That theholyScriptureswere inditedby Godifpirit. 3 r itcleered by takingawayÿ clouds ofobieE ions which feeln to fhadow it,&byaddingvnto it thelight ofhumane reafon; but the truthis, the fault is not in this glorious light, which aiwaiesfhineth,but in their blindnes who cannot difcerne i t; andyet fuch is thepride,felfe loue,andvaine opinionwhich euery onehath ofhis ownsgifts, that they will fooner gin that the Sunwanteth light, then they eies to lookvp6 it. True it is, thatby the formerreafons theymay beconuin- Sec . ced, fo that they haue nothing toobiea; andperhaps they Other argu- maybe brought to haue a good opinion of the Scriptures, meats con - and to adoubtfull conceitthat they are the wordofGod in- xince, bland' deed; theymaywith the two Difciples which travailed to Per¡rrade Emaui, when they heare the Scriptures interpreted, haue their hearts burne and throb within them, imagining that which they hcare,tobe more then the wordofmortall man; and as the blind man in theGofpel,when hiseieswere a little illuminated by our Sauiour,difcernedmen,not as men,but as mouingtrees; fo theymay in forneconfuted mauer know and acknowledge theScriptures tobeÿwordofGod;butbefore Chrift hathfullyopened their Gies, and by theprecious eye- falueof his Spirit, bath difpelled their natural] blind'neffe, theywil neuer certainlybeperfwaded ,noraífuredlybeleeue, that the Scripeures are not thewordofman,but in the infal- lible truth ofGod. For it isnot inmans power tobeget faith in any, neither is it grounded vpon any naturall reafons or perfvaLons, but it is the fupernaturall gift ofGods fpirit, who illuminates our vnderflanding,and inclines our will, fo that we fee, and fledfafily beleeue that truthwhich it deliue- reth,as appearethEphef.z.8. 2.Thef.i.1 i. phef J.I Andwhéwe haue this teflimon ,ol-Gods fpirit inour harts- Gods artydt it will certainly perfvvad vs of this truth, though we had no LYDefteish other reafon : as appeareth by teflimonies ofScripture, & by ' ofibis rrxt ourovine experience.For the firft it is Paid, i .Cor.2.15. That t .Cor a.r q. theItirituallman, that is, he who is induedwith Gods fpirit, indgethalthins,&yet himrlfe is iuc%edofnoman So 1.'011.2. 27. But the aunointing whichyerecei+iedofhim, d:,ellerh itaßoú, t.Iohn ,endye neednot that anyman teachyou, hnt.as theanxoiutingtea- chethyouallthins. And verf.2o. But yéhatre an ointmentflan; Ver io, Lim that r1 hoy,&yehaue knownallthings. Wherby hevnder- flandetl
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