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A76086 The Holy Scripture owned, and the Athenians injustice detected, by The abused Quaker. Abused Quaker. 1692 (1692) Wing B106A; ESTC R170410 8,260 2

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no honest man will condemn us either for contemning the Bible or the Holy Scriptures on this account And tho the Bible or Books as made up of Paper Ink and Literal Characters will wax old decay and moulder in time as S. F. saith Yet the word of God by which all things are upheld together with those divine Truths Doctrines and Testimonies contained in the Holy Scriptures will live and endure for ever and this can be no contempt of Holy Scripture nor contemptible speaking of the Bible any more than to say the Foundations of the Earth which God laid and the Heavens which are the Works of his Hands tho a more copious book than the Bible yet they shall wax old as doth a Garment and they shall perish but he that word that made them remaineth the same and his Years fail not Psal 102.25 26. Heb. 1.10 11. But from W. P. in his Key of their Principles p. 240 they Charge viz. That the Quakers deny the Scriptures or Writings to be the Word is because they never call themselves so but denominate Christ by that Title and that 't is in reverence to Christ Yea and not with any disesteem of the Holy Scriptures nor any common Falacy as these Men fasly judge which is their common course to recriminate when they cannot give a fair Replication But how do they desire the word of God with their Learning They grant Christ is called the Word of God figuratively because he proceeds from him that the Scriptures are more properly his Word tho written not the very Letters which is ridiculous to suppose and was never affirmed how then is the Bible the Scriptures or the Writing the Word Thus inconsistent are these men But the Sense and Divine Truths therein contained and thereby conveyed unto us and by the Co-operation of God's Spirit working in us Faith and Obedience which come by Hearing and the Word of God That its proper to call them the Word of God tho Christ is so also thus far Athenians Whence it follows that when they call the Bible or those books the Word of God or when they call the Scriptures written the Word of God more properly than Christ It seems ther 's several degrees of Comparison in the Case We are not to understand the very Letters or writing in Ink and Paper to be the word that 's improper but the Sence and Divine Truths therein contained and thereby conveyed unto us by the Co-operation of Gods Spirit working in us Faith and Obedience c. And surely this is more than the writings books or Scriptures written therefore they are not properly called the Word but rather that which is the living Word or Spirit of God which worketh in us Faith and Obedience and conveys unto us the Sense and Divine Truths of the Scriptures and we are sure that this living Eternal Word is often mentioned the Scriptures but never find that the Holy Pen-men or several of them call their Writings the Word much less that it may be so proved from one hundred places in Scriptures For which we have but these Athenians bare say so instead of any real Scripture proof their calling the Writings the Word of God we are gotten over and that on their own self conttadicting Concession before That the Divine Truths conveyed by the Co-operation of Gods Spirit working Faith in us and not the very Letters or Writings are the word of God in these Mens unstable Sense from which they suddenly vary for out of these pretended hundred places of Scripture to prove the Holy Penmen called their Writings the word of God they only bid us take two or three 36. Jer. 4. Baruch wrote from the Mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord v. 10 they are called the words of Jeremiah and yet in the 2. and 11. verses the words of the Lord add to these Verses 6 11 13. 16. 17 18 24 27 and 32. Where they are called the words of the Lord these words and the words c. which were wrote with Ink in the Book or Roll which the King of Judah burnt But he could not burn the word of the Lord which came unto Jeremiah for that remained when the writing was burnt and after the King had burnt it the word of the Lord again came to Jeremiah and required him to take another Roll and write in it all the former words that were in the first Roll which Jehoiachim the King of Judah had burnt 36. Jer. 27 28. Therefore that word that came again to Jerem. could not be the Roll or Book that was burnt but it was the word of the Lo●d which gave unto him these words which were written in the Roll. We could not have a more apt proof against our Opposers for our Distinction between the word of God which came to the Prophets before they writ Scripture and the sayings or words of the Lord and of his Prophets written in the Scriptures and this the People called Quakers profess and will easily grant them But this will not satisfy these conceited witty Athenians for they will needs not only have it that the Holy Penmen call their writings the word but they will have this very place of Jer. ch 36. for their principal proof And what 's their most pregnant proof therein pray Not that these are the words of the Lord nor that these are the words of Jeremiah v. 6.10 for this we freely grant them But now their Blow and Proof comes with a Bang upon the Quakers Nor will their silly Evasion help that 't is words not word for in the first Verse of the same Chapter 't is said this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord ... take thee a Roll of a Book ctc. But here they fallaciously leave out saying after Lord in which chapter there are the words and sayings which the word that thus came to Jeremiah said Surely this word which came to Jer. it was neither the Roll nor the Writing therein for Baruch wrote it at the mouth of Jeremiah after the word of the Lord came unto him and it was the same ' word of the Lord that came again unto him after the Roll and Writing in it was burnt that had the words of the Lord written in it yea the very same word of the Lord that caused all the former words that were in the first Roll to be written again in another Roll consequently that writing Roll or Book could not be the word that came to Jeremiah and which was as a Fire in his Bones and as a Hammar and a Sword therefore he well distinguished between the word of the Lord and the words of the Lord as also where 't is said Jer. 1.2 The words of Jeremiah c. to whom the word of the Lord came And Ch. 51.64 Thus far the words of Jeremiah I suppose these Adversaries will not adventure to say that the Bible came to Jeremiah nor that all the Holy Penmens writings in Scripture came