           these
           assertions
           ,
           there
           is
           noe
           doubt
           made
           by
           any
           side
           ;
           since
           all
           agree
           that
           God
           being
           the
           prime
           verity
           ,
           whatsoeuer
           proceedeth
           immediatly
           frō
           him
           must
           necessarily
           be
           more
           infallible
           then
           any
           collections
           made
           from
           creatures
           ether
           by
           experience
           or
           ratiocination
           of
           men
           .
           The
           second
           assertion
           
           I
           shall
           allso
           proue
           to
           be
           more
           infallible
           then
           any
           such
           collections
           ;
           in
           this
           manner
           .
           Among
           materiall
           things
           ,
           that
           are
           subiect
           to
           tyme
           and
           place
           ,
           and
           are
           here
           in
           the
           sphere
           of
           contraries
           ,
           and
           of
           action
           and
           passion
           ,
           although
           the
           lawes
           that
           gouerne
           them
           are
           in
           the
           generall
           certaine
           (
           else
           no
           science
           could
           be
           acquired
           of
           them
           )
           yet
           in
           the
           particular
           they
           are
           subiect
           to
           contingency
           and
           defection
           from
           those
           lawes
           ;
           which
           contingency
           doth
           proceed
           from
           the
           resistence
           of
           the
           matter
           ,
           and
           the
           contagion
           and
           leprosy
           (
           if
           so
           I
           may
           say
           )
           
           that
           the
           matter
           infecteth
           the
           forme
           withall
           ;
           which
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           for
           that
           ,
           would
           allwayes
           constantly
           worke
           the
           same
           effect
           in
           all
           ocasions
           :
           and
           according
           as
           the
           forme
           hath
           in
           particular
           more
           or
           lesse
           predominance
           ouer
           the
           matter
           ,
           the
           contingency
           and
           defect
           in
           them
           from
           the
           true
           nature
           of
           that
           body
           considered
           in
           his
           perfection
           ,
           is
           the
           greater
           or
           the
           lesser
           .
           Lett
           vs
           illustrate
           this
           by
           an
           example
           :
           According
           to
           the
           ordinary
           doctrine
           of
           Philosophers
           in
           the
           Schooles
           ,
           we
           collect
           by
           many
           particular
           experiences
           ,
           that
           the
           nature
           of
           fire
           proceedinge
           
           from
           the
           forme
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           to
           ascend
           ;
           and
           of
           them
           we
           frame
           a
           generall
           doctrine
           that
           fire
           is
           the
           lightest
           of
           all
           the
           elements
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           naturall
           place
           is
           aboue
           them
           all
           :
           yet
           we
           see
           that
           when
           the
           forme
           of
           fire
           is
           introduced
           into
           grosse
           and
           terrestriall
           matter
           ,
           it
           is
           wrested
           from
           his
           owne
           naturall
           inclination
           ,
           and
           is
           forced
           ,
           in
           steed
           of
           ascendind
           ,
           then
           to
           descend
           ;
           as
           when
           wood
           ,
           iron
           ,
           earth-coale
           ,
           and
           such
           other
           terrestriall
           matter
           is
           sett
           on
           fire
           :
           And
           it
           is
           more
           or
           lesse
           violented
           from
           his
           naturall
           place
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           subiect
           it
           resideth
           in
           ,
           
           hath
           more
           or
           lesse
           power
           ouer
           it
           ,
           and
           is
           more
           or
           lesse
           materiall
           :
           for
           it
           sheweth
           more
           of
           his
           leuity
           and
           naturall
           propēsion
           to
           ascend
           ,
           when
           it
           setteth
           an
           oyly
           ,
           or
           ay
           ery
           substance
           on
           fire
           and
           breaketh
           vp
           in
           flames
           ,
           thē
           when
           meeting
           with
           a
           more
           materiall
           ād
           terrestriall
           substance
           ,
           as
           wood
           ,
           it
           turneth
           it
           into
           a
           coale
           .
           Now
           to
           apply
           this
           to
           our
           purpose
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           that
           of
           all
           formes
           whatsoeuer
           that
           are
           ioyned
           to
           matter
           ,
           the
           noblest
           and
           most
           eleuated
           aboue
           the
           foeculency
           of
           matter
           ,
           is
           the
           soule
           of
           man
           :
           for
           it
           is
           not
           onely
           the
           forme
           of
           the
           noblest
           materiall
           creature
           
           that
           is
           ;
           but
           besides
           that
           ,
           it
           is
           so
           full
           of
           efficacy
           as
           it
           euen
           ouerfloweth
           the
           capacity
           of
           matter
           ,
           which
           not
           being
           able
           to
           imbibe
           (
           as
           I
           may
           say
           )
           and
           take
           it
           vp
           all
           ,
           it
           hath
           a
           particular
           subsistence
           belōging
           to
           it selfe
           ;
           from
           whence
           Philosophers
           proue
           the
           immortality
           of
           it
           .
           Therefore
           we
           may
           safely
           conclude
           that
           mankinde
           ,
           in
           the
           originall
           appetences
           and
           naturall
           desires
           of
           his
           soule
           ,
           is
           lesse
           subiect
           to
           contingency
           ,
           and
           more
           secure
           from
           hauing
           his
           nature
           corrupted
           and
           peruerted
           from
           his
           due
           course
           ,
           then
           any
           other
           materiall
           creature
           whatsoeuer
           is
           in
           
           the
           performance
           of
           those
           actions
           that
           proceed
           from
           the
           actiuity
           of
           his
           forme
           ;
           and
           so
           consequently
           ,
           being
           considered
           in
           generall
           ,
           proceedeth
           most
           certainly
           and
           infallibly
           to
           the
           pursuance
           thereof
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           impossible
           it
           should
           fall
           of
           from
           its
           owne
           nature
           ,
           and
           ,
           suffer
           that
           to
           be
           extinguished
           in
           it
           ;
           although
           in
           some
           particulars
           ,
           by
           the
           immersion
           in
           matter
           and
           the
           terrene
           habitation
           it
           dwelleth
           in
           ,
           some
           soule
           may
           be
           drawne
           or
           rather
           wrested
           to
           a
           contrary
           byas
           vnto
           that
           which
           originally
           nature
           implanted
           in
           it
           .
           Now
           the
           primary
           originall
           
           naturall
           appetence
           of
           mans
           soule
           ,
           is
           the
           loue
           of
           truth
           ;
           which
           it
           vehemently
           desireth
           ,
           and
           is
           allwayes
           vnquiet
           ād
           ardēt
           in
           the
           search
           of
           it
           vpon
           what
           occasion
           soeuer
           ,
           and
           is
           neuer
           appeased
           and
           at
           ease
           ,
           vntill
           she
           haue
           found
           it
           out
           ;
           which
           she
           noe
           sooner
           hath
           done
           ,
           but
           the
           violence
           she
           was
           in
           is
           calmed
           ;
           she
           is
           contented
           ;
           and
           she
           setleth
           her selfe
           to
           repose
           ,
           as
           hauing
           arriued
           to
           her
           center
           and
           naturall
           place
           of
           rest
           ;
           wherein
           she
           continueth
           enioying
           the
           purchase
           she
           hath
           made
           ,
           vntill
           some
           new
           occasion
           of
           disquisision
           stir
           her
           vp
           againe
           ;
           in
           
           which
           she
           vseth
           the
           same
           industry
           and
           eagernes
           as
           before
           .
           And
           thus
           we
           plainely
           see
           that
           the
           acquisition
           of
           truth
           is
           that
           which
           the
           soule
           in
           euery
           action
           naturally
           aymeth
           at
           ,
           as
           fire
           doth
           to
           ascend
           ;
           and
           detesteth
           falsehood
           ,
           as
           flames
           suffer
           violence
           to
           be
           reuerberated
           downewards
           .
           Therfore
           ,
           allthough
           any
           particular
           man
           may
           haue
           his
           senses
           or
           fantasie
           so
           depraued
           as
           to
           take
           imperfect
           and
           maymed
           impressions
           of
           outward
           obiects
           ;
           or
           the
           powers
           of
           his
           vnderstanding
           so
           weake
           as
           to
           make
           preposterous
           and
           disorderly
           collections
           out
           of
           
           them
           ;
           or
           his
           iudgement
           so
           misguided
           by
           preoccupation
           of
           any
           affectiō
           or
           particular
           end
           ,
           as
           he
           may
           in
           himselfe
           be
           deceiued
           ,
           and
           feede
           his
           soule
           with
           falsehood
           in
           steede
           of
           truth
           ;
           or
           else
           ,
           that
           sinister
           respects
           and
           interests
           ,
           or
           sordide
           apprehensions
           of
           commodity
           to
           himselfe
           ,
           meeting
           with
           à
           soule
           so
           disposed
           and
           wrought
           vpon
           by
           the
           sensuall
           passions
           tyrannising
           ouer
           it
           ,
           as
           to
           cause
           him
           to
           swallow
           those
           baytes
           ,
           may
           make
           him
           employ
           the
           faculties
           of
           his
           vnderstanding
           and
           the
           powers
           of
           his
           soule
           ,
           contrary
           vnto
           their
           naturall
           inclination
           ,
           
           to
           the
           maintayning
           of
           a
           lye
           ,
           and
           industriously
           to
           deceiue
           others
           :
           yet
           it
           is
           impossible
           that
           all
           mankind
           or
           such
           a
           multitude
           of
           men
           as
           contayne
           in
           them
           all
           the
           variety
           of
           dispositions
           and
           affections
           incident
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           man
           ,
           and
           that
           are
           dispersed
           throughout
           the
           world
           ,
           so
           as
           they
           can
           haue
           noe
           communion
           together
           whereby
           they
           might
           infect
           one
           another
           ,
           nor
           can
           haue
           sinister
           ends
           cōmon
           alike
           to
           them
           all
           ,
           which
           should
           inuite
           thē
           to
           conspire
           together
           to
           forge
           a
           falsehood
           :
           it
           is
           impossible
           (
           I
           say
           )
           that
           such
           a
           company
           of
           men
           should
           
