280 4ttending public Inftru5tion, SE R M. and irrational perfuafion, but fuch as we are XI. determined to by the higheft and bell evi- dence, having firft impartially examined, and been fatisfied concerning the el-waders and proofs of a divine revelation. There cannot be a more certain principle than this upon which our faith refteth, it is impogible for God to lie. He can neither be deceived himfelf, nor deceive us ; but he that bath received the teJlimony of Chr j (to whom God beareth witnefs by many figns and wonders) bath fit to his teal, that God is true, John iii. 33. An implicit faith our Lord juftly claimeth, that we fhould take upon trufl whatever he bath revealed, refl- ing on his infallibility, and caging down imaginations, and every high thing, which exalteth itfelf again/Z the knowledge of God.. Whatever difficulties there may appear in the fayings of divine wifdom from the pre- judices of men, whatever irregular lufts and pafhons may fuggeft in oppofition to them, we ought to be in the humbleft manner re- hgned to our great unerring teacher. Many? indeed, of our Saviour's hearers were of- fended at his doctrines and fpiritual precepts; they objected that his fayings were hard ; they afked how thefe things could be, and they forfook him. But it is only our prejudices and
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