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Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…
Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for Dorman Newman, 1670
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.
First; Use. 1 There is no sure and infallible foundation for our faith to stand upon, but the word of God. Thither therefore the Holy Ghost sends us, 1To the Law and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. The Apostle himself would not aver such a solemn truth as this is, but from the mouth of Christ himself. Uncertain Revelations, dubitable Traditions, Authority of the Church, and all humane Testimony whatsoever, is too weak a foundation to build our Faith upon in any Article of Religion. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye hope, to have Eternal Life, Jo. 5.39.
First; Ʋse. 1 There is no sure and infallible foundation for our faith to stand upon, but the word of God. Thither therefore the Holy Ghost sends us, 1To the Law and to the Testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. The Apostle himself would not aver such a solemn truth as this is, but from the mouth of Christ himself. Uncertain Revelations, dubitable Traditions, Authority of the Church, and all humane Testimony whatsoever, is too weak a foundation to build our Faith upon in any Article of Religion. Search the Scriptures, for in them ye hope, to have Eternal Life, Jo. 5.39.
Secondly; We gather hence, that Scripture-Inference, Use. 2 is Scripture; that is to say, That which may be inferred from Scripture, by natural and necessary consequence, is to be received as the Scripture it self. The word of God rightly interpreted, is the word of God. Thus our Lord himself, 1