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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90521	The Scriptures stability or, the Scripture cannot be broken. Proved, explained, and several wayes applied, whereby all Scripture may with singular advantage come to be improved. Very seasonable and usefull in these last and worst dayes, wherein the authority and truth of the Scripture is now much oppugned, and by few so improved as it ought. By Robert Perrot, B.M. and minister of Gods word, at Deane in Bedfordshire.	R. P. (Robert Perrot)	1658 (1658)	Wing P1646; Thomason E1928_2; ESTC R209990	89,342	222

we should not be saved the Scripture would be broken First I say let us be exhorted to be much in blessing and praising of God yea and in admiring and adoring his infinite wisdom mercy and goodness that the Scripture being that which cannot be broken he should contrive and find out a way so as for man to be saved and yet his truth the Scripture what he had said upon mans sinning be salved and not be broken man had sinned and man must dye for sin according to what God had said Gen. 2. 19. for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye i. e. not only spiritually and temporally but eternally and now God out of his infinite wisdom and according to his infinite goodness contrives and finds out such a way by his Son becoming man that as man had sinned so man he doth dye for sin his Son becoming man and dying yea suffers what was equivalent to the second death even to eternal death and the pains of hell for ever the whole wrath of God due to the sin of man being poured forth upon him those sufferings though only for a short time yet being the sufferings of such a one of him who was God as well as man were more than if all the world had suffered for ever and did countervail everlasting death and damnation And thus man is saved and yet Gods truth salved and his justice satisfied the Scripture not broken and this it was the Lords own doing the contrivement of his wisdom and the product of his goodness and mercy and it is that which should be very marvellous for ever in our eyes and provoke us to be much in blessing and praising of his name And the more to provoke and stir us up hereunto consider but these few particulars 1. That according to what God had said we were all upon sinning in a lost and undone condition c. 2. That if God could not have saved us and withall have salved what he had said but that must have been broken he would never have saved us no he would rather break a whole world yea were it ten thousand worlds than have his truth broken he is Iehovah and cannot but give being to what he speaks Heaven and earth shall pass away but his words cannot pass away Again 3. Consider that it was beyond the Wisedom and contrivement of all the Creatures in Heaven and in Earth to finde out such a way as that Man might be saved and yet withall what God had said be salved the Scripture not be broken We find in the 6th of Daniel that Darius there signes a Writing and a Decree That whosoever should ask a Petition of any God or man for 30. daies save of him should be cast into the Den of Lions Daniel yet when he knew that the Writing was signed prayed as he did aforetime thrice a day And now when the King hears of this he is sore displeased with himself and sets his heart on Daniel to deliver him and he labeured it is said Verse 14. till the going down of the Sun to deliver him but his Statute and Decree being that which might not be changed he could not do it but Daniel is cast into the Den of Lions No more could all the Creatures in Heaven or in Earth have found out a way for Man to have been saved and Gods Word be verified no but he must for ever had it been left to them have been cast into Hell the redemption of their Souls though never so pretious must have ceast for ever as concerning such Wisdom we might say as Job 28. 12. Where shall it be found and where is the place of it man knoweth not the price of it neither was it to be found in the Land of the living the depth saith it is not in me and the Sea saith it is not in me c. And then consider 4. Fourthly that God now after all this should find out a way so to save man as that what he had said should not be dissolved nor violated O what thanks can we render unto God for this that he should do it when all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth could never have done it and yet when as if it had not been done if such a way had not been contrived man must have been undone for ever and that God should now do it O what thanks can we I say render to God for this how admirable should this be in our eyes especially if we consider the way he contrived and took to do it that we might be saved and the Scripture not be broken he is pleased to break his Son to bruise him Isay 53. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief c. That he might spare us he did not spare him no not his own Son his dear Son his beloved Son his onely begotten Son but delivered him up he comes down from Heaven becomes Man and being found in fashion as a Man humbles himself and becomes obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross and all that we might live and Gods truth not be violated For God so loved the Word that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believes on him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3. 16. And in this was manifested the Love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Son into the World that we might live through him thus by the grace of God as the Apostle speaks Hebrewes 2. 9. Jesus Christ he tastes death for every man i. e. for all sorts of men for every of the Elect for every one who believes for every one who hath life and salvation he tastes Death he dyes for them in their place and in their stead Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us his Soul was in our Souls stead when he told his Disciples it was troubled and when he cryed What shall I say Father save me from this Joh. 12. 27. hour but for this cause came I to this hour my Soul is exceeding sorrowful Mat. 26. 38 even to Death And when he was in Luc. 22. 44 such an Agony as his sweat is said to be as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground then I say he was in our sted surely he hath a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 borne as a Porter bears an heavy burthen borne our griefs carried our sorrowes it was for our transgressions that he was wounded and for our iniquities that he was bruised they were laid upon him or else they must have lain upon us and sunk us to all eternity But by the grace of God that the Scripture might not be broken in our being delivered from everlasting breakings Christ he is broken and dies and by the grace of God his death stands for ours and his pains though for a short time yet being

