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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

be acceptable unto thee and break off thy sins by righteousness c. that is by repentance shewing forth the happy signs and fruits thereof and how often doth the Lord call and invite sinners to this not only as being most acceptable to him but as knowing full well how much it concerns themselves Prov. 1. 23. Hosea 14. 1 2. Isay 55. 7. Ezek. 33. 11. turn ye turn ye from your evill wayes for why will ye dye God doubles his call for they must if they do not turn inevitably dye and that eternally and therefore why will ye be so sottish as through your wilfull impenitency to bring eternal destruction upon your selves for if ye still go on as you have begun nothing can betide you but that you must needs dye and perish in your sins Again secondly cannot the Scripture be broken can it not err or mistake then this it further informs us gives us to see who are indeed blessed and who cursed who are indeed happy and who miserable who why those whom the Scripture pronounceth so and why why because the Scripture it cannot be broken and therefore they whom the Scripture pronounceth blessed must needs be blessed and those whom the Scripture pronounceth cursed must needs be cursed what Balack said of Balaams blessing or cursing I am sure I may truly say of this Book 's blessing or cursing of the Scripture● blessing or cursing Numb 22. 6. for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed and he whom thou cursest is indeed cursed so may I truly say of the Scripture he whom the Scripture blesses is indeed blessed and he whom the Scripture curseth is indeed cursed and therefore O it's good getting among the number of Scripture-blessed-ones the Lord make us of the number of those blessed ones and keep us from being among the number of Scripturecursed-ones for they whom the Scripture pronounceth blessed or cursed are indeed so the Scripture being that which cannot be broken as the Apostle Iames saith in another case so say I Do not err my beloved Brethren nor mistake as concerning who are blessed for 1. Who are blessed not such who it may be think and apprehend themselves blessed no men may think themselves blessed and happy and yet be miserable enough as Christ tells the Angel of the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3. 17. thou sayest thou art rich and increased with goods and hast need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable poor blind and naked and that rich man in the 12th of Luke he no doubt thought himself wise and happy but God called him fool and shews him that he was miserable vers 20 21. A man may bless himself in his own heart though he be such a one as against whom God threatens all the curses that are written ●n his Book Deut. 29. 18 19 20. And therefore he is not the blessed man who meerly thinks and accounts himself so neither secondly is he blessed whom others count and will say are blessed for others may count and call us happy and blessed and yet for all that we may be miserable and cursed as it is said of the wicked he blesses the covetous whom God abhorreth Psal 10. 3. and Malachy 3. 15. and now we call the proud happy c. And men will praise thee when thou doest well to thy self saith the Psalmist as the men of the world count well dost well or dost good that is pamperest cherishest makest much of thy self so good is sometimes used for worldly pleasure and emoluments Psal 4. 6. Ainsworth I but what follows though whil'st he lived he blessed his soul and men will praise thee when thou dost well to thy self it follows Psal 49. 19. he shall go to the generation of his Fathers they shall never see light he shall go whither wicked men are gone before him and shall never see the light of life the light of glory Thus it is not that we account our selves blessed or others account or call us so that indeed speaks us so but it is when the Scripture calls and pronounceth us so when we are among the number of the Scripture-blessed-ones for that cannot be broken that cannot err or mistake so that if we be but indeed and in truth such as that doth pronounce blessed we are indeed blessed for we are sure that the judgement of the Scripture is according to truth and therefore as not he that commends himself is approved so not he that blesses himself or others bless is blessed but he whom the Scripture blesses Now the Scripture pronounces several blessed and it 's good observing who they are and never to rest till we come to be and to be in truth of the Number of them for the Scripture being that which cannot be broken such and indeed only such are truly blessed Now the Scripture pronounceth such blessed 1. Who find wisdom and who get understanding Prov. 3. 13. n Qui sapi●ntiam veram inveniunt qui intelligentiam factis exprimentes coram in medium afferunt Cartw in loc i. e. true wisdom who attain to the saving knowledge of God in Christ and produce it into practice so as to fear God and depart from evill Iob 28. 28. 2. Who believe in Christ who close with him and put their trust in him Psa 2. 11. blessed are all they that put their trust in him or that shrowd themselves under him that rely confidently on him or that betake themselves for refuge and safety to him so Ainsworth o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est recipere se aliquò tanquam in locum ●●tum deinde etia● in ●o secure conquiescere where indeed is their safety but only in him Acts 4. 12. So Gal. 3. 9. So then they which be of Faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham now to be of Faith it is to believe and apply the promise of Righteousness and life and Salvation by Jesus Christ and to rest on him alone for Justification and Salvation as they are said to be of works who look to be justified by works so they are said to be of faith who believe in Christ and look to be saved and justified by Christ alone So Psa 72. 17. men shall be blessed in him that is in believing in him and so in getting interested in him who is the blessed one and in whom the promise of blessedness and all blessings is made these the Scripture pronounceth blessed living and these the Scripture pronounces blessed dying Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from hence forth yea saith the Spirit they rest from their labours and their works follow them 3. Who are turned away from their iniquities Acts 3. 26. Unto you first God having raised up his Son Jesus sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities then are people indeed blessed and that with the blessedness of Christraised from the dead when

