,points,) and fay to another, or himfelf, This you or I are bound to believe, bya Divinefaith : For nothing but a Divine Revelati -. on can be the material obje& ofa Divine faith. 32. 2. And as far is it from the power of this man, to fay [I received not thisfromGod, but yet you are bound to believe it asfromme, with a faith as certain and confident, as a faith Di- vine.] For this were to equall manwith God. §. 3 3. 3. And far is it from the power of man to ob- trude at all uponanother any fupernatural matters, and Com- mand him to believe them, though but with a humane faith, whenhe cannot prove that the things are committed to him, nor give men an Evidence oftheir Credibility. He maynot fay [ThoughGod revealednot theft. fupernatural matters to me, yet bath hegiven me Authority to command you to believe them, or made it your duty tobelieve them, when 1(peak them,tbough with- out Evidence of Credibility.] So that here are three forts of things about matters ofBelief that man maynot do. The firfi is, that he may not Counterfeit a Divine Revelation and the 2. is, he may not command men to believe his law- full humane teflimony, with a faith equall to Divine : and 3. he may not command fo much as a humane faith to fuperna- tural affertions which he had no authority toutter. I fpeak this about mens power in matters of faith, as preparatory to that about srotfhiip. SS. 34. In like fort, i. Man may not fay [This god bath commandedyou inor about his worfbip] when it is not fo : For this were to belie God, and to add cohis Law, as if it Paid that which it cloth not fay. Here none I hope will gainfay me. SS . 3 5. And 2. No man may of his own head Command any thing inor belonging to the worfhip of God : but he muff have either a Special or General warrant and command from God himfelf todo it. Gods Law muff either make the thing Neceffary in fpecie, and fo leave man nothing about it but to fecond it by his Law, and fee it executed: or elfe Gods Law muff make the thing Neceffary in genere, and fo leave man to determine ofthefpecies (as is oft faid.) But where 'neither of there are done by God, man hathnoPower for the impofing of that thing. f.36. More particularly, r. God hash not left it to the Power
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