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A17215	Of the end of the world and iudgement of our Lord Iesus Christe to come, and of the moste perillous dangers of this our moste corrupt age, and by what meanes the godly may auoid the harmes thereof, sermons preached in latin in the assembly of the clergie by Henry Bullinger, and now lately englished by Thomas Potter	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Potter, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 4070; ESTC S109532	41,593	112

the reading of the holy Scriptures that is to say to learn faith euen faith in Christe who is our life and saluation To that very end did Iohn the Apostle stretch foorth all his whole story of the Gospel while concluding the same he sayeth These things are written to the intent ye might beleeue that Iesus is Christe the sonne of God and that beleeuing yee might haue life in his name Consequently the Apostle procéedeth with a short praise The praise of holy Scripture but yet notable comprehending many thinges and therfore worthy to be remembered to commend vnto vs the Canonicall Scriptures not somuch to prooue them to suffise to the learning and attaynment of saluation as with them to glue fast togither the mindes of all men while we all vnderstand that there remaineth vtterly no whit of sound profitable wholesome and necessary doctrin but the same is handled and taught moste perfectly in the holy Scriptures Therfore Paule the Apostle pronounceth and sayeth All Scriptures giuen by inspiration of God are profitable to teach c. And hée plainly sayeth All Scriptures For if thou shalt diligently read and consider euery of the Bookes of holy Scripture bée they neuer so short thou shalt finde in euery of them all these things that are héer recited that is to say that euery one of them is able to teach to reprooue to amend and to instruct But very skilfully he addeth Theopneustos giuen by the inspiration of God The Scripture is giuen by the inspr●tion of God For there be extant euery where authors and bookes innumerable béeing not inspired of God but set foorth by the wil of man with the which wee haue héer nothing to doo For the holy bookes haue this thing proper and pecul●ar to them selues alone namely that they be giuen by inspiration of God as I haue all ready said a little before And Peter also the Apostle testifieth saying No prophecy of the Scriptures hath any priuat interpretation 2. Peter 1. For the Scripture came neuer by the wil of man but holy men of God spake as they were mooued by the holy Ghoste And in this point are all our Canonicall or holy Books discerned from the vnholy and prophane books of all other wise men And it is a principle of our religion and of our faith namely that the Scriptures are giuen by the Inspiration of God Wherby it commeth to passe that this saying is very often read in the prophets Thus saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord god of hosts Moste truely therfore Iosephus albeit he was a Iew speaking of the Books of the olde Testament against Appio Alexandrinus in his first Booke sayeth thus Wee haue no infinit number of Bookes amongst vs dissagreeing and repugnaunt one to another but only xxij books wherin is regestred all the whole time to the whiche we iustly giue credit For it is manifest by our dooings how we beleeue our owne writings For in all these many hundred yeeres past no man hath presumed either to adde or to take away or to chaunge any thing For it is implanted in to all the Iewes euen from their cradles to talke of these holy decrees and stedfastly to dwel in them and also if need require willingly to dye for the same With good cause therfore doo wée beléeue our books of the two Testaments without gainsaying and curious search or busie enquiry It suffiseth whatsoeuer the holy Scriptures shall say vnto vs if we rightly vnderstand the same For néed wée must beléeue it The profit of the holy Sciptures But now let vs heare to what vses the holy Scripture is profitable The Apostle recoueth vp iiij kindes and vnder them he comprehendeth all other the like For it is moste certain that there is nothing wanting in the holy Scriptures namely whatsoeuer it bée that séemeth to appertain to moste perfect wisdome and doctrine And first he saith That the Scripture giuen by the inspiration of God The Scripture teacheth is profitable to teach For indeed to vnderstand the true doctrine and wisdome it behooueth vs first of all to haue the right knowledge of things to the intent we may perceiue what and of what kinde euery thing is and so what God is what his wil is what he requireth