That the Papiſts may obtrude upon us their unwritten traditions inftead of Gods written oracle, they would bear us in Hand that the Word was written only upon hap-hazard, or contingent occaſions. But ſo many mandates to write, delivered to the Prophets and Apoſtles, do cry down this error. Exod. 17. 14 and 34. 27. Deut. 31. 19 Iſa. 8. 1. and 30. 8. Jer. 30. 2 Hab. 2. 2. Re. 1. 11. 10 & 14. 13 & 19. 9. & 21. 9. The teſtmonies of the Apoſtles proclaiming that nothing ſaid or written by mans advice or counſel, cry out againſt this error. John 20. 3 But theſe things are written, that ye might believe, &c. Rom 15. 4. But what are written are written for our learning, that through patience and comfort of the Scriptures we might have hope. 1 Cor. 10. 11. Theſe things are written to admoniſh us. 1 Tim. 3. 16 All Scripture is given by divine in inſpiration. And 2 Pet. 1. 20. 21. So that ye first know this, that no Propheſie in the Scripture is of any private motion: for Propheſie came not of old time by the will of man, but holy men of God ſpake as they were moved by the holy Ghoſt. Latſtly theſe precepts cry out againſt them by which we are directed to the written word in matters of ſalvation. Iſa. 8. 20. To the law and to the testimony. John 5 39. Search the Scriptures.
V. We acknowledge therefore no other[1]
A. R.
- ↑ He means that which is called principium cognoſcendi; which is the firſt inſtrument by which we come to know the end and media of Divinity and out of which all the precept of Divinity are concluded. But there is another principle of Divinity which is called principium eſſendi, & that is God.
