Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	inspire_v	2,844	5	10.2489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67886	The perfection, authority, and credibility of the Holy Scriptures. Discoursed in a sermon before the University of Cambridge, at the commencement, July 4. 1658. / By Nathanael Ingelo D.D. and Fellow of Eton Coll.	Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.	1658 (1658)	Wing I185; ESTC R202593	49,263	216

every good work He that hath lodged these provisions in his soul may bring out of his treasures new and old like a Scribe throughly instructed to thè Kingdome of God So that if the Grace which Christ hath brought to light in the Gospel hath taught us Godlinesse Righteousnesse and Sobriety we may say with Tertullian Nobis curiositate opus non est post Christum Iesum nec inquisitione post Evangelium Hoc enim prius credimus non esse quod ultra credere debemus The Scripture is so far from defect in this kind that it is redundant we have many things very profitable added besides the necessary and both these more then once or in one book See a strange appetite when men have more then they will do though it be necessary yet they would have more to do though it be not necessary nor it may be at all profitable What folly is this This is a design not to be keepers but makers of Commandements praeceptorum emendatores as Hilary calls them not to do Gods will but serve their own Our Saviours words do easily accommodate themselvs to such people You teach for doctrines the Commands of men and make the word of God of no effect by your Traditions But at what perill any can adde to Gods word the second Argument will shew which is That the Scriptures are also strict injunctions of Divine Authority concerning our duties The reason of our faith and obedience to the Scriptures is resolved into their divine Authority which as it is the greatest of all so upon lesse we may not depend Of his Authority we may truly say that it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} God is infallible in his understanding faithfull in his declarations and so highly deserves our Assent He is Almighty and most true and therefore we believe and hope in the promises of his word As God he hath a Right to command and we as creatures are obliged to obey and so we receive his commands Gods authority onely could justly make us believe obey and fear what is there declared promised commanded and threatned There is a place of Scripture which the Papists do impertinently alledge for the obscurity i. e. the dishonour of Gods word which as it is nothing to their purpose so it doth most excellently serve to prove what we have in hand {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Knowing this first that no prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation The designe of the Apostle was the same with mine to exhort Christians to give heed to the Scriptures as such Oracles which would not deceive them He affirms the prophetick word surer then a private revelation which he Iames Iohn had in the Mount and commends the diligent heed they gave to it till the day-star should arise peradventure till the truth of the prophesies of Christ shined forth in their accomplishment But the stresse of all this hope in the Scriptures lies upon this that none of them were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of pri 〈…〉 impulse meaning as Saint ●aul sayes in other words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} All Scripture is divinely inspired And this appeares by the verse that followes For the prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost So that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies they are not of mens private will but from the divine spirit The Prophets did not go on their own head as we say but on Gods errand When God reproved those that went without his bidding he sayes thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I sent them not and yet they ran So that the sence will be those holy men who deliver'd the Scriptures upon which you relie w 〈…〉 ot what came into their minds as from themselves but they set down Gods will The other sence of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for solution or explication in which some worthy persons do take it and in which sence it is used in good authors for so Iamblicus in the 21 Chapter of his Protrepticks being about to expound Pythagoras his short precepts sayes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I will give the exposition of every precept is so far from disagreeing with the former that it is a necessary consequence from it as the best ground for if the Prophets deliver'd not their own will but Gods mind we must not resolve them into our sence but take his The Scriptures were given to expresse Gods meaning not to have ours impressed upon them So that take the word in any possible sence this place is pitifully urged against the plainnesse of the Scriptures unlesse we imagine that the Apostle should urge good men to trust the Scriptures because they could not tell what they meant which as it is most absurd to his purpose so all that it does afford for argument to prove the obscurity of the Scriptures is but this Because a man will not let me put what sence I please upon his words therefore I cannot tell what he sayes But as we see what little reason there is for that triumph in which the Papists bring this particular Scripture to accuse the whole of obscurity for it neither speaks of their obscurity nor plainnesse so we see by it how great reason we have to believe the Scriptures since their authority is from God It is a plain consequence since the holy perimen neither invented them by their wit nor writ them of their own will but delivered Gods sence at his appointment that we ought to give them all possible credit and observance But what should I speak of mens authority or of believeing Moses the Prophets or Apostles upon their own account Moses was but a servant and once so disobedient that for it he was kept out of Canaan and if his design had been to have had credit for his own authority he would never have lessened it with that story The Prophets were subject to like passions with our selves i.e. they were men The Apostles were weak in themselves and so far from being the New Wine of the Gospel that till Christ had strengthened them with new principles they were like old torn bottles they could not receive it But this hinders not their acceptance their authority is from God He took the stammering Moses and made him a God i.e. a divine teacher to the Church Moses was conscious of his own inability and loth to stir but at Gods command he took up his bundle of ceremonies and carried an Vmbrella to the Sun of Righteousnesse The Prophets as was said just now spake not of private impulse but God spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets ever since the world began The Apostles were commanded to stay till they were cloathed with power from on high and when they had