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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

wicked man come from Hell and tell others what he there suffers and what they were like to suffer if they did not mend their manners O this would prevail with them by this they would be perswaded no they would not for the Scripture sayes and that cannot be broken if they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead such as are not perswaded by the Word preached such would not be perswaded though one rose from the dead So Isay 27. 11. There it is said It is a people of no understanding therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Now the World thinks otherwise O say they he that made us will save us but let this prevail with us to seal to this truth because it is Scripture and cannot be broken So Matthew 19. 23. Then said Jesus unto his Disciples Verily I say unto you that a rich Man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And again I say unto you it is easier for a camel to go through c. So 1 Cor. 1. 26 27. For ye see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called c. So Matthew 16. 25. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall finde it So Mark● 10. 29 30. Verily I say unto you there is no Man that hath left house or Brethren or Sisters or Father or Mother or Wife or Children or Lands for my sake and the Gospels but he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time houses and Brethren and Sisters and Mothers and Children and Lands with Persecutions and in the world to come eternal life Now these and many the like are Paradoxes to the World but what ever they be to the World let this prevail with us for to seal to them they being Scripture and the Scripture being that which cannot be broken And let us seal to these and the like not not onely Verbally but really not onely in point of Judgement and opinion but of practice as when it is said Straight is the gate narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it Matthew 7. 14. And the righteous shall scarcely be saved 1 Peter 4. 18. i. e. not without much difficulty and ado not without great labour the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used of such things as with much labour are brought about as Acts 27. 7. Now it being certainly thus let us really and practically seal to the truth hereof by labouring so much the more to be saved and to enter in at the straight gate Thus when it is said What is a Man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul i. e. a Man is no whit at all profited let us really seal to the truth hereof by more minding our souls and less regarding the profits of the World so that we must appear before the judgement seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5. 10. by labouring that we may be accepted of him and found in peace To that that Satan goes up and down like a roaring Lion c. 1 Peter 5. 8. by being as the Apostle exhorts the more sober and vigilant And so I might instance as concerning what the Scripture saies of the upright Psalm 84. 11. 37. 37. Of Godlinesse 1 Tim. 4. 8. Hebrews 12. 14. Of Christ washing us of Christ being in us John 13. 8 2 Cor. 13. 5 Let us really seal to these by labouring so much the more to be upright to be godly to have Christ wash us and to get Christ in us c. And thus should wecome to reap the fruit and benefit of Scriptures those happy ends would be made good for which they were written 5. Cannot the Scripture be broken can it not err or mistake or be deceived but are things so as the Scripture affirms of them if the Scripture saith that Princes are Gods in some sense are they so as our Saviour here affirms and proves because the Scripture cannot be broken then let us labour so to see and so to discern things to be as the Scripture saith of them as the Scripture affirms concerning them why why because the Scripture cannot be broken it cannot err and therefore they most certainly are as the Scripture saith of them and therefore let us labour yea and never let us rest till we come so to see them and so to be able to say of them as the Scripture saith of them till we and the Scripture come to be of a judgement and opinion and that however at present they may seem quite otherwise but as the Apostle saith give me leave a little to Rom. 3. 4 allude to it let God be true but every man a lyer i. e. let God be confest and acknowledged true so let his word let the Scripture be acknowledged and assented too as true for that cannot be broken but all contrary thoughts and apprehensions of things lookt upon as false and lying for as the same Apostle affirms we are sure the judgement of God is according to truth his sense and sentence of things and so the sense and sentence of the Scripture of his word we are sure that is according to truth that cannot be broken that cannot err or mistake and therefore never let us rest till we come to see things as that saith of them and then we shall certainly see things aright see things as they are indeed As to instance in some particulars the Scripture saith and affirms of God that he is good it saith and affirms so often Nahum 1. 7. The Lord is good Psa 106. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever and so Psal 107. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good c. And now he is so for the Scripture cannot be broken cannot err and therefore let us labour to see him so and never rest till we come so to see him till we be able from what we our selves see and experience to say as David Psal 86. 5. For thou Lord art good c. and how great is his goodness and how great is his beauty Zach. 9. 17. and O taste and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him Psa 34. 8. So the Scripture saith of Jesus Christ that he is most pretious that he is fairer than the Children of men that he is the 1 Pet. 2. 4. 6. 7. Psa 45. 2. Hag. 2. 7. desire of all Nations that he is altogether lovely and the Scripture saying so of him and it being that which cannot be broken O let us never rest till we come so to see him till we can say from what our selves see perceive as the spouse in Cant. 5. 10. my beloved

