32. You abuse the Scripture, 1 Joh. 2. 20. 27. to countenance all this; As the Quakers do [He that is born of God sinneth not.] Calvin truly noteth that by [knowing all things, he meaneth not universally; sed ad praesentis loci circumstantiam restringi debet;] It is, the All things which the apostates there reproved did deny. As the Prophet saith, They shall not need to teach one another saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know him:—And yet they might have need to teach one another an hundred other truths, though they all knew the true God from Idols. So here to know all things, is to be knowing persons, in comparison of the infidels and apostates; (which, saith Calvin, he speaketh to procure a fair audience with them:) As if he should ⟨p. 104⟩say, [I speak not to you as so rude and ignorant persons that know not these great things which these apostates deny.] Dr. Hammond thinketh that it meaneth, that the Holy Ghost by which you are anointed, or preferred before others, is a certain proof or evidence to you, of the Truth of all the doctrine which Christ taught, and therefore you cannot forsake him by the seducement of these apostates. Beza •aith, Atqui cogn• scimus omnes ex parte, 1 Cor. 13. 9. Est igitur Hyperbole, qua significat Apostolus, se nihil afferre quod illi jam antea non intellexerint, quos ipse commonefaciat potius quam doceat, ut loquitur etiam ipse Dominus, Jer. 31. 34. Vel quod etiam simplicius est, omnia intelligit necessaria agnoscendis Anti-Christs, & •avendis illorum insidiis: And to that purpose the English Annotations.
32. You abuse the Scripture, 1 Ioh. 2. 20. 27. to countenance all this; As the Quakers do [He that is born of God sinneth not.] Calvin truly noteth that by [knowing all things, he meaneth not universally; sed ad praesentis loci circumstantiam restringi debet;] It is, the All things which the apostates there reproved did deny. As the Prophet saith, They shall not need to teach one another saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know him:—And yet they might have need to teach one another an hundred other truths, though they all knew the true God from Idols. So here to know all things, is to be knowing persons, in comparison of the infidels and apostates; (which, saith Calvin, he speaketh to procure a fair audience with them:) As if he should ⟨p. 104⟩say, [I speak not to you as so rude and ignorant persons that know not these great things which these apostates deny.] Dr. Hammond thinketh that it meaneth, that the Holy Ghost by which you are anointed, or preferred before others, is a certain proof or evidence to you, of the Truth of all the doctrine which Christ taught, and therefore you cannot forsake him by the seducement of these apostates. Beza •aith, Atqui cogn• scimus omnes ex parte, 1 Cor. 13. 9. Est igitur Hyperbole, qua significat Apostolus, se nihil afferre quod illi jam antea non intellexerint, quos ipse commonefaciat potius quam doceat, ut loquitur etiam ipse Dominus, Jer. 31. 34. Vel quod etiam simplicius est, omnia intelligit necessaria agnoscendis Anti-Christis, & •avendis illorum insidiis: And to that purpose the English Anotations.
