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Th
stìhe
holy
Scriptttres
were
tndited
'y
Gods
f
frit.
345
as
to
euery
worldly
man
feemeth
foo1:ifh
and
abfurd,yea con-
trary
to
his
nature
?
For
what
can
be more againfl the
haire,
than to deny our
felues
and
to take
vp
our
croffe
and
follow
Chrifl
?than to rciedl
our
ovine
work
es
and
worthines,and to
feeke for
iuflification in Chrifis
(kath
and
obedience
alone?
than to imagine
that
manifold
affli
riions
and
great
mifery,is
the
high
way
that
leadeth
to
glorie and endles felicity
?
and
that
pleafures,honours,and riches,make
vs
vnfit
to enter into
Cods
kingdome
?
And therefore feeing
the dodlrine
of
the
fcriptures are
not
only aboue
the
reach
ofhumane reafon,but
alto
flat
contrary
ro
natural wifedome,it
plainly
proueth
that
they
are
not the
inuention
of
mortali man(for then the
effet
would
be like
the
caufe)
but
the
word
of
the
euerliuing
God,which
fauoureth
ofhis
hidden
and fpirituall
wifedome.
The
eleuenth
argument, to
proue
that
the
fcriptures
were
§,sep,
5
iüdited not by
man
but
by
Gods
fpirit,
are the
prophecies
The
eleuentb
therein containèd,which
were
fulfilled in
their
due time
;
as
reafn,tahen
that
there fhould bee enmity betwcene the
feede
ofthe wo-
fromtbe
pro
-
man and the
feede
ofthe
ferpent, and
that the
promifed
feede
pheeies
of
holy_
Chrifi
Iefus
fhould vanquifh
the
diuell
;that
the
pofleritie
of
seristures.
Cham
fhould
be
accurfed;that Abrahamfhould
haue
a
fon
by
his
wife
Sarah,when they were
both
old, and
fhee pall
the
time
ofchild-bearing;that
his
pollerity fhould
be
bond
men
in
Egypt 400.yeeres,foretold
before he had Ifaac
ofwhom
they came;that
fudges
poflerity
who
was
but
the fourth fon,
Mould
haue
foueraignty and dominion
otter
the
refl;that the
fcepter
fhould not
bee taken
from
him
tif
the
Meflìas
fhould
come;
that
the tribe
of
Ephraim
fhould
excel!
the tribe
of
Alanaffes;that
he who fhould
reedifie
Jericho after
it
was
de-
Io0n.6.z6.
flroyed,fhould be punifhed
with
the
death
of
his
fons,as ap-
peareth
Iofh.6.26.
which
was
5oo.yeres after fulfilled in
Hiel'King.t
6.34.
the Bethelite,as
it
is
(.King.
i
6.34;that
Ioft.14
by
name
fhould
3,t:s.
eleflroy
idolatrie
and
the
idolaters,and
reflore the true religi-
z
Kiii
.zz.
on,foretold
almofh3
oo.
yeeres
before
he was
borne,i.Kingg,
and
z
3.
13.1.2.
2.King.22.and
23
;that
the
people
of
Tfrael
fhould
be
led
captiue
into Babylon,
&
be
fet
free
by
Cyrus
by name,
17
prophecied.
of
aboue
an
too.
yeeres
before
Cyrtss
was
borne,
fa.14.2
&272,8`
And
to
thefe we may
ad
the
prophecies
of
Ieremm1a.