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IT is very remarkable,* 1.1 how God himself, the greatest Master of speech, and ma∣ker of it too, Exod. 4. 11. When he spake from Heaven at the Transfigura∣tion of his Christ, our Iesus, made use of three severall texts of Scripture in one breath, as in Mat. 17. 5. This is my beloved Son, Psalm. 12. 7. In whom, I am well pleased, Esay 42. 1. Hear ye him, Deut. 18. 15. No doubt, but God could have ex∣patiated
as he pleased; but this may reprove the curious quea••inesse of such nice ones,* 1.2 as disdain at the stately plainnesse of the Scripture, and to shew of what authority Scripture-phrase is with God. Happy then is that man, that Minister, that can aptly utter his minde in pure Scripture-phrase, in that heavenly dialect, the language of Canaan. It is not the froath of words, nor the ostentation of learning, (though usefull in its time and place) nor strong lines, that will draw men up to Heaven; but strong arguments, and convincing ••own-right truths, drawn out of the treasury of Gods Word; as when a Sermon is full of the ••owells of Scripture, so that God and Christ may (as it were) seem to speak in the Preacher.
T. Cartwright in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Joh. Malcol∣mus in Acta. Qui verè praedi∣ca•• necesse est u•• omne quod la∣quitur ad divinae authoritatis fundamentum revocet, & in eâ aedificium lo∣cutionis firmet. Greg. lib. 8. Moral.