~----t-ha_t_k_'l_oc-k-et-=-h.-------- --~-,_,--- I lighr. HQw know we that thefire it hot ? becaufe it carries evidence in it felfe that iris fo. So if you aske, How we know the WordofGodto betheWord ; ~fGod?it carrtes in it felfe inbredv.frguments ani Cht~recfers, that the {oule c-an {Ay none bM thit Word can be theWqrd of God., it hath foch amajef/y And power toctt_ft downe, andraifeup, Andto comfort, and to direflwith .fochpower And majefly, that itcarries withititsowneevidence, andit u argumentenoNgh for it. Andthusweanfwerthem)which they can anfwer no way,but by cavils. Gods jheep he11re the voice of chri.ft. He fpeakes, and the Churcl-1 underfiands him, Andafirangers voice they wi!lnot hettrt,loh. I o.5. And indeed,this is the only fureway ofunder– ftanding theWordto be of God,fromaninbred Principle of the majefiy in the Word, and a powerfull wmkethereof on the fouleitfelfe,and an affent fo grounded, is that which makes a found Chrifiian. If we iliould aske what is the SEit.V. 1 Cor.14.1). ~ C•r.1o.4,5• reafon there be fo many,t6at Apoftatize ,foil awily, ·why fo ma'!Y growprophane, andare fo unftuitfu!i t~nderthe Gofapofi 4tize. _lpeU?notwitldlanding they heare fo much as they doe;the anfwer is, their foules were never foun .. l ded and bottomed upon this, that it is theWord of God, and Divine Trttth ; fo as to be able to fay, I h:tve felt it by experience, that it is·the voice of Chrifi. Therefore they fo roone Apo- , il:atize, let Iefuites,_or feducers fet upon tbet.n; They were neverperfwaded from inbred Argu– ments, that the voice of Chrifi: is theWord of 1 G0d~others from ftrietndfe grow prophane,bel caufe '
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