Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . THE FOVRTH SERMON. He B R EWES 11. 6. He that commeth to God, mujl heleCVe thatGod is, ire. Here is one reafbn moreremains, & that is fromthe teftimony of theChurchy doubtlefle, itis an argument of greatftrength- that fo ma-ny generations finceChrists time,andbefore,have .from handto hand, delivered it unt0us, and that fo manyholy men, as the Martyrs were, and, as the Fa-thers were, when they lived, that thefe all gaveteftimony to this Scripture in all ages. But. Tl?at G od is. 59
Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes : delivered in xviii sermons . THE FOVRTH SERMON. He B R EWES 11. 6. He that commeth to God, mujl heleCVe thatGod is, ire. Here is one reafbn moreremains, & that is fromthe teftimony of theChurchy doubtlefle, itis an argument of greatftrength- that fo ma-ny generations finceChrists time,andbefore,have .from handto hand, delivered it unt0us, and that fo manyholy men, as the Martyrs were, and, as the Fa-thers were, when they lived, that thefe all gaveteftimony to this Scripture in all ages. But. Tl?at G od is. 59 But yet we will adde iomething to it, becaufcthe Papifts have abufed this, and fay, they wouldhave the truth of the Scriptures to depend uponthe authoritie of the Church, and not fo much the teftimony it hath received from all agesand generations; they would have it to be fuch ateftimony as the prefent Church gives of it. be-caufe fay they, that can erre in nothing s there-fore not in this : and therefore they fay, This isthe Bible, and the very Dictate of the Pope, in ca-thedra, with his Councell ((omefay,) makes itfo, and you muft receive it for Scripture, uponthisground^ithout any further inquiry -thoughwith us who doe not receive that conclufion, Ithat the Church cannot erre; this is out ofquefti-on, that the Scripture doth not depend onthe authoritie of the Church, yet wee willgive you this reafcn againft it. A{ke thatChurch, that Synode of men, what is thatwhich makes the Church to beleeve that theScripture is the Word otGod? Surely, they willgive the fam
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