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PROTESTANTS perceaue, that if they pretend to belieue Christian Religion without seing the truth thereof, vpon the sole authority of God reuea∣ling, they must consequently belieue that God reuea∣led it vpon the word and authority of the Apostles, who preached the same to the world as doctrine vnto
them reuealed of God, & then agayne, that the Apostles did thus preach, & publish it by (d) 1.1 the light of the Church succeeding thē, deliuering it hād to hand as frō them; which Traditiō if they admit as a certayne & infallible rule, they are (e) 1.2 brought into streights, and mightily pressed to receaue many doctrines of Tradition, which they are now resolute neuer to belieue.
Therefore to lay the axe to the roote they would fayne build their fayth on an higher ground then the authority of God darkely reuealing, to wit (f) 1.3 on Diuine illu∣mination, whereby they see manifestly the truth of thinges belieued: whereby they are (g) 1.4 con∣uicted in consciēce by the euidence of the thing it selfe, that their Religion is Diuine: by the lustre, and resplendent verity of the matter of Scripture, and maiesty of the doctrine thereof, sensed according vnto their manner.
Quid Apostoli prae∣dicauerint praescribam, non aliter probari de∣bere, quàm per easdem Ecclesias quas ipsi con∣diderunt. Tertull. de praescrip. c. 19.
To this purpose they say: So long as we stay vpon the Fathers, we shall still continue in our old (Popish) errors. Peter Martyr. de votis pag. 476. Luther de ser••uo Arbitrio. Tom. 2. Wit∣temberg. pag. 434. Pome∣ran. in Ionam. Napier vpon the reuelations, Calius Cu∣rio & alij.
Iohn White defence pag. 309. None can be∣lieue except God illu∣minate their hartes, but such as haue this illumi∣nation do SEE MA∣NIFESTLY the truth of thinges belie∣ued.
Francis White Or∣thodoxe, pag. 108. ad∣ding, that Protestants herein are like to a man that sees a farre off an obscure glimmering, but cōming to the place, beholds the light it selfe. And the same is taught by Caluin, Institut. l. 1. c. 7. n. 2. and the rest.