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

3. The Word is powerful, not only for the first working of grace, but also for the increase thereof, for the building up believers▪ Acts 20 32. for the perfecting of the Saints, and the edifying the body of Christ; there is Milk in the Word for babes▪ and strong meat for strong men; wholesome words, which have much spiritual nourishing virtue in them: the Word is powerful, for the quenching Satan's fiery darts, for the repelling and driving back the tempter; for the comforting and rejoicing of distressed and disconsolate souls, when they are brought even to the brink of despair; there are no such joys in the world, as those joys which Christians sometimes finde• in the reading and applying the Word, when they mingle it with faith, and have the breathings of the Spirit therewith; and there is no Book in the world that can produce such powerful effects, as the Scriptures do, wherefore it must needs follow, that these Scriptures are indeed the Word of God.

3. The Word is powerful, not only for the first working of grace, but also for the increase thereof, for the building up believers▪ Acts 20 32. for the perfecting of the Saints, and the edifying the body of Christ; there is Milk in the Word for babes▪ and strong meat for strong men; wholsome words, which have much spiritual nourishing vertue in them: the Word is powerful, for the quenching Sathans fiery darts, for the repelling and driving back the tempter; for the comforting and rejoycing of distressed and disconsolate souls, when they are brought even to the brink of despair; there are no such joyes in the world, as those joyes which Christians sometimes finde• in the reading and applying the Word, when they mingle it with faith, and have the breathings of the Spirit therewith; and there is no Book in the world that can produce such powerful effects, as the Scriptures do, wherefore it must needs follow, that these Scriptures are indeed the Word of God.