Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

Marvellous is the purity and holiness of the word, such […] doth not savour of any thing terrene and […]; yea, it i• such as is directly opposite to the natural b••ss of the hearts of all men and woman 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 regenerated 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 holy Ghost, in those holy men which were the Pen men thereof.

Marvellous is the purity and holiness of the word, such 〈…〉 doth not savour of any thing terrene and 〈…〉; yea, it i• such as is directly opposite to the natural b••ss of the hearts of all men and woman 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 regenerated 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 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 […] the Gospel, which in the Scriptures is contained, as do […] ⟨p. 146⟩evidence them to be from God alone: we read 1 Pet. 1. 12