Pteciouo faits. of holy Truth is then tafted, the Horsy -combs of Free -Grace drop upon the Heart, Promi- fes are realized & exemplified in Providences Divine Helps and Salvations come down and call for Eben -Ezers to be fet up for them ; and Difcoveries of heavenly things in their cer- tainty and excellency are in a manner made, as if a Man could look into the Holy of Ho- lies, and fee God Face to Face. Some filch Experiences I fuppofe the learned Rivet had in his laft Sicknefs, in which he faid of hirn- felf, In theft ten days I have made a greater pro - grefs in Divinity, than in all my Life; but lea., ving Generals I (hall come to Particulars. One great Experiment of Faith is touching the Truths of God,a Believer in his holy Progrefs comes its JrE(Y'Ta IM7TOP 7716 que;90ehes 717s 47VV4- ¡la's, unto all riches of the full a urance of under - flanding, as the Apoftle fpeaks, Col. 2.2. At the firil he hath a Stock of Divine Knowledg, but after Experience Riches, and all Riches of it ; at the firfl he bath a true perfwafion of the things of God, but after Experience a Plerophory or full perfwafion thereof. Here I (hall inftance in that one Fundamental Com- prehenfive Truth, which is pregnant with all other, viz. that the holy Scriptures are the very word of God, and fo to be embraced by all Chriftians : The Po pifls fay, That the Authority of the Scriptures depends, at leaf quoad nos, on the Definition of the Church, and that upon that account chiefly it is to be Wiwi by use By the Church they mean the Giecu ,eo X s Church
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