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4owtimon
;.Reafons
ta.
ken
from
the
fnceiity
of
the
vmríters
of
the
5criptxres.
Fen,496?1-6'
3
3
2
That
the
holy
Scriptures
were
indrted
by
Gods
fpirit.
ding to
which he will
be
ferued
and obeyed, and not
leave
to
euery ones
fatitafieand
vaine
imagination;
and (hall wee
thinke
God
leffe
wife
then man, that
hee
fhould
not
haue
a
perfefflaw
for
the gouerntnent
of
his
people,
but
fuffer
cue,
ry man
to follow
his
owne
blind
conceit
and
ignorant
fuper.
flition
?
Thirdly,the
finceritie and
vprightncs
of
the writers
of
the
holy
fcriptures,is
a
manifell
argument
that
they
were
guided
and dire
&cd
by
Gods
fpirit;for they deliuer
nothing
in
their
owne
name,but
in
the
name
of
the
Lord,norarrogating
any
:praifc
vnto thetnfelucs,but afcribing all glory vnto
God;nei.
Cher
did they
in
their
preachings
or
writings
feeke
them
-
felues,or aime at any
worldly benefit
;
nay
rather they were
content
to be contemptible,fubie&
to
fcoffes
and
taunts,yet
to
offer
thetnfelues
to
death and deprivation
of
all
worldly
felicitie,
for the
truth
ofGod
which they had
deliuered.And
whereas
diuers
ofthem might
haue
hued
in al
pompe,ifthey
would
haue
followed
the
times, winked
at
the
finnes
ofru-
iers,and
fupprcffed
the word
of
the
Lord,
which_thcy
had
receiued
ofhitn;
they
chofe
rather to
fuffer
perfecution,
.yea
death it felfe,then
they would
keepe backe
any of
the
coon-
fell
ofGod,as
appeareth in
the°example
ofEf
y,
leremie,Fze-
chiel,Mrchaaf Zacharias,
Amos,
and many others
of
the
Pro
-
phets,and
Apoflles.
Neither
doe
they
in
their writings
ab`
flame cnely
from
feeking
their
-ovine glorie
and
praie, but
alfo
fet dow
ne thofe
things
which
might tend
to their
difm
credit,to
the
end
God might
be
glorified
in
their infirmities,
the
truth
confeífed
and preferued,
and
the Church
cfGod
benefited, when by.feeing
the
weakeneffe
of
the
mof}
.ilrong,they
are
kept
from
prefuming on
their
owne
flrength,
and
f-otn
:defoairing in
Gods
mercie.
And thus
c1of
s
concealeth
`not.
the
fail
of
our grand parents,
the drunkennes
.of
»oah,P
the
incea ofLot,the
lie
ofIfaackthe
whoredome
,oflad:r
;,
nay which more neerely concerned
him,he
plaine
,
ly
reuealeth the horrible and bloodie
fin
of
his
grandfather
Leuy,
and
Simeon,
in
murthering
the
Sichemites,
and the
curfeof
their father
Jacob
pronounced
again!}
them
for
this
their outrage,
Genef.49.5.6.
which could.
not
in humane
xcaÇosa