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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2 Tim. 3.16. All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God, &c. By Scripture is understood the Sacred Book of God.—It is given by Divine Inspiration; that is, the Scripture is not the Contrivance of Man's Brain, but of a Divine Original. The Image of Diana was had in Veneration by the Ephesians, because they did suppose it fell from Jupiter, Acts 19.35. This Book then of the Holy Scripture is to be highly reverenced and esteemed, because we are sure it came from Heaven, 2 Pet. 1.21. The two Testaments are the two Lips by which God hath spoken to us.
2 Tim. 3.16. All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God, &c. By Scripture is understood the Sacred Book of God.—It is given by Divine Inspiration; that is, the Scripture is not the Contrivance of Man's Brain, but of a Divine Original. The Image of Diana was had in Veneration by the Ephesians, because they did suppose it fell from Iupiter, Acts 19.35. This Book then of the Holy Scripture is to be highly reverenced and esteemed, because we are sure it came from Heaven, 2 Pet. 1.21. The two Testaments are the two Lips by which God hath spoken to us.
Quest. How doth it appear that the Scriptures have a Jus Divinum, a Divine Authority stamped upon them?
Answ. Because the Old and New Testament are the Foundation of all Religion. If their Divinity cannot be proved, the Foundation is gone on which we build our Faith. I shall therefore endeavour to evince this great Truth, That the Scriptures are the very Word of God. I wonder whence the Scripture should come, if not from God. 1. Bad Men could not be the Authors of Scripture: would their Minds be employed in inditing such holy Lines? would they declare so fiercely against Sin? 2. Good Men could not be the Authors of Scripture. Could they write in such a strain? or could it stand with their Grace to Counterfeit God's Name, and put, Thus saith the Lord, to a Book of their own devising? 3. Nor could any Angel in Heaven be the Author of Scripture. Because 1. the Angels pry and search into the Abyss of Gospel Mysteries,