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That
the
holy
Scriptures
were
indited
by
Got/sprit;
3
3t
whereas
it
maybe obieeied,,that
wicked
men haue
fuffered
alto
for their
fees,
opinions and
herefies,
wee are
to,know
that
there
is
great
difference
betweene
them;firfl,becaufe
the
number hath been
few
who hath
fuffered
for their
feuerall
fells
and
herefies,but the Martyrs
almoll innumerable
who
haue
fuffered
for
the
fame
truth;
fecondly, the
fame cheere
-
fulneffe,conflancie and
reioycing
in
their
fuffrings
hath
not
been
in
them
who haue
fuffered
for
their errors, which
hath
alwaies
been obferued
in
Gods
Saints.
And laflly,thefe here
-
tikes
haue alwaies
been
confuted and conuinced
of
their er-
rors and
heretics
before their
fufferings,whereas
Gods
Saints
diredled
by his holy
f
irit,haue flopped themouthes
oftheir
aduerfaries
with the
wifedome
of
Gods word,
which Satan
himfelfe
cannot refiftand
through
violent rage
being
vncon-
uided
haue
been led to the (laughter.
.-
CHAP.
XX.
Other
reafons
to
prooue
that
the Scriptures
were
indited
by
gods
fpirit,taken
from
the Scriptures
themfelues.
He
eight
reafon
to
prooue
that
the
Scriptures are
4
Sea.I.
the word
of
God,
is
the argument which they
Th.e
eigit ;ea-
handle, and the end whereunto they tend:
For
fort
taken
from
the
fubied
whereof
they intreate
are the
great
the argument
workes
ofthe
euerliuing
God,
how
he exercifeth his mercie
+rvsh
th
"y
towards
his
children
in .fuflaining,
defending, and fauing
banale.
them from all
their
enemies:and
his iuflice
towards
the wic-
ked
in
turning their
counfailes
to
foolifhnes, in
ouerthrow-
ing their
defignes
and
purpófes,
curbing
in
their
rage
and
violence, and in
punifhing and deflroying
them.Now
if
you
confider
and
perufe
all
other writings
in the
world
befides,
you
(hall finde
no
fuch
matter contained in
them;
for fame
labour
in
polifhing humane
Arts;;fome fet
out
large hiflories
of
the actions,
counfailes,
fucceffe,
policies, enterprifes and
perturbations
ofinenlike
themfelues:
fo
that at the
firit
fight
wee
may
know
that
they are
indited by
the
fpirit
ofman,
feeing
they
are whollie
(pent in
affaires,
neuer
Z
intermediing