           so
           degenerate
           from
           their
           owne
           nature
           (
           which
           is
           to
           loue
           truth
           )
           as
           they
           should
           of
           themselues
           inuent
           a
           lye
           (
           and
           that
           in
           so
           important
           a
           matter
           as
           faith
           is
           )
           and
           concurre
           to
           deceiue
           the
           world
           of
           men
           that
           should
           come
           after
           them
           in
           things
           of
           such
           nature
           ,
           as
           their
           deceipt
           must
           of
           necessity
           damne
           for
           all
           eternity
           both
           themselues
           and
           all
           them
           that
           shall
           receiue
           that
           lye
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           take
           it
           upon
           their
           credit
           :
           without
           which
           vnanimous
           conspiracy
           of
           one
           whole
           age
           of
           men
           throughout
           all
           the
           world
           ,
           we
           proued
           in
           our
           last
           conclusion
           that
           no
           
           false
           proposition
           could
           be
           admitted
           into
           the
           Church
           as
           an
           article
           of
           faith
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           this
           generall
           defection
           of
           all
           makinde
           from
           truth
           ,
           is
           more
           impossible
           then
           that
           all
           one
           entire
           element
           or
           any
           primigeniall
           nature
           should
           absolutely
           perish
           or
           loose
           its
           originall
           proprietie
           ;
           as
           for
           all
           the
           fire
           in
           the
           world
           to
           be
           corrupted
           and
           forsake
           his
           heate
           and
           leuity
           ,
           and
           so
           consequently
           to
           haue
           noe
           more
           fire
           in
           nature
           :
           all
           which
           followeth
           of
           what
           is
           sayd
           aboue
           .
           And
           thus
           I
           conceiue
           I
           haue
           made
           good
           the
           assertion
           that
           hath
           begotten
           all
           this
           discourse
           
           vpon
           the
           thirteēth
           head
           ;
           which
           is
           that
           faith
           conserued
           in
           the
           Catholike
           Church
           ,
           and
           deliuered
           by
           perpetuall
           successiō
           and
           generall
           tradition
           ,
           is
           more
           certaine
           and
           more
           infallible
           then
           any
           naturall
           science
           whatsoeuer
           :
           for
           naturall
           sciences
           being
           grounded
           vpon
           the
           indefectibility
           of
           the
           natures
           of
           those
           things
           from
           whence
           those
           sciences
           are
           collected
           ;
           and
           faith
           depending
           vpon
           the
           indefectibility
           of
           humane
           nature
           ,
           which
           is
           infinitly
           more
           noble
           then
           they
           ,
           aud
           whose
           forme
           is
           eleuated
           beyond
           the
           reach
           of
           matter
           (
           whereas
           theirs
           
           is
           comprehended
           and
           shutt
           vp
           within
           the
           wombe
           of
           matter
           and
           which
           is
           indeed
           the
           end
           and
           period
           of
           all
           their
           natures
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           the
           whole
           materiall
           world
           )
           It
           followeth
           of
           consequēce
           that
           faith
           must
           be
           lesse
           subiect
           to
           contingency
           ,
           and
           lesse
           lyable
           to
           error
           then
           naturall
           sciences
           are
           .
           And
           they
           being
           in
           vniuersall
           infallible
           and
           certaine
           ;
           faith
           must
           likewise
           be
           so
           too
           ;
           and
           more
           if
           more
           may
           be
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           is
           not
           enough
           .
           our
           disquisition
           must
           not
           rest
           heere
           :
           We
           must
           not
           content
           ourselues
           in
           this
           diuine
           affaire
           and
           supernaturall
           
           doctrine
           with
           a
           certitude
           depending
           onely
           vpon
           naturall
           causes
           .
           The
           wisedome
           of
           God
           proportioneth
           out
           congruent
           meanes
           to
           bring
           on
           euery
           thing
           to
           their
           proper
           end
           ;
           and
           according
           to
           the
           nobility
           of
           the
           effect
           that
           he
           will
           haue
           produced
           ,
           he
           ordaineth
           equiualent
           noble
           causes
           .
           Therefore
           ,
           mans
           obtaining
           beatitude
           being
           the
           highest
           end
           that
           any
           creature
           can
           arriue
           vnto
           ,
           and
           alltogether
           supernaturall
           ;
           it
           requireth
           supernaturall
           causes
           to
           bring
           vs
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           and
           a
           supernaturall
           infallibility
           to
           secure
           vs
           in
           that
           iourney
           .
           We
           must
           
           not
           onely
           haue
           a
           supernaturall
           way
           to
           trauell
           in
           (
           which
           is
           faith
           )
           but
           allso
           a
           supernaturall
           assurance
           of
           the
           right
           way
           ,
           vnto
           the
           discouery
           of
           which
           ,
           all
           that
           we
           haue
           allready
           sayd
           ,
           doth
           necessarily
           cōduce
           ;
           for
           Gods
           prouidence
           that
           disposeth
           all
           things
           sweetly
           ,
           will
           not
           in
           any
           generall
           affaire
           introduce
           into
           the
           materiall
           world
           any
           supernaturall
           effect
           ,
           vntill
           the
           naturall
           causes
           be
           first
           disposed
           fittingly
           to
           cooperate
           on
           their
           partes
           ;
           and
           then
           he
           neuer
           faileth
           of
           his
           .
           As
           for
           example
           ,
           when
           a
           naturall
           creature
           is
           to
           be
           produced
           into
           beeing
           ,
           the
           
           father
           and
           mother
           must
           both
           concurre
           in
           contributing
           all
           that
           is
           in
           their
           power
           to
           the
           generation
           of
           a
           child
           ;
           and
           yet
           we
           are
           sure
           the
           soule
           to
           be
           produced
           hath
           no
           dependāce
           of
           them
           ;
           yet
           notwithstanding
           ,
           without
           their
           precedent
           action
           no
           newe
           soule
           would
           be
           :
           But
           when
           the
           matter
           is
           fittingly
           disposed
           in
           the
           mothers
           wōbe
           ,
           he
           neuer
           misseth
           creating
           of
           a
           soule
           in
           that
           body
           ;
           which
           is
           as
           noble
           an
           effect
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           requiring
           the
           omnipotency
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           the
           creating
           of
           nothinge
           all
           the
           materiall
           world
           ;
           and
           yet
           we
           may
           say
           that
           the
           
           matter
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           arriued
           to
           its
           last
           disposition
           for
           the
           reception
           of
           such
           a
           forme
           ,
           may
           in
           a
           manner
           clayme
           that
           miraculous
           action
           depending
           of
           his
           omnipotency
           ;
           since
           for
           mankinde
           he
           created
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           materiall
           world
           ,
           and
           therefore
           there
           ought
           to
           be
           as
           certaine
           and
           necessary
           causes
           for
           the
           production
           of
           man
           ,
           as
           there
           are
           for
           the
           production
           of
           other
           materiall
           things
           ,
           which
           we
           see
           doe
           seldome
           m●sse
           in
           any
           whē
           the
           matter
           is
           fitly
           disposed
           for
           the
           reception
           of
           their
           seuerall
           formes
           .
           And
           so
           in
           like
           manner
           we
           may
           rationally
           
           conclude
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           high
           and
           supernaturall
           busynesse
           of
           deliuering
           ouer
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           a
           supernaturall
           doctrine
           to
           bring
           mankinde
           to
           the
           end
           it
           was
           created
           for
           ,
           he
           will
           first
           haue
           all
           the
           naturall
           causes
           fittingly
           disposed
           for
           the
           secure
           and
           infallible
           performāce
           of
           that
           worke
           :
           and
           then
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           adde
           and
           infuse
           into
           them
           some
           supernaturall
           guift
           whereby
           to
           giue
           them
           yet
           further
           a
           supernaturall
           assurance
           and
           infallibility
           ;
           which
           they
           may
           with
           an
           humble
           confidence
           in
           his
           vnlimited
           goodesse
           ,
           expect
           and
           claime
           at
           his
           diuine
           hand
           ,
           
           when
           they
           are
           reduced
           to
           that
           state
           as
           is
           conuenient
           for
           the
           reception
           of
           such
           a
           supernaturall
           guift
           .
        
         
           14.
           
           Our
           fourteenth
           conclusion
           therefore
           shall
           be
           that
           God
           hath
           giuen
           to
           his
           Church
           thus
           composed
           ,
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ,
           to
           confirme
           it
           in
           the
           true
           faith
           ,
           and
           to
           preserue
           it
           from
           error
           ,
           and
           to
           Illuminate
           the
           vnderstanding
           of
           it
           in
           right
           discerning
           the
           true
           sense
           of
           those
           Misteryes
           of
           faith
           that
           are
           committed
           to
           the
           custody
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           worke
           supernaturall
           effects
           of
           deuotion
           and
           sanctitie
           in
           that
           Church
           .
           And
           this
           I
           proue
           thus
           ,
           Considering
           that
           the
           
           doctrine
           of
           Christ
           is
           practicall
           and
           aymeth
           at
           the
           working
           of
           an
           effect
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           reduction
           of
           mankinde
           to
           beatitude
           :
           and
           that
           mankinde
           comprehendeth
           not
           onely
           those
           that
           liued
           in
           that
           age
           ,
           when
           he
           preached
           ,
           but
           also
           all
           others
           that
           euer
           were
           since
           ,
           or
           shall
           be
           till
           the
           end
           of
           the
           world
           :
           It
           is
           apparent
           that
           to
           accomplish
           that
           end
           ,
           it
           was
           necessary
           Christ
           should
           so
           effectually
           imprint
           his
           doctrine
           in
           their
           hearts
           whom
           he
           deliuered
           it
           vnto
           ,
           as
           it
           might
           vpon
           all
           occasions
           and
           at
           all
           tymes
           infallibly
           expresse
           it selfe
           in
           action
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           
           deliuery
           of
           it
           ouer
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           ,
           should
           in
           vertue
           and
           strength
           of
           the
           first
           operation
           ,
           produce
           euer
           after
           like
           effects
           in
           all
           others
           .
           Now
           to
           haue
           this
           compleately
           performed
           ,
           it
           was
           to
           be
           done
           both
           by
           exteriour
           and
           by
           interiour
           meanes
           ;
           proportionable
           to
           the
           senses
           without
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           soule
           within
           .
           The
           outward
           meanes
           were
           the
           miracles
           that
           he
           wrought
           ,
           of
           which
           himselfe
           sayeth
           ,
           
             if
             I
             had
             not
             wrought
             those
             workes
             that
             no
             man
             else
             euer
             did
             ,
             they
             were
             not
             guilty
             of
             sinne
             ,
             but
             now
             ,
             they
             haue
             no
             excuse
          
