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A15529	Theologicall rules, to guide vs in the vnderstanding and practise of holy Scriptures two centuries: drawne partly out of Scriptures themselues: partly out of ecclesiasticall writers old and new. Also Ænigmata sacra, holy riddles; or misticall cases and secrets of diuinitie, with their resolutions. Foure centuries: the vnfolding whereof layeth open that truth that concerneth saluation. By T.W. preacher of the word.	Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.	1615 (1615)	STC 25798; ESTC S120090	119,259	364

incomprehensible by our reason yet being also a God of infinite truth and purity will not nay cannot write any false thing We may not rashly either our selues affirme or receiue from others any thing concerning Gods worship and mans saluation which wee do not read in scriptures August in Genes 4. Because all things necessary to faith and good maners or christian life are conteined in scriptures which are a perfect canon and touchstone of all things to be taught 2. Tim. 3. 16. 17. Whatsoeuer is truely and soundly collected from scripture is to bee beleeued of vs as though it were expresly written Greg. Naz. 5. lib. Theolog. The doctrine of the Trinity of 2. Sacraments of baptising infants and many such Reason is for that which followeth by good consequence from an expresse scripture is no lesse the minde of God then that which is in so many wordes set downe else godly and sound sermons and disputations and treatises were not to be credited and yet euery thing consonant to scripture is not to bee reputed scripture It is one thing to be scripture peculiarly so called another thing to agree with Scripture or to be grounded on scripture Whatsoeuer article and doctrine is necessary to saluation is deliuered plainly in the holy Scripture August 2. de doct Christ. 9. For otherwise the rule of faith and of life should come vnto a few learned ones except euidently it were taught in scripture so much as euery one may vnderstand for his owne saluation as also by this meanes there is left no plea for ignorance nor pretence of accusing the obscurity of scripture thereby to make people afraide of them as Papistes doe In euery scripture there is some thing visible and something inuisible there is a body and a spirit or soule the letters sillables and wordes be visible as the body but the soule and inuisible part is the sense and trueth wrapt and infoulded in the wordes which are as the barke ryne or bone the meaning within is as the roote and iuice or as the marrow The scripture deliuers some things of God which may be vttered and inquired into as that hee is the creator of the world and gouernour thereof the redeemer of mankinde c. but other things there be which are vnutterable and rather to be adored and beleeued then examined as the vnitie of his essence trinity of his person incarnation of the sonne and such vnconceiueable and vnexpresseable secrets Damascen de fide l. 1. c. 1. Reason is if nothing were found in scripture saue that which men may conceiue the reason and manner of then should not God be thought to be infinitely wise The scriptures haue an admirable and singular harmony and consent among themselues old with new Moses with the Prophets and Apostles with them both precepts promises and examples sweetely agreeing without contrariety though not without variety August de ciuit Dei 8. c. 14. Because the whole scripture comes from the inspiration of one spirit of verity who must needes be in all places like himselfe the whole scripture being but as one chaine or circle Such places as haue shew of repugnancy are easily reconciled by an intelligent reader August As where it is written 1. Tim. 2. 3. God will haue all to be saued yet Rom. 9. it is said he will not haue mercy on all a man of vnderstanding can see that one place speaks of one kinde of will the other of another Also that in Timoth. all may be ment not of euery one but of all sortes and kindes of men rich poore high low c. for there he speakes of the degrees of men for which prayer must bee made Thus by the thing before going or comming after and by the matter in hand all seeming ming contrarieties may be reconciled as when Christ saith in Iohn 5 may father worketh hitherto it seemeth contrary to that in Genes 2. 2. that God rested from his workes howbeit the very next wordes following doe accord these scriptures when he saith from the workes which he made that is from making more workes a new out of nothing but ceased not from preseruing and gouerning what hee had made as Christ ment in that place also Matth. 