Because there is need to wonder, by the way, at this, Let the reader observe, that Libertines resolve all our faith, and so the certainty of our salvation on Paper and Ink; and Mr. John Goodwin will allow us no foundation of faith, but such as is made of grammars and Characters,1 and if the Scripture be wrong pointed, or the Printer drunk, or if the translation slip, then our faith is go•e: Whereas the means of conveying the things believed may be fallible, as writing, printing, translating, speaking, are all fallible means of conveying the truth of old and new Testament to us, and yet the Word of GOD in that which is delivered to us is infallible, 1. For let the Printer be fallible, 2. The translation fallible. 3. The Grammar fallible. 4. The man that readeth the word or publisheth it fallible, yet this hindereth not but the truth it self contained in the written word of God is infallible; I suppose four men who shall show to a ⟨p. 363⟩wife her Husband among ten thousands, all four fallible and may mistake, yet when they have brought the Husband to the wife, it cannot follow that the Wife doth not certainly and as infallibly know her own Husband by his tongue, voice, countenance, proportion of body and statute, as one can know another without any danger of mistake: so it comes to the ears of a man born blind, Joh. 9. there is a Prophet called Jesus the Son of Mary, who will infallibly and indeclinably restore sight to this blind man, yet the fame and report by which this is carried to the mans notice and knowledge is fallible, all men standing truly, that which the Lord reporteth of them, liars, and such as can be deceived, yet it is no consequence that Jesus doth restore the man to his sight in a way subject to miscarrying, and declinably, and upon a fallible hazard, so as he may go as blind from Jesus as he came to him: Now in the carrying of the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles to our knowledge, through Printers, translators, grammar, pens, and tongues of men from so many ages, all which are fallible, we are to look to an unerring and undeclinable providence, conveying the Testament of Christ, which in it self is infallible and begs no truth, no authority either from the Church as Papists dream, or from Grammar, Characters, Printer, or translator, all these being adventitious, and yesterday accidents to the nature of the word of God, and when Mr.
Because there is need to wonder, by the way, at this, Let the reader observe, that Libertines resolve all our faith, and so the certaintie of our salvation on Paper and Inke; and Mr. John Goodwin will allow us no foundation of faith, but such as is made of grammers and Characters,1 and if the Scripture be wrong pointed, or the Printer drunke, or if the translation slip, then our faith is go•e: Whereas the meanes of conveying the things beleeved may be fallible, as writing, printing, translating, speaking, are all fallible meanes of conveying the truth of old and new Testament to us, and yet the Word of GOD in that which is delivered to us is infallible, 1. For let the Printer be fallible, 2. The translation fallible. 3. The Grammer fallible. 4. The man that readeth the word or publisheth it fallible, yet this hindreth not but the truth it self contained in the written word of God is infallible; I suppose four men who shall shew to a ⟨p. 363⟩wife her Husband among ten thousands, all four fallible and may mistake, yet when they have brought the Husband to the wife, it cannot follow that the Wife doth not certainly and as infallibly know her own Husband by his tongue, voice, countenance, proportion of body and statute, as one can know another without any danger of mistake: so it comes to the eares of a man born blind, Joh. 9. there is a Prophet called Iesus the Son of Marie, who will infallibly and indeclinably restore sight to this blind man, yet the fame and report by which this is carried to the mans notice and knowledge is fallible, all men standing truly, that which the Lord reporteth of them, liars, and such as can be deceived, yet it is no consequence that Iesus doth restore the man to his sight in a way subject to miscarrying, and declinably, and upon a fallible hazard, so as he may goe as blind from Iesus as he came to him: Now in the carrying of the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles to our knowledge, through Printers, translators, grammer, pens, and tongues of men from so many ages, all which are fallible, we are to look to an unerring and undeclinable providence, conveying the Testament of Christ, which in it self is infallible and begs no truth, no authoritie either from the Church as Papists dreame, or from Grammer, Characters, Printer, or translator, all these being adventitious, and yesterday accidents to the nature of the word of God, and when Mr.
- 1Though the means of delivering to us Scripture be fallible, yet it neither followeth that these means are the foundation, on which our faith is resolved, or that the Scripture it self is not infallible.Though the meanes of delivering to us Scripture be fallible, yet it neither followeth that these meanes are the foundation, on which our faith is resolved, or that the Scripture it self is not infallible.
