60 Thehifforitallpart, asdoEfrineof creation,&c. tobee made, but whatfoever is regiffred in the Hiftoricall Bookes of holy Scripture byway of report, is tobee taken for true in refpee}of form, that wee may not doubt whe- therthofe things were done or Paid, which are there repor- ted tobe done or laid : But in thefe bookes wee have tome worthy fpeeches of godly men, and force lewd and blafphe- mous words of profane and wretched men. The former are tobe acknowledged for the truth ofGod everieway : the latter muff be acknowledged tobee truly reported. As for Ganef:49.1,a. example : it is true that Jacob uttered thofe prophefies of the twelve Patriarks his Ions, and it is allo true, that thofè prophefies of his were theverie truthof God. It isas true, aReg.cs.3o. that Rab/hakeh delivered thofe blafphemous threatnings and ç.4 6 againff theLord andhis people, but itis not true that thofe words came fromGod, asJacobs did; fo Jacobswere to be taken aseverie way true, truly related, and the truthof God ; Rabfhakehsonelyas truly reported from his mouth, but in themfelves blafphemous. § 3. §. 3. Thus faith yeeldeth firme and abfolute affent to Tpe hiîiorreall alldivine hiffories, as containin. a certaine and lire rela- part, as the We- aries i ing of the tionof thofe things whereof they intreat, and towhatfo- ever came fromGod,as everie way true,and tobe received: nordoth it barely afi'ent to the thing fpoken as true, but moveth and f }irreth affeelions according as the nature of Creetien. the thingbeleeved fhould and ought toworke. Through Heb.ii.3, faithwee underfand that the worlds were framed by the wardofGod,not barely giving credit to Mofes relation tou- ching the creationof the world, but looking unto thewit. dome, goodneffe, andpower of God, whereby the heart is moved to feare, reverence, and fubmiflion. That faith which is deeply faffened in the heart, and beholdeth the trueGod, the CreatourandGovernour of all things, as his power, bountie, andunderffanding, fhineth in his works; thatfaith enciteth to humilitie, reverence, love, and wor- irevidevee. fhipofGod. Through faith weeunderffand that God bath proteóted, andpreferved, and blefled his people fromtime to time ; affiictked them when they went aftray, delivered them
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