           :
           (
           or
           to
           this
           purpose
           )
           and
           he
           promissed
           the
           Apostles
           
           they
           should
           doe
           greater
           then
           those
           .
           And
           that
           miracles
           are
           the
           proper
           instruments
           to
           plant
           a
           new
           doctrine
           and
           faith
           withall
           ,
           the
           Apostle
           witnesseth
           when
           he
           sayeth
           that
           miracles
           are
           wrought
           for
           the
           vnfaithfull
           not
           for
           the
           faithfull
           ,
           and
           God
           himselfe
           told
           Moses
           that
           he
           would
           once
           doe
           some
           prodigy
           in
           his
           fauour
           that
           the
           people
           might
           for
           euer
           after
           belieue
           what
           he
           sayd
           to
           them
           .
           But
           it
           is
           manifest
           by
           the
           fall
           of
           the
           Apostles
           themselues
           ,
           that
           onely
           this
           exteriour
           meanes
           of
           miracles
           is
           not
           sufficient
           to
           engrafte
           supernaturall
           faith
           
           deepe
           enough
           in
           mens
           hearts
           ,
           when
           as
           they
           vpon
           Christs
           Passion
           ,
           not
           onely
           for
           feare
           ,
           through
           humane
           frailty
           ,
           denyed
           their
           master
           ,
           but
           had
           euen
           the
           very
           conceit
           and
           beliefe
           of
           his
           doctrine
           exiled
           out
           of
           their
           hearts
           and
           vnderstanding
           ,
           notwithstanding
           all
           the
           miracles
           they
           had
           seene
           him
           worke
           in
           allmost
           4.
           yeares
           tyme
           they
           continually
           cōuersed
           with
           him
           :
           which
           appeareth
           plainely
           by
           the
           discourse
           of
           the
           disciples
           going
           to
           Emaus
           ,
           when
           they
           sayed
           
             we
             hoped
             ,
             &c.
          
           
           And
           expressed
           their
           sadnesse
           for
           the
           contrary
           successe
           to
           their
           expectation
           ;
           
           and
           by
           saint
           Thomas
           his
           saying
           that
           he
           would
           not
           belieue
           his
           resurrectiō
           vnlesse
           he
           saw
           him
           and
           pnt
           his
           fingers
           into
           his
           woundes
           &c.
           
           And
           by
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Apostles
           that
           were
           so
           long
           before
           they
           would
           belieue
           his
           resurrection
           ,
           as
           hauing
           giuen
           ouer
           the
           thought
           of
           his
           diuinity
           ,
           and
           after
           his
           death
           considered
           him
           but
           as
           a
           pure
           man
           like
           other
           mē
           .
           Therfore
           it
           was
           necessary
           that
           some
           inward
           light
           should
           be
           giuen
           them
           ,
           so
           cleare
           ,
           and
           so
           strōg
           ,
           and
           so
           powerfull
           ,
           as
           the
           senses
           should
           not
           be
           able
           to
           preuaile
           against
           it
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           should
           
           onerflowingly
           possesse
           ād
           fill
           all
           their
           vnderstandings
           and
           their
           soules
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           breake
           out
           in
           exteriour
           actions
           correspondent
           to
           the
           spirit
           that
           steered
           them
           within
           .
           And
           the
           reason
           is
           euident
           :
           for
           whiles
           on
           the
           one
           side
           the
           senses
           discerne
           ,
           apparantly
           ,
           miracles
           wrought
           in
           confirmation
           of
           a
           doctrine
           ;
           and
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           the
           same
           senses
           doe
           stifly
           contradict
           the
           very
           possibility
           of
           the
           doctrine
           which
           those
           miracles
           testifye
           ;
           the
           soule
           within
           ,
           hauing
           no
           assistāce
           beyond
           the
           naturall
           powers
           she
           hath
           belonging
           originally
           
           vnto
           her
           ,
           is
           in
           great
           debate
           and
           anxiety
           which
           way
           to
           giue
           her
           assent
           ;
           and
           though
           reason
           doe
           preuaile
           to
           giue
           it
           to
           the
           party
           of
           the
           present
           miracles
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           with
           great
           timidity
           .
           But
           if
           it
           happen
           that
           the
           course
           of
           those
           miracles
           be
           stopped
           ;
           thē
           the
           particular
           seeming
           impossibilies
           of
           the
           proposed
           faith
           remayning
           alwayes
           alike
           liuely
           in
           their
           apprehension
           ,
           and
           the
           miracles
           wrought
           to
           confirme
           it
           residing
           but
           in
           the
           memory
           ,
           and
           the
           representatiōs
           of
           them
           wearing
           out
           dayly
           more
           and
           more
           ,
           and
           the
           present
           senses
           and
           fantasy
           growing
           proportionably
           
           stonger
           and
           stronger
           ,
           and
           withall
           obiecting
           continually
           new
           doubts
           about
           the
           reality
           of
           those
           miracles
           ,
           it
           cannot
           be
           expected
           otherwise
           but
           that
           the
           assent
           of
           the
           soule
           should
           range
           it selfe
           on
           the
           side
           of
           the
           impossibilityes
           appearing
           to
           the
           present
           senses
           ,
           and
           renounce
           the
           doctrine
           formerly
           confirmed
           by
           miracles
           ,
           vnlesse
           some
           inward
           and
           supernaturall
           light
           be
           giuen
           her
           to
           disperse
           all
           the
           mistes
           that
           the
           senses
           rayse
           against
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           doctrine
           .
           Now
           the
           infusion
           of
           this
           light
           and
           feruour
           ,
           we
           call
           the
           giuing
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ,
           
           which
           Christ
           himselfe
           foreknowing
           how
           necessary
           it
           was
           ,
           promised
           them
           ,
           assuring
           thē
           that
           he
           would
           procure
           his
           father
           to
           send
           them
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           the
           spirit
           of
           truth
           ,
           that
           should
           for
           euer
           remaine
           among
           them
           ,
           and
           within
           them
           ,
           and
           suggest
           vnto
           their
           memory
           and
           instruct
           them
           in
           the
           right
           vnderstāding
           of
           the
           faith
           he
           had
           preached
           vnto
           them
           .
           And
           this
           was
           prophesied
           long
           before
           ,
           of
           the
           state
           of
           the
           law
           of
           grace
           by
           Hieremy
           ,
           whose
           authority
           S.
           Paule
           bringeth
           to
           proue
           that
           the
           law
           of
           the
           Gospell
           was
           to
           be
           written
           by
           the
           holy
           
           Ghost
           in
           mens
           hearts
           and
           in
           their
           mindes
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           ,
           he
           calleth
           the
           faithfull
           of
           the
           Corynthians
           ,
           
             the
             faith
             of
             Christ
             not
             written
             with
             inke
             ,
             but
             with
             the
             spirit
             of
             God
             ;
             nor
             grauen
             in
             stony
             tables
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             fleshy
             ones
             of
             their
             hearts
             .
          
           And
           in
           performance
           of
           this
           prophesy
           and
           of
           Christs
           promise
           ,
           the
           hystorie
           telleth
           vs
           that
           on
           the
           tenth
           day
           after
           the
           ascension
           of
           Christ
           ,
           when
           all
           his
           disciples
           (
           who
           were
           then
           all
           his
           Church
           ,
           and
           were
           to
           preach
           and
           deliuer
           it
           to
           all
           the
           world
           )
           were
           assembled
           together
           ,
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           was
           giuen
           thē
           ;
           
           and
           that
           ,
           in
           so
           full
           à
           measure
           ,
           as
           they
           not
           onely
           were
           confirmed
           so
           perfectly
           in
           their
           faith
           as
           they
           neuer
           after
           admitted
           the
           least
           vacillation
           therein
           ,
           but
           they
           immediatly
           ,
           casting
           away
           all
           other
           desires
           and
           thoughts
           ,
           were
           inflamed
           with
           admirable
           loue
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           broke
           out
           into
           his
           prayses
           ,
           and
           into
           a
           vehement
           ardor
           of
           teaching
           and
           conuerting
           others
           ;
           and
           when
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           that
           zeale
           of
           theirs
           ,
           any
           thing
           happened
           to
           them
           contrary
           to
           flesh
           and
           blood
           ,
           and
           humane
           nature
           (
           as
           persecutions
           ,
           ignominies
           ,
           corporall
           punishmēts
           ,
           and
           euen
           
           death
           it selfe
           )
           they
           not
           onely
           not
           shunned
           it
           ,
           as
           before
           ,
           but
           greedily
           rann
           to
           meete
           and
           embrace
           it
           ,
           and
           ioyed
           ,
           and
           gloryed
           in
           it
           :
           all
           which
           were
           effects
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           residing
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           filling
           their
           myndes
           ,
           and
           gouuerning
           their
           soules
           .
           Where
           vppō
           ,
           by
           the
           way
           we
           may
           note
           ,
           that
           in
           what
           Church
           soeuer
           we
           find
           not
           à
           state
           of
           life
           for
           sanctitie
           and
           neere
           vnion
           with
           God
           ,
           and
           contempt
           of
           wordly
           and
           transitory
           things
           ,
           raysed
           aboue
           the
           pitch
           of
           nature
           and
           morality
           ,
           we
           may
           conclude
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           inhabiteth
           not
           there
           :
           for
           euery
           
           agent
           produceth
           effects
           proportionable
           to
           the
           dignity
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           excellency
           of
           any
           cause
           ,
           shineth
           eminently
           in
           the
           noblenesse
           of
           its
           effects
           .
           Now
           that
           this
           guift
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           is
           to
           remaine
           with
           the
           Church
           as
           long
           as
           the
           Church
           remaineth
           ,
           to
           illuminate
           it
           with
           the
           spirit
           of
           truth
           ,
           and
           to
           giue
           it
           a
           supernaturall
           and
           diuine
           vnction
           ,
           will
           appeare
           manifestly
           vpon
           consideratiō
           of
           the
           cause
           why
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           was
           to
           be
           giuen
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           which
           remaineth
           alwayes
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           therfore
           the
           same
           effect
           must
           alwayes
           follow
           :
           and
           accordingly
           ,
           
           Christ
           promised
           his
           Church
           vpō
           his
           ascēding
           into
           heauen
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           alwayes
           ramaine
           with
           them
           vntill
           the
           end
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           to
           witt
           ,
           by
           this
           holy
           spirit
           ;
           for
           he
           was
           then
           at
           the
           point
           of
           withdrawing
           his
           corporall
           presence
           from
           them
           .
        
