Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

2dly. Ignorant, and sottishly opposing the true God and his ways, and adoring I∣dols of stocks and stones.

When Jacob went from Laban, Laban complains that he had stolen his gods, Gen. 31. 30.

Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that I should obey him, &c? I know not the Lord, Exod. 5. 2.

Israel by Aaron made a molten Calf, and they said, these be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of Egypt, &c. They built an altar, and offered sacrifice to it, Exod. 32. 4, 5, 6.

The men of Ashdod were so sottish, that when Dagon their idol-god had fallen down before the Ark twice, and was broken in pieces, and themselves had confessed the hand of the God of Israel to be sore against them and their god. Yet they continued to call him their God, and neither the Priest, nor any who came into Dagon's house, would after tread upon the threshold whereon Dagon fell, 1 Sam. 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.

The wicked say unto God, depart from us: for we desire not the knowledg of thy ways. What is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what pro∣fit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job 21. 14, 15.

Who said unto God, depart from us, and what can the Almighty do for (or by) them? Job 22. 17.

They are those who rebel against the light, they know not the way thereof, nor abide in the path thereof, Job 24. 13.

Great men are not wise, neither do the aged understand judgment, Job 32. 9.

The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God, Psal. 14. 1.

But unto the wicked, God said, what hast thou to do to declare my sta∣tutes, &c. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee, &c. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self, Psal. 50. 16, 17, 21.

They slay the widow, &c. Yet they say the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard. Understand O ye bruitish, &c. He who planteth the ear shall, &c. Psal. 94. 6, 7, 8.

The Ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his masters crib, Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider, Isa. 1. 3.

He heweth down Cedars, &c. For a man to burn and warm himself, &c. Yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it, he maketh a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He burneth part thereof, &c. The residue thereof, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth to it, and saith, deliver me, for thou art my god. They have not known, nor understood, &c. And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledg or understanding, to say I have burned part, &c. Shall I make the residue thereof an abomination, shall I fall down to the stock of a tree, Isa. 44. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

They have not known me, they are sottish children, they have no under∣standing, Jer. 4. 22.

The word of the Lord, is unto them a reproach, they have no delight in it, Jer. 6. 10.

Though Nebuchadnezzar had acknowledged the God of Daniel, to be the God of Gods, and a Lord of Kings, &c. Yet he presently makes a molten image, and commands his people to worship it, &c. And said, who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands, Dan. 2. 47. ch. 3. 1, 4, 5, 6, 15.

Belshazzer and his princes, &c. Praised the gods of gold and of silver, &c. Dan. 5. 3, 4.

The Gergesons, so ignorant, that because of the loss of their swine, The whole city came out to meet Jesus, &c. And besought him to depart out, &c. Matt. 8. 32, 33, 34.

O Jerusalem, &c. How often would I have gathered, &c. And ye would not, Luk. 13. 34.

Christ was in the world, &c. And the world knew him not, &c. He came to his own, and his own received him not, John 1. 10, 11.

Light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, Joh. 3. 19.

Jesus said to the woman, ye worship ye know not what, John 4. 22.

Ye will not come to me, that ye may have life, John 5. 40.

Jesus said, the world, &c. Me it hateth, because I testify of it, that, &c. John 7. 7.

The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, John 14. 17.

The world, &c. It hated me before it hated you. Because I have chosen you, &c. Therefore the world hates you, &c. These things will they do, &c. Because they know not him who sent me, they hated both me and my father, John 15. 18, 19, 21, 24.

Simon Magus, so sottish, that he offered money for power, to confer the holy Ghost by imposition of hands, Acts 8. 18, 19, 20.

When Paul was at Athens, &c. He saw the city wholly given to idolatry (or, full of Idols) &c. Certain Philosophers, &c. incountred him, and some said, what will this habler (or, base fellow) say? Other some, he seemeth to be a setter sorth of strange gods: because he preached unto them, Jesus and the re∣surrection, &c. I perceive (saith Paul) ye are too superstitious, &c. I found an Altar with an Inscription, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye igno∣rantly worship, him declare I, Act. 17. 16, 18, 22, 23.

When Paul preached, many believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, &c. Demetrius and his company, cry up great is Diana the god∣dess, &c. And cryed out against Paul, for saying, that they were no gods which were made with hands; and endeavouring to turn men to the true God, &c. The Town-clark said, the whole city is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the Image which fell down from Jupiter, Act. 19. 9, 24, 25, 26, to the end.

Certain questions, &c. Of one Jesus which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive, Act. 25. 19.

The way of peace they have not known, Rom. 3. 17.

The carnal mind is enmity against God, for it cannot be subject, &c. Rom. 8. 7.

The preaching of the cross, is to them who perish foolishness, &c. After that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, 1 Cor. 1. 18, 21.

The natural man, receiveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know, for they are spiritually discern∣ed, 1 Cor. 2. 14.

In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel, &c. Should shine unto them, 2 Cor. 4. 4. Act. 26. 17, 18.

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them, who by nature are no Gods, Gal. 4. 8.

Walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ig∣norance which is in them, because of the blindness, &c. Ephes. 4. 17, 18.

Ye were sometimes darkness, but now, &c. Ephes. 5. 8.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who knew not God, 1 Thes. 4. 5.

See ignorance in Divine things. Chap. 37.