10. 10. it is written nor a staffe but in Mark. 6. 8. 9. Take a staffe whereas Mathew speaks of a staffe which might comber and burthen but Marke of one which might ease and releeue a traueller Thinges proper to the body are ascribed vnto and affirmed of the soule as hunger and thirst which are peculiar to the body to signifie the earnest desire of the soule and many other of like nature Because the soule is vnknowne to vs therefore the scripture speakes such things as appertaine vnto it in such wordes as our senses are best acquainted with the like is to bee said both of God angels heauen hell and most of diuine mysteries which are taught by earthly corporall things to help our rude and vnperfect knowledge If we do well distinguish times sundry things which seeme to iarre in scripture will bee soone accorded August As one of the theeues crucified with Christ did after the time of his conuersion reproue his railing fellow yet he himfelfe before his conuersion ioyned with his fellow in rayling And those shut vp in prison 1. Pet. 3. 19. were in prison of hel at that time when Peter wrote his Epistle but not when Christ preached by Noah vnto them The Euangelists in their narrations are diuers one from another but neuer contrary For it pleased the spirit to write that more fully by one which was more sparingly set downe by another and that which one toucheth not to expresse by another yet all speake what was true August in Iohan. The parable of the vineyard by Mathew alone of Lazarus and the rich man by Luke alone the story of the man borne blinde by Iohn alone cap. 9. Whatsoeuer is said in scripture by God for the comfort or erection of any one must be held to be said to all in the like case and condition Gregor morall 28. As the consolatory wordes spoken to Iosuah being in necessity Iosuah 1.5 are applied by the Apostle Heb. 13. 5. to all persons which haue any want or distresse Because to like or the same euils belong the same remedies and of like things there is like reason iudgement to be giuen this rule is of large and profitable vse for application of scriptures vnto our owne edification vpon like cases and circumstances both for reproofe exhortation and comfort Scriptures vnto Sacraments giue the names of the things or giftes which we haue by them calling circumcision the couenant baptisme our new birth and washing away of sinnes the bread and cup his body and bloud which is done to shew the similitude betwixt the signes and things giuen

his bloud c. Yet the scripture affirmeth of his diuine nature that the Lord of glory was crucified 1. Cor. 2. 8. And that God purchased his Church with his bloud Act. 20.28 And on the otherside that is attributed to his manhood which belongs to his godhead peculiarly Ephes. 4. 10. He that descended is the same that ascended See more examples Luke 2.52 also Ioh. 8. 58. Graecians call this coinonia Idiomatoon Beza Perkins Zanchius Some workes of Christ are proper to his godhead as his miracles some to his manhood as his naturall and morall workes some to his whole person as his workes of mediation in which each nature doth that which was proper vnto it Zanch. When the same places which bee in the old Testament be repeated in the new with some alterations additions and omissions this falles out for these fiue causes 1. For expositions sake as Psal. 78.2 compared with Math. 13. 35. Psalm 110.1 with 1. Cor. 15.25 Psalm 116.10 with 2. Cor. 4.3 Secondly for discerning sake to the end that places persons and times might be distinguished as Mich 5.2 compared with Math. 2.6 Thirdly for limitation sake that the sense of the place might be truly restrained according to the minde of the holy Ghost as Deut. 6.13 compared with Math. 4.10 and Genes 2.24 with Math. 19. 5. Fourthly for application sake that the type might be fitted to the trueth as Ionas 1.17 with Math. 12.39.40 also Esay 61.1 with Luk 4.18 Fiftly for breuity sake some things are omitted because they agree not with the matter in hand as 1. King 19.10.18 with Rom. 11.3.4 Perkins Touching plaine places this rule is to be followed if the naturall signification of the wordes of the place expounded doe agree with the circumstances of the same place that is the proper meaning of that place as for example Rom. 3.20.28 It is written a man is iustified by faith without workes the naturall signification of these words is plaine that euery elect person when he beleeues in Christ is absolued from his sinnes