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A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
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Expos. 7. It is very expedient and necessary, that all Christians of age and discretion, should know that the Scriptures are the very word of God, the immediate and infallible truth of God, that is to be received, obeyed and believed. For thereby we are the better fitted to hear, read, and receive the word with attention, joy, reverence, submission. Act. 10. 33. and assurance of faith, which being a divine grace must have a divine foundation. 2. Tim. 3. 15, 16. 1. Joh 5. 9. and being certain must have a sure ground even the word of God. Joh. 5. 46. Eph. 2. 20. Rom. 4. 18. Also it ministers ⟨p. 8⟩no small comfort in affliction and temptation that we know whom we have trusted, 2. Tim. 1. 12. Act. 5. 29. This must be known not by opinion, or probable conjecture which may deceive, but by certain and distinct knowledge, whereby we conceive of things certain certainly as they are, and are assured that we conceive of them none otherwise then as they are; that we may be able to stop the mouths of Atheists and Papists, who carp against the truth. 2. Cor. 13. 3. We come not to the understanding hereof by sense, or discourse of reason: this matter is to be discerned, and believed by faith.
Expos. 7. It is very expedient and necessary, that all Christians of age and discreation, should knowe that the Scriptures are the very word of God, the immediate and infallible truth of God, that is to be receiued, obeied and beleeued. For thereby we are the better fitted to heare, read, and rec•eiue the word with attention, ioy, reuerence, submission.