A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The extraordinary holiness of the Penmen of the holy Ghost, without any respect to particular interests of their own, or of others of their nearest relations, (which is manifest by their writings) the supernatural mysteries ⟨p. 251⟩revealed therein, which could never have entered in the reason of men, the marvellous consent of all parts and passages (though written by diverse and several Penmen) even where there is some appearance of difference; the fulfilling of prophesies, the miracles wrought by Christ, by the Prophets and Apostles; the conservation of the Scripture against the malice of Satan, and fury of persecutors. These and the like are characters and marks, which evidence the Scriptures to be the word of God; yet all these cannot beget in the soul a full persuasion of faith, that the Scriptures are the word; this¹ persuasion is from the holy Ghost in our hearts. And it hath been the common resolution of sound Protestant writers (though now called in question by the Sceptics of this age) that these arguments and infallible characters in the Scripture it self, which most certainly prove it to be the word of God, cannot produce a certainty of persuasion in our hearts, but this is done by the Spirit of God within us, according to these Scriptures, 1 Cor: 2. 10, 11, 14, 15. 1 Thes: 1. 5. 1 John 2. 27. and 5. 6, 7, 8, 10. Joh: 6. 45.

The extraordinary holinesse of the Penmen of the holy Ghost, without any respect to particular interests of their owne, or of others of their nearest relations, (which is manifest by their writings) the supernaturall mysteries ⟨p. 251⟩revealed therein, which could never have entered inthe reason of men, the marvailous consent of all parts and passages (though written by diverse and severall Penmen) even where there is some appearance of difference; the fulfilling of prophesies, the miracles wrought by Christ, by the Prophets and Apostles; the conservation of the Scripture against the malice of Sathan, and fury of persecuters. These and the like are characters and markes, which evidence the Scriptures to be the word of God; yet all these cannot beget in the soule a full perswasion of faith, that the Scriptures are the word; this