CHAP. 16. Against such as contradict diuine truth: and of his owne delight in it.
1. VVIth these will I now parley a lit∣tle in thy presence, O my
Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete
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God, who grant all these things to bee true, which thy Truth whispers vnto my soule. For as for those praters that deny all, let them barke and bawle vnto themselues as much as they please; my endeauour shall bee to per∣swade them to quiet, and to giue way for thy word to en∣ter them. But if me they shall refuse, and giue the repulse vn∣to; do not thou hold thy peace I beseech thee, O my God. Speake thou truely vnto my heart; for onely Thou so spea∣kest: and I will let them alone blowing the dust withou doores and raysing it vp in∣to their owne eyes: and my¦selfe will goe into my cham∣ber, and sing there a loue-song vnto thee; mourning with groanes that cannot bee ex∣pressed, and remembring Ie∣rusalem, with my heart lifted vp towards it, Ierusalem my
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country, Ierusalem my mo∣ther; and thy selfe that rule in ouer it, the enlightener, the Father, the guardian, the hus∣band, the chast and strong de∣light, and the solid ioy of it; and all good things that bee vnspeakeable; yea all at once, because the onely Soueraigne, and true good of it. Nor will I bee made giue ouer, vntill thou wholy gather all that is of me, from the vnsetled and disordred estate I now am in, into the peace of that our most deare mother; (where the first-fruites of my spirit be already, whence I am as¦certayned of these things) and shall both conforme, and for euer confirme mee in thy mercy, O my God. But as for those who no wayes af∣firme all these truths to bee false; which giue all honour vnto thy holy Scriptures set out by Moses, estating it
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as wee did, in the top of that authority * 1.1 which is to bee followed: and doe yet con∣tradict mee in some thing or other, to these I answer thus: Be thy selfe Iudge O our God, betweene my Confessions and these mens contradicti∣ons.
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* 1.1
This Top of Authori∣ty, my pa∣pist notes to be The authority of the Church. He should haue done well to haue made sence of it then, (for I alwayes looke not for Reason from him) To place the Scrip∣tures in the autho∣rity of the Church; what can he make of that? St. Austen giues the Scriptures the top of Authority; and this Top is higher then the Church. Such marginall notes haue too often creptin to the Text, and corrup∣ted the Fathers by it.