[18] _Dr. Ferne, Division of Churches_, _p._ 46, 61. _Chillinw. p._ 57. [19] _Stillingfl. p._ 1, 3. [20] _Chillinw. p._ 59, 100. [21] _p._ 140. [22] _p._ 118. 140. & 166. [23] _Chillingw. p._ 307. [24] 2 _Pet._ 3. 16. CONFERENCE II. _The Socinians Protestant-Plea, For his not holding any thing contrary to the unanimous sense of the Catholick Church, so far as this can justly oblige._ 1st. _That an unanimous Consent of the_ whole _Catholick Church in all ages, such as the Protestants require for the proving of a point of faith to be necessary, can never be shewed, concerning this point of_ Consubstantiality. §. 14. _And that the consent, to such a doctrine of the_ major part _is no argument sufficient, since the Protestants deny the like consent valid for several other points._ §. 14. 2. _That supposing an unanimous consent of the Church Catholick of all ages in this point, yet from hence a Christian hath no security of the truth thereof according to Protestant Principles, if this point, (whether way soever held) be a non-necessary; for that in such, it is said the_ whole _Church may err._ §. 15. 3. _That this Article's being in the affirmative, put in the Creed proves it not (as to the affirmative) a Necessary._ §. 16. 1st. _Because not originally in the Creed, but added by a Council; to which Creed if one Council may add, so may another of equal authority in any age, whatever restraint be made by a former Council._ 2. _Because several Articles of the latter Creeds are affirmed by Protestants not necessary to be believed, but upon a previous conviction, that they are divine revelation._ §. 16. 4. _Lastly. That though the whole Church delivers for truth in any point, the contrary to that he holds, he is not obliged to resign his judgment to her's, except conditionally, and with this reservation, unless on the other side, there appear evidence to him in God's Word. Now, of the evidence of Scripture in this point on his side, that he hath no doubt._ §. 17. §. 13. 2. Now to resume the _Conference_. The _Protestant_, better thinking on it, will not leave the Socinian thus at rest in this plerophory of his own sense of Scripture, but thus proceeds. _Prot. Scriptures_ indeed are not so clear and perspicuous to every one[25] _as that Art and subtilty may not be used to pervert the Catholick doctrine, and to wrest the plain places of Scripture which deliver it, so far from their proper meaning, that very few ordinary capacities may be able to clear themselves of such mists as are cast before their eyes, even_ in the great Articles of the Christian faith. Therefore why do not you submit your judgment, and assent to _the sense of Scripture_, in this point _unanimously delivered by the consent of the Catholick Church_; which also is believed always unerrable in any necessary point of faith, as this is?