?hat theholyScripturesn-ere imbedGyGodsl rrít. 347 phetsandApoflles who lined in their feueral times,fecing the Church hathreceiucd them from time to titne,anddelittcred them to their fucceffors to this day. l'Mïoreouer,the lawpubli- fhedbyMoriswas not in fecret or ina corner before i me few witneí es, but in the pretence of600000. men, betides women and children,and the firange miracles and workes of God full ofwonder,which hewrought for the better confir- mationofhis lawgiuen, were done &performed in thepre- fence ofmany thouftnds,whomade relation ofthem to their pofteritie,and they to theirs to thisday. Neither was it eafe tobe corrupted, altred or changed, Peeing the lawgiuer did ftraightlycharge all menthat they fhouldnot adde, detract, or alter any thing vponpaine ofprefent death in this world, and euerlafling death in 57 life to come ; who therfore would,. incur ÿdanger of fuch fearful punifhment for the fatisfying ofhisfruitleffephantafie?Moreouer,this bookofthelaw was fafelykept in the Tabernacle, and after in the Temple in the Arkewhich was placed in the holy ofholiell, and diuers au thenticall copies writtenout ofitfor eueryone ofthe twelue tribes,whichwere euerySabbath day read and expounded in their Synagogues; yea fo familiar were thefe writings with thelewes, that they were written in their houfes, andvpon their garments,foas it was not poffìble for any man to falfifie thembut it would prefently be efpied. Yea (will the tempter fay)but though they couldnotbe depraued or corrupted,yet theymight at firfl be inventedby fome more fubtill than the refl,and fo thrufl vpon men vnder the authority ofGodhim= felfe, as being the writingsofhisProphets and Apoflles.To which I anfwere, that there is no probabilitieoftruth in this obie3tion; for I would faine know in what age this man Mouldwrite.In the time ofll4ofss?how then could hewrite the hiaorieoftheIudges who fucceededhim ?In the time of the Iudges ? how then couldhewrite the hiílorieof Kings? What then ? could hee write thefe things in the time ofthe .Kings,and fo faine a relationof fuch things as went before? whythé it is neceffarie thathe fhouldhaue Hued in the time ofthe lafl Kings, orels hecouldnot haue penned their hullo-- riealto : butbefore this tirne,there were many copies abroad ' of
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