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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, Gal. 2. 9. Cephas and Iohn 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

First, in case of partiality, if the nature of the point be such, that gives suspicion of partiality, as in a point of controversy, we may allege these that are not partial: as for the Supremacy of the Pope, when they allege that place; On this rock will I build my Church. If we being thought partial, did allege Augustine, who lived before the Pope challenged to himself Universal Authority, and proved that by this Rock was meant this profession, we use them aright.