Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

Marvellous is the purity and holiness of the word, such as doth not savour of any thing ter•ene and humane; yea, it is such as is directly opposite to the natural bias of the hearts of all men and women in the world, whilst they are in a state of nature; such as doth contradict carnal affections, and against which the carnal mind hath a natural enmity; and unto which all such and none but such have a liking and love, as are •egenerated by the Spirit of God; whence it strongly follows, that the Scriptures could not proceed from men, but that this holy Book did proceed from the immediate inspiration of the ⟨p. 184⟩holy Ghost, in those holy men which were the Pen-men thereof.

Marvellous is the purity and holiness of the word, such as doth not savour of any thing ter•ene and humane; yea, it is such as is directly opposite to the natural biass of the hearts of all men and women in the world, whilst they are in a state of nature; such as doth contradict carnal affections, and against which the carnal mind hath a natural enmity; and unto which all such and none but such have a liking and love, as are •egenerated by the Spirit of God; whence it strongly follows, that the Scriptures could not proceed from men, but that this holy Book did proceed from the immediate inspiration of the ⟨p. 184⟩holy Ghost, in those holy men which were the Pen-men thereof.

2. It will appear that the Scriptures are the word of God from the marvellous power and efficacy of them. Such a power and spirit hath and doth accompany the preaching of the Gospel, which in the Scriptures is contained, as doth evidence them to be from God alone: we read 1 Pet. 1. 12. of them which preached the Gospel with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven. This hath been this is unto this day.