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nfw.
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oEmo-
yand
mo-
ration.
Yfe
3.
Adoro pleni-
tudinem fcri-
ptaræ,
Tert.
How
farre
we
are built
on
the
truth.
2.
Ephefians,Chap.
z.,
VER
.2f3.
as
they
were not to
bee
heeded.
You
will fay
then,W
hat
ufe
are we
to
make
of them
a
How
are
we
to be difpofed toward them
e
I
Anfwer.Say
I
conceit this
or that opinion;but
I
fee,or
it is
told
me
fuch
& fuch
are againft me
in
it,ofworthy
note.Knowing
this;
r.I
am
fo far
to
refpeEt
this,not
as
therefore to
difcard
it,
and judge it erro-
neous,but onely not to
precipitate
any determination
againft
them.
2.1
am to have the
more
jealoufy
of
that
which by opinion
I
conceive.3.I
am
to
excite my
felfe
to the more
full
inquiry
,
to
fee
what
groundes
they
had, what
verifrmilitude
aejeaft
for
their fentence. 4.
If
I
finde
my
fate
in
the truth, I
am
withlimore humility
and
thankfulnefe
to
imbraceit, when I
fee
that
even
men
of
greater parts had it not
Phew-
ed
unto
them.
So
on the other
fide,
the Fathers
fay
this
unanimi
eon
-;
fenfu,
I
doe
not
therefore believe it, this were humane Faith,
but
I
ac
-'
count
it
a
Prefump ion,that the thing
is
true. 2.
I
fcarch
the
grounds
of
it with
more
alacrity and confidence.
3. I
having grounded
my
Faith onGods
Word,
am
in
this regard
more
confident
in
my
per
-
fwafion.
Laftly this muff teach
us
to
adore the
fulnefle
of
the
Scripture,
according
to which who
fo fpeaketh
not
in
the things
of
God ,
fpeak-
eth without underftanding. For whatfoever any knotveth
out
of
his
naturali wifdome
is
foolifhneffe
in
Gods
matters
:
what
bee knoweth
,
without the
Word, he
bath
it
out
of
bis
ownewifdome. There
is
no
j
fhift
unleffe
we will fay
there
is
place
for
Revelation
,
without
'the
Ï
means
of
the
Word;
therefore what
he
thus fpeaketh
is
foolifhneffe;
the
Word
containeth
all
things,
if
not
in
fyllables,yet
in
fenfe,that
are
needfull for faith and manners, yea direétion
for
all indifferent things
which
are variable.
For
the fecond
point, How
farce
thehoufhold
of
God
are built
on
this
truth.
I
anfwer,The
houfhold
of
God
muff be confidered
2
waits.
r.
in
regard of thofe
in
heaven.
a.
in
regard
of
chofe
in
earth. Theft
on earth
are
either
fo in
truth,or
in
appearance.
The
firft arc
pettedly
freed
from
error,&
have
the
clear
light ofthis truth.Heb.r
a.The
fpirits
ofinfl
andperfeli` men:
The
fecond
arebuilded
on this
truth but
in
part,
to
as
they
may erre
not fundamentally to
a
totall revolt,
Hell gates
'hall
not
prevaile
againfi them, he
doth not
fay , (hall
have no power.
Wee
know
but
in
part. Thofe
who
are
not
true
members
of
the Church
of
God,
being fo
outwardly
in
profeflion, may
fall
quite
away,
both,
teachers and people; asthis
Church
of
Ephefres
,
which
Paul
writing
É
to
Timothy
(whom
he had
now left over
it,)
doch call
it
the
Pillar of
truth
,
yet there was
an
Apoftafy
of
the
fhepheards themfclves
a-
mongwolves.
To
thew
us
a
note
how to
difcerne
the true
Church,
namely,
if
we
hold
dole
toProphetical!
and
Apoftolicall doétrine alone,
with faith,
!
love,
and
obedience.
To
confute
unwritten words
:
they
came neither
from
Prophets
nor
Apoftles,therefore
are
to
be
rejefted.
It