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 Ca,. I�.] rar-tsn,t. One or the other el' these io mint eey  e. then a the heti  A wt is eir infa!lii g for, wch either cnot or 11 not decide ques of such imance  h ie- as ts ? It  said ain, "that out an infsible ide the Scfi. c- n be ededthe sense  te cannot  asceain.  B what advantage,  this spect, h the Church of Rome, that pretends  fbili, ave other churches that pretend  none ? Do they undend the Scripture beger th Pmst ?  their 1 dend the Bible better than the Ptestant lai ? Do their e]er underland the Bible better th Protestant clermen ? Have they cleared or settled the sense. of one doubtful text, by mea of inf- bili, during a the time they have pretended to it ? Let them puce ne le, e ene of which is by this mean8 asceined. We Meve �ey wl not. They know as we  we that  thee te wch have been cmlt and obscure at fit are so sti, for any tng that fallibili h done to explain them. And if the sense of any obsc ages be better undersd now than formerly, we a not indebted for it   infallible judge, but  f!ible commentary, whe learning d indust, through the blessing of God, have been succeful in the eat work of elucidating God's wo. Nay, father, that of all other eositors, the pes themselves, who are by some accounted the infallible judges, e the most unhappy in their explications. And far have they been from clearing obscure texts, ey have sebly eed and misapplied the plainest, as many insnces might ven out of the epistles, wch now make a consideble  of canon law. These are incontestable proofs at Cht d not desi we should ave at the knowledge of his will by means of an ong de, ut by employing our intellectual d moral we  the of those means afforded us for our instcti. 7. is boted infalhbility thws ear diculfies in e way an inquirer than the tesnt ply. Peons who follow e Roman Catholic le laur under disadvantages unknown  us. h they and we acknowledge Scripture to be infible. We say it is iikewe  plain in all necessa ints that eve hristian, th e help of such means  he hath among us, may rightly undetand it, in in necessa  salvation,  at he may have a sure foundation on which to build s faith. Their shion is, at a laban caot celia that he is  the right way units he is celia that he hes to e doctrines of e ehch, and uares his frith by them, the chch ing the only fible interer of Scfipre. Now we man tt their cose presents more d Mer dcfies than os does. In the ce of the Romanist a que arises, How shall he  able  know tt he holds all in of frith  the church holds them s he must be able  know to a ce fo he can have pmr d for his frith. Though the church should be infaible, what s it profit him, less he cemainly ows what she teaches  But w shall he know that any better than he c know what e ture teaches ? Nay, how can he k it  eily as he may �e other? For the decrees of the chch,  mat of ffi,   nd  ,   of 8cfi,  shut 1

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