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Beams of divine light breaking forth from several places of holy Scripture, as they…Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they…
Beams of divine light breaking forth from several places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Gray's Inn. Published according to the Doctor his own appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and iudicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Grayes Inne. Published according to the Doctor his owne appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect coppies.
London: printed by George for N. Bourne, 1639
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Again, the rule by which we must lead our lives it must be infallible,2 not subject to error; for then it cannot be the rule of our service. ⟨p. 191⟩The Word of God is an infallible rule, it cannot deceive, because it is the Word of God: men wrote it indeed; but it was God that dictated it: the finger writes, but the head dictates: holy men wrote it according as they were guided be the holy Ghost. The will of any man cannot be the rule of any mans service, further than it is agreeable to the first rule, why? because it is subject to error, and mistake. That which must be the constant rule of a mans life, it must not be as popish traditions and the like; it must be infallible: now the word of God is so, it is infallible: a man may err, and be a man, and a good man too: but God cannot err, and be God; the word of God cannot be false and be the word of God, therefore it is an infallible rule.
Againe, the rule by which we must lead our lives it must bee infallible,2 not subject to error; for then it cannot be the rule of our service. ⟨p. 191⟩The Word of God is an infallible rule, it cannot deceive, because it is the Word of God: men wrote it indeed; but it was God that dictated it: the finger writes, but the head dictates: holy men wrote it according as they were guided be the holy Ghost. The will of any man cannot be the rule of any mans service, further than it is agreeable to the first rule, why? because it is subject to errour, and mistake. That which must be the constant rule of a mans life, it must not be as popish traditions and the like; it must be infallible: now the word of God is so, it is infallible: a man may erre, and be a man, and a good man too: but God cannot erre, and be God; the word of God cannot bee false and bee the word of God, therefore it is an infallible rule.
- 2Infallible.