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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94772	The Scriptures proved to be the word of God, and the only foundation of faith, and rule for our obedience. Or, A clear conviction of the errours of those that are called Quakers. Who blasphemously affirm that the Scriptures are not the word of God, nor the foundation of faith, nor the only rule for our obedience ... / By Sampson Tounesend, minister of the Gospel, and pastor of S. Austins, and Saviours parish in Norwich.	Townsend, Sampson.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1986A; ESTC R185411	14,687	23

Oracles of God Rom 3.2 1 Pet. 4.11 The Counsel of God Act. 20.27 Psa 33.11 Prov. 19.21 The Will of the Lord Eph. 5.17 the Mystery of Gods will Eph. 1.9 the Gospel of God 1 Thess 2.9 the glorious Gospel of the blessed God 1 Tim. 1.11 the Gospel of Christ Rom. 1.16 Rom. 15.19 the words of the Lord Ier. 36.8 the words of the living God Ier. 23.36 the words of the Lord Jesus Acts 20.35 and very frequently they are called the Word of God Isa 40.8 Mark 7.13 Rom. 10.17 and very remarkable is that place in 1 Thess 2.13 For this cause thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the Word of God which ye heard of us ye received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the Word of God And to conclude this God himself calls the Scriptures his Word Zach. 1.6 My Word and my Statutes Micah 2.7 Does not my Word doe good to him that walks uprightly And Ezek. 2.7 Thou shalt speak my words unto them And saith Christ Mark 8.38 Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words By all which places it clearly appears that the Scriptures are the Word of God because they bear the title and name of God upon them and God himself acknowledges them to be his words Lastly in the fifth and last place I come to prove that the Scriptures are the Word of God by the titles that are given to the Ministers that declare the Scriptures they are called the Messengers of the Lord Hag. 1.13 then spake Haggai the Lords Messenger in the Lords Message unto the people Mal. 2.7 The Priests lips should preserve knowledge and they should seek the Law at his mouth for he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hosts And 2 Chron. 36.15 16. The Lord God of their Fathers sent to them by his Messengers c. But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words And they are called the Lords Ministers Ioel 1.9 and Isa 61.6 Ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord men shall call you the Ministers of our God And the Apostle calls them Ministers of the New Testament 2 Cor. 3.6 Ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God 1 Cor. 4.1 Ambassadours for Christ 2 Cor. 5.20 Now if the Scriptures be not the Word of God how can those that declare them be truly called the Messengers of God and the Ministers of God and of Christ and the stewards of the Mysteries of God and Ambassadors for Christ but they are thus called in the Scripture therefore the Scriptures are the Word of God else the Messengers thereof could not be the Lords Messengers And thus have I done with the first thing propounded To prove by the testimony of Scripture it self that they are the Word of God and that because God spake them writ them or caused them to bee written And they are frequently in Scripture called the Word of God and the Messengers that declare them are called the Messengers and Ministers of God and Ambassadors for Christ and therefore they must needs be the Word of God 2. I come now in the second place to shew by Reasons that the Scriptures are the Word of God I shall lay down several Reasons Reason 1. The Antiquity of the Scriptures do clearly prove them to bee of God For man could not write of things done before ever he had a beeing But the works of the five first dayes Creation are mentioned in Scripture and man was not made till the sixt day Gen. 1. therefore they must needs be the Word of God Reason 2. They discover those things man could not declare As that the world was made of nothing that man was at the first made of the dust of the Earth that there is but one God in essence and yet that in this one essence there should be three Persons that a Virgin should bring forth a Son that God should take the nature of man upon him and suffer c. these things cannot come into the thoughts of man but the Scriptures declare these things therefore they are the Word of God Reason 3. No word of man can distinguish the true God from the false but this doth the Scriptures Isa 41.20 to 24. therefore they are the Word of God Reason 4. No word of man can work a change in his heart and make the stoutest heart to tremble at the hearing thereof But the Scriptures convert the soul and work grace Psal 19.7 Iohn 15.3 Iames 4.5.6 and the opening thereof will make the heart burn and tremble Luke 24.32 Acts 24.25 therefore they are the Word of God Reason 5. No word of man is able to make a man wise unto salvation But the holy Scriptures are able to make a man wise unto salvation 2 Tim. 3.15 therefore they are the Word of God Reason 6. No man only by his own writings can discover Jesus Christ But the Scriptures discover Jesus Christ Acts. 18.28 Iohn 1.45 Therefore they are the Word of God Reason 7. No man can make Laws for mens thoughts But the Scriptures discover mens thoughts and make Laws for them Heb. 4.12 Eccles 10.20 Therefore they are the Word of God Reason 8. Men make Laws to binde those that are under them But the Scriptures make Laws to bind the greatest Rulers upon the Earth Therefore they are the Word of God Reason 9. It speaks in a lofty style to the King and the subject and to all men alike But thus doth not the word of man for that puts a distinction between persons Therefore the Scriptures are the Word of God Reason 10. No writings of man can procure eternal life to them that observe and do them But to believe and to do what the Scriptures require will bring eternal life Iohn 5.24 29. Deut. 32.46 47. Ezek. 20.11 Iohn 6.68 Iohn 20.31 Therefore they are the Word of God Reason 11. No word of man can be truly called righteous pure or holy For who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean Iob 14.4 But the Scriptures are righteous pure and holy Ps 19.8 9. Ps 119 151 172. Rom. 7.12 Therefore it is the Word of God Reason 12. If the Scriptures be not the Word of God but of man then Ministers ought to teach nothing contained in the Scriptures for Doctrines or Rules for Gods worship Mat. 15.9 In vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Isa 29.13 Col. 2.22 But Ministers ought to teach no other doctrine but what is contained in the Law and in the Gospel Isa 8.20 1 Tim. 1.3 10 11. And if any man bring any other Gospel then what is already received he is accursed Gal. 1.9 Or any that shall adde or diminish from the prophesie of the Book of the Scriptures Rev. 22.18 Deut. 4.2 Prov. 30.6 And the Scriptures also teach us an holy life 1 Pet. 1.16 Lev. 11.44 and how we are to worship God Acts 24.14 Therefore they must needs be the