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That
the
holy
Scriptures
were
indited
by
Godi
fpirit.
3
r
it
cleered by
taking
away
ÿ
clouds
ofobieE
ions
which
feeln
to
fhadow
it,
&by
adding
vnto
it
the
light
of
humane reafon;
but
the
truth
is,
the
fault
is
not
in
this glorious
light,
which
aiwaies
fhineth,but
in
their
blindnes who
cannot
difcerne
i
t;
and
yet
fuch
is
the
pride,felfe
loue,and
vaine
opinion
which
euery one
hath
of
his
owns
gifts,
that
they
will fooner
gin that the
Sun
wanteth
light,
then they
eies
to
look
vp6
it.
True
it
is,
that
by the former
reafons
they
may be
conuin-
Sec
.
ced,
fo
that
they haue
nothing
to
obiea;
and
perhaps
they
Other
argu-
maybe brought to
haue
a
good
opinion
of
the
Scriptures,
meats
con
-
and to
a
doubtfull conceit
that
they
are the
word
ofGod
in-
xince,
bland'
deed;
they
may
with
the two Difciples which travailed
to
Per¡rrade
Emaui, when they heare
the
Scriptures
interpreted,
haue
their
hearts
burne and throb
within
them,
imagining
that
which
they
hcare,to
be more
then the
word
ofmortall
man;
and
as
the blind
man in
the
Gofpel,w
hen
his
eieswere
a
little
illuminated by our
Sauiour,difcerned
men,not
as
men,but
as
mouing
trees;
fo
they
may
in
forne
confuted mauer
know and
acknowledge the
Scriptures
to
be
ÿ
word
of
God;but
before
Chrift hath
fully
opened their
Gies,
and
by the
precious
eye
-
falue
of
his
Spirit, bath
difpelled
their
natural] blind'neffe,
they
wil
neuer certainly
beperfwaded ,noraífuredlybeleeue,
that
the
Scripeures
are not
the
word
of
man,but
in
the infal-
lible truth
ofGod.
For
it
isnot
in
mans
power to
beget
faith
in any,
neither
is
it grounded
vpon any naturall
reafons
or
perf
vaLons,
but
it
is
the fupernaturall
gift
of
Gods fpirit,
who illuminates our vnderflanding,and
inclines
our will,
fo
that
we fee,
and fledfafily beleeue
that truth
which
it
deli
ue-
reth,as
appeareth
Ephef.z.8.
2.Thef.i.1
i.
phef
J.I
And
whé
we haue
this teflimon
,ol
-Gods fpirit
in
our
harts-
Gods
arty
dt
it
will certainly
perfvvad vs
of
this
truth, though
we
had
no
LYDefteis
h
other
reafon
:
as
appeareth
by
teflimonies
of
Scripture,
&
by
'
ofibis
rrxt
our
ovine
experience.For the
firft
it
is Paid,
i
.Cor.2.1
5.
That
t
.Cor
a.r
q.
the
Itirituall
man,
that
is,
he who
is
indued
with Gods fpirit,
indgeth
al
thins,&
yet
himrlfe
is
iuc%ed
ofno
man
So 1.'011.2.
27.
But
the aunointing
which
ye
recei+ied
of
him,
d:,
ellerh
ita
ßoú,
t.Iohn
,endye
need
not
that
any
man teachy
ou,
hnt.as
the
anxoiuting
tea-
cheth
you
all
thins.
And
verf.2o. But
yé
hatre
an ointment
flan;
Ver
io,
Lim
that
r1
hoy,
&ye
haue
known
all
things.
Wherby
he
vnder-
flandetl