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

Some think that is to be understood of a Supernatural Revelation, and Light, which God doth set up in the Soul; which when a man hath obtained, then he is to take heed to the written Word no longer: But that cannot be: 1. Because the Apostle doth here prefer the written Word before a Revelation from Heaven: Now if he do prefer it before a Divine Revelation, then it is not to give place to the dawning of some special Light, and Revelation in the Heart; for then he should destroy in the latter part of the Verse, what he had affirmed, and built up in the former part. 2. One Scripture is to be explained by another; but Isaiah. 3.20. the Lord saith, To the Law, and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no Light, or morning in them. If therefore, any man do pretend Light, or the shining of the morning Star in his Soul, so as to lay by the Word written, that Light is no true Light; and so this Interpretation can be no true Interpretation of these words. 3. This Interpretation doth suppose, that this morning Star did not shine in the Apostles Time, and that then the Apostles, with the Saints of those Times, had not this Light within them; for the Apostle saith, We have a more sure Word, and ye do well that ye take heed thereunto. Al the Saints, and People of God then, did walk by, and take heed unto the written Word; yet they had Light within them. This Interpretation therefore, is contrary to the sense of •he Apostle here.

Some think that is to be understood of a Supernatural Revelation, and Light, which God doth set up in the Soul; which when a man hath obtained, then he is to take heed to the written Word no longer: But that cannot be: 1. Because the Apostle doth here prefer the written Word before a Revelation from Heaven: Now if he do prefer it before a Divine Revelation, then it is not to give place to the dawning of some special Light, and Revelation in the Heart; for then he should destroy in the latter part of the Verse, what he had affirmed, and built up in the former part. 2. One Scripture is to be explained by another; but Esai. 3.20. the Lord saith, To the Law, and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no Light, or morning in them. If therefore, any man do pretend Light, or the shining of the morning Star in his Soul, so as to lay by the Word written, that Light is no true Light; and so this Interpretation can be no true Interpretation of these words. 3. This Interpretation doth suppose, that this morning Star did not shine in the Apostles Time, and that then the Apostles, with the Saints of those Times, had not this Light within them; for the Apostle saith, We have a more sure Word, and ye do well that ye take heed thereunto. Al the Saints, and People of God then, did walk by, and take heed unto the written Word; yet they had Light within them. This Interpretation therefore, is contrary to the sence of he Apostle here.