4owtimon ;.Reafons ta. ken from the fnceiity ofthe vmríters ofthe 5criptxres. Fen,496?1-6' 3 3 2 That theholy Scriptureswere indrtedby Godsfpirit. ding towhich he will be ferued and obeyed, and not leave toeuery ones fatitafieandvaine imagination; and (hall wee thinke God leffe wife then man, that hee fhould not haue a perfefflawfor the gouerntnentofhis people, but fuffer cue, ry man to follow his owne blind conceit and ignorant fuper. flition ? Thirdly,the finceritie and vprightncs ofthe writers ofthe holy fcriptures,is a manifell argument that theywere guided and dire&cdbyGods fpirit;for they deliuer nothing in their owne name,but in the name ofthe Lord,norarrogating any :praifc vnto thetnfelucs,but afcribing all glory vntoGod;nei. Cher did they in their preachings or writings feeke them- felues,or aime at anyworldly benefit ; nay rather they were content to be contemptible,fubie& to fcoffes and taunts,yet tooffer thetnfelues to death and deprivation ofall worldly felicitie, for the truthofGod which they had deliuered.And whereas diuers ofthem might haue hued in al pompe,ifthey wouldhaue followed the times, winked at the finnes ofru- iers,andfupprcffed the word of the Lord, which_thcyhad receiuedofhitn; they chofe rather to fuffer perfecution, .yea death it felfe,then they wouldkeepe backeany ofthe coon- fell ofGod,as appeareth in the°example ofEf y, leremie,Fze- chiel,Mrchaaf Zacharias, Amos, and many others ofthePro- phets,andApoflles. Neither doe they in their writings ab` flame cnely from feeking their-ovine glorie andpraie, but alfo fet downe thofe things which might tend to their difm credit,to the endGod mightbe glorified in their infirmities, the truth confeífed and preferued, and the Church cfGod benefited, when by.feeing the weakeneffe of the mof} .ilrong,they arekept fromprefuming on their owne flrength, and f-otn :defoairing in Gods mercie. And thus c1ofs concealeth`not. the fail ofour grand parents, the drunkennes .of»oah,Pthe incea ofLot,the lie ofIfaackthe whoredome ,oflad:r ;, nay which more neerely concernedhim,heplaine , ly reuealeth the horrible and bloodie fin ofhis grandfather Leuy, and Simeon, in murthering the Sichemites, and the curfeoftheir father Jacob pronounced again!} them for this their outrage, Genef.49.5.6. which could. not in humane xcaÇosa
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=