         
           15.
           
           Our
           next
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           that
           this
           Church
           or
           congregation
           of
           men
           spread
           ouer
           the
           world
           ,
           cōseruing
           and
           deliuering
           the
           faith
           of
           Christ
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           ,
           is
           euen
           in
           its
           owne
           nature
           perpetuall
           in
           tyme
           ,
           and
           cannot
           faile
           as
           long
           as
           mankinde
           remayneth
           in
           
           the
           world
           .
           This
           needeth
           noe
           further
           proofe
           then
           that
           which
           we
           haue
           already
           made
           ;
           which
           is
           deriued
           from
           the
           necessity
           of
           supernaturall
           faith
           to
           bring
           mankinde
           to
           the
           end
           it
           was
           created
           for
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           is
           no
           meanes
           to
           deliuer
           this
           faith
           to
           mankinde
           in
           the
           ages
           after
           Christ
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           traditiō
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           and
           therefore
           as
           long
           as
           mankinde
           lasteth
           ,
           this
           meanes
           must
           be
           cōtinued
           .
           Yet
           in
           this
           way
           of
           reasoning
           that
           I
           vse
           ,
           we
           are
           to
           examine
           our
           conclusions
           as
           well
           by
           the
           genuine
           and
           orderly
           causes
           that
           beget
           them
           ,
           and
           by
           their
           
           owne
           particular
           principles
           ,
           as
           to
           assent
           vnto
           them
           for
           the
           necessity
           that
           we
           see
           in
           them
           in
           regarde
           of
           the
           end
           that
           they
           are
           referred
           vnto
           :
           And
           when
           we
           haue
           retriued
           those
           ,
           and
           euidently
           discerned
           theire
           force
           ,
           it
           giueth
           an
           admirable
           content
           and
           satisfaction
           to
           the
           vnderstanding
           .
           Thus
           then
           :
           as
           Philosophers
           conclude
           that
           it
           is
           impossible
           any
           whole
           species
           or
           kinde
           of
           beastes
           should
           euer
           be
           vtterly
           exterminated
           and
           destroyed
           ,
           that
           is
           diffused
           vp
           and
           downe
           ouer
           the
           whole
           face
           of
           the
           earth
           ,
           because
           the
           amplitude
           of
           the
           vniuerse
           is
           greater
           then
           
           the
           variety
           of
           causes
           can
           be
           from
           which
           such
           a
           generall
           and
           entire
           corruption
           must
           proceed
           :
           In
           like
           manner
           we
           may
           confidently
           conclude
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           impossible
           any
           depraued
           affections
           should
           so
           vniuersally
           preuaile
           ,
           and
           so
           absolutly
           raigne
           in
           mens
           mindes
           throughout
           the
           whole
           world
           ,
           as
           would
           be
           requisite
           to
           extirpate
           and
           roote
           out
           a
           doctrine
           vniuersally
           spread
           ouer
           it
           all
           ,
           that
           was
           at
           the
           first
           taught
           and
           confirmed
           with
           such
           s●ales
           of
           truth
           as
           the
           miracles
           that
           Christ
           and
           the
           Apostles
           wrought
           ,
           that
           in
           it selfe
           is
           so
           pure
           and
           agreable
           to
           the
           
           seedes
           that
           euery
           man
           findeth
           sowed
           ,
           euen
           by
           nature
           ,
           in
           his
           owne
           soule
           ;
           that
           worketh
           such
           admirable
           effects
           as
           the
           reformation
           of
           manners
           in
           mākind
           ;
           that
           withdraweth
           mens
           affections
           from
           humane
           and
           wordly
           contentments
           ,
           and
           carryeth
           them
           with
           a
           sweete
           violence
           to
           intellectuall
           obiects
           ,
           and
           to
           hopes
           of
           immortality
           and
           happinesse
           in
           another
           life
           ;
           that
           prescribeth
           lawes
           for
           happy
           liuing
           ,
           euen
           in
           this
           world
           ,
           to
           all
           men
           of
           what
           condition
           soeuer
           ,
           ether
           publike
           or
           priuate
           ,
           as
           working
           a
           moderation
           in
           mens
           affections
           to
           the
           
           commodities
           and
           goods
           of
           this
           life
           ,
           which
           else
           in
           nature
           is
           apt
           to
           blinde
           mens
           mindes
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           cause
           of
           all
           michiefes
           and
           euills
           ;
           and
           lastly
           ,
           that
           is
           deliuered
           ouer
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           ,
           from
           worlds
           of
           fathers
           to
           worlds
           of
           sonnes
           ,
           with
           such
           care
           and
           exactnesse
           as
           greater
           cānot
           be
           imagined
           ,
           and
           as
           is
           requisite
           to
           the
           importance
           of
           that
           affaire
           ;
           which
           is
           infinitly
           beyond
           all
           others
           ,
           as
           on
           which
           the
           saluation
           and
           damnation
           of
           mankinde
           wholy
           dependeth
           .
           Now
           ,
           vnto
           these
           rationall
           considerations
           let
           vs
           adde
           the
           promise
           which
           Christ
           
           made
           to
           his
           Church
           ,
           that
           the
           gates
           of
           hell
           should
           not
           preuaile
           against
           it
           ;
           and
           I
           thinke
           we
           haue
           sufficiently
           maintained
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           Christ
           in
           which
           the
           true
           doctrine
           of
           Christ
           is
           conserued
           ,
           can
           neuer
           faile
           ,
           but
           must
           infallibly
           continue
           vntill
           the
           worlds
           end
           .
           Thus
           hauing
           proued
           ,
           that
           a
           supernaturall
           doctrine
           is
           necessary
           to
           bring
           mankind
           to
           beatitude
           ;
           that
           Christ
           taught
           this
           doctrine
           ;
           that
           from
           him
           the
           Churh
           receaued
           it
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           sacrary
           in
           which
           it
           is
           cōserued
           ;
           that
           this
           Church
           cannot
           erre
           in
           the
           tradition
           of
           this
           doctrine
           ,
           that
           besides
           
           the
           infallibility
           of
           it
           ,
           this
           Church
           is
           perpetuall
           .
           It
           remaineth
           now
           that
           we
           close
           vp
           this
           discourse
           by
           applying
           all
           these
           premisses
           vnto
           the
           question
           in
           hand
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           where
           we
           shall
           find
           out
           this
           infallible
           Church
           ,
           that
           by
           it
           we
           may
           gaine
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           true
           faith
           of
           Christ
           ,
           whereby
           we
           are
           to
           be
           saued
           ,
        
         
           16.
           
           For
           this
           end
           our
           sixteenth
           and
           last
           conclusion
           shall
           be
           ,
           that
           the
           congregation
           of
           men
           spred
           ouer
           the
           world
           ,
           ioyning
           in
           communion
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           is
           the
           true
           Catholike
           Church
           
           in
           which
           is
           conserued
           and
           taught
           the
           true
           sauing
           faith
           of
           Christ.
           
        
         
           The
           truth
           of
           this
           conclusion
           will
           without
           bringing
           any
           new
           proofes
           appeare
           euidētly
           by
           reflecting
           vpon
           what
           we
           haue
           sayed
           ,
           and
           onely
           examining
           whether
           the
           Romane
           Church
           be
           such
           a
           one
           as
           we
           haue
           determined
           the
           true
           Church
           of
           Christ
           must
           be
           ;
           or
           whether
           the
           notes
           which
           me
           may
           inferre
           out
           of
           our
           discourse
           to
           belong
           inseparably
           to
           the
           true
           Church
           ,
           may
           not
           rather
           with
           more
           reason
           be
           acknowledged
           of
           some
           other
           then
           of
           that
           in
           cōmunion
           
           with
           the
           see
           of
           Rome
           ?
           this
           point
           after
           these
           groundes
           layed
           ,
           requireth
           no
           very
           subtill
           disquisition
           ,
           but
           is
           discernable
           euen
           by
           the
           weakest
           sights
           :
           and
           therefore
           this
           way
           of
           arguing
           appeareth
           to
           me
           most
           satisfactory
           and
           contentfull
           ,
           when
           taking
           the
           whole
           body
           of
           the
           question
           into
           suruey
           ;
           and
           beginning
           with
           the
           first
           and
           remotest
           considerations
           of
           it
           ,
           we
           driue
           the
           difficulties
           still
           before
           vs
           ;
           and
           pursuing
           of
           them
           orderly
           ,
           at
           euery
           steppe
           we
           establish
           a
           solide
           principle
           ,
           and
           so
           become
           secure
           of
           the
           truth
           and
           certainty
           of
           all
           we
           
           leaue
           behind
           vs
           ;
           which
           course
           ,
           although
           it
           may
           at
           the
           first
           sight
           appeare
           to
           be
           a
           great
           way
           about
           ,
           and
           looking
           but
           superficially
           vpon
           the
           matter
           we
           may
           seeme
           to
           meete
           with
           difficulties
           which
           cōcerne
           not
           our
           question
           ;
           yet
           in
           the
           effect
           we
           shall
           perceiue
           it
           is
           the
           most
           summary
           method
           of
           handling
           any
           controuersie
           ;
           and
           the
           onely
           meanes
           to
           be
           secured
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           what
           we
           conclude
           ,
           and
           that
           will
           recompense
           the
           precedent
           difficulties
           by
           making
           the
           conclusion
           (
           which
           is
           the
           knotte
           of
           the
           affayre
           )
           plaine
           ,
           easy
           ,
           and
           open
           .
           I
           
           say
           then
           first
           that
           vnity
           of
           doctrine
           in
           matters
           of
           faith
           is
           inseparable
           from
           the
           Romane
           Church
           ,
           and
           can
           neuer
           be
           found
           in
           any
           other
           :
           it
           onely
           ,
           hauing
           a
           precise
           ād
           determinate
           rule
           of
           faith
           .
           For
           it
           hath
           belieued
           in
           euery
           age
           ,
           all
           that
           hath
           bin
           plainely
           ād
           positiuely
           taught
           vnto
           it
           by
           theire
           fathers
           as
           the
           doctrine
           of
           faith
           deriued
           from
           Christ
           ;
           and
           admitteth
           noe
           other
           article
           whatsoeuer
           as
           an
           article
           of
           faith
           .
           Whereas
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           all
           other
           Christian
           Churches
           amōg
           vs
           that
           pretend
           reformation
           ,
           haueing
           no
           certaine
           and
           common
           rule
           of
           faith
           ,
           
