Th stìheholy Scriptttreswere tndited 'y Gods f frit. 345 as to eueryworldlymanfeemeth foo1:ifhand abfurd,yea con- trary to his nature ? For what can be more againfl thehaire, than to deny ourfelues and to take vp our croffe and follow Chrifl?than to rciedl our ovine workes andworthines,and to feeke for iuflification in Chrifis (kath andobedience alone? than to imagine that manifold affli riionsand great mifery,is the high way that leadeth to glorie and endles felicity ? and that pleafures,honours,and riches,makevs vnfit to enter into Cods kingdome ? And therefore feeing the dodlrine of the fcriptures arenot only aboue the reachofhumane reafon,but alto flat contrary ronatural wifedome,it plainlyproueth that theyarenot the inuentionof mortali man(for then theeffet would be like the caufe) but the word of the euerliuing God,which fauoureth ofhis hidden and fpirituall wifedome. The eleuenth argument, toproue that the fcriptures were §,sep, 5 iüdited not byman but by Gods fpirit, are theprophecies The eleuentb therein containèd,whichwere fulfilled in their due time ; as reafn,tahen that there fhould bee enmity betwcene the feede ofthe wo- fromtbepro- man and the feedeofthe ferpent, and that thepromifed feede pheeies ofholy_ Chrifi Iefus fhould vanquifh thediuell;that thepofleritie of seristures. Cham fhould beaccurfed;that Abrahamfhouldhaue a fonby his wife Sarah,when they were both old, and fhee pall the timeofchild-bearing;that hispollerity fhould bebondmen inEgypt 400.yeeres,foretold before he had Ifaac ofwhom they came;that fudgespoflerity who wasbut the fourth fon, Mouldhaue foueraignty and dominionotter the refl;that the fcepterfhould not bee takenfromhim tif theMeflìas fhould come; that the tribe of Ephraim fhould excel! the tribeof Alanaffes;that he who fhould reedifie Jericho after it was de- Io0n.6.z6. flroyed,fhould be punifhed with the death ofhis fons,as ap- pearethIofh.6.26. whichwas 5oo.yeres after fulfilled in Hiel'King.t 6.34. the Bethelite,as it is (.King. i6.34;that Ioft.14 byname fhould 3,t:s. eleflroy idolatrieand the idolaters,and reflore the true religi- z Kiii .zz. on,foretold almofh3oo. yeeres before he was borne,i.Kingg, and z 3. 13.1.2. 2.King.22.and 23 ;that the people of Tfrael fhould be ledcaptiue into Babylon, &be fet freebyCyrus by name, 17 prophecied. ofaboue an too. yeeresbefore Cyrtss was borne, fa.14.2&272,8` And tothefe we may ad theprophecies of Ieremm1a.
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