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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.
Answ. 1 Yea, much: Not only in Civil things; but in the things of God, comparing Spiritual things, with Spiritual.1 Did not Christ himself make use of Reason to prove the Resurrection: There is a Resurrection (saith he) for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: If God be the God of Abraham, then Abraham must rise again; 2but he is the God of Abraham, for he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Here he makes use of Reason: so the Apostles after him. Surely therefore, we are not so to adhere to the Letter of the Scripture, as to deny the use of our Reason in finding out the true sense and meaning of the Scripture; for then we must hold with the Papists, That the Bread in the Lords Supper, is turned into the Body of Christ; for the Letter saith, This is my Body. Reason is of great use, even in the things of God: and well hath he said, Contra Rationem nemo sobrius; against Reason, no man is sober; against Scripture,3 no man is a Christian; and against the Church, no man is Peaceable. But,
Answ. 1 Yea, much: Not only in Civil things; but in the things of God, comparing Spiritual things, with Spiritual.1 Did not Christ himself make use of Reason to prove the Resurrection: There is a Resurrection (saith he) for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: If God be the God of Abraham, then Abraham must rise again; 2but he is the God of Abraham, for he is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Here he makes use of Reason: so the Apostles after him. Surely therefore, we are not so to adhere to the Letter of the Scripture, as to deny the use of our Reason in finding out the true sense and meaning of the Scripture; for then we must hold with the Papists, That the Bread in the Lords Supper, is turned into the Body of Christ; for the Letter saith, This is my Body. Reason is of great use, even in the things of God: and wel hath he said, Contra Rationem nemo sobrius; against Reason, no man is sober; against Scripture,