The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the…

2. It is infallible and certain. The infallibility of it is witnessed by those places where Gods Word is compared to Gold seven times refined, and where it is said, Heaven and earth shall sooner pass away, then one jot or tittle, (a). And so thy testimonies are sure; By all ¹this it appeareth, that the Word of God is a fixed Canon, it cannot be wrested and wire-drawn, so as to approve one thing to day, and the contrary to morrow: It is hellish blasphemy to compare it to a nose of Wax; and to say that it is to be interpreted secundum currentem statum Ecclesiae, as the condition of the Church altereth, so must the Scripture alter; thereby they confirm that of Tertullian, Deus non erit Deus nisi homini placuerit, God shall not be God unless man please. If you say, that the Apostle Peter speaks of some who did wrest the Scripture, and put it upon the wrack; This is to be granted concerning the words, not the sense, and matter of the Holy Ghost intended by those words: That is invariable and cannot be a Reed shaken with every wind of interpretation, and because Heretics would fly to the words, denying the sense, therefore hath the Church of God been constrained to use new words to distinguish them by. Irenaeus doth well compare Heretics to the Beast Hyaena, that imitates the Shepherds voice, and so by that means seduceth the Sheep into destruction. Now this infallibility of the Word is so great that when some, as Saul and Uzzah, have gone against it, as if their special considerations might give them a protection, which were indeed fair and plausible, yet they were severely punished by God.

2. It is infallible and certain. The infallibility of it is witnessed by those places where Gods Word is compared to Gold seven times refined, and where it is said, Heaven and earth shall sooner passe away, then one jot or tittle, (a). And so thy testimonies are sure; By all ¹this it appeareth, that the Word of God is a fixed Canon, it cannot be wrested and wyer-drawn, so as to approve one thing to day, and the contrary to morrow: It is hellish blasphemy to compare it to a nose of Wax; and to say that it is to be interpreted secundum currentem statum Ecclesiae, as the condition of the Church altereth, so must the Scripture alter; thereby they confirme that of Tertullian, Deus non erit Deus nisi homini placuerit, God shall not be God unlesse man please. If you say, that the Apostle Peter speakes of some who did wrest the Scripture, and put it upon the wrack; This is to be granted concerning the words, not the sence, and matter of the Holy Ghost intended by those words: That is invariable and cannot be a Reed shaken with every wind of interpretation, and because Heretiques would flye to the words, denying the sence, therefore hath the Church of God been constrained to use new words to distinguish them by. Irenaeus doth well compare Heretiques to the Beast Hyaena, that imitates the Shepheards voyce, and so by that meanes seduceth the Sheep into destruction. Now this infallibility of the Word is so great that when some, as Saul and Uzzah, have gone against it, as if their speciall considerations might give them a protection, which were indeed faire and plausible, yet they were severely punished by God.