           but
           euery
           particular
           man
           gouerning
           himselfe
           in
           this
           matter
           by
           the
           collections
           of
           his
           owne
           braine
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           owne
           priuate
           vnderstanding
           and
           interpretation
           of
           Scripture
           (
           which
           onely
           he
           acknowledgeth
           as
           the
           entire
           rule
           of
           faith
           )
           it
           must
           consequently
           follow
           ,
           that
           according
           to
           the
           variety
           of
           their
           tempers
           and
           iudgemēts
           ,
           there
           must
           be
           a
           variety
           and
           difference
           of
           their
           opinions
           and
           beliefes
           ;
           which
           difference
           of
           temper
           happening
           for
           the
           most
           part
           betweene
           euery
           two
           men
           that
           are
           ,
           it
           likewise
           followeth
           scarse
           any
           two
           should
           in
           all
           particulars
           
           of
           their
           opinions
           agree
           together
           .
           And
           accordingly
           we
           see
           by
           experience
           ,
           that
           scarce
           any
           two
           authors
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           Romane
           Church
           ,
           that
           haue
           written
           of
           matters
           of
           faith
           haue
           agreed
           in
           their
           tenets
           ,
           but
           rather
           haue
           dissented
           in
           fundamentall
           doctrine
           ,
           and
           haue
           inueighed
           against
           one
           another
           in
           their
           writings
           with
           great
           vehemence
           and
           bitternesse
           .
           Whereas
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           the
           Doctors
           of
           the
           Romane
           Church
           in
           all
           tymes
           ,
           in
           all
           places
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           tempers
           haue
           agreed
           vnanimously
           in
           all
           matters
           of
           faith
           ;
           although
           in
           the
           meane
           tyme
           ,
           seuerall
           
           of
           them
           haue
           ,
           in
           diuers
           other
           points
           great
           debates
           against
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           pursue
           them
           with
           much
           sharpnesse
           :
           which
           strongly
           confirmeth
           the
           ground
           vpon
           which
           we
           frame
           this
           obseruation
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           insist
           a
           little
           further
           vpon
           this
           materiall
           and
           important
           consideration
           ;
           it
           is
           euident
           that
           the
           proceeding
           of
           the
           reformers
           openeth
           the
           gate
           to
           all
           dissention
           ,
           schisme
           ,
           irreuerence
           ,
           pride
           of
           vnderstanding
           ,
           heresie
           ,
           and
           ruine
           of
           Christian
           religion
           :
           for
           to
           iustify
           the
           new
           births
           of
           their
           rebellions
           braines
           ,
           the
           first
           stroke
           of
           their
           pen
           
           must
           be
           to
           lay
           a
           taint
           of
           ignorance
           and
           error
           vpon
           the
           whole
           current
           of
           Ancient
           fathers
           and
           Doctours
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           generall
           Councells
           ,
           and
           to
           blast
           their
           authority
           which
           is
           so
           precisely
           contrary
           to
           their
           doctrine
           ;
           whose
           names
           and
           recordes
           ought
           to
           be
           sacred
           with
           posterity
           .
           Which
           when
           they
           haue
           done
           ;
           to
           settle
           a
           cōstant
           and
           like
           beliefe
           in
           all
           men
           ,
           they
           giue
           noe
           generall
           and
           certayne
           rule
           ;
           but
           leauing
           euery
           man
           to
           the
           Dictamens
           of
           his
           owne
           priuate
           iudgement
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           seuerall
           tempers
           and
           circumstances
           (
           as
           we
           sayd
           
           before
           )
           that
           sway
           euery
           single
           man
           in
           particular
           ,
           there
           must
           result
           (
           which
           we
           see
           by
           experience
           )
           as
           great
           a
           variety
           of
           opinions
           as
           those
           are
           different
           .
           And
           lastly
           since
           they
           quarell
           at
           Catholickes
           beliefe
           in
           those
           points
           where
           they
           differ
           from
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           captiuate
           their
           vnderstandings
           with
           reuerence
           to
           what
           the
           Church
           proposeth
           and
           teacheth
           ,
           and
           thereby
           admitt
           into
           their
           beliefe
           articles
           which
           may
           seeme
           absurd
           to
           common
           sense
           ;
           they
           may
           as
           well
           with
           presumptuous
           hands
           ,
           graspe
           at
           and
           seeke
           to
           plucke
           vp
           ,
           the
           very
           fundations
           
           of
           Christian
           religion
           ;
           as
           namely
           the
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           incarnatiō
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           resurrection
           and
           state
           of
           life
           of
           the
           future
           world
           :
           since
           there
           are
           greater
           seeming
           contradictions
           in
           them
           (
           especially
           in
           the
           two
           first
           )
           then
           in
           those
           misteryes
           the
           reformers
           cauill
           at
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           next
           place
           we
           may
           consider
           that
           as
           infallibility
           is
           pretended
           by
           the
           Romane
           Church
           alone
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           apparantly
           entayled
           vpon
           it
           :
           for
           we
           haue
           proued
           that
           no
           meanes
           or
           circumstāce
           ,
           ether
           morall
           ,
           naturall
           or
           supernaturall
           ,
           is
           wanting
           
           in
           it
           to
           begett
           infallibility
           in
           matters
           of
           faith
           .
           Wheras
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           from
           the
           reformers
           owne
           position
           we
           inferre
           by
           consequence
           that
           their
           doctrine
           cannot
           be
           hoped
           (
           euen
           by
           thēselues
           )
           to
           be
           infallible
           ;
           and
           therefore
           they
           that
           shall
           submiit
           their
           vnderstanding
           to
           their
           conduct
           ,
           though
           they
           belieue
           without
           controuersy
           all
           they
           say
           ,
           must
           needes
           (
           euen
           by
           reason
           of
           what
           is
           taught
           them
           )
           floate
           allwayes
           in
           a
           greate
           deale
           of
           incertitude
           and
           anxious
           apprehension
           and
           feare
           of
           error
           .
           For
           they
           looking
           vpon
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           with
           pure
           
           humane
           considerations
           as
           an
           ordinary
           company
           of
           men
           ,
           will
           haue
           it
           lyable
           to
           mistaking
           according
           to
           the
           naturall
           imbecillity
           of
           mens
           wits
           and
           vnderstandings
           ,
           and
           of
           humane
           passions
           ,
           and
           negligence
           and
           other
           such
           defects
           and
           weakenesses
           which
           euery
           man
           is
           by
           nature
           subiect
           vnto
           :
           Against
           which
           they
           produce
           no
           antidote
           to
           preserue
           and
           secure
           thēselues
           from
           the
           infectiō
           and
           taint
           they
           lay
           vpon
           the
           Church
           .
           For
           ,
           if
           they
           will
           haue
           the
           conferences
           of
           seuerall
           passages
           of
           Scripture
           to
           be
           that
           which
           must
           giue
           light
           in
           the
           seuerall
           cōtrouerted
           
           obscurities
           ;
           what
           eminency
           haue
           these
           few
           late
           reformers
           shewne
           ,
           other
           in
           knowledge
           of
           tongues
           ,
           insight
           into
           antiquity
           ,
           profoundnesse
           in
           sciēces
           ,
           and
           perfection
           and
           sanctity
           of
           life
           ,
           which
           hath
           not
           shined
           admirably
           more
           (
           not
           to
           taxe
           them
           here
           of
           the
           contrary
           )
           in
           multitudes
           of
           the
           aduerse
           party
           ?
           And
           none
           will
           deny
           but
           these
           are
           the
           likelyest
           meanes
           to
           gaine
           à
           right
           intelligence
           of
           the
           true
           and
           deepe
           sense
           of
           Scriptures
           .
           And
           besides
           ,
           we
           may
           obserue
           that
           the
           reason
           why
           they
           deny
           the
           seuerall
           articles
           wherin
           they
           differ
           from
           the
           Catholicke
           
           Church
           ,
           is
           because
           it
           teacheth
           a
           doctrine
           which
           is
           repugnant
           to
           sense
           and
           of
           hard
           digestion
           to
           Philosophy
           ;
           both
           which
           are
           vncompetent
           iudges
           of
           diuine
           and
           supernaturall
           truths
           :
           And
           whosoeuer
           steereth
           by
           their
           compasse
           ,
           cannot
           hope
           for
           infalliblity
           in
           a
           matter
           that
           transcendeth
           their
           reach
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           we
           may
           consider
           that
           the
           vniuersality
           of
           the
           Church
           in
           regarde
           of
           place
           (
           which
           is
           necessary
           to
           the
           end
           that
           all
           mankinde
           may
           haue
           sufficient
           meanes
           to
           gaine
           knowledge
           of
           the
           true
           faith
           )
           can
           be
           attributed
           to
           none
           but
           
           to
           the
           Romane
           Catholicke
           Church
           ;
           which
           onely
           is
           diffused
           throughout
           the
           whole
           world
           ;
           whereas
           all
           others
           are
           circled
           in
           with
           narrow
           limits
           of
           particular
           prouinces
           ;
           And
           euen
           within
           them
           ,
           the
           professors
           scarce
           agree
           among
           themselues
           in
           any
           poynt
           of
           doctrine
           but
           in
           opposing
           the
           Romane
           Church
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           further
           ;
           besides
           this
           want
           of
           vniuersality
           in
           regarde
           of
           place
           ;
           the
           Religion
           taught
           by
           the
           reformers
           ,
           hath
           yet
           a
           greater
           restriction
           then
           that
           :
           for
           euen
           in
           its
           owne
           nature
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           for
           all
           sorts
           of
           persons
           and
           for
           all
           capacities
           :
           
