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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
I answer, they were not co-witnesses, but declaratory witnesses, as a Praeco or Crier witnesseth that he speaks nothing but that which is suggested from the chief Speaker, and a Scribe, that he writes nothing but that which was dictated unto him from another, and those which had been present at some things, that they relate nothing ⟨p. 308⟩but what they have seen and heard. And this distinction of a declaratory witness, I have from that place in John, where it is said, He confirmed his witness by signs and wonders. Now none can be witnesses declaratory, because they see not Christ, nor have their doctrine immediately from the Holy Ghost. May I not say it is so interpreted, because they agree in it?
I answer, they were not co-witnesses, but declaratory witnesses, as a Praeco or Cryer witnesseth that he speaks nothing but that which is suggested from the chief Speaker, and a Scribe, that he writes nothing but that which was dictated unto him from another, and those which had been present at some things, that they relate nothing ⟨p. 308⟩but what they have seen and heard. And this distinction of a declaratory witness, I have from that place in Iohn, where it is said, He confirmed his witness by signs and wonders. Now none can be witnesses declaratory, because they see not Christ, nor have their doctrine immediately from the Holy Ghost. May I not say it is so interpreted, because they agree in it?
No, the Scripture receives no witness but his own; as the light cannot be seen but by the light, so the Word is not to be interpreted but by the Word; to say this is the sense, because Augustine, Calvin, and other Writers say so, it is not reason enough: if we will give a sense, it must be because the literal sense is so.
No, the Scripture receives no witness but his own; as the light cannot be seen but by the light, so the Word is not to be interpreted but by the Word; to say this is the sence, because Augustine, Calvin, and other Writers say so, it is not reason enough: if we will give a sence, it must be because the litteral sence is so.