The Sincere Convert

Secondly, From the Word of God, There is such a Majesty st•••ing, and §2such secrets revealed in the word, that if men will not be wilfully blind, they cannot but cry out, the voice of God, and not the voice of man. Hence Calvin undertakes to prove the Scripture to be the word of God, by reason, against all Atheists under heaven. Hast thou not thought sometimes at a sermon, the Minister hath spoken to none but thee, and that some or other hath told the Minister what thou hast said, what thou hast done, what thou hast thought? now that word which tells thee the thoughts of thy heart, can be nothing else but the word of an all-seeing God that searcheth the heart.

Secondly, From the Word of God, There is such a Majesty st•••ing, and §2such secrets revealed in the word, that if men will not be wilfully blind, they cannot but cry out, the voice of God, and not the voice of man. Hence Calvin undertakes to prove the Scripture to bee the word of God, by reason, against all Atheists under heaven. Hast thou not thought sometimes at a sermon, the Minister hath spoken to none but thee, and that some or other hath told the Minister what thou hast said, what thou hast done, what thou hast thought? now that word which tells thee the thoughts of thy heart, can be nothing else but the word of an alseeing God that searcheth the heart.

Again, that word which quickeneth the dead is certainly Gods word, but the word of God ordinarily preached quickeneth the dead; it maketh the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, those that never felt their sins to load them, ⟨p. 6⟩to mourn, those that never could pray to breath out unutterable groans and sighs for their sins.