           whereas
           the
           true
           saueing
           faith
           to
           bring
           men
           to
           beatitude
           ought
           to
           be
           obuious
           to
           all
           mankinde
           ,
           and
           open
           as
           well
           to
           the
           simple
           as
           to
           the
           learned
           .
           For
           since
           they
           lay
           the
           Scriptures
           as
           the
           first
           and
           highest
           principle
           ,
           from
           whence
           they
           deduce
           all
           that
           ought
           to
           be
           belieued
           ;
           And
           that
           in
           all
           artes
           and
           sciences
           the
           primary
           and
           fundamentall
           principles
           thereof
           ought
           to
           be
           throughly
           knowne
           by
           thē
           that
           aspire
           to
           the
           perfect
           knowledge
           of
           those
           sciences
           ;
           it
           followeth
           that
           one
           must
           haue
           an
           exact
           knowledge
           of
           the
           learned
           tongues
           to
           examine
           punctually
           
           the
           true
           sense
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           ;
           and
           that
           one
           must
           be
           perfectly
           versed
           in
           logicke
           to
           be
           able
           to
           reason
           solidly
           ,
           and
           to
           deduce
           true
           consequēces
           from
           certaine
           principles
           (
           for
           want
           of
           which
           ,
           we
           find
           by
           experience
           that
           great
           controuersies
           arise
           dayly
           among
           the
           learnedst
           men
           ;
           which
           would
           not
           be
           ,
           if
           the
           force
           of
           consequences
           were
           of
           their
           owne
           nature
           easily
           discernable
           )
           and
           one
           must
           be
           throughly
           skilled
           in
           naturall
           philosophy
           and
           Metaphysickes
           ,
           since
           vnto
           appearing
           contradictions
           in
           subiects
           of
           those
           sciences
           ,
           they
           reduce
           most
           of
           their
           arguments
           
           against
           the
           supernaturall
           truths
           that
           Catholickes
           belieue
           .
           And
           lastly
           one
           must
           be
           indowed
           with
           an
           excellent
           iudgemēt
           and
           strong
           naturall
           witt
           ,
           to
           be
           able
           to
           wield
           and
           make
           good
           vse
           of
           these
           weapons
           ;
           without
           which
           they
           would
           but
           aduāce
           him
           the
           faster
           to
           ruine
           and
           pernicious
           error
           .
           With
           which
           excellencyes
           ,
           how
           few
           are
           there
           in
           the
           world
           fairely
           adorned
           ?
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           it
           is
           euident
           that
           the
           Romane
           Catholicke
           Church
           onely
           hath
           had
           a
           constant
           and
           vninterrupted
           succession
           of
           Pastors
           and
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           tradition
           of
           doctrine
           from
           age
           to
           age
           ;
           which
           we
           
           haue
           established
           as
           the
           onely
           meanes
           to
           deriue
           downe
           the
           true
           faith
           from
           Christ.
           Whereas
           it
           is
           apparant
           all
           others
           haue
           had
           late
           beginnings
           from
           vnworthy
           causes
           :
           And
           yet
           ,
           euen
           in
           this
           little
           while
           ,
           haue
           not
           bene
           able
           to
           maintaine
           themselues
           for
           one
           age
           throughout
           (
           or
           scarce
           for
           any
           considerable
           part
           of
           an
           age
           )
           in
           one
           tenor
           of
           doctrine
           ,
           or
           forme
           of
           Ecclesiasticall
           gouerment
           .
           Lastly
           we
           may
           consider
           how
           the
           effect
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           his
           inhabiting
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           manners
           ,
           making
           the
           hearts
           of
           men
           his
           liuing
           temples
           ,
           shineth
           
           eminently
           in
           the
           Catholike
           Church
           ,
           and
           is
           not
           so
           much
           as
           to
           be
           suspected
           in
           any
           other
           whatsoeuer
           .
           For
           where
           this
           holy
           spirit
           raigneth
           ,
           it
           giueth
           a
           burning
           loue
           of
           God
           (
           as
           we
           haue
           touched
           before
           )
           and
           a
           vehement
           desire
           of
           approaching
           vnto
           him
           as
           neere
           as
           may
           be
           :
           Now
           ,
           the
           soule
           of
           man
           ,
           moueth
           towards
           God
           not
           by
           corporeall
           steppes
           and
           progressions
           ,
           but
           by
           intellectuall
           actions
           ;
           the
           highest
           of
           which
           ,
           are
           mentall
           prayer
           and
           contēplation
           ;
           in
           which
           exercices
           ,
           a
           man
           shall
           aduance
           the
           more
           ,
           by
           how
           much
           he
           is
           the
           more
           sequestred
           
           from
           the
           thought
           and
           care
           of
           any
           wordly
           affayres
           ,
           and
           hath
           his
           passions
           quieted
           within
           him
           ,
           and
           is
           abstracted
           from
           cōmunication
           with
           materiall
           obiects
           ,
           and
           is
           vntied
           from
           humane
           interests
           ,
           and
           (
           according
           to
           the
           counsailes
           of
           Christ
           in
           the
           Gospell
           )
           hath
           cast
           off
           all
           sollicitude
           of
           the
           future
           ,
           and
           remitteth
           himselfe
           wholy
           to
           the
           prouidence
           of
           God
           ,
           liuing
           in
           the
           world
           as
           though
           he
           were
           not
           in
           it
           ,
           wholly
           intent
           to
           contēplation
           when
           the
           inferiour
           part
           of
           Charity
           calleth
           him
           not
           downe
           to
           comply
           with
           the
           necessity
           of
           his
           Neighbours
           .
           
           This
           forme
           of
           life
           we
           see
           continually
           practised
           in
           the
           Catholicke
           Church
           by
           multitudes
           of
           persons
           of
           both
           sexes
           ,
           that
           through
           extreme
           desire
           of
           approaching
           as
           neere
           vnto
           God
           as
           this
           life
           will
           permitt
           ,
           doe
           banish
           themselues
           from
           all
           theyr
           frends
           ,
           kindred
           ,
           and
           what
           els
           in
           the
           world
           was
           naturally
           dearest
           vnto
           thē
           ;
           and
           either
           retire
           into
           extreme
           solitudes
           ,
           or
           shutt
           themselues
           vp
           for
           euer
           within
           the
           narrow
           limits
           of
           a
           straight
           Monastery
           and
           little
           cell
           ;
           where
           hauing
           renounced
           all
           the
           interest
           and
           propriety
           in
           the
           
           goods
           of
           this
           world
           ,
           and
           vsing
           no
           more
           of
           them
           then
           is
           necessary
           for
           the
           poore
           sustenance
           of
           theyr
           exhausted
           bodyes
           (
           which
           they
           mortify
           with
           great
           abstinences
           ,
           watchings
           and
           other
           austerityes
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           bring
           them
           into
           subiection
           ;
           and
           roote
           out
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           may
           bee
           ,
           the
           very
           fewell
           of
           concupiscence
           and
           passions
           )
           and
           hauing
           of
           their
           owne
           accorde
           barred
           themselues
           of
           all
           propriety
           of
           disposing
           of
           thēselues
           in
           any
           action
           ,
           and
           renounced
           euen
           the
           freedome
           of
           their
           will
           ;
           and
           thus
           in
           somme
           ,
           hauing
           taken
           an
           eternall
           farewell
           of
           
           all
           the
           ioyes
           and
           delights
           that
           this
           world
           can
           afford
           ,
           and
           that
           carnall
           mē
           would
           be
           so
           loath
           to
           forgoe
           for
           any
           litle
           while
           ;
           yet
           by
           the
           internall
           ioyes
           that
           they
           find
           in
           their
           prayer
           and
           cōtemplation
           (
           vnto
           which
           all
           these
           actions
           of
           retrenchment
           from
           superfluities
           ,
           or
           outward
           solaces
           ,
           doe
           serue
           as
           a
           ladder
           to
           ascend
           vnto
           the
           topp
           of
           it
           )
           they
           liue
           so
           happily
           ,
           and
           cheerfully
           ,
           and
           with
           such
           tranquillity
           of
           minde
           ,
           and
           vpō
           occasions
           say
           so
           much
           of
           the
           ouerflowings
           of
           theyr
           blisse
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           apparant
           they
           inioy
           there
           the
           hundred-fold
           that
           Christ
           promised
           
           in
           this
           life
           .
           Nor
           can
           it
           be
           obiected
           that
           men
           vsually
           betake
           themselues
           to
           this
           course
           of
           Religious
           life
           ,
           vpon
           being
           distempered
           by
           melancholy
           ,
           or
           for
           the
           ill
           successe
           and
           trauerses
           they
           haue
           had
           in
           affayres
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           or
           out
           of
           simplicitie
           and
           weakenesse
           of
           vnderstanding
           ;
           since
           it
           is
           euident
           that
           this
           Angelicall
           forme
           of
           liuing
           hath
           euer
           beene
           best
           practised
           by
           persons
           of
           the
           best
           cōposed
           and
           cheerfullest
           dispositions
           ;
           and
           by
           multitudes
           of
           such
           is
           and
           hath
           bene
           imbraced
           ;
           and
           that
           in
           the
           world
           ouerflowed
           with
           all
           the
           blessings
           it
           
           could
           afford
           them
           ;
           and
           were
           of
           strongest
           parts
           of
           vnderstanding
           and
           iudgement
           ;
           and
           were
           most
           eminent
           in
           learning
           .
           So
           that
           it
           is
           apparent
           they
           had
           no
           other
           motiue
           thereunto
           ,
           but
           purely
           the
           loue
           of
           God
           and
           feruour
           of
           deuotion
           :
           which
           being
           an
           effect
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           residing
           in
           their
           heartes
           ;
           to
           his
           inspirations
           and
           admirable
           wayes
           of
           working
           in
           those
           his
           temples
           of
           flesh
           and
           blood
           ,
           these
           extraordinary
           effects
           are
           to
           be
           imputed
           .
           Whereas
           on
           the
           other
           side
           noe
           such
           exāples
           or
           surpernaturall
           forme
           of
           life
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           mett
           withall
           
           in
           any
           other
           Church
           whatsoeuer
           :
           Rather
           ,
           they
           disclaime
           from
           them
           ;
           and
           like
           men
           of
           this
           world
           (
           which
           is
           the
           expression
           that
           Christ
           vseth
           in
           the
           Gospell
           to
           designe
           those
           that
           are
           not
           of
           his
           Church
           )
           not
           being
           able
           to
           discerne
           things
           of
           the
           spiritt
           ,
           but
           being
           blinded
           with
           the
           luster
           of
           them
           ,
           too
           great
           for
           their
           weake
           eyes
           ;
           they
           neglect
           and
           disdayne
           them
           ,
           and
           imagine
           that
           all
           Christian
           perfection
           consisteth
           in
           an
           ordinary
           humane
           morall
           life
           :
           which
           is
           the
           vttermost
           periode
           that
           any
           among
           them
           seeke
           to
           attaine
           vnto
           .
           And
           therefore
           we
           may
           hence
           
           cōclude
           that
           they
           haue
           no
           interiour
           worker
           among
           them
           more
           sublime
           then
           their
           owne
           humane
           discourses
           and
           iudgements
           ;
           and
           that
           supernaturall
           sāctity
           (
           an
           effect
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           )
           is
           confined
           only
           to
           the
           Catholicke
           Church
           .
        
