theEpijfle tothe galatian.r. Chap. z. 3 s thusand thus , I haue preached theTraditions ofmenhereto- fore. and I haue pleated men inperfequuting the Church of IGod: but I doe not foßr11 , neither will I. And he that can lay the like with good confcicnce, I haue finned thus and thus heretofore, but now I doe not, neither will I ftnne as I baps 5 done, is indeede the frruant ofGod. y. Ii. Now I certifie you,brethren, that the Gofpel which waspreached byme was not afterman. The meaning is this : that it may the better appeare that I haue iufHy accurfed them which teach any other Gofpel , and iu(Ily reprooued you for receiuing it : I giue you tovndcr- r5 ¡lands that the Gá/pelwhich lpreached rpai not after man, that is, not (knifed byman,or preached ofme by mans authorities but it was fromGod,and preached by theauthoritie ofGod. And this feule appeares byv. t o.and i z. In theft words is laid downe the reafonoftheconc'ufion,or 20 theaflumpuonoi the principal! argument, whichwas on this manner : If I be called to teach , and that immediatly of God, and my doEfrine be true, then ye ought not tohaue rcuolted from the Gofpel which I preached: but I was calledto teach immediatly ofGod, and mydo6frine is true. The firfl part of 25 thisaflùmption is here fct downe, and handled to the ende of the fecondchapter : and the conclufion(as we haue heard)was fct downe in the premifes. Hence two maine pointsof coc`Irine that are of tying ninfl 3o neceffarie, that men fhould he affurcd and certified that the doffrine of theGofpel,and the Scripture,is not of man, but of God. This is the firfl thing which Paul (lands vpon in this E- pi{ile. It may be demanded, how thisaffurancemay heobtai. ncd. I anfver thus. For the fetling ofour confciences , that 3 5 Scripture is the word ofGod,there be two teflimonics. One is the Euidence of Gods fpirit, imprintedand exprefled in the Scriptures : and this is an exccliencieof thewordof Goda- boueall words,andwritings ofmen,and Angels:andcontaines 13. points. The firfl, is the pyritic ofthe lawofMofes, where- as the lavesof men , haue their imperfeaions. The record is. that
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