I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. All Heretics do not lay claim to Scripture: Some deny the Scripture, some do not: Some (as Theodoret observes of the Heretics in his time) will make use of those Scriptures which seem to make for them;¹ but as for those Scriptures which are plainly against them, they reject, and if close pressed, will deny the very Body of the Scripture as any Rule to them.

Answ. All Hereticks do not lay claim to Scripture: Some deny the Scripture, some do not: Some (as Theodoret observes of the Hereticks in his time) wil make use of those Scriptures which seem to make for them;¹ but as for those Scriptures which are plainly against them, they reject, and if close pressed, wil deny the very Body of the Scripture as any Rule to them.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Si videant petitis è Scripturae demonstrationibus stultitiam suam constringi, tum Scripturae recusant et scopum et usum; si quando vero putant sibi favere nudum aliquod effatum á genuina recisum orationis serie ad suum propositum accommodant suis confirmandis. Tecod. opus. contra varias Hereses quae sunt in 2. Tom. oper. Athanas.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Si videant petitis è Scripturae demonstrationibus stultitiam suam constringi, tum Scripturae recusant et scopum et usum; si quando vero putant sibi favere nudum aliquod effatum á genuina recisum orationis serie ad suum propositum accommodant suis confirmandis. Tecod. opus. contra varias Hereses quae sunt in 2. Tom. oper. Athanas.

But it's one thing to cite Scripture, and another thing to take heed thereunto. The Devil cited Scripture to our Saviour Christ, but he did not take heed unto it, as to his Rule of life. If we take heed thereto, then we shall be kept, and preserved by it, even from the power of that darkness which we may labour under. And thus now I have done with the Fourth General Thing propounded, and have cleared the Doctrine.