         
           Besides
           ;
           we
           may
           obserue
           by
           dayly
           experience
           ,
           how
           those
           persons
           that
           addict
           thēselues
           to
           such
           an
           extraordinary
           way
           of
           life
           ;
           doe
           absolutly
           proue
           ether
           the
           best
           or
           the
           worst
           of
           mankinde
           ;
           the
           one
           excelling
           in
           admirable
           piety
           ,
           feruour
           of
           denotion
           ,
           abstraction
           and
           sanctity
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           soaring
           vp
           to
           a
           
           pitch
           euen
           aboue
           nature
           ;
           the
           other
           abounding
           in
           all
           sorts
           of
           impiety
           ,
           wickednesse
           and
           dissolution
           of
           manners
           ,
           till
           at
           length
           theire
           hearts
           become
           euen
           hardened
           against
           correction
           and
           all
           sense
           of
           spirituall
           things
           ;
           whereas
           it
           ordinarily
           happeneth
           that
           the
           most
           flagitious
           men
           among
           those
           who
           liue
           in
           a
           vulgar
           wordly
           estate
           of
           life
           ,
           doe
           vpon
           occasions
           frequently
           receaue
           notable
           impressions
           from
           diuine
           obiects
           to
           the
           amendement
           and
           change
           of
           their
           dissolute
           course
           .
           And
           this
           being
           a
           constant
           and
           certaine
           effect
           noted
           at
           all
           
           tymes
           and
           in
           all
           places
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           attributed
           to
           a
           cōstant
           and
           powerfull
           cause
           :
           which
           can
           be
           noe
           other
           thē
           the
           neere
           approaching
           of
           those
           persons
           to
           the
           originall
           fontaine
           of
           sainctity
           and
           goodnesse
           ;
           which
           being
           like
           a
           consuming
           fire
           ,
           worketh
           vehement
           effects
           in
           them
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           disposition
           they
           are
           in
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           neerenes
           that
           they
           haue
           vnto
           that
           fire
           :
           so
           that
           as
           the
           sunne
           beames
           (
           which
           are
           the
           authors
           of
           life
           and
           foe
           cundity
           to
           all
           plants
           and
           vegetables
           )
           shinning
           vpon
           a
           tree
           that
           hath
           taken
           soide
           rootes
           in
           the
           earth
           ,
           maketh
           
           it
           budd
           ,
           flourish
           ,
           and
           beare
           fruit
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           if
           it
           bee
           weakely
           rooted
           ,
           their
           heate
           and
           operation
           vpon
           that
           tree
           maketh
           it
           the
           sooner
           to
           wither
           and
           die
           :
           And
           as
           the
           fyre
           sendeth
           an
           influence
           of
           heate
           into
           a
           pott
           of
           water
           that
           is
           symply
           applyed
           vnto
           it
           ,
           but
           if
           that
           pott
           be
           sett
           in
           a
           vessell
           of
           snow
           or
           ice
           ,
           and
           so
           be
           held
           ouer
           the
           fire
           ,
           it
           driueth
           vnto
           the
           center
           the
           cold
           of
           the
           snowe
           formerly
           diffused
           with
           out
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           very
           short
           space
           turneth
           that
           water
           into
           ice
           ,
           which
           else
           might
           haue
           stayed
           there
           long
           enough
           without
           congealing
           :
           in
           like
           manner
           ,
           
           they
           who
           being
           rooted
           in
           charity
           ,
           approach
           to
           that
           dinine
           sunne
           ,
           doe
           flourish
           and
           bring
           fourth
           excellent
           ād
           ofttymes
           supernaturall
           fruites
           of
           deuotion
           ,
           feruor
           ,
           and
           sanctitye
           ;
           butt
           those
           who
           haue
           depraued
           affections
           soe
           inuironing
           the
           rootes
           of
           theyr
           hearts
           as
           that
           the
           soyle
           of
           charity
           cānott
           introduce
           her
           nourishing
           sappe
           into
           them
           ;
           and
           whose
           soules
           are
           compassed
           in
           with
           the
           ice
           of
           sensuality
           and
           carnall
           cogitations
           ;
           if
           they
           come
           within
           the
           beames
           of
           this
           holy
           sunne
           ,
           or
           within
           the
           heate
           of
           this
           sanctifying
           fire
           ,
           they
           doe
           but
           wither
           
           a
           way
           the
           sooner
           ,
           and
           their
           hearts
           grow
           daily
           more
           and
           more
           to
           be
           ice
           ,
           till
           at
           lēgth
           (
           like
           that
           of
           Pharao
           ,
           amidst
           the
           wonderous
           workes
           of
           the
           lord
           ,
           happy
           to
           others
           )
           they
           become
           miserable
           and
           stony
           .
        
         
           And
           againe
           we
           see
           that
           those
           who
           hauing
           addicted
           themselues
           wholy
           to
           such
           a
           course
           of
           Seraphy
           call
           life
           ,
           and
           that
           being
           allwayes
           vehemently
           intent
           to
           the
           loue
           and
           contemplation
           of
           the
           prime
           verity
           ,
           and
           that
           hauing
           no
           other
           obiect
           for
           their
           actions
           or
           thoughts
           ;
           doe
           thereby
           (
           as
           wee
           may
           reasonably
           conceaue
           )
           approach
           neerest
           to
           God
           allmighty
           
           and
           drawe
           immediatly
           from
           him
           (
           who
           is
           the
           fonntaine
           of
           light
           and
           truth
           )
           strongest
           emanations
           and
           cleerest
           influences
           to
           illustrate
           their
           vnderstanding
           ,
           and
           enflame
           their
           affections
           :
           those
           persons
           (
           I
           say
           )
           haue
           euer
           beene
           most
           earnest
           in
           the
           maintenāce
           of
           those
           points
           of
           the
           Romane
           doctrine
           which
           are
           most
           repugnant
           to
           sense
           (
           as
           in
           particular
           ,
           of
           that
           of
           the
           reall
           presence
           of
           Christs
           body
           in
           the
           blessed
           Sacrement
           ;
           vnto
           which
           all
           other
           Sacrements
           ,
           and
           acts
           of
           faith
           and
           deuotion
           ,
           are
           reduced
           )
           and
           adore
           them
           with
           greatest
           
           reuerence
           ,
           and
           are
           enflamed
           with
           feruentest
           deuotion
           vnto
           them
           .
           And
           therefore
           wee
           may
           conclude
           that
           this
           confidence
           ,
           religiousnesse
           ,
           and
           feruour
           ,
           proceedeth
           from
           hēce
           that
           these
           men
           ,
           and
           such
           among
           them
           as
           cannot
           be
           suspected
           for
           simplicity
           ,
           ignorance
           ,
           or
           sinister
           ends
           ;
           are
           thus
           cōfirmed
           in
           this
           faith
           ,
           and
           are
           thus
           sett
           on
           fire
           with
           this
           deuotion
           more
           vigorously
           and
           vehemētly
           then
           ordinary
           secular
           men
           ;
           by
           the
           immediate
           working
           and
           inspiration
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           ;
           from
           whose
           streames
           it
           is
           likely
           they
           drinke
           purer
           and
           cleerer
           waters
           ,
           
           and
           neerer
           the
           well
           head
           ,
           then
           other
           men
           of
           a
           more
           worldly
           and
           vulgar
           conuersation
           .
           And
           it
           were
           not
           agreeable
           to
           the
           goodnesse
           of
           God
           to
           permitt
           those
           persons
           that
           most
           affectionatly
           seeke
           him
           ,
           and
           who
           for
           his
           sake
           ,
           out
           of
           pure
           deuotion
           and
           desire
           of
           contemplating
           truth
           ,
           doe
           abridge
           themselues
           of
           all
           other
           wordly
           contentmēts
           ,
           to
           haue
           theyr
           vnderstandings
           worse
           blynded
           with
           false
           doctrine
           then
           other
           men
           that
           seeke
           him
           more
           coldly
           and
           care
           lesse
           for
           him
           ;
           and
           to
           haue
           their
           wills
           more
           depraued
           then
           theirs
           with
           erroneous
           and
           false
           
           deuotion
           ,
           as
           of
           necessity
           it
           would
           follow
           theyrs
           were
           ,
           if
           the
           doctrine
           that
           the
           Catholicke
           Church
           professeth
           were
           not
           true
           ,
           and
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           resided
           not
           in
           it
           to
           worke
           those
           effects
           .
           Now
           on
           the
           contrary
           part
           ,
           lett
           vs
           make
           a
           short
           inquiry
           whether
           it
           be
           probable
           that
           the
           late
           pretended
           reformers
           haue
           beene
           illuminated
           by
           God
           in
           an
           extraordinary
           manner
           ,
           to
           discouer
           truth
           ;
           which
           they
           say
           hath
           for
           many
           ages
           layen
           hidd
           .
           Surely
           if
           any
           such
           thing
           were
           ,
           they
           would
           haue
           expressed
           in
           they
           re
           manner
           of
           life
           by
           some
           extraordinary
           sanctity
           
           and
           excellent
           actions
           ,
           and
           supernaturall
           wisedome
           ,
           that
           extraordinary
           cōmunication
           which
           they
           would
           persuade
           vs
           they
           had
           with
           the
           diuinity
           .
           For
           as
           by
           a
           radiant
           beame
           of
           light
           shining
           in
           at
           the
           chinke
           of
           a
           window
           ,
           wee
           know
           assuredly
           ,
           the
           sunne
           beateth
           vpon
           it
           ,
           although
           we
           see
           not
           his
           body
           ;
           soe
           likewise
           there
           should
           haue
           broken
           out
           frō
           them
           some
           admirable
           and
           excellent
           effect
           whereby
           wee
           might
           rest
           confident
           that
           the
           diuine
           sunne
           illuminated
           theire
           vnderstanding
           ,
           and
           enflamed
           they
           re
           will.
           Moyses
           when
           hee
           came
           
