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V. Quest. Whether all Revelation for Religion must be but Notitiarum Com∣munium Symbolum, A Creed contain∣ing these common notices or truths. (as is asserted p. 221.)
Answ. I have said enough against this before. First; What need God send a Prophet or an Angel to tell the
world that which they all knew cer∣tainly before? Secondly, Full exist∣ence assureth us (as I have proved in the Treat.) that mankind hath need of more. Thirdly, More tendeth to per∣fect mans understanding, and conse∣quently his will and life: This is un∣deniable. And mans perfection is his felicity and end: And therefore more than those common notices is needful to his end. Fourthly, Else as is said, you will reduce all the world to the measure of that part which is the low∣est, the unwisest and the worst. You would not in wealth or health be equal∣led with the basest poorest or the sickest: nor yet in wit and knowledg of other matters with the most foolish: And why then in the knowledg, love and practice of Holiness?