?bat sheholy Scriptures mereinditedbyGodsprir. 353 preached, theyneede no further perfwa(ions, nor other in- flruaor to teach them, that the Scriptures were penned by thediuine operationofGods fpirit,feeing theword ofmor- tall man could neuer make fuch a change in them, nor any thingelfe but the wordofthe euerliuingGod ; which at the fir1t was alone fufficient for their creation and generation, and nowonely. is ofpower fufficient for their regeneration, sandnewbirth. As therefore the blinde man reafonedwith the Phari(ies,`Iohn9, not with any farre fctcht reafon, but from his,owne experience,to proue that our Sauiour was not a notorious (inner, as the Pharifies accufed him, but tome great-Prophet feat fromGod; faying, Doubtleffe this is a marueilous thing that yeknow not whencehe is, andyet he pathopened mine eyes; and,ifthisman were not ofGod he couldhaue done nothing : fomay we reafonwith thole who - .affirme that it cannot bee knowne whence the Scriptures came, from God or man; v(ing this argument taken from 'our owne experience,faying,Doubtlefhe this is.amarueilous thing that yeedoe not know whence the Scripturesare, 1 e_ ing theyhaue opened mine eyeswhich were.blinde frommy birth,inclined my will to obedience, which`before was re- bellious, loft ned my heart and fané}ifiedand quite changed mine affeíions, fo thatI now louethat goodwhich before I hated, and hatethat mill which' beforeI lotted ; and amde- lighted with thofeholieexercifes which 'heretofore didmolt difpleafeme; and ath difpleafed withthofe vaine pleafures and filthie (inn.es, whichin tinrespall did moll delightme ; and therefore if it were notófGod itcould haue done no fuch thing, if it werenot infpired and indited by his holie fpirit, and made .effe&uahl by the-.vertue- and power there- f, it could neuer_hauewrought inme fuch ifrange alte- sations, HA i?,
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