of vs what we ought to doo and what we ought to leaue vndoon what the dutie is of the true worshipper of God what man is and what kinde of one he is what was his corruption and fall and what was his setting vp again what is the saluation of man in whom it consisteth and how they may obtain the same who is Christe what his redemption is how far it extendeth But there are infinite other such like things all which for so much as is sufficient vnto godlines and pietie the Canonicall Scripture dooth declare vnto vs and teach vs. Wherby we read in the Gospel that our Lord béeing so often demaunded how we should be saued what we shoulde doo to enter in to the kingdome of God which be the cheefest commaundements of God what our dutie requireth wherwith God is moste chéefly delighted did alwaies after one sorte make answere out of the holy Scripture and sent vs back to the holy Scripture The rich glutton béeing in Hel desiring to come out from thence and to teach and giue warning to his brethern Luke 16. he sendeth him back to the Lawe and to the Prophets that is to say all the faithful that desire to be instructed touching the iudgements of God and the state of Soules in another world he sendeth them back not vnto Ghostes or vnto spirits appéering in mānes shape but vnto the Scriptures Wheruppon Paule wrat vnto the Romaines Rom. 15 VVhatsoeuer things haue been written they were written for our lerning Let vs therfore take the necessary rules of our religion out of the scriptures And those things that are not taught in the Scriptures let vs not think them to be either necessary or holesome for vs. Moreouer in true wisdome it is requisit that wée bee taught nothing but that onely which is true and good and yet that wee shoulde vnderstand also what things are false and so resist the same The Scripture reproueth It foloweth therfore in the woordꝭ of the Apostle that héerin also the Scripture is profitable Pros elenchon that is to say reproouing and to the conuiction and confutation of falshod finally to blaming to accusing and to sharp rebuking Therfore if any false Iugler or crafty deceiuer bring in an opinion vntrue and vngodly Heresies or confuted by the Scripture if hée corrupt the pure vnderstanding of the woord foorthwith the Scriptures ministreth holy arguments with which the godly may confute such a false deceiuer And after that sorte wée sée our Lord Iesus to haue doon in the Gospel who as often as either the Pharises or els the Saduces were to be confuted with the Swoord of the Scripture slew their false opinions

called holy because they are vttered by the holy Ghoste It foloweth therfore in the woords of the Apostle And for that also thou hast knowen the holy Scriptures from a childe The holy fathers in olde time were w●nt to instruct their children out of the authenticall Booke of the lawe of God and of his Prophets Therfore because Timothes mother was a Iew borne albeit his Father was a Gentil he béeing exercised in the scriptures from a childe had accustomed him self therunto And when he heard the Apostle preache the Gospel of Christe hee vnderstoode straightway by the inspiration of the spirit of God and by conferring of the woords of Paule with the woords of the Prophets that the Apostles doctrine touching Christe was taken out of the law and the Prophets and confirmed by the testimonyes of the same And for that cause he knew that he had not learned the faith of Christe out of wandering rumours and vain talks of the people but out of the autenticall Booke that is to say out of the holy Scriptures namely inspired from God as I haue already declared and deuoutly taught and written touching things moste pure of all other by none but by such as were moste holy men All other books that where out of the Canon and common vse of the Church are accounted vnder the name of prophane Books But this is an effectuall reason and such a one as ought throughly to mooue the mindes of all men that we must therfore beléeue the Apostles doctrin and cleue only to the same because it proceded from God and is confirmed by the Authenticall Scriptures béeing moste ancient and moste holy of all other What so euer booke of what so euer Authors thou shalt compare with these Books thou shalt scarcely compare Lead or durt it self with moste fine and shining Golde Moste rightly therfore doo we beléeue that they of all men be moste foolish who either omitting the Apostles doctrin and writings of the Prophets turn aside to the inuentions of man as though there could be taught or contayned in these more absolute more cléere and more certain things then in the