)(xiv 0 F THE D I V I N E A U T H 0 R I T Y, &c. ' tlian·as if there we beheld the very Voice of God by the Miniftry of Men, flowing ' from the Mouth of God to tjS. No longer do we then feek for Arguments, and 'probable Proofs, whereon our Jqdgment may rely, but fubjeB: our Judgment and ' Underftanding thereunto, as to a Matter already out of all Doubt or Debate 1 yet '. not fo, as wretched Men are wont to addict their captive Minds to Superftitions, but ' becaufe we find and feel the undoubted Power of God there to breathe and flourirh: ' To obey which, we are drawn and enflamed, knowingly and willingly, but more livdily ' and ef!icadoufiy, th~n either human Will or Knowledge could.affeB: us. It is there– ' fore J~ch a Perfuafion as does not require Reafons, (and yet it does not want them ' neither) jt{ch a Knowledge, to which the beft Reafon appears and agrees, as being ' fuch as therein the Mind can acquiefce more fecurely and confl:antly, than in any ' R,eafons, It is, in fine, fuch a Senfe, fuch a Tafte, as can proceed from nothing, but ' a Revelation divine. Nor do I fpeak any Thing but what every true Believer can 'bear Witnefs to from his own Experience, fave only that Words are too fhort and un– ~ able to exprefs a juft Explication of the Thing.'-Ca/v. lnjlit. lib. 2. PHILOLOGlA
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