z i o Nojoornyingfor Iiraeltill Jcr.29 23. and Ezek.i3. 7,8. Matth..t 5. 14. Obj.2. thepride of their hearts , and fay, they have heard the word of theLord, and they have feen a vi! on when the Lord hath not fpoken by them, and theyhave feen nothing : lfthe blind lead the blind, both (hall fall into the pit : for he that comes out and faith that he can difcover the Tabernacle or that any can remove the cloud from theTabernacle, but theLord himfelfe, he is a blafphemer and a lyer. But I know they will objeE} and fay , Indeed if we con- fider men naturally in their finfull condition , they are ignorant in the things of God,and are even as the Heathens: but we have the Scriptures given to us , and they contain the mind ofGod : And having this help,we by our wits and learning, and induflry, are able toknow the mind of God ; for we know andunderhand the Hebrew, and Greek , and Syriack Languages. Truly , ifit were fo, that they did fo, it were well ; but that very word to which they appeale, in the very Letter of it, win-1(1ís againf them : for thewordwitneffes that it is a Pealedbook, whether delivered to the learned, or unlearned, and none is found worthy to open it but the Lamb, the Lyon of the Tribe ofJudah ; and that none can fo much asfay, Iefto is the Lord, but by the Holyghoff : and again , that the letter vs, but thefpiritgives life; and toyou it mull hegiven to kitow the snAries of the Kingdom, or you cannot know them and when Chrif fpake with a lively and audible voyce, and fpake and preacht fo as never man did, yet laid he very often , he that bath eares to heare let him heare : and fo tis laid ofthe Difciples, that Cbrifleopened their underjlandings when he was rifen agatin although he himfelfe had taught them the fame things before his death, yet tis laidLuke 24, 45. then opened he their underftandings that they might bnow theScriptures, that it behoved him (according as it was writ- ten in the Prophets andPfalms) tofuller and rife again the thirdday. So that hence it is clear,there is notany wifdorn, learning", or ITowledge in the world that can unfeale this book ; for though it be the declaration of the mind ofGod through thofe Saints and Apofiles by whom it was written yet never canany man read the mind ofGodin it , but by the Anfis. Efay 29. t1,12. Rev. 5.3. i Cor.t2. 2 Cor. 3.6 Luk.8. i o. Mark 4. It. t1atth.tr. 15. Mark.4.9. Luke 8.8. Luke24. 45.
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