other or else vtterly giue no credit at all vnto the Scriptures The taunt which our Lord gaue to the vnbeléeuing disciples is right notable and woorthy of speciall remembrance Luke 24. when he said O ye fooles and slovv of hart to beleeue all those things vvhich the Prophets haue spoken The Scripture is able to make a man wise vnto saluation And now ensueth in the Apostle another reason no lesse euident why we ought only to beleue and stick fast to the Apostles doctrin and to the holy Scriptures Because saith he they are able to make thee wise vnto saluation through faith in christe Iesu The Philosophers haue disputed much of true and false Wisdome True wisdome and haue so entangled them selues with their chattering that they scarcely vnderstād them selues and muche lesse reaped any frute of their disputations Paule dooth simply and truely deriue true Wisdome out of the Scriptures of God and out of the Apostles doctrine For God béeing moste excellent wise dooth very often in his woord call his commaundements and the doctrine set foorth in his lawe and by the Prophets true Wisdome And Moyses béeing elder then those men whom the Gretians call moste ancient namely Homer and Hesiodus and the Battel of Troy and also béeing much more excellent then Hercules Museus Linus Orpheus Mercurius Apollo and the other Gods of the Gentiles or then euen the holy Soothsayers elder also then the wise men of Greece Much more ancient then Plato and Aristotle dooth expresly say in Deuteronomy Deu. 4. You shall keep and doo the commaundements of the Lord for this is your wisdome and vnderstanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these ordinances and shall say This people only is wise and hath vnderstanding a famous Nation But the Apostles also at this present dooth shew that saluation is the end and also the frute of true wisdō saying VVhich are able to make thee wise vnto saluation But without the true saluation of man what shall auaile I pray you the empty name and vain title of wisedome Wisdome is the knoweledge of things diuine and humain and moste chéefely of those things by which we may knowe the highest good euen God him self and therwithall to be ioyned togither with Christe The which indeed is true blessednes and the highest felicitie And now I omit to rehearse how that out of this knowledge of God springeth righteousnesse and the looue and exercise of true vertue and of all deeds that are truely good But the Scripture and doctrine of the Apostles abundantly suffiseth to giue this Wisdome and true saluation Therfore it becommeth vs to content our selues with the same Yea it is expedient for vs to bestowe all our life and all our labour vppon those holy books to depend wholly vppon them to direct all our saylings and all our waies by the same as by a moste infallible and moste sure l●de Starre to run and flée wholy vnto them as to a moste safe Sanctuary For Dauid cryeth out and witnesseth saying Blessed is the man that delighteth in the lawe of the Lord Psal 1. and ernestly studieth in the same bothe day and night Luke 11. For the Lord sayeth also in the Gospel Blessed are they that hear the woord of God and keepe the same And in deed this shal be the onely and safest way to escape all perils of al times and all deceits and legerdemain yea euen the moste sharp and cruel of this our last age But because saluation might be hoped for by this heauenly wisdome and also by the reading and bare knoweledge of the holy Scriptures or els by the merits of the vertues whiche we haue learned out of the Scriptures therfore in déed very godly and Apostolikely he addeth and sayth Saluation cōmeth by faith in Christe Through faith in Christe Iesu Therfore saluation is learned out of the Scriptures because it consisteth in Christe alone And Christe who is the bread of life the saluation and fulnes of the Saints dooth onely and alone giue true saluation But true faith béeing instructed by the spirite of God and by the holy Scriptures receiueth the same Saluation therfore is to be attributed vnto faith not to any other thing but yet not to euery faith but only vnto the same that commeth vnto vs by the grace and benefit of the holy spirit the which we lerne out of the Scriptures the true wisdome of God which extendeth and is staied vpon the a●only sonne of God who is our onely moste absolute most assured and eternal righteousnes redemption satisfaction sanctification life and fulnes But The end ●●●ft of the Scriptures as soon as the Apostle hath expounded these things very elegantly and plainly he sheweth what is the end and mark to the which we must direct all