that the Scripture cannot be broken 3. To live continually in the sense of it which would be of singular use and advantage 4. To seal then and assent to what ever it saith and that really 5. To labour so to see and discern things as the Scripture saith of them for that cannot be broken that cannot erre or mistake 6. To be much in blessing and praising God the Scipture being that which cannot be broken 1. That God should contrive and find out a way for man to be saved and yet what he had said and threatned upon mans sining be salved and not be broken which if he could not have done he would never have saved him c. 2. That those things which are of so great importance and of such infinite concernment and afford so great cause ground of comfort yea upon which our whole happiness and comfort depends are according to Scripture which cannot be broken 3. That the Lord hath brought any of us into such a state and condition as that we may be saved and the Scripture not be broken nay in which if we should not be saved the Scripture would be broken 7. To try all doctrines by the Scripture for that cannot erre or be deceived 8. To judge so of things as the Scripture saith of them 9. Not to be offended not scandalized at the sufferings and afflictions of the Church and people of God 10. Several other duties which from hence we are to be exhorted and encouraged unto 4. Vse of warning and admonition to take heed of continuing in such an estate in which there is no being saved except the Scripture be broken A five fold state in which continuing therein there is no being saved except the Scripture be broken 1. A state of spiritual blindness darkness and ignorance 2. A state of unregeneracy 3. A state of unbelief 4. A state of impenitency 5. A state of fruitlesness and unprofitableness 5. Vse of terrour and trembling 1. To all wicked and ungodly men in general 2. To several in particular 6. Vse of Consolation to the Saints and all such as are Heirs of the promises THE SCRIPTURES STABILITY John 10. 35. And the Scriptures cannot be broken The occasion of this discourse on these words THese words are brought in here only occasionly and are as it were but a Parenthesis and yet I think I may safely say of them that they are such as are as I hope afterwards to make appear of as great consequence and of as infinite concernment as any whatsoever Nay what indeed were all other Scripture were it not for what is said of it in this Scripture what is this but that which gives life and being to all that it speaks whether it ●e that which it promises or that which it threatens or that which it foretels or Prophesies that what ever it be it is that which cannot be broken but shall certainly come to pass and therefore expounding upon John and meeting with this Scripture and finding on a more slender view thereof to be of so singular use and concernment I afterward resolved for to take a more thorow view and to frame a more large discourse thereof which accordingly I did and that I must needs acknowledge not without much acceptance and I hope not without some success and so much briefly for the first occasion of this discourse The coherence scope and explication of the words themselves It is said in the 31. verse then the Iewes took up stones again to stone him again to stone him they are at their old trade as formerly Iohn 8. 59. they Haben●es corda lapidea ad lapides currebant 〈◊〉 lapidem ●ngularem imping●b●nt Tossan in locum had stony hearts and the stones in their hearts were they which put the stones into their hands against him who is the corner stone v. 32. Iesus answered them many good works have I shewed you from my Father for which of these works do you stone me as if Christ should have said seeing you can justly object no evill against me for what good is it that you thus deal with me many good works have I done for which of them is it that ye stone me and thus may God say to every impenitent sinner that goes on still by his sins as it were to stone God and to vex and grieve him and even as it were to cu● him to the heart as Psal 95. 10. Forty years long was I grieved or vexed and cut with this generation as some render the Hebrew they did as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cut the Lord to the heart and now may God say for which of my kindnesses for which of my good works do you thus deal with me behold I at first made you and gave you your being and ever since have I preserved you and susteined you and taken care of you daily multiplying my benefits upon you and for which now of my good works do you stone me O me thinks the serious consideration hereof should help to melt the hardest hearted sinner Jer. 18. 20. Shall evil be recomp●nced for good Deut. 32. 6. Do you th●s req●it● the Lord O foolish people and ●nwise c. Prov. 19. 6. Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts Rom. 2. 4. or despisest thou the riches of his goodnes c. Even sinners do good to those that do good to them Luke 6. 33. Many good works have I shewed you from my Father or as some of my Father whereof my Father is the first Author I many good works indeed hath Christ shewed us of his Father many good works or excellent glorious works as the Greek signifies as his work of election 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to life and salvation before the world was his work of infinite great and unparalleld love in giving ●is only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish c. his work of justifying us freely from our sins of reconciling us to himself of adopting us to be his Sons and daughters of sanctifying us by his Spirit of glorifying us for ever with himself good works indeed yea stupendious such as will be matter of admiration and exultation to all eternity But it follows v. 33. The J●●s answered him saying for a good work we stone the●●ot but for blasphemy and because that thou b●ing a man makest thy self God The fowlest practices want not a shew of fair pretences But v. 34 35 36. Jesus answered them is it not written in your law I said ye are Gods If he called them Gods unto whom the word of God came and the S●ript●re cannot be broken Say yee of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world thou blasphemest because I said I am the Son of God Princes and Psal ●● 6 Magistrates are said in some sense to be Gods not truly and properly but allusively not by nature but by office and because of their superiority and