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A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts
A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reform them. Framed and preached by M. Will. Perkins.A treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reforme them. Framed and preached by M. Wil. Perkins.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1607Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1607
Treatise › Chapter 7 › Section 1: That the Scripture is the word of God.
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Sect. 1. That the Scripture is the word of God.
Having seen what evil thoughts be in every man naturally, & what good thoughts be wanting in him: it followeth now to make some use of this doctrine concerning mans natural Imaginations.
Hauing seene what euill thoughts be in euery man naturally, & what good thoughts be wanting in him: it followeth now to make some vse of this doctrine concerning mans naturall Imaginations.
The first use shall be against all Atheists, who think the Scripture to be mere policy, devised by man to keep men in awe. But we are to know, that the holy Scripture is no devise of man, but the very word of the everliving God; which I thus demonstrate out of the former doctrine: The Scripture saith in general, that all the Imaginations of every natural man are evil and that continually. ⟨p. 161⟩Now it doth not only affirm this in general, but declares it also in particular; for elsewhere it showeth what those particular evil thoughts be, which the natural mind of man frameth concerning God, his neighbour, and himself. Again, the same Scripture saith in general, That good thoughts and considerations, are naturally wanting in every man; and elsewhere it declareth in particular what those good thoughts be which enter not into the mind of a natural man: both these have bin plainly showed out of the word of God. Now hereupon it doth necessarily follow that the scripture is the word of God: for let the cunning Atheist show whence it is that the