ecrouo fait b. True Faith being a beam or irradiation from the holy Spirit, difcovers, That the Scrip- tures in general are the Word of God ; and which is to the Point in hand, in its holy pro- grefs it arrives ät an experimental knozvledg thereof. Peter Martyr wi(hes men to read the Bible ferioufly ; and adds, Male fit mihi (ita enim in tantâ causâ jurare aufim) nifi tandem capiantur, f ntient denique quantum divina hec ab humanvi difient. Erafmus faith, Expertus firn in meipfo; That there is little good in curfory reading it ; do it duly and you /hall find the Di- vine efjtcacy. That a Progrefiive Faith may at- tain anExperimental knowledg,that the Scrip- tures are of God, will appear by the enfuing Confiderations. One noble piece of Scripture is the Moral Law; upon every apex of it hangs a mountáin of Pence, fay the Rabbins every jot or tittle of it. (lands fatter than Heaven and Earth, faith our Saviour, Mat.5. 18. This is the Summary of all Duties; all the Moral Precepts in Scripture are but as fo many Commentaries on it. That this is of God , Faith experiments leveral Ways: Firft, Faith experiments it by the impref s and holy inclinations in the Believers heart an- fwering, truly though not perfely, to the Law. A Progrefiive Believer finds by refleeci- on,That the Law is written in hic heart ; That his Heart is the very Epiftle of Chrift' Written by the holy Spirit : And withal he knows, that it was not always fo ;Time was,when there were no 337
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