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truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	pillar_n	3,742	5	10.1590	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94772	The Scriptures proved to be the word of God, and the only foundation of faith, and rule for our obedience. Or, A clear conviction of the errours of those that are called Quakers. Who blasphemously affirm that the Scriptures are not the word of God, nor the foundation of faith, nor the only rule for our obedience ... / By Sampson Tounesend, minister of the Gospel, and pastor of S. Austins, and Saviours parish in Norwich.	Townsend, Sampson.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1986A; ESTC R185411	14,687	23

Word of God Reason 13. The sweet Harmony of the Scriptures prove them to be the Word of God for no writings of man do so debase man exalt God and presse men to obedience But the Pen-men of the Scriptures doe all agree together in these things and although there were many Pen-men yet there is no contradiction in their writings but the Old Testament witnesses to the New and the New to the Old It is not thus in the writings of men Therefore they must needs be the Writings of God Reason 14. If they were written by man they were written either by good men or bad men But they were not written by bad men for they hate the purity of the Scriptures and to be sure they were not written by good men as the Authours thereof for they abhor to lie and say The Lord saith if the Lord hath not said the Word Therefore they must needs be the written Word of God Reason 15. The wonderful calling of Moses the Prophets and Apostles to make known the Scriptures doe manifestly prove them to be the Word of God see for Moses how he was called Exod. 2.7 10. and 3.2 Acts 7.20 21. and Amos and divers of the Apostles were unlearned men which had not been brought up in the schools of men Amos 7 14 15. Mark 1.16 And yet these declared the Scriptures which manifest more wisdome then all the wise men in the world can declare yea the Apostles that were unlearned and ignorant men spake in several tongues the wonderful works of God to the admiration of the hearers Acts 2.11 and 4.13 this could not come from man Therefore it must needs be the Word of God Reason 16. No writings of man could declare the heavy wrath of God against sin and the remedy how to get rid of that wrath But this doth the Scriptures Psa 9.17 Rom. 5.9 1 Thess 5.9 Luke 21.36 therefore they are the Word of God Reason 17. If the Scriptures were not the Word of God but of man then certainly God would not have wrought so many miracles to confirm the truth of mans sayings But there are many miracles both in the Old and New Testament to confirm the truth of the Scriptures Therefore they are the Word of God Reason 18. No creature Angels men or Devils if all were put together could ever be able to declare before hand what particular persons should be born and what should be their names and what they should do some thousand and hundred years before their parents were born But this do the Scriptures as we read of the Messias Gen. 3.15 Isa 9.6 7. and Iosiah 1 Kings 13.2 2 Kings 23.16 17. Therefore it is the Word of God Reason 19. No man will write and declare to the world their own failings and infirmities But many of the Pen-men of the Scriptures do declare their own failings and infirmities which they would never have done had they not been moved thereunto by the Spirit of God Therefore the Scriptures must be the Word of God Reason 20. All the prophecies of the Scripture from time to time have been punctually performed and fulfilled But so are not all mans prophecies Therefore they are the Word of God Reason 21. The word of man is often broken But the Scripture cannot be broken Iohn 10.35 Therefore it is the Word of God Reason 22. If the Scriptures were not the Word of God the Churches of God would long before this time have found them out to be only the word of man as Jeremiah found out Hannaniah Jer. 28.15 16. and as the Church of Ephesus found out the false Apostles Rev. 2.2 But the truth of Gods Word in the Scriptures hath ever been held forth by the Churches of God as a Proclamation upon a pillar 1 Tim. 3.15 Now as a Proclamation receives not its authority from the pillar nor the light from the Candlestick that bears it So neither do the truths of the Scriptures receive their authority from the Church or any member thereof but from God which is the onely Authour thereof and so all Christian Churches acknowledge And thus you see that the Scriptures are the Word of God 1. Reason shews it 2. The Spirit of God perswades it Isa 59.21 3. The Scriptures themselves affirm it and 4. The Churches of God have ever received it as the Word of God Therefore it must needs be the Word of God To conclude this If the Scriptures be not the Word of God but of man only then 1. Man should teach himself his duty towards God 2. We should have no certain rule for our Faith and Religion 3. There should be no necessity of reading and hearing the Scriptures 4. If we deny the Scriptures to bee the Word of God we cast off all means which God hath appointed for eternal life Iohn 5.39 And lastly doubting of this exposes us to all Atheisme and contempt of Religion and Justice Therefore seeing as hath been fully proved the Scriptures themselves and Reason also make it apparent that the Scriptures are the Word of God let us believe they are so And as the Apostle exhorts Phil. 3.16 Let us walk by the same rule and mind the same thing And thus have I done with the first Proposition That the Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament commonly called the Bible is the revealed Will and Word of God Prop. II. I come now to the second Proposition That the Scriptures which is the Word of God is the only foundation for our faith and the only rule for our obedience This Proposition falls into these two parts 1. That the Scriptures is the only foundation for our faith 2. That it is the only rule for our obedience I shall very briefly speak to both these things First That the Scriptures is the only foundation of our faith 1. The Scriptures are the means by which faith is wrought Rom. 10.17 Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God Eph. 1.13 In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the Gospel of your salvation And saith Christ John 5.24 He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life And the Word is called the word of Faith Rom. 10.8 The mystery of Faith 1 Tim. 3.9 The faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 And all this to teach us that all true faith is wrought by and founded upon the Word of God 2. It is the very end why the Scriptures are written John 20.31 That we might make them the foundation of our faith and hope in God 1 John 5.13 These things have I written c. that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God Rom. 15.4 Whatsoever things were written afore time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope 3. The Scriptures must needs be the only foundation to build faith on because we find the faithful in Scripture did ever