rit, bath no vie ofmouth, or other corporal! members, and being omnipotent, his will carried-) power enough,without the helps,: ofwords) yet for our wea,e capacity, that which he effcdually workcth is imputed to the forceof his words. Matth.4.4. Manfball not liue bybread one/ , but by essery word that proceedeth out ofthe mouth ofGod. Lament. 3. 3 8. Out of the mouthofthe mods High proceedeth not euill and good ? Jo- nah z . i o, TheLord fJia`eunto thefit, and it ca.Ft vp Jonah vp. onthedryland. And touching the latter, namely, the arn- pli6cation , whofoeuer fhal i heedefully attend to the pur- pofeofthe Holy Ghofi, may euidcntly perceiue that Wife- dome is in this verte , and the twooext, extolled , and Cet forth by the caute, the glorious and bountiful' Author thereof : and in the refs that follow is commended by the effc&s, . the u ngular and admirable fruits of it. TheAuthor we fee, is the Lord fehouah, theonely original', perfed, ab- folutc,'andeternal! b!ing, and that out ofhis rott gracious mouth irproceedeih. God himielfe is the onely effeehuall teacher of his peo. DoEtrin4 pie. Minificrs,though neuer fo Iearned,and faithful!, though they were Prophets,as powerful,as Efay,and leremy,though theywere Apoilles, as profitableas Paul, and Peter, can yet no more of themfelues caule their hearers to vnderaand, belccue, andobey, than theCower is able to make his fcede togro.v or theGardiner to infufe fappe into the plant which be Cetteth, whereby it may roote, fpring, budde,hlolfome, and frudifie . The weapons of their warrefare indeede arenot x Cor.Io.4.1, carnali, but mighty , but through God , as the Apoille ac- knowledgeth elkhad it berne in their power,tovi1 downe ror,,, 6.45 holdes, to ca.}-1 downe imaginations, andhigh things that are ex- altedagainsl the lenoìlede,eofGod ? Could they haue broaght into captiaity emery thought to the obedienceof(hrss`? It is writ- ten in the Prophets; And they /ball be alltaughtof God . Eue. r,y man therefore that bathheardand learned o ftheFather.com- met/i veto Chris`!. ReadeDeuter.2 9.4. lerem.31.3 3. Madac, zi.2g.A9es I6.I4. Ftrli, WiCtdomc3Knowledge,and Graceare the befl, and Rcaro» z N 4 mot$
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