Chap.t2. ,?n Expofiitinn'ugan the b00% of Job.Ve _As God í; noms deep things ju be makes ihem known. Wha .waysoptr c, hd, eit, he f:ne.imes revealeth unto man. God cifc(;vers both the deep things which Iiimtelf or man dcth or fpeaketfi. Firft, He ri. /taleth the deep things which hinifelfCpeaketh. IIn eià God rx;'> ,n `his Own w, rd, al our gloffes will but cor- rupt it : For, N. Propherie of 5'cß ?pure is of gayp'zvate interpreta- Propriam'iri tion (2 Pe z. ic.j yprivate interpretation,the Apc litemeans not terprerationetn the rrsterpretar i,n c:. ne -r (f a fe cv privare men, for p fíìoly, conmunirfrve one or afew, and Le or they not irtvefted with any p Mike Corn publicofèdad' miffion,may give a tote te fe of Scripture, when m:-..tiy,and rc ey ventit:en Sui- called rz, apuhlikeoffice, miftakeandgo wrong. P.m by private rirusfanfhi do- interpretaiion,lie'-fraudscáatConsment w ich flaws from a mans' um,er (o/errix, vé, c rngérrij own brain or phancy; without theconien. of other Scriptures, vigOuiqui Tira or the te.chini s of the fpirir. No Scripture, whether,Dc&`trisïal`>,atura ho;nrnr. or Prophetical, is of ary fix private, t`ia° is,iamsne fnterpre-.bus quarrr:mvis Cation. Mati witn ail his wec,'earning, nd partä,eanriot intert,)ret ingenráfs in- the word of:God, onr° the fpii.it of God can, or they can byhofrus Bel. are affifted by r e fpirit. So much tir Text inPe,.er now cited holds out clearly in the letter, and , et for e, of t'he Learnei anonher expofition s f it. For the words thew us rather the rs2t.zority and original of Senfus Petri the Scriptures,Chari theway of their interpretation. TheApo- AP e vi i- ftles Scopebeing toprove that rileProphets did notdeclere their phetas)ron fug own privateopirsioni, but the mindof God inwhat they fpake. ,,,tirais revif rn And that thenrforethe word of Prophete, as the:spotie ad-edzdiff',fedfu- vifeth in the formerverfe,is to be heeded c.arefully.Ti,e words fol.. rff =z.rerp,eres 19wia iead n' al fo to toe fa- e !c de (yeti. z i. ), Fo- the prophefie confilij divini, came not in the old time by the will of :ratan ; but holy nzerz f God'tz? uamfees fpake as they were moved by the Hzly.Ghofi. T ;e Pic phe ;s we.e -Dei menrem toe Interpreters of the mind of God to the people, nor the h m:;;ibus expo Meffengers of their own minds. The falfe Prophets venAed Iii Ca;+1er, their own ,dreams, and ran of their own heads before triey were CP1Jnotli° leur, therefcrn their I?rophefieswereof a prieáre Interpretation, ova° that is, they or,ened only that to the people, which themfelvee wereAut`r,;ors o,lo did not the true Prophete. They laid, Thus faith the Lord, or as faul, We have received of the Lord. that which we deliver unto you. From ail it appears that the Apoft'e is tprakingof the pedigree, not'of the Expofìtion Proher - cal Scriptures. Yet the truth is as ei'icte,ir for the ,one as for the other.. v2. 3 r
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