Pro. 16. 16 4. 7. principal thing therefore get Wisdom and with all thy gettings get Vnderstanding Acquaint now thy self with him and be at peace so shall good come Job 22. 21 unto thee There is sayes Elihu a Spirit in Man and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them Vnderstanding Job 32 8. Go to God therefore for it For it is he that is a God of Knowledge 2 Sam. 2. 3. There is a promise the earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea O desire the Isa 11. 9. Lord to fill thy Soul with Knowledge 2. Again Secondly if continuing in a state of Unregeneracy thou be saved the Scripture must be broken you cannot continuing in such an estate be saved except the Scripture be broken for the Scripture in several places speaks quite contrary as to such being saved continuing such As John 3. ● And again the 5. Verse Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God and except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God I say unto the● I who am the Amen the faithful and true Witnesse yea truth it self and cannot lie I who came to open and give an entrance into the Kingdom of God yet I say yea he does as good as swear Verily verily I say unto thee except a Man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God So Heb. 12. 14. Without Holinsse no Man shall see the Lord. No Man no without being sanctified ther 's no being saved Blessed indeed are the pure in heart for they shall see God but without purity ther 's no seeing God No however it may be at present thou maist scoff at Purity and Holinesse and call it Preciseness yet know it is that without wch thou canst never be saved except the Scripture be broken And rather than the Scripture should be broken God will break ten thousand such as thou art the Scripture cannot be broken And therefore canst not thou but be broken continuing such So Iohn 13. 8. If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me i. e. If I make thee not clean from thy sins freely pardoning them and sanctifying thee if I wash thee not from sinsguiltiness by my blood and from sinsfilthiness by my Spirit thou hast no part with me in Heaven in eternal happinesse in glory in everlasting life in that celestial Paradise And therefore let such harken to that sovereign counsel of the Apostle in Heb. 12. 14 Follow Holinesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 follow hard press with an eager pursute after Holinesse as one who will not leave till he hath what he followes h Est magno studio annit ut assequaris to follow as a Hunter his pr●y who persues it till he take it and is there not cause when as if ever without it we see God the Scripture must be broken 3. Again Thirdly if continuing in a state of Unbelief if not coming to Christ and believing on him you be saved the Scripture must be broken for the Scripture absolutely and indispensably requires Faith in all that are saved and excludes all such from salvation who do not believe Mark 16. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned and that though he be baptized so Iohn 3. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him and he that believes not is condemned already verse 18. and Iohn 8. 24. If ye believe not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins a sad threatning Rev. 21. 8. The Vnbelieving shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the Second Death so that if thou continuing still in Unbelief shouldest see life or be exempt from the wrath of God abiding on thee which is a burthen so exceeding grievous and intollerable or shouldest not be damned and dye in thy sins the Scripture must be broken if continuing shut up in Unbelief thou shouldest not be shut out of Heaven and have thy part in the lake which burneth with fire brimstoné which is the second Death the Scripture must be broken therfore harken to that blessed Counsel our Saviour gives Jo. 12. 36 Whilest you have light believe still in the light while ye have the light of the Gospel believe in the light who is the Son of God while ye have the light of the Word of God believein the Word which is God let these beams lead you to that Sun these streames to that Ocean this is the great Gospel-work Ioh. 6. 29. and the great Gospel-command 1 Ioh. 321. This is the great business both of the light of life Joh. 11. 26. and the light of the Gospel except while we have the light we believe in this light we must unless the Scripture be broken be cast into utter darknesse 4. Again Fourthly if continuing in a state of impenitency you should be saved the Scripture must be broken for the Scripture is absolutely and indispensably for repentance in all that are saved affirms except we repent we shall certainly perish Luke 13. 3. Except you repent you shall all likewise prish and again V. 5. Except you repent you shall all certainly perish aut poenitendum aut pereundum there is no way but repenting or perishing according to what the Scripture holds forth we must either repent of our sins and turn from them here or burn in Hell for them for ever hereafter So that though you now it may be make a mock of sin you must come to mourn for it though you now it may be sport with it you must come to be in pain with it and for it or else if you do not perish the Scripture must be broken though thy heart now be never so stony never so hard and impenitent yet this stony hard and impenitent heart of thine must come to relent must become an heart of flesh it must come to be broken for sin and from sin or else if ever thou beest saved the Scripture must be broken And therefore sovereign Counsel is that which God gives to sinners Ezek. 18. 30. Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine else it will and James 4. 8 9 10. Clense your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded be afflicted and mourn and weep c. And that of the Apostle Acts 3. 19. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord This made John the Baptist and our Saviour and his Disciples so much to preach and press Repentance making it the Sum of their preaching because though