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B11278 The principle of all principles concerning religion. Or The summe of certaine sermons prooving the scriptures to be the very VVord of God. Byfield, Adoniram, d. 1660. 1624 (1624) STC 1021.5; ESTC S115754 21,438 69

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beleeved indeed it perswadeth the beleever to make conscience of sinne therefore all are worthy of due consideration Viz. 1. There is a God by name The God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob to be worshipped 2. There is a Word of God Viz. The Bible that is the Booke of Bookes consisting of the olde and new Testament to be beleeved 3. There is a Resurrection both of iust and vniust to be expected And 4. There is a Conscience to be tendered The first ground hath beene layd as surely as I can For none can be religious who doth not beleeue it The second is likewise to be surely layd For if there be no such Word there can be no true religion but superstition The Samaritans a 〈◊〉 4.20.22 and Athenians b 〈◊〉 17.22.23 were superstitious because they worshipped God not according to his Word That therefore we may haue true spirituall comfort in our Christian Religion in which we worship God let vs be well perswaded that the Bible is the Word of God That imposter Mahomet to make the Turkes superstitiously to regard his Alchoran Compiled by himselfe a Iew and a Nestorian heretique so plotted with his Complices that having tolde the Turkes that God would send his vndoubted Word about a Camels necke out of the Wildernesse before the Sermon was ended a Camell came into the Church with the Alchoran about the necke Were not the Bible the vndoubted Word of God we Christians are the most absurd in our Religion of all other For we make him a God and our onely Saviour whom we acknowledge to haue beene a man and crucified But if it be then may wee with comfort avow our Religion against Iewes Turkes and Papists That we may be well grounded in this point I haue determined to proue it not onely by the other three grounds but also by imitating an order of proofes which Christ observeth Ioh. 5.31 to 39. With which I will begin as being most worthy in regard of the Author and as shewing that the Bible which is the Word written may be prooved to be the Word of God by like Arguments as Christ prooveth himselfe to be the Eternall Word ●●oh 1.1.14 made flesh that is the Messiah Which he prooveth by 4. testimonies 1. Of Iohn Baptist 2. Of his owne Workes 3. Of his Father And 4. Of the Scriptures Reason 1 In imitatition therefore let our first proofe be The Testimony of the Church which throughout all ages hath avowed the Bible to be the vndoubted Word of God Now all true Christians reioyce in the Church as the Iewes did in Iohn Baptist For it is The Pillar of truth d Tim. 3.15 Not because the Church supporteth the Scriptures so as to be the Word of God as Papists would make vs to beleeue Nay The Scriptures support the Church so as to be the Church of God Indeed if there be no other vse of a Pillar but to support then that place of 1 Tim. 3.15 might seeme to make for the Papists but there is another vse of a Pillar viz. To haue that written or engraven therevpon which is to be remembred for ever As in Rev. 3.12 Revel 3.12 Christ sayth Him that overcōmeth I will make a Pillar in the Temple of my God How I will write vpon him the Name of my God and my new Name Indeed The true sense of that to Timothie is this As a Pillar doth preferue the memory of those things which are written thereon So the Church preserveth Truth commended therevnto This sense the place it selfe doth intimate For saith Paul These things I write that if I tarry long thou mayst know how to behaue thy selfe in the house of God that it being the Church of the living God therefore ever-living may as a Pillar preserue Truth which it learneth of thee Hence it is that Aust in sayth ●ntra Epist ●●md cap. 5. I had not beleeved the Scriptures to haue beene the Word had I not beene mooued with the Churches credite Thus was he mooved indeed when he first turned from his Manichisme But when he was setled in Religion thus he writeth to Maximinus Contra Maxim ●ib 3. cap. 14. Neither must I alledge the Councell of Nice in preiudice of the matter nor you the Councell of Ariminum Let matter striue with matter cause with cause reason with reason by authoritie of the Scriptures And in another place Reade this out of a Prophet De Pastor cap. 14. out of a Psalme out of the Law out of the Gospel out of an Apostle Thence recite I the Church disperst over the whole world and our Lord saying My sheepe heare my voyce So that Austin did like the Samaritans who at the first beleeved Christ to be the Messiah for the saying of the Woman but afterward they professed e Ioh. 4.39.42 Now wee beleeue not because of thy saying For wee haue heard him our selues Reason 2 Now then let vs proceede to the second Testimony from the proper workes of the Scriptures which is greater then the former as was the second Testimony which Christ pleaded I will now take knowledge but of two proper works of the Scriptures The former is Though they be for the most part very simple plaine yet like God they be mighty in operation For the word of God simply preached is the power of God f 2 Cor. 12.9 1 Cor. 3.4 ● It being like fire and an hammer g Ier. 23.29.22 converteth the soule h Psal 19.7 being not carnall casteth downe imaginations exalted and bringeth every thought to the obedience of Christ i 2 Cor. 10.4 ● For it is the sword of the Spirit k Eph. 6.17 because the Spirit of God being authour thereof l Pet. 1.21 by it worketh mightily vpon the spirit of man Heb. 4.12 For it accompanieth the same Isa 59.21 so as a man is compelled to acknowledg the power of Gods word when it is faithfully preached 1 Cor. 4. ● The other is They prophecy many great things which are accomplished in due time As the bondage of Israell in Egypt Ezod 12.41 Captivity in Babilon Ier. 29.10 The succession of foure Monarches Dan. 2.37 to 40. Comming of the Messiah Dan 9.24.25.26 Calling of the Gentiles Isa 2.2.3 And revealing of Antichrist 2 Thess 2.7.8 that is the Pope revealed after the removall of the Emperour from Rome So that as God was acknowledged so to be because he by Daniel opened secrets m Dan. 2.47 and a Prophet is to be acknowledged so to be if his Prophecy come to passe n De●t 18.18 c. I may conclude that because so many and great Prophecies in the Scriptures are duly fulfilled they are therfore the vndoubted word of God Reason 3 Our third Testimony is frō the Father that is God Gal. 1. I who hath given testimony to the scriptures viva voce by his wonderfull works He gaue testimony viva voce to the old Testament when he