' tu istud ais Ncmo hercule nemo Aut duo vel nemo c. Persius Sat. 1. the tediousness of transcribing what I had Preacht the brand of Ambition to be in Print which together with Avarice is that which hath it is to be feared set too too many a work in this scribling age * Quis expedivit Psittaco suum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Idem in prologo ad satyras the being silent of so many others far better able to write yea and the well knowing what censures and calumnies not only my self but better far deserving than my self should in these dayes be lyahle to that should thus adventure Truly these and the like considerations did for some time and had well nigh altogether impeded and deteined this work in the very Birth out whether the forbearing upon these or the like considerations could countervail the losse of that good and benefit which through the blessing of God souls might gain by what is done I shall leave to others to judge And onely give thee some account of the grounds and reasons of what I have at present undertook First One was the rarity of the Subject especially in such a practical way as is here held forth Indeed in viewing of several Authors among all I have yet seen or met with I have not met with any that do write ex professo of this subject and this rarity is not only observed by my self but hath likewise been acknowledged to me by others A second was the usefulness of the subject and that as to the Scripture that Book of Books which it is well if the great multitude of other Books doth not occasion too too much to be neglected and laid aside in these dayes I say the usefulness of the subject and that as to the Scripture which indeed is very great for what of the Scripture is here held forth out of this one Scripture I hope will help much to profit more by all Scripture O did we but believe this were our hearts indeed but thorowly perswaded of this and did we but walk daily in the sense and consideration of this that the Scripture cannot be broken how much more should we profit by the Scripture than we do how would threatnings more awe us promises and prophecies more chear us in a word all Scripture more advantage us A third was the acceptance this subject found in the preaching thereof and that not only in the Countrey but occasionally in the City but of that I shall forbear to speak further And lastly I might further adde the requests I have had from some who were altogether unknown to my self that I would oft preach of this Subject which desires I doubt not proceeded not only from what use and advantage they found it to be of as to themselves but likewise from the sense of what use and benefit it might be unto others but not being capaple of preaching it to many nor to those I do of much thereof what I could not do that way I mean by preaching I was willing at length should be supplied by Printing And this account I thought good to give of what I have done and if this will not satisfie as I suppose scarce any thing will some in this carping age I shall say no more but only desire first to read and then judge and my souls desire and Prayer to God shall be this that all who shall read what is here written may find that profit by it that others have done in its preaching and that instead of carping at it or cavilling against it they may have cause for ever to bless God for it and so I rest Thine and the Churches to serve in the things of the Gospel ROBERT PERROT The Contents of the ensuing Treatise of the Scriptures impossibillity of being broken THe occasion of this discourse upon these words The coherence scope and explication of the words themselves The Doctrine the Scripture cannot be broken The proof of the point 1. By Scripture 2. By reason the Scripture cannot be broken 1. Because all Scripture is given by divine inspiration 2. Because it is the Scripture of that God who is a God of truth and faithfulness and cannot lye 3. Of that God who is Jehovah and so gives being to what he speaks 4. Of that God who is unchangeable 5. Of that God who is every way able and hath all sufficient power to effect what ever he speaks 6. It appears and is proved from experience and by an induction of severall particulars 7. Because it was not nor could not be broken no not in reference to Iesus Christ himself as concerning what ever it had foretold he should suffer 8. Because if it should be broken it would much and many wayes redound to the dishonour of God Five several respects and particulars wherein the Scripture cannot be broken 1. In respect of its Power and Authority 2. Prophecies 3. Promises 4. Threatnings 5. In respect of what ever it affirms of persons things Two objections answered 1. As concerning the Commandements which are part of the Scripture and yet are said to be broken 2. As concerning the threatnings which are part likewise of the Scripture and yet many times have not been accomplished The application of the point 1. Vse of information and instruction If the Sripture cannot be broken then there are severall Truths of great consequence and concernment that this point doth inform us of and instruct us in as 1. This informs us and gives us to see what a desperate hazard most people run and what a desperate course most people take who if the Scripture cannot be broken must certainly and unavoidably continuing such be broken 2. Who are indeed blessed who cursed and who are indeed happy and who miserable namely such whom the Scripture saith and pronounceth to be so for that cannot be broken and hence we may come to know and discern whether or no we be blessed 3. What a firm Prop such rest and rely upon that make the word of God their stay for they rest and rely on that which cannot be broken 4. How exceeding abundant God is in his goodness who hath given us not only his word though that cannot be broken but his Oath likewise 5. Whence it is there is yet in the world a Church and Ministry 6. It informs and gives us to see the blasphemy and desperate folly and madness of those who profanely deride at the Scripture and scoffingly question the fulfilling thereof 2. Vse of humiliation that the Scripture being that which cannot be broken we have so often and so many wayes at least really made as if it could be broken several wayes instanc'd in 3. Vse of Exhortation If the Scripture cannot be broken then there are severall duties which from hence we are to be exhorted and stirred up unto as 1. Much to read it and often to exercise our selves in it 2. To believe this

