necfouo JFaít1). 32? the Scriptures , upon the Authority of Pa- Hors, Paflors ,believe them upon their own Or if they fay,`. that they have the Tefli- mony of the Spirit all Believers may fay the fame, and thereby believe as well as themfelves, and without their Authority. The Thefïalonians Received the Word as the Word of God without asking the Judgment of the Church, Thefj 2, 13. The Bereans Re- ceived it with all reading?, and inflcad of con - fulting the Church, Searched the Scriptures, 'A6ts 17. r r. The true Church cannot be known but by -the Scriptures. Thus Saint Auftin wri- De unit, ding againfl the Donatitts faith, Stint certe libri Eccl cap. Vominici, quorum Autoritati torique çonfenti- 3. & r6. nuts, utrique credimus, ibi qu eramus Eccl,t- am, ibi difcutiamus caufam : And again, Ec- clefiam foam demonftrent f prfunt non in f rmo- nibus rumoribus 4J*orum non in Concilìis Epifcoporurrm, non in literis difputatarnm, now in fgnic & prodigiis fallacibus, fed in pr e fcri pto tegic, in Prophetarum predielis ita "'Ph-normal cantibus, in ipfius Pattorit vocibus, in, Evangeli- fiarum prxdicationibus laboribus, hoc efl, in omnibus Canonicis Sanetorum Librorum Ai tori- tatibus. And if I mull know the Chúrch by the Scripture, I mull in all realòn own the cripture before I own the Church or its De- cifions. The Church may bear witnets to the Scripture, but in a fubordinate Ivîiniflerial way:The fupream ad£quate witnefs thereof is only that Spirit, which Outwardly indited it in the letter, and inwardly imprints it on the Heart.
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