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?bat
she
holy
Scriptures
mere
indited
by
Gods
prir.
353
preached, they
neede
no
further
perfwa(ions,
nor other in-
flruaor
to teach them,
that
the
Scriptures were
penned
by
the
diuine operation
of
Gods
fpirit,feeing
the
word
ofmor-
tall
man
could neuer make
fuch
a
change
in them,
nor
any
thing
elfe
but
the word
of
the
euerliuing
God
;
which at the
fir1t
was
alone
fufficient for
their creation
and
generation,
and now
onely.
is
of
power
fufficient
for their
regeneration,
sand
new
birth.
As
therefore the blinde man reafoned
with
the Phari(ies,`Iohn
9, not
with
any farre fctcht reafon,
but
from
his,owne experience,to proue
that
our Sauiour was
not
a
notorious
(inner,
as
the Pharifies
accufed
him,
but
tome
great-Prophet
feat
from
God;
faying, Doubtleffe
this
is
a
marueilous
thing
that
ye
know not
whence
he
is, and
yet
he
path
opened mine eyes;
and,ifthis
man were
not
of
God
he
could
haue done
nothing
:
fo
may we reafon
with thole who
-
.affirme
that
it
cannot bee knowne
whence
the
Scriptures
came, from
God
or
man;
v(ing
this
argument taken from
'our
owne experience,faying,
Doubtlefhe
this
is.a
marueilous
thing that
yee
doe
not know
whence the Scriptures
are,
1
e_
ing
they
haue opened mine
eyes
which were.blinde frommy
birth,inclined
my will
to
obedience, which
`before was
re-
bellious,
loft
ned
my heart and
fané}ified
and quite changed
mine
affeíions,
fo
thatI
now loue
that good
which before
I
hated,
and hate
that mill
which'
before
I
lotted
;
and am
de-
lighted with
thofe
holie
exercifes
which 'heretofore did
molt
difpleafeme;
and
ath difpleafed
withthofe
vaine pleafures
and filthie
(inn.es,
whichin
tinres
pall did
moll delight
me
;
and therefore
if
it
were
notófGod
it
could haue
done
no
fuch
thing,
if
it
were
not
infpired
and indited
by his
holie
fpirit, and made
.effe&uahl
by
the-.vertue-
and
power there
-
f,
it
could
neuer_haue
wrought
in
me fuch
ifrange alte-
sations,
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