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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.

Secondly, because the sense of it agrees with other places of Scripture.

Secondly, because the sence of it agrees with other places of Scripture.

Thirdly, because it is answerable to the analogy of faith. To this restraint there is this liberty, though the Word receive not the witness, yet the men that deliver it may. So Amos, in the 11. Chapter useth an external argument, when he would evidence that he was a true Prophet, he useth this witness, ver. 14. I was a herdsman, and the Lord took me as I followed the flock: so Paul, Gal. 2. 9. Cephas and John gave to me the right hand of fellowship. So in preaching, though the Word need no witness, yet the men that preach it may; and that

Thirdly, because it is answerable to the analogy of faith. To this restraint there is this liberty, though the Word receive not the witness, yet the men that deliver it may. So Amos, in the 11. Chapter useth an external argument, when he would evidence that he was a true Prophet, he useth this witness, ver. 14. I was a heardman, and the Lord took me as I followed the flock: so Paul,