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A03104	The mirror of pure devotion: or, The discovery of hypocrisie Delivered in sixe severall sermons, in the Cathedrall Church of Chichester, by way of an exposition of the parable of the Pharises and the publican. By R.B. preacher of the word, at Chidham in the county of Sussex.	Ball, Robert, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 1323; ESTC S113587	64,577	210

is accidentally and from without And therefore S. Chrysostome excludes In Ep ad Coloss none from the comfortable use of the Scriptures but makes generall Proclamation to all sorts of people Audite quotquot est is mundani c. Hearken all ye men of the world that have wives and children how S. Paul the Apostle of Christ commandes you to read the Scriptures and that not slightly or perfunctorily but with great diligence Yea the same Father is so eager upon the point that he doth as it were force and thrust the Bible into the peoples hands Take the Bible into your hands saith he in your houses at home So likewise S. Ierome most Jerome gravely and divinely urges upon the same place of Scripture that Lay-men ought to have the Word of God not only sufficiently but abundantly whereby they may bee able to teach and to counsell others But bee it granted that some places of Scripture are obscure and darke it were but a fallacy à secundum quid ad simpliciter as the Logicians call it to argue from thence that the Scriptures are full of darknesse because some are difficult to some therefore all are dangerous to all sorts of vulgars The Prophet David reades a contrary Lecture to us and tels us That the Word of God is a Lanthorne unto our feete and a light unto our pathes And therefore Saint Chrysostome buildes upon a sure foundation Omnia clara plana In Gen. Hom. 29. sunt in Scripturis Divinis saith he quaecunque necessaria sunt manifestasunt All things are cleare and plaine in the Holy Scriptures whatsoever things are necessary for us are also manifested unto us Whereupon Clemens Alexandrinus makes an other Proclamation as hee is quoted by the same Chrysostome Audite qui est is In 2 Thes Hom. 3. longè auditè qui prope nullis caelatum est verbum Hearken yee that be farre off hearken yee that bee neere the Word of God is hid from no man As Moses to the Israelites It is neither in heaven Deut. 30. that wee need hire any to climbe for it nor yet beyond the Seas that we need get any travell for it but the Word of God is in our owne mouthes and in our owne hearts to doe it Lu● est communis omnibus Clem Ale● orat a●hort ad gentes illuces●it nullis in verbo Cymm●rius As God so his Word is that common Light that inlightneth every man that comes into this world in it there is no darkenesse at all So Irenaeus Scripturae in aperto Lib. 1. cap. 45. sunt c. The Scriptures are plain● and without doubtfulnesse and may bee read indifferently of any So Saint Ierome The Lord hath spoken by his Gospell not that a few should understand him but that all For certainely beloved the Spirit of God is a free Spirit bound neither to the sharpenesse of our wit nor to the deepenesse of our learning for many times the simple and illiterate man being illuminated sees more then the Scribe or the great disputer of this world According to that clause of our Saviours prayer Matth. 11. I thanke thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth for that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes Whereupon Epiphanius divinely Solis Spiritus Lib. 2. Sancti filiis facilis est Scriptura The Scriptures are plaine and cleere onely to the children of the holy Ghost The Spirit breatheth where it listeth without which wee can neither live nor move nor have any spirituall being we are meere dead men and therefore must needs be blind men But to those that are illuminated whether learned or unlearned there ariseth up light in darkenesse There is food of all sorts for all sorts of people So Fulgentius In Scripturis Divinis Serm. de con abundat quod robustus comedat quod parvulus sugat In the Word of God there is plenty sufficient strong meate for men milke for Babes It is the Bridegroomes Wine-cellar wherein he feasteth and comforteth his beloved Spouse with Flagons and Apples and delicates of all sorts whereof shee hath free welcome and liberty bibere inebriari to drinke and to bee satisfied and to drinke and to bee more then satisfied So farre are the reverend Fathers you see from fathering the abortives of heresie and schisme upon the sacred Scriptures that they rather indeed proclaime them to be the severe step-mother or murderesse of such Cockatrices in the egge Irenaeus confesses ingenuously that the onely cause of the Valentinian heresie was Scripturarum Dei ignorantia the peoples blindnesse and ignorance of the Scriptures So Saint Chrysostome concerning the errour of the Manichees in his time Manichaei Ad Heb. hom 8. omnes haereses decipiunt simplices The Manichees and all heres●es deceive the simple But if our mindes bee illuminated by often reading and hearing of the Scriptures we may be able to discerne both good and evill So likewise Theophylact Illis qui scrutantur Divinas Scripturas nihil potest illudere nothing can deceive them that diligently search the Holy Scriptures it is the candle whereby the theife is discovered So the ancient of dayes himselfe unto the Sadduces Yee erre not because Math. 2● yee know but because yee know not the Scriptures For heresies or schismes arise not from the Scriptures themselves or any darknesse in them but from the ignorance and pravity that is in mans understanding they are rather discovered and suppressed by Scripture Should I tell you that a blind man may better avoyd dangers then he that seeth Or that a naked man in the middest of his enemies may better acquit himselfe then he that is compleately armed Or that the full fed I picure is neerer starving then the miserable captive that is debarred all kinde of sustenance you might well thinke I were mad So certainely it argues no lesse frenzie and in compossibilitie of minde to broach such unreasonable and unlikely doctrines But to winde up this controversie in one word It were an easie matter me thinkes to catch the adversary in his owne gin if wee did urge him to nominate what manner of persons hee thinkes meete in his owne conscience to be exempted from the reading of the Scriptures Hee cannot say old men for shame they are the very staffe and comfort of their age It was the sweete amabaeum and burden to Davids song when hee was aged In Gods Word will Psal 58. 10. I rejoyce in the Lords Word will I comfort me Not young men for pitty they are the onely curbe to restraine the heate and fury of their tamelesse youth for wherewithall shall a young man cleanse his waies but by ruling Psal 119. 9. himselfe according to Gods word Surely the Apostle S. Paul thought it the best breeding hee could possibly bestow upon his sonne Timothie 2 Tim. 3. 15. to bring him up in the knowledge