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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03281	The dignitie of the Scripture togither with the indignity which the vnthankfull world offereth thereunto In three sermons vpon Hose. 8. 12. By Samuel Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1607 (1607)	STC 13398; ESTC S119045	35,236	48

of God only to effect Now to come a degree neerer to the matter wee must know also that the best proofes for the scripture that it is gods word are to be fetched out of it selfe for which cause it is called light Ps 119.105 v. 2.14.22 c. because it discouereth it selfe and many times the testimonies of the Lorde because it beares witnesse to it selfe The papists would haue vs stand to the Iudgment of the Church which is altogeather doubtfull for there may be as greate question made of the Church whether it be the true Church of God as of the scripture whether it be the true word of God The testimonie and authority of the Church may be some inducement to a man in this case according as Saint Austine saieth it was to him but it can be no certaine argument Know this then that there is a certaine euidence of Gods spirite as it were imprinted in the scripture which sheweth the divine excellency therof aboue all the writings of men whatsoeuer And this stands vpon sundry particulars How the script is knowne to he the word of God First the purity of the law of God written by Moses aboue all the lawes that haue bene euer enacted and deuised by the wisest men Wee read of many worthy law-giuers among the Heathen that ordained statutes of greate wisedome for the gouernment of their people yet was ther neuer any law deuised by the wit of man but it needed some reviewing and for some respect was ether to be repealed or abridged or enlarged besides that scarce any law can be so wisely framed by a state but some or other will find a shifte to doe the very thing which the intente of the law was to forbidde and yet free himselfe from the danger of the law stand vpon tearmes as if he had not brokē it It is not so in the law of God as it was first giuen out so it stands without any changing nether was there euer any found able to carrie himselfe so cunningly in the practise of any euil but this law in one respect or other would surely find him guiltie Secondly the qualitie of the matter in scripture In the writings of the Heathen wee shall find some giuen here and there of the myserie of mankind and some cold comforts taught for the releiuing it but the true opening of the direct cause of mans miserie to witte sinne and the entring in of sinne into the world by Adams fall and the perfect and full remedie for all this namely Christs death was neuer knowne or heard of but only from the scripture Thirdly the antiquitie of the scripture for the bookes of Moses are more auncient then any humane writers in that they set downe a historie from the beginning of the world a thing which other writers knew not of or els borrowed from Moses or els corrupted with many fables and ridiculous narrations Besides there is no writer of any humane story that can be prooued to be more ancient then Nehemias Ezra who were about the yeare of the world 3500. Fourthly the admirable consent of the whole body of the scripture within it selfe all conspiring together in this one point Act. 10.43 that through the name of Christ all that beleeue in him shall receiue remission of sinnes what shewes of vncertaintie and differences soeuer may appeare either in numbring of yeares or in any circumstance of historie or in any point of doctrine are so fully apparently reconciled by those which haue laboured therein that there can be no iust colour of exception Fiftly the certaine euents of the prophesies therof as of the comming of the Messias the calling of the gentiles the reuealing of Antichrist of the the going of the posteritie of Abraham into Egypt their deliuerance thence of the fower Monarchies by Daniel And it is worth the noting which wee read in Isay who speaking of the captiuity of the people of the Iewes in Chaldea doth not only prophecie their deliuerance Isay 45.1 but names the very man by whom the Lord would saue them Cyrus and yet Isay liued at the least a thousand yeares before Cyrus was borne Like vnto that was that prophecie of the man of God aginst the Altar of Bethell built by Ieroboam he names the partie Iosiah 1. King 13.2 relates the particulars what he should doe and yet it was at least 330. yeares before Iosiah was borne So Ieremy told the people the iust number of yeares in which they should be captiues vnder Babilon 70. yeares Ier. 25.11 And wee our selues if wee will obserue it may see daily how the prophesies of the scripture are accomplished Paul said in the last times men should broch doctrines of devills viz. forbidding to marry commanding to abstaine from meates 2 Tim. 3.2 we see it verefied in Popery he saith againe that in the last daies men shall be louers of themselues c. doe wee not perceiue among our selues how these euills daily doe increase he saith further the time will come when men wil not suffer wholesome doctrine we may behold how this is made good euery day 2. Tim. 4 3. There is no doctrine more wholesome then that which is applied to mens particular sinnes yet it is a thing which men will not endure Saint Peter prophesied so did Saint Iude 2. Pet. 3.3 Iud. 18. that in the last times there should be mockers men walking after there owne lusts we need nor goe farre to see the accomplishment of this prophecy How doe men despise the Iudgments of God and scoffe at all goodnes and prefer the satisfying of there owne lusts before obedience to the will of God Thus that which we our selues are witnesses of declares the certaine euents of the foretelling of the scripture and it is an assurance vnto vs that it is the word of God Sixtly the vnpartiall faithfullnesse of those that haue been enditors of the seueral books In Moses it is worth the noting how he preferreth the relating of the truth of the story Gen. 49. before the discrediting of his owne birth he was borne of the tribe of Leui yet if you read Gen. 49. you shall finde he doth not spare to report the hard sentence that old Iacob gaue of Leui at his death ver 5. Simon and Leui brethren in euill instruments of cruelty into their secret let not my soule come c chap. 12. And in Numbers he doth not spare Aaron and Miryam his owne brother and sister but hath left their sinne and the displeasure of God against it vpon perpetuall record nay he is not ashamed to reueale his owne error and how much the lord was offended with him and how for it he threatned him that he should neuer come into the promised Canaan he doth in the story many times make mention of it It is said that Saint Marke wrot the gospell out of Peters mouth and yet