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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.
Instance 5 As for Experience, Christian Experience; the Word of God written, and the Light thereof, is more excellent than Experience, and the Light of it simply considered. §1For so much Light as there is in Experience, is borrowed from the Scripture, and the Word of God written.
It is short of the Scripture; for Scripture-Light extendeth unto all our Actions, a light unto our Paths; there is nothing hid from the Light thereof, no Duty incumbent upon us that is hid from the Light thereof: But though I have much Experience in this way, yet I may have little or none in another; my Experience cannot say, nothing is hid from me, and from my Light.
It is short of the Scripture; for Scripture-Light extendeth unto al our Actions, a light unto our Paths; there is nothing hid from the Light thereof, no Duty incumbent upon us that is hid from the Light thereof: But though I have much Experience in this way, yet I may have little or none in another; my Experience cannot say, nothing is hid from me, and from my Light.
Though Experience be a great help to our Faith, yet take it alone, abstracted from the Word, and it cannot heal our Unbelief. The Staff that is in a mans hand, is a good help to him; but it cannot heal his lameness. So is this Staff of Experience, though it be a good help in my way, yet it cannot heal the lameness of my unbelieving heart; but the word can, and the Scripture doth.
Though Experience be a great help to our Faith, yet take it alone, abstracted from the Word, and it cannot heal our Unbelief. The Staff that is in a mans hand, is a good help to him; but it cannot heal his lameness. So is this Staff of Experience, though it be a good help in my way, yet it cannot heal the lameness of my unbeleeving heart; but the word can, and the Scripture doth.