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A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so far forth as it is…A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so farre forth as it is…
A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so far forth as it is revealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience. Framed and delivered by M. William Perkins, in his ordinary course of preaching, and now published by Tho. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity, and minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table; one of the order and heads of the treatise; another of the texts of Scripture explained, or vindicated from the corrupt interpretation of the adversary.A discourse of the damned art of witchcraft so farre forth as it is reuealed in the Scriptures, and manifest by true experience. Framed and deliuered by M. William Perkins, in his ordinarie course of preaching, and now published by Tho. Pickering Batchelour of Diuinitie, and minister of Finchingfield in Essex. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table; one of the order and heades of the treatise; another of the texts of Scripture explaned, or vindicated from the corrupt interpretation of the aduersarie.
Cambridge: printed by Cantrell Legge, 1610Cambridge: printed by Cantrel Legge, 1610
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Fourthly, the word of God is of great force in the hearts of men to con•ert and change them, as it is uttered by the mouth of mortal man: and this force is not in the man by whom it is spoken: where then should it be, but in the […]? and if in the words, why may not other words be of like […] being uttered by man? Ans. 1. The power of Gods word comme•• not from this, that it is a word, and barely uttered out of the mouth of a man: for so it is a d•ad letter: but it proceedeth from the powerful operation of the ⟨p. 145⟩spirit, annexed by Gods promise thereunto, when it is uttered, read, and conceived which operation if it were taken away, the word might be preached a thousand years together, without any fruit or effect, either to salvation or condemnation.
Fourthly, the word of God is of great force in the hearts of men to con•ert and change them, as it is vttered by the mouth of mortall man: and this force is not in the man by whom• it is spoken: where then should it be, but in the 〈…〉? and if in the words, why may not other words be of like 〈…〉 beeing vttered by man? Ans. 1. The power of Gods word comme•• not from this, that it is a word, and barely vttered out of the mouth of a man: for so it is a d•ad letter: but it proceedeth from the powerfull operation of the ⟨p. 145⟩spirit, annexed by Gods promise thereunto, when it is vttered, read, and conceiued which operation if it were taken away, the word might be preached a thousand yeares together, without any fruit or effect, either to saluation or condemnation.