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Use 3. To teach all that believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, diligently to be conversant in the Writings of John, and of the Apostles; Shall the Holy Ghost have a Pen to write unto us, and shall not we have a hand to receive these Writings, and by faith to behold and believe them? Shall he take care to write us Letters from Heaven, from the Lord Jesus Christ, indicted by the blessed Spirit, and written by the hands of faithful Scribes, who were carried to all truth? and shall they write them to us, to continue to the end of the world, and shall not we attend to them? These be written to every soul that believes in Christ; for if written to them that believe in Christ, then every believer may say, These writings are written to me, to thee and to me, and therefore let us carefully read, and attend to them. And therefore do not neglect a Letter written by such precious Scribes, and from the hand of a gracious God, that directed them to us; but if written to us, and for our instruction and learning, let us hear, and read, and obey, and look at them as the chiefest blessings, and ornaments of God vouchsafed to us. Among all the means of grace, put up these writings as the Oracles of God, for our instruction, Rom. 15.4. Whatever was written aforetime was written for our instruction and edification, as well as for them that lived in ancient times; how much are the Church of Rome to blame, that lock up these Epistles from the common people in strange ⟨p. 187⟩Languages? and if they understand not Latin they must not read, unless with license, or in a strange Tongue; heavy will the curse of God fall upon them, they may as well read a Fable to them as the Scripture; yea many times the Priests themselves understood not the Latin that they read, it was given to them as a clasped book, they were not able to expound it, but say, that ignorance in the people is the Mother of Devotion, and therefore both fall into the ditch together.

Vse 3. To teach all that beleeve on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, diligently to be conversant in the Writings of Iohn, and of the Apostles; Shall the Holy Ghost have a Pen to write unto us, and shall not we have a hand to receive these Writings, and by faith to behold and beleeve them? Shall he take care to write us Letters from Heaven, from the Lord Jesus Christ, indicted by the blessed Spirit, and written by the hands of faithfull Scribes, who were carried to all truth? and shall they write them to us, to continue to the end of the world, and shall not we attend to them? These be written to every soule that beleeves in Christ; for if written to them that beleeve in Christ, then every beleever may say, These writings are written to me, to thee and to me, and therefore let us carefully read, and attend to them. And therefore doe not neglect a Letter written by such precious Scribes, and from the hand of a gracious God, that directed them to us; but if written to us, and for our instruction and learning, let us heare, and read, and obey, and looke at them as the chiefest blessings, and ornaments of God vouchsafed to us. Among all the meanes of grace, put up these writings as the Oracles of God, for our instruction,