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¹But you will say, How is ••a•s word a fire? How doth that reveal, when many very exp•rt in Scripture, do yet run into very many errors? Do not those that build hay and stubble, bring many texts of Scripture? How can these be said to reveal?

¹But you will say, How is ••a•s word a fire? How doth that reveal, when many very exp•rt in Scripture, do yet runne into very many errours? Do not those that build hay and stubble, bring many texts of Scripture? How can these be said to reveal?

1. 1Object.

¹Answer 1. The defect is not in the Scripture, but in men themselves. The Owl and Bat is made blinder by the Sun-beams, not through any defect in the Sun. A diseased stomach, groweth worse by the good meat it eateth. The Papists call the Scripture, The Heretics Book; and Luther did so also, but upon different grounds: For the Papists, they say the blame on the Scripture, making it insufficient, imperfect, a nose of wax: but Luther, on mens corruptions, that profanely and presumptuously put that sense on it, which it doth not own. But

¹Answer 1. The defect is not in the Scripture, but in men themselves. The Owle and Bat is made blinder by the Sunne-beames, not through any defect in the Sunne. A diseased stomack, groweth worse by the good meat it eateth. The Papists call the Scripture, The Heretiques Book; and Luther did so also, but upon different grounds: For the Papists, they say the blame on the Scripture, making it insufficient, imperfect, a nose of wax: but Luther, on mens corruptions, that prophanely and presumptuously put that sense on it, which it doth not own. But