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the
holy
Scriptures
vereindrted
by
Gods
fptrit.
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but
in an
earthen
veffel,when this
"beautiful
feature
is
clothe
in
meane
attire,and the
diuine wifdom
ofGod
Pet
forth
in
at
bumble and
Pimple
Rile, we
leaue
fhadowes
and
behold
th
fttbftancc,neither do
we
refs
in
the
outward
letter,but
fcarc
after the inward truth.So
alto
if
the
Lord
had
in
the penning
ofthe
Scriptures
vfecl
inticing eloduence,or
afl'e1ed human
learning,tnen would
haue
bin
ready
to
haue
Paid,
that
by th
force
thercoffo
many were dawne or
inticed, to
embrace re
ligionand
to
fpend
their
lines in
Gods
feruice
but
when
a
in
outward
Chew
there
is
nothing but
vnpolifhed
plainneff
and
fïmple
rudenes,
by which
neuertheles the hearers vnder
/landing
is
more
inlightned,his
will
more powerfully
inch-
ned,his
affections more
firongly ruled, than
by
all
the
elo-
quent
perfwations
which
wit
and
learning
can
inuent, they
driuen to
confeffe
that wifdom
ofGod
is
hidden vnder
fimplicitic, his
power
vnder this
outward
weaknes, and
that
the Scriptures haue
their
vertue and force,
not
from
the
fpeeçh
ofmans
wifdome and
exceilencie
of
words,
but
from
the power
and plaine euidence
of
Gods fpirit,
who
was the
author
and
inditer
ofthern.
The tenth reafon,to proue
that
the Scriptures
are
not the in-
vention
of
man,
but
the word cïfGod
indited
by
his
fpirit,is,
that
many
things contained therm
are
aboue
the
reachof
hu-
mane vnderfianding,and
fo
deep
that
mans wifdom
and rea-
fon
cannot conceiue them,
nor
fearch
them to
the
bottome.
For example,though
al
men
know by the Iight
ofnature that
there
is
aGod,fecing
this truth
is
written
in
large
characters
in
the faire volume
ofthe
creatures,
fo
as
none
can
behold
thembut
he
mutt needs
know
and
acknowledge it; yet
that
this
God being
one in nature fhould be diftinguifhed
into
three
p.erfons,the F
ather,Son,
&
holy
Ghoft,without anydi-
uifion
offubflance
or confttfion
ofperfons,
mans reafon
can-
not
concciue,though the
Lord
hath reuealed
it
&
much
letfe
could muent
it
feel
g
now
it cannot
comprehend it.Sö,ÿ
the
world
and
the-
creatures
therein contained were created,
the
light
ofnature
íiÁfticiently
teacheth
vs,
feeing they haue
an
end
and
therefore
had
a
beginning
,a
time
of
corruption
and
;herfoze
a
time
ofgeneration
alto,
&
as is
the nature
of
euery
z
.
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s
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§.Secl.
4;
The
tenrh rea-
J'ott,
ta
ken
f
om
the
Contents
of
the Scriptures,
which
in
many
thin
gt
are
a-
han
the
reach
e.Ihumane
rea-
Jon.