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I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…
I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet. I. 19 : II. Christ in travel ... in three sermons on Isai. 53. 11 : III. A lifting up for the down-cast ... delivered in thirteen sermons on Psal. 42, 11 : four several sermons ... / preached by William Bridge ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Yea, Thirdly: If the Law, and Light, and Spirit that is in me, be my Rule, then am I my own Rule, and so I am God; for he that is his own Rule, is God: But if the Law, and Light, and Spirit within me, be my Rule, then am I my own Rule: And what is all this, but horrid blasphemy? Surely therefore the Law, and the Word without me, is not my Rule. Though the Law, and Light, and Spirit in me, be my Principle; yet it is not my Rule, that is the Word and Scripture only.
Yea, Thirdly: If the Law, and Light, and Spirit that is in me, be my Rule, then am I my own Rule, and so I am God; for he that is his own Rule, is God: But if the Law, and Light, and Spirit within me, be my Rule, then am I my own Rule: And what is al this, but horrid blasphemy? Surely therefore the Law, and the Word without me, is not my Rule. Though the Law, and Light, and Spirit in me, be my Principle; yet it is not my Rule, that is the Word and Scripture only.
Though the Law, and Light, and Spirit within, be a great help unto us in our way to Life, yet it must be tried by the Word written: For if it be not tried by the Scripture, then it must be tried by nothing: But John, 1.4. he saith, Try the Spirits, whether they be of God, or no. 2. That Law, or Light, or Spirit within you, is Christ in you: but Christ in you, is to be tried, and examined, 2 Cor. 13.5. Examine your selves, whether you be in the Faith, prove your own Souls; know ye not that Christ is in you, unless ye be Reprobates? And if Christ without us, Christ in the days of his Flesh, did submit himself to the trial of the Scriptures; Search the Scriptures (saith he) for they testify of me; then ⟨p. 30⟩surely the Spirit of Christ in us, will not refuse the same: Christ in us, is not more privileged than Christ without us; but Christ without, was tried by the Scriptures, therefore Christ within us much more. And if all that Light, and Law, and Spirit within us, be to be tried by the Scripture, then surely the Light of the Word written, is a more excellent Light, than that Light which is within. And thus I have now done with the Fourth Instance.