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And is now entred within the vaile into the Holy of Holies, which is the presence of God. Also, he makes his people a spirituall House, an holy Priesthood, to offer up spirituall Sacrifice acceptable to God through him. 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For as the Godhead, or Divine Nature cannot Thirst, or be Hungry, no more can the Manhood be in all, or many places at once. Therefore we believe the Godhead was neither turned nor transfused into the Manhood, nor the Manhood into the Godhead, but both; the Divine Nature keepeth entire all his Essential Properties to it self, so that the Humanity is neither Omnipotent, Omniscient, nor Omnipresent. 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as also that all Men should worship him according to God’s own Institution and Appointment. 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yet notwithstanding if","proofs":["John 3:18"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"63","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/63","segments":[{"text":"No, For neither can it be but they who are incorporated into Christ through Faith, should bring forth the","proofs":["John 15:5"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/64","segments":[{"text":"From the Holy Ghost","proofs":["John 3:5"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/68","segments":[{"text":"Immersion or dipping of the Person in Water in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, by such who are duly qualified by Christ.","proofs":["John 3:23"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"73","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/73","segments":[{"text":"By the Infants of Believers being in the Covenant of Grace, it must either be meant of the Covenant of Grace absolutely considered, and if so, then there is no total and final Apostacy of any Infant seed of Believers from the Covenant, but all must be saved then.","proofs":["John 10:28"]},{"text":"Or, 2. They must mean conditionally, on consideration that when they come to years of maturity, they by true Faith, Love, and Holiness of life, taking hold of God’s Covenant of Grace, shall have the Priviledges of it. This being their sence, I then demand what real spiritual priviledg the Infant-Seed of Believers, as such, have more than the Infant Seed of Unbelievers, if they live also to years of maturity, and by true Faith and Love take hold of God’s Covenant?","proofs":["John 3:16"]},{"text":"I further demand, whether the Seal of the Covenant do not under those considerations belong as much to the Children of Unbelievers as to the Children of Believers? yea, and more too, under consideration the Infant Seed of the Unbeliever should take hold of God’s Covenant, and the Believers Infant-Seed do not; as often this is seen to the sorrow of many Godly Parents.","proofs":["John 3:16"]},{"text":"Land of Canaan, and have plenty of outward blessings, so sealed this Promise by Circumcision. 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neither do we find in all the new Testament, that any Gospel Church in the Apostles times did set any other Day apart solemnly to worship God, save the first Day: and well might they so do, for if Israel, the natural Seed of Abraham, was to keep the seventh Day, to keep up the Remembrance of their Deliverance out of temporal Bondage, how much more are we bound to keep the first Day in Remembrance of Christ’s Deliverance of us from eternal Bondage?","proofs":["John 20:19–20"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"133","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/133","segments":[{"text":"condemn any rashly, or unheard, but avoid, and","proofs":["John 8:44"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"139","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/139","segments":[{"text":"That we ask of the only true God, who hath","proofs":["John 4:22,&c"]},{"text":"asked of him with a true affection and desire of our Heart, and through an inward","proofs":["John 4:23–24"]},{"text":"certainly heard of God, even as he hath","proofs":["John 14:13","John 15:16","John 16:23"]}]},{"document":"aoc1680","id":"145","url":"/api/v1/documents/aoc1680/questions/145","segments":[{"text":"Hallowed be thy Name; 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That in all parts of divine worship, and so in this of Prayer, the Trinity in Unity, and Unity in Trinity is to be worshipped and respected. Or, That we ought so to think of God in Prayer as one in Essence, yet three in Persons: and so as three in Persons, that he is but one in Essence. 2. That we ought so to think in Prayer of some one Person in the Trinity, as thereby to be led to the other two: The Father being in the Son, and the Son in the Father, and the Holy Ghost in them both.","proofs":["John 14:9–10, 16–17","15:26"]},{"text":"and therefore due to the Son, and so to the Holy Ghost as well as to the Father. Rom. 10. 13, 14. 2. 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Because he is called God in the Scripture, And the Word was God.","proofs":["John 1:1"]},{"text":"2. Because the Attributes of God are ascribed unto him: Eternity, Before Abraham was, I am.","proofs":["John 8:58"]},{"text":"Omniscience, Lord thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee.","proofs":["John 21:17"]},{"text":"3. 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That the Father and the Son are distinct Persons, is evident from I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. It is written in your Law, the testimony of two men is true; I am one that bear witness of my self, and the Father that sent me, beareth witness of me.","proofs":["John 8:16–18"]},{"text":"3. That the Holy Ghost is a distinct Person from the Father and the Son, appeareth from I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth, &c.","proofs":["John 14:16–17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"11","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/11","segments":[{"text":"2. 