.. ,., . qhe co'!firming Work · ' · ,· ;: Man, and hath an abfolufe Authority· o -~ · · .;.-: ·~-ver the Soul, and is a DifGerner of the ·· •;.' Thoughts thereof,. whn, thus -not oplv -~-·./ gives Law to the Confcience , and our i11'- _, ·'. ·. \Vard ·Parts, but doth efiablifh an inter· . · . ' " L ~ nal Rel1gion there, no lefs a·bfolutely, ·': , ... __ than wh::it refpecls our external ;Work -•· and Actions. , ._. -_: 1. ·,. VIIL ·yEA, where _all· inay fee the , < • Penmen thereof, urider fo int ire a Sub- ' ~ · jretioh to the l)octrine which they taught, ~ and that it i's no Contrivance of .:· their O\Vn, as they did record their O\vn . Failings and ltnperfecrions , in Beh~lfof t-he Truth; and d)d thu·s alfo requi{e all ·, juft Refpect and' Ob.edienGe to Magiitra-. · tes, \V hen thro' the v{hole Eartfr they_ / -~ were then greatefr ·Ei1emies to the Truth . . ~ of _the Gofpel. · ., :v • • , • ~. 1X. THAT this muft be -his -Word, who alone can derive Principles of Life to his own Infl:itutions, a11~ anitnate.the " fatne w1th a quickening Spirit; and is a · .. . ::< Work above the Contri va nee of Angel~ :~ ·-~ · .:~-., or Men,when diretl:~d t,o each new Tria¥ ~, ~-; ·... of the Church, and p·er1onal Cafe qt ,· . >·:·. Chrifiians, as thol .it h'.ld been alot~e ·, ..,: written for that Titne ; fo that I can .'f>e, !, -~ -.~· no 1~1ore perfuade~ i11 Reafo~1 ~h~(t , · ··:> · .·
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=