           downe
           from
           the
           mountayne
           where
           hee
           soe
           long
           conuersed
           with
           God
           ,
           expressed
           euen
           by
           the
           luster
           glittering
           from
           his
           face
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           not
           an
           ordinary
           or
           naturall
           light
           which
           had
           shined
           vnto
           him
           :
           the
           Apostles
           when
           they
           were
           replenished
           with
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           receiued
           immediatly
           the
           guift
           of
           tongues
           and
           a
           cleere
           intelligence
           of
           all
           the
           Scriptures
           ;
           whereby
           they
           made
           cleare
           vnto
           the
           auditors
           the
           obscurest
           passages
           of
           them
           ;
           and
           continually
           wrought
           miracles
           :
           and
           all
           those
           that
           euer
           since
           them
           haue
           introduced
           the
           Gospell
           into
           any
           
           country
           where
           formerly
           it
           was
           not
           receaued
           ,
           haue
           still
           had
           thyre
           commission
           auctorised
           by
           the
           same
           seales
           ;
           and
           shall
           our
           late
           particular
           Reformers
           be
           credited
           in
           theyr
           pretended
           vocation
           ,
           and
           in
           theyr
           new
           doctrine
           that
           shaketh
           the
           very
           foundations
           of
           the
           faith
           that
           hath
           beene
           by
           the
           whole
           Christian
           world
           for
           soe
           many
           ages
           belieued
           and
           deliuered
           ouer
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           ,
           when
           as
           nothing
           appeareth
           in
           them
           supernaturall
           and
           proceeding
           from
           a
           diuine
           cause
           ?
        
         
           This
           Madame
           ,
           is
           as
           much
           as
           I
           shall
           trouble
           your
           La
           :
           withall
           vpon
           this
           
           occasion
           :
           which
           indeed
           is
           much
           more
           then
           at
           the
           first
           I
           intended
           or
           could
           haue
           suspected
           my
           pen
           would
           haue
           stollen
           from
           mee
           .
           The
           substance
           of
           all
           which
           may
           be
           summed
           vp
           and
           reduced
           to
           this
           following
           short
           question
           ;
           namely
           ,
           whether
           in
           the
           election
           of
           the
           faith
           whereby
           you
           hope
           to
           be
           saued
           ,
           you
           will
           be
           guided
           by
           the
           vnanimous
           consent
           of
           the
           wisest
           ,
           the
           learnedst
           ,
           ād
           the
           piousest
           men
           of
           the
           whole
           world
           ,
           that
           haue
           bene
           instructed
           in
           what
           they
           belieue
           by
           men
           of
           the
           like
           quality
           liuing
           in
           the
           age
           before
           them
           ,
           and
           soe
           from
           
           age
           to
           age
           vntill
           the
           Apostles
           and
           Christ
           ;
           and
           that
           in
           this
           manner
           haue
           deriued
           from
           that
           fountayne
           ,
           both
           a
           perfect
           ād
           full
           knowledge
           of
           all
           that
           ought
           to
           be
           belieued
           ,
           and
           likewise
           a
           right
           vnderstāding
           and
           interpretation
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           as
           farr
           as
           concerneth
           faith
           ;
           (
           the
           true
           sense
           of
           which
           so
           farr
           ,
           is
           alsoe
           deliuered
           ouer
           by
           the
           same
           tradition
           .
           )
           Or
           whether
           you
           wil
           assent
           vnto
           the
           new
           and
           wrested
           interpretations
           of
           places
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           made
           by
           late
           men
           that
           rely
           meerely
           vpon
           theire
           single
           iudgement
           and
           witt
           (
           too
           slight
           a
           barcke
           to
           sayle
           in
           
           through
           soe
           immense
           an
           Ocean
           )
           and
           whose
           chiefe
           leaders
           for
           humane
           respects
           and
           sinister
           ends
           (
           not
           to
           say
           worse
           of
           them
           )
           made
           a
           desperate
           defection
           from
           the
           other
           maine
           body
           ;
           since
           which
           tyme
           ;
           noe
           two
           of
           them
           haue
           agreed
           in
           doctrine
           ;
           and
           among
           whom
           it
           is
           impossible
           your
           ladyshipps
           greate
           iudgement
           and
           strong
           vnderstanding
           should
           finde
           any
           solide
           stay
           to
           repose
           securely
           vpon
           ,
           and
           to
           quiett
           all
           those
           rationall
           doubts
           that
           your
           perceing
           wit
           suggesteth
           vnto
           you
           .
           And
           here
           ,
           Madame
           ,
           I
           shall
           make
           an
           end
           ;
           hae●ing
           sincerily
           ,
           and
           as
           succinctly
           
           and
           playnely
           as
           I
           can
           deliuered
           you
           the
           chiefe
           considerations
           that
           in
           this
           affayre
           turned
           the
           scale
           of
           the
           balance
           with
           mee
           ;
           which
           in
           good
           faith
           I
           haue
           done
           with
           all
           the
           simplicity
           and
           ingenuity
           that
           I
           can
           expresse
           my
           sense
           with
           ;
           being
           not
           at
           all
           warmed
           with
           any
           passion
           or
           partiality
           ,
           nor
           raysed
           out
           of
           my
           euē
           pitch
           and
           temper
           with
           any
           spirit
           of
           disputation
           ,
           or
           siding
           humor
           ;
           (
           which
           few
           haue
           auoyded
           vpon
           this
           subiect
           )
           but
           I
           haue
           giuen
           you
           a
           true
           picture
           of
           my
           seriousest
           and
           saddest
           thoughts
           and
           resolutions
           to
           my selfe
           in
           this
           
           most
           important
           busynesse
           ;
           wherein
           you
           will
           belieue
           I
           would
           take
           the
           greatest
           paines
           I
           was
           able
           ,
           to
           be
           sure
           not
           to
           be
           deceiued
           .
           I
           haue
           not
           sought
           to
           show
           wittinesse
           or
           acutenesse
           of
           learning
           in
           the
           debating
           of
           these
           points
           ;
           or
           haue
           affected
           polished
           langage
           in
           the
           committing
           them
           to
           paper
           ;
           for
           this
           matter
           should
           not
           be
           handled
           for
           oftentation
           but
           for
           vse
           :
           and
           though
           peraduēture
           if
           this
           discourse
           should
           fall
           into
           the
           view
           of
           some
           learned
           man
           hee
           may
           at
           the
           first
           sight
           sett
           but
           a
           slight
           valew
           vpon
           it
           ;
           yett
           I
           perswade
           
           my selfe
           whosoeuer
           he
           be
           if
           hee
           will
           ponder
           it
           seriously
           and
           leasurely
           and
           with
           a
           like
           interior
           recollectiō
           as
           I
           at
           the
           first
           setled
           the
           grounds
           of
           it
           in
           my
           owne
           soule
           ,
           he
           will
           then
           finde
           it
           toucheth
           the
           life
           of
           the
           matter
           :
           and
           though
           I
           haue
           not
           deliured
           my
           conceptions
           smoothly
           and
           well
           ,
           yett
           hee
           will
           not
           thinke
           his
           tyme
           lost
           in
           reading
           them
           ;
           and
           hauing
           stronger
           parts
           then
           I
           ,
           hee
           will
           make
           cleerer
           vse
           of
           them
           then
           I
           haue
           done
           .
           This
           I
           am
           sure
           of
           ;
           that
           allthough
           I
           haue
           sett
           this
           downe
           for
           your
           La
           :
           in
           2.
           
           or
           3.
           dayes
           (
           for
           it
           is
           noe
           longer
           since
           you
           commanded
           me
           to
           doe
           it
           )
           yet
           it
           is
           the
           production
           and
           result
           of
           many
           howers
           meditations
           by
           my selfe
           ;
           or
           rather
           of
           some
           yeares
           :
           and
           how
           drye
           soeuer
           they
           may
           appeare
           to
           your
           La
           :
           at
           the
           first
           ;
           yet
           I
           dare
           promise
           you
           that
           vpon
           your
           secōd
           and
           third
           readings
           and
           reflexions
           vpon
           them
           ,
           they
           will
           gaine
           more
           credit
           with
           you
           ;
           and
           you
           will
           (
           I
           know
           )
           by
           such
           application
           of
           your
           thoughts
           vpon
           them
           ,
           enlarge
           and
           refine
           what
           dependeth
           of
           the
           maine
           heads
           far
           beyond
           
           any
           thing
           I
           haue
           sayd
           .
           For
           such
           is
           the
           nature
           of
           notions
           that
           are
           wrought
           ,
           like
           the
           silke
           wormes
           ball
           ,
           of
           ones
           owne
           substance
           :
           they
           afford
           fine
           and
           strong
           threads
           for
           a
           good
           workman
           to
           weaue
           into
           a
           fayre
           peece
           of
           stuffe
           :
           whereas
           they
           that
           like
           bees
           doe
           gather
           hony
           from
           seuerall
           authors
           ;
           or
           that
           like
           Aunts
           ,
           doe
           make
           vp
           their
           store
           by
           what
           they
           picke
           vp
           in
           the
           originall
           crude
           substance
           from
           others
           labours
           ;
           may
           peraduenture
           in
           their
           workes
           seeme
           more
           pleasant
           at
           the
           first
           taste
           ,
           or
           appeare
           
           to
           haue
           a
           fayrer
           heape
           at
           the
           first
           view
           ,
           but
           the
           others
           webb
           is
           more
           vsefull
           ,
           more
           substantiall
           ,
           and
           more
           durable
           .
        
         
           I
           beseech
           God
           of
           his
           grace
           and
           goodnesse
           ,
           in
           this
           life
           to
           enlighten
           your
           La
           :
           vnderstanding
           that
           you
           may
           discerne
           truth
           ,
           and
           to
           dispose
           your
           will
           that
           you
           may
           imbrace
           it
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           next
           ,
           to
           giue
           you
           part
           among
           those
           glorious
           Apostles
           ,
           Fathers
           ,
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           Martyrs
           that
           deriuing
           the
           same
           truth
           from
           him
           ,
           haue
           from
           hand
           to
           hand
           deliuered
           it
           ouer
           to
           our
           tymes
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .