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Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth
Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth by Edward Polhill ...
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1675
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.
Thirdly, The third step of knowledge in or••r to faith, is Deus dixit, seu revelavit, God hath spoken or revealed himself in the Scriptures. These are the very words and testimony of God himself. If a man do know that God is, and is ⟨p. 32⟩true, yet unless he know that God hath spoken in the word, that there is his very testimony, he cannot believe. Should we ask a man, why do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world? it would be no rational answer for him to say, I believe it, because God is true: No, though God be the first infinite truth, yet unless he speak and testify so much, it cannot be believed upon his testimony or authority, the only satisfactory answer is this, I believe it, because God, who is true, hath spoken and revealed it. It is necessary to faith, to know the holy Scriptures to be the word and testimony of God; that God speaks and reveals himself in them, and this cannot be known without supernatural light. To explain which, I shall lay down two things.
Thirdly, The third step of knowledge in or••r to faith, is Deus dixit, seu revelavit, God hath spoken or revealed himself in the Scriptures. These are the very words and testimony of God himself. If a man do know that God is, and is ⟨p. 32⟩true, yet unless he know that God hath spoken in the word, that there is his very testimony, he cannot believe. Should we ask a man, why do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world? it would be no rational answer for him to say, I believe it, because God is true: No, though God be the first infinite truth, yet unless he speak and testifie so much, it cannot be believed upon his testimony or authority, the only satisfactory answer is this, I believe it, because God, who is true, hath spoken and revealed it. It is necessary to faith, to know the holy Scriptures to be the word and testimony of God; that God speaks and reveals himself in them, and this cannot be known without supernatural light. To explain which, I shall lay down two things.