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And endeavour to frame their Lives, according to the direction of God’s Word, both in Faith and Practice, the holy Scriptures being of no private Interpretation, but ought to be interpreted according to the Analogie of Faith, and is the best Interpreter of it self;","proofs":["2 Peter 1:20–21"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/112","segments":[{"text":"No, for ’tis not seemly that we should be wiser then God, who will have his Church to","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680-modernized","id":"112","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680-modernized/questions/112","segments":[{"text":"No, for ’tis not seemly that we should be wiser then God, who will have his Church to","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/98","segments":[{"text":"No: for we must not pretend to be wiser than God who will have his people taught, not by dumb images,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/3","segments":[{"text":"The holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the word of God,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19–21"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"157","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/157","segments":[{"text":"with a firm persuasion that they are the very word of God,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19–21"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/3","segments":[{"text":"The holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the word of God,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19–21"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"157","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/157","segments":[{"text":"with a firm persuasion that they are the very word of God,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19–21"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"The Word of God.","proofs":["2 Peter 1:18–19"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"They are truly and properly called the Word of God, because they came not by the Will of Man, but holy Men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"59","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/59","segments":[{"text":"And besides this, the Church had the revealed will of God to direct them.","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19–20"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"And without controversie, great is the mistery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"We must apply it for our direction through the whole course of Christian Duties,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Prophesie of Scripture came not by the will of men; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"For the Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but Holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"For it is a light that shineth in a dark place,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"For the prophecy came not of old times by the will of man,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"For we have a more sure word of prophecy,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["2 Peter 1:19"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"The Wayes, and Manners of old, was first by Inspiration,","proofs":["2 Peter 1:21"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"(3.) 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