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Show Of tht t~ell44ncement ofltt~rning ~iltiOs ro open our vndedlidi~,as the. forme of .dJ key tot ward of the:lockt· 5· for the later' there) itallow.edvsanyfeofReafon, .and.argum(».nt ·, fe,. eondaric and refpcttiue ; although not original! . -and abfolute : For after the Articles and priAci., pies of&eligion are pla~edand exe~ptcd from.ex~ arninltion:of reafon ·::lt.Js then perml'·tced vnro vs to make deriuations and infeiences from ' 11nd asco~ding to the Analog~e of1them,for o.Hr berrerdJrech. on. In N.atJJre this lioJdeth nor,~ for both the princi. plmarc~aDJinaaJ~·by fndutlion, though ~ot.bya c.Midium .~ 'Sitl1gi[m~and be~des thofc pn~crpks or6rfi pofitions, haup1o~dtfcor~anccwnhr~ae - reafon whi(h drawetb:do.\vne.and dtduceth rheJn. feti6Ut pofttions.But ,yer kholdeth not in R eli~ion alone· but· in inany know ledges both of greater and. fmall:r Nature, namely w herin there are not ondy Poflt• but Pl~ttit~, for in fucb there can be noe vfe of abfolu~c; reafon, wdee it familiarly.inGamcs ofwir, 1$ Chcie or the like; The Draughts and firfi law~s of the Ga'me are poliriue, l>ut howl meerely .td p/4(itum, and not (·xaminable by reafon ; But then ho~\v ro direCt our play thereupon with bcfi aduan~ tage to vy:·nnc.rh game, isartdiciaJJ and ratjonaJI. So inHumane Jawes, there be many groundes and Maximes whicltare P ltttitt~lm;is, Pt~fitille vpon au· th&ririe :tod nor ~pon rea!on, and thcrefo_re no~ to Pifputed :· But w;b.Jt is moll: i ult; notai:>!Ol~tely, fMlc rc igdy; :iod a.;c<>rding to t~ofc Maxunes, rJJar,atfotdctb aiP.ng field of 4ifputauon.S~cb ther.r. · .: · · fore . . . , ,· Thificond /;()()ke. · 1 rt fore is that fec6darie rcafon, which hath ,pJace in di- . • nitie> which is grounded vpon the Pl4cets ofGod. · Here.t~erefore I note thisde~cience; that there D .r. /e .. ~ ba~h not bm to my· vnderfia_n~tng fulficiently en. . e ~,u gu1red & handled, T ht trne ltmrts and v{t l{rt.l{on i11gttttmo ra• IJirif••ll thiNgs_:. •as a kinde ~f diuine DialeCtique, tionis httwhtch for that Itts not done~u ~e~methro me a ~hin!J man£;,. · Wuall,by pretext of rr.ueconcemmg that, whtch is . . .. rtataled; to fearch and mineinto that which is not diHJms • . ·feti aled. an~ by pretext of e~udeating .inferences . ~nd contradtdones, t~ex~mtnethatwhichis pofr.; . ~: The one fort fallmg mto the EtroJ;Of Ni&1Je. ·,.,,demanding to haae things made more fenlible . dMn it plC"afeth· God to: reueale them . ; ' JJ...._tUJm~AJ I ~siliiiiiM·~Mfti c.umjit ftriex r -The otbtrfgr.r into· ft"rrOr oftheDifciples, whichwerefcand llized ' ·arafhew of contraditlion: fl!!jd eft f11c 'fN'ri dicit n1. ' 'l"'di&um, & •on.'IJiJc!Jitis ltJt, &Jitert~m mle/k,_, t!idelitirm~c. · . _ v j , t ~ ·, • On ril:isi_JraUd Aiiaed the rtlo"";in regard 0£ rlit · reat-and bJdfed vfe thereof, ·for rhi~ point weJIJa~ t r~·and defined of, would in my iudgement be .;DrroD.t4~ toiaie and bridle not onefy rhe.vanitie of 1 tfft:'liiiii()Usfp~tilati6s, wherewith the fchoofes labour· l• .... rfBPfurie· of COtrooerfies;wher\\'ith the church IRHitreth. :For it canMtbut open mens eyes to fee mattf controuerftes doe meerCiy perraine which iseithtt'r·norreucaled orpolitiue, and nmn~ others doe growe~.vpon weakeand obInferences · or deriuations ·which J3tter , .!f~.f f .z tfort |