Subtile Arguments

God forbid we should think that none believe the Scriptures aright but those who are able to apprehend and manage the subtile arguments of learned men produced in their confirmation! yea, we affirm, on the contrary, that those who believe them on no other grounds have, indeed, no true divine faith at all.

 

John Owen, The Reasons of Faith, The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, vol. 4 (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1677), 72.