Theologia eklektik Author:Jeremy Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: or no I say, all this be not sufficient probation that these only are of absolute necessity, that this is sufficient for mere belief in order to heaven, and that... more » therefore whosoever believes these Articles heartily and explicitly, GtoV pivti v owy, as St. John's expression is, God dtcelleth in him, I leave it to be considered and judged of from the premises : only this, if the old Doctors had been made judges in these questions, they would have passed their affirmative; for to instance in one for all, of this it was said by Tertullian, This symbol is the one sufficient immovable, unalterable and unchangeable rule of faith, that admits no increment or decrement; but if the integrity and unity of this be preserved, in all other things men may take a Liberty of enlarging their knowledges and Prophesy ings, according as they are assisted by the grace of God. Section II. OJ heresy and the nature of it, and that it is to be accounted according to the strict capacity of Christian Faith, and not in opinions speculative ; nor ever to pious persons. AND thus I have represented a short draught of the object of faith, and its foundation; thenext consideration in order to our main design, is to consider what was and what ought to be the judgment of the Apostles concerning heresy : for although there are more kinds of vices, than there are of virtues; yet the number of them is to be taken by accounting the transgressions of their virtues, and by the limits of faith; we may also reckon the analogy and proportions of heresy, that as we have seen who was called faithful by the apostolical men, we may also perceive who were listed by them in the catalogue of heretics, that we in our judgments may proceed accordingly. Regula quidem fidei una omnino est sola immobilis et irre- formabilis...« less