and accepted of for iust without merit of his owne workes this sense we presently receiue because it agrees with circumstances of the place and with holy Scripture Perk. For expounding darke places let this be the rule If the natiue or naturall signification of the wordes do manifestly disagree with the anologie of faith and other very plaine places of Scripture then it must be refused and a figuratiue improper sense is there the true sense As for example the natiue and proper signification of those words Math. 26.26 This is my body is this that the bread is his body or is turned into his body but this cannot be the meaning of the place because it disagrees with Articles of our Creede which teach that Christs body is made of the Virgine by conception of the holy Ghost not of bread by the Prists consecration also that it is ascended into heauen and shall returne wher he commeth to Iudge the quicke and the dead also it disagrees with that manifest scripture which saith that the heauens must conteine him till the time that all be restored Act. 3. Perkins The supply of euery worde which wanteth is fitting enough to the place propounded if the word supplied agree with the anologie of squire of faith and with the circumstances and wordes of the same place as Exod. 19. 4. I haue caried you on Egles winges here wanteth as it were likewise Es. 1. 13. I cannot iniquitie here must be supplied beare which wanteth Exod. 4. 25. Zipporah tooke a sharp supply knife where there is Ellipsis or want of any word then it signifieth either breuity or swiftnesse of affections Perkins When Repentance is attributed to God in Scriptures as Gen. 6. it noteth only the alteration of things and actions done by him and no change of his purpose and secret decree which is immutable Perkins Things spoken as if they were already finished and yet be not so they must bee vnderstood as being in the way to be finished or as being begunne to be fulfilled As Noah being 500 yeere old begot Shem Ham and Iaphet Gen. 5.23 that is he began to beget them See the like Gen. 11.26 also Luk. 1.6 and they were iust in all the commandements that is they begun entire obedience and endeauored to doe all Perkins Promises must bee vnderstood with condition of faith where the condition is not expressed A superlatiue or exclusiue speech vsed of one person in Diety doth shut out creatures and fained gods but not the other persons As Iohn 17.3 This is aeternall life to know the onely true God this s●uts not out Christ and the spirit but false Gods so doth that 1. Tim. 1. 17. Rom. 16.27 Ioh. 10.39 Perkins All workes of the Trinity and all attributes must bee vnderstood inclusiuely without exception of any other of the persons Perk. This word nothing is put for little or small as Ioh. 18.20 I haue spoken nothing in secret that is little Also Act. 27.33 also none is vsed for few as all is put for some or many Ier. 8.6 1. Cor. 2.8 none of the rulers that is few And alwaies is put for often long as Prouerb 13.10 alwaies there is contention amongst the proud that is often it falles out so Luk. 18.1 pray alwaies that is long with continuance Luk. 24.53 Ioh. 18.20 Euery where is put for here there without respect of place Math. 16.20 Act. 13.30 also This negatiue particle not is often put comparatiuely or respectiuely and not absolutely or simply as Hos. 6. I will haue mercy and not sacrifice that is rather then sacrifice or not sacrifice in respect of mercy 1. Cor. 1. sent not to baptise but to preach also Psal. 51. Sacrifices thou wouldst not haue that is in comparison of a contrite heart Ierom. 32.33 euery man shall not teach his neighbour Also not is sometime put for seldome as 1. Kings 15.5 Luks 2.37 she went not out of the Temple that is seldome or scarcely The present time being put for the time to come doth signifie the certainty of the thing spoken of as Esay 21.9 Reu. 18.2 Babilon is fallen Babilon is fallen for shall certainely fall Vnto the dubbling or repetition of wordes belong these rules following When a substantiue is repeated or twise mentioned in one case it signififieth first aemphasis or force as Lord Lord. Secondly a multitude as droues droues Gen. 32. 16. that is many droues Thirdly distribution as 1. Chron. 16. a gate and a gate that is euery gate and 2. Chron. 19.5 Leu. 17.3 a city and a city that is euery city Fourthly diuersity or variety as Pro. 20.20 a waight and a waight that is diuers waights an heart and an heart that is diuerse or double heart A substantiue repeated in diuerse cases if it be in the