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the
h9ly
Scriptures
*ere
isditedby
gels
f#rit.
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excelled
all
humane
writings
in
conceit
ofwit,and
excellen -
Why
the
¡trip.
tie
ofphrafe
and
ftile,as
farce as
God
excelle th
man,whereas
tares
were
pen.
we
fee
that
they
are
penned after
a,snofl
fimple
plaine
and
ncd
is
a
fïn*ple
npolifhedmanner:To which
I
anfwere,that
it doth not
be-
e
and
plaP
come
aPrince
to
play
the
Oratour
when
he
fetteth
out
an
e-
di&,
nor
to
vfe
Rhetorical!
figures
and
alluring
perfwafions
when
he
bath
to
deale
with
his
fubieds,
but
rather
pererp-
torie
commandements
and plaine phrafes,ful
ofgrauitie
and
authoritie
without
all
affectation;
&
how
much
leffe
fLould
the
chicle
commander
ofKing
and
fubiecrt,
vfe fuch
a ffile
as
fauoured
any
whit
ofhumane
elogMence;feeing
it better be-
feemeth
his Maieflie
plainly
to
command,then
to
perfwade,
or
allure
with inticing
fpeeches
?
Secondly,
the
Scriptures
were
penned by the holy
Ghol ,not
only for
the
wife
&
lear-
ned,but
alfo for
the
fimple
and
ignorant
;
and therfore
how
-
foeuer
the
Lord
in the profunditie
ofhis
wifedome, could
haue
written
in
fuch
a
loftie
flile
as
would
haue
filled
euen
the
moll
learned
with
admiration, vet
he vfeth
a
Pimple
calk
ílile
fit
for the
capacitie
ofall,becaufe it
wasfor
the
vfe
ofall,
and
neeeffarie
to
faluation to
bee vnderflood ofall
forts and
conditions.
As
therefore
he
frameth
himfelfe
to cur
'hallow
capacitie in the
penning
ofthe
Scriptures,
and
fpeaketh
not
according
to
his vnfearchable
wifedome,
but
after
the man-
ner
of
men,or
elfe
no man, no
not
the moll
wife and
learned
could
vnderfland him
:
fo
hee
thought
it
fit
to
fpeake
afwell
to
the
capacitie
of
the
fimple
as
the wife,
becaufe
the
know-
ledge
ofhis word
was
no
leffe neceffary
to
faluation
to
thefe
than to the other;and
in his mercie
and goodneffe
he
vouch
-
fafed
as
well
milke
to
the babe,as firong
meare
to
thofe
who
were
come
to more ripe
yeeres
in
knowledge
and fpirituall
wifedome.
At which the
wife
and learned
haue
no reafon
:o
be
of1'ended,feeing
the
faluation
of
one
is
as
deale to
God
as
ofanother,
and they may
with
greater
facilitie
vnderfland
the
Scriptures
being
plaine and-eafie,
which could not bee
^vnderflood
ofthe
fimple,
if
they
were
penned in
a
loftie
elo-
quent
phrafe.
Andyet
if
they
examine
the Scriptures
in
the
balance
of
a true
iudgement, they
may linde
foe
de
therein
contained
ftfortheir
owne
pallat and
talk
.;
for
under
this
3
hutntlittc.
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