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* 1.1All the great and memorable workes of God, such as is the incarnation of Christ, his life, Doctrine, miracles, death, the reiection of the Iewes, the calling of the Gen∣tiles, the rising reuealing and fall of Antichrist, the generall persecution and state of the last times, the resur∣rection of the body, the last iudgment, are fore-told of God in holy scripture. Ezek. 11.37. Rom. 9. Rom. 15.4. Ioh. 20.31. Apoc. 9. and 17.18.
The reason hereof is, because they are very necessary for the confirmation of our faith, & direction of our liues, and therfore God would not haue vs in any wise igno∣rant of them, much lesse to doubt of the truth of them.
Secondly, God would hereby shew and declare the sufficiency of the scriptures, and so (consequently) warne and lesson vs that we giue no credit to bee ruled by any fained reuelation or humaine traditions in matter of sal∣uation, but only consult and search the scriptures, which containe a plaine, perfect and all sufficient doctrine, both for faith manners and for sauing of our soules.
Vse 1. The first vse is to condemne, partly, the supine and merueilous negligence, and extreame slouthfulnesse of them that know not such necessary and fundamentall points, and principall conclusions so euidently and so of∣tentimes spoken of, and vrged in the sacred scriptures, or the vnexcusable vnbeleife and Atheisme of those that will not beleeue such plaine places and proofes of Gods word, but say or (at least) thinke that the scriptures are vntrue, the fables or the politicke inuentions of men to keepe and r••taine men in some feare and awe. These are the Marchiuillians (matchlesse in euil) of our times.
Vse. 2. We must neuer stagger 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or doubt of them, neither at any time cal the certainty and accomplishment thereof in question,* 1.2 but rest in them, and repaire, streng∣then and quicken our faith by them, for to this end were they giuen.
Doct. Isay 9. ve. 6. & 7.
2 Tim. 3.16.17. Ioh. 20.31