of such a one frees us from everlasting pains and hence himself saith if a man ' keep my sayingt he shall never see John 8. 51 52. Death nor taste of Death that is eternal for that onely indeed deserves the name of Death why because Christ hath tasted Death for him his Soul has been in his Souls stead and so Gods Word comes to be salved man saved And how can we now but cry out O the depth of the riches of the Wisdom of God and of the grace of God how unsearchable is his Wisdom and Grace and the wayes thereof past finding out this love indeed we may admire but reach its demensions we never can O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good Psal 107. 1 2. for his mercy indureth for ever let the redeemed of the Lord say so I they have infinite cause indeed so to say I shall conclude this first part of this 6th use with that of the Apostle Iude Now to the onely wise God our Saviour be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power now and ever Amen Again Secondly cannot the Scripture be broken then from hence are we further to be exhorted and provoked to be much in blessing and praising of God that those things that are of so great importance and of such infinite concernment and afford so great cause and ground of comfort yea upon which our whole happiness and comfort depends are according to Scripture which cannot be broken As that Christ died for our sins it is according to the Scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day is according to the Scriptures 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received how that Christ dyed for our sins according to the Scriptures and that he was buryed and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures mark according to the Scriptures For that he was delivered for our offences and raised again for our Justification Romans 4. 25. And that he ascended and now sits at the right hand of God and there makes intercession for us is according to the Scripture Iohn 20. 17. Romans 8. 34. And now what can be matter of greater comfort or sweeter consolation than this nay is not this that on which all our comfort and happinesse depends that Christ died for our sins and that he rose again and now sits at the right hand of God and there makes intercession for us is not this I say the sum of all our comfort and now blessed be God these they are according to the Scripture So 1 Peter 2. 6. It is contained in the Scripture Behold I lay in Syon a chief corner-stone elect precious and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded so he that believeth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow Rivers of living Watter John 7. 38. And so the Scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed Rom. 10. 1. So it is written it is Scripture that Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2. 9. So that God is merciful and gracious Exo. 34. 6. long-suffering is according to Scripture That he forgives iniquity transgression Verse 7. and sinn is according to Scripture That he will sub due his peoples iniquities Mich. 7. 19 and cast their Sinns into the depths of the Sea is according to Scripture That he delights in mercy and to Mich. 7. 18 Jer. 9. 24. exercise loving kindnesse in the earth is according to Scripture That he will heal his peoples back-slidings Hos 14. 4. and love them freely is according to Scripture That such as come unto Christ he will Joh. 6. 37 in no wise cast out is according to Scripture That a bruised Reed shall he not break Mat. 12. 20 and smoaking Flax will he not quench till he send forth judgement unto victory is according to Scripture That he will give the Holy Spirit to Lu. 11. 13. them that ask him is according to Scripture That they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength that they shall Isa 40. 31. mount up with wings as Eagles that they shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint is according to Scripture That he said unto the seed of Jacob Isa 45. 19. Seek not me in vain is according to Scripture That he will gather the Lambs with Isa 40. 11. his arm and carry them in his bosom c. is according to Scripture That the gates of Hell shall not prevail Mat. 16. 18 against the Church is according to Scripture That Christ holds his stars in his right Rev. 2. 1. hand is according to Scripture That he is with them alway even to Ma. 28. 20 the end of the World is according to the Scripture And now the Scripture being that which cannot be broken what a comfort is it what cause have we to bless God that these yea and innumerable more which are of like importance with these and make so much for our comfort are according to Scripture which cannot be broken Thirdly Again cannot the Scriptures be broken and it is easier for Heaven and earth to pass away than one tittle of Gods Word to fail then let such in the Third place be exhorted and provoked to be much in blessing and praising God whom he hath brought into such a condition for whom he hath done such great things Great things indeed as that they may be saved and the Scripture not be broken Let such I say be much in blessing and praising God for there is infinite cause for the Scripture cannot be broken for any it was not for Christ himself and for God to do that for thee to bring thee into such an estate and condition through Grace as that thou mayest be saved and the Scripture not be broken O what infinite cause hast thou to be much in blessing and praising God Now if thou art one who art regenerate born again become a new creature one who art holy and pure in heart thou mayst be saved and the Scripture not be broken So if thou art such a one who dost indeed believe and repent of thy sins and art fruitful in good works thou mayest then be saved and the Scripture not be broken nay let me tell thee to thy comfort that if being such an one thou shouldest not be saved the Scripture it would be broken it would not be fulfilled for that such shall be saved it is every where according to Scripture 1. That such as are regenerate and holy shall be saved is according to Scripture Matthew 5. 8. Rom. 6. 22. John 3. 3 5. And what doth this imply but that if a man be regenerate and born again he shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven 2. That