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By his Word, These things are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.","proofs":["John 20:31"]},{"text":"2. By his Spirit, The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.","proofs":["John 14:26"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"If ye ask any thing in my name, I will do it.","proofs":["John 14:14"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Christ doth exercise his Kingly Office, 1. Over his Elect People, Thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.","proofs":["John 1:49"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"4. He underwent the sinless infirmities of the Flesh, such as weariness, hunger, thirst, and the like in regard of his Body; and grief and sorrow in regard of his Soul, Jesus being wearied with his journey sat on the well.","proofs":["John 4:6"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Christ was raised from the dead by his own power and spirit, whereby he was declared to be the Son of God, I lay down my life that I might take it again, I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.","proofs":["John 10:17–18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Christ did rise again with the same body, for he bore the print of the Nailes in his hands and his Feet, and of the Spear in his side, Reach hither thy Finger, and behold my Hands, and reach hither thy Hand, and thrust it into my Side.","proofs":["John 20:27"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Christ Ascended into Heaven, 1. 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By Faith on our part, whereby we come unto Christ, and lay hold upon him, He that cometh unto me shall never hunger, and he that believeth in me shall never thirst,","proofs":["John 6:35"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Ye will not come unto me, that ye might have life.","proofs":["John 5:40"]},{"text":"2. Effectual calling is the internal call of the Spirit, accompanying the external call of the Word, whereby we are not only invited unto Christ, but also enabled and perswaded to embrace him, as he is freely proffered unto us in the Gospel, Every one that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me.","proofs":["John 6:45"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"The Spirit worketh in our mind a conviction of our sin & misery, when he giveth us a clear sight, and full perswasion of the guilt of our sins, and a feeling apprehension of the dreadful Wrath of God, and the endless miseries of Hell, which we have deserved for sin, and every Hour are exposed unto; which doth wound our hearts and consciences, and filleth us with perplexing care what to do to be saved, And when he is come, he will reprove (or convince) the World of sin.","proofs":["John 16:8"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"2. That Christ is willing to save all that come unto him, Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out.","proofs":["John 6:37"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"No. Only such Persons are adopted as do believe in Christ, As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his Name.","proofs":["John 1:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"The Glorious Place which Believers souls do immediatly pass into, is, their Fathers House in Heaven, where there are Mansions prepared for them by Christ, In my Fathers House are many Mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.","proofs":["John 14:2"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"The Resurrection here spoken of, is, the last and general Resurrection of all the dead that have lived in all ages, from the beginning of the Creation, which will be first of the Righteous, and then of the Wicked at the last day, The hour is coming, in the which, all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life, and they that have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation.","proofs":["John 5:28–29"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"The zeal of thy House hath eaten me up","proofs":["John 2:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"50","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/50","segments":[{"text":"Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testifie of me.","proofs":["John 5:39"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"We offend and sin against the second Commandment, not only by Idolatry and Superstition, but also when we are not zealous for pure worship according to Gods institution, not endeavouring what in us lieth in our places the Reformation of Worship, according to the Pattern in the Word; as also, when we disuse and neglect, especially when we contemn, and oppose any of those Ordinances which God hath appointed to be the means of Worship, The zeal of thy House hath eaten me up.","proofs":["John 2:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"2. When Persons under Ordinances are slight and formal, as to the inward frame of their minds, when their minds are roving and wandring, and their hearts are dead, and dull, very unbeseeming the Majesty of God, whom in his Ordinances they wait upon, who being a Spirit, doth chiefly look to the Spiritual part of his service. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and in Truth.","proofs":["John 4:24"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"58","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/58","segments":[{"text":"Japhet is called the Elder Brother; But Moses reckoning up the works of God on the first day, retires back from the Evening to the Morning, and saith, they both made up the first day. Surely in the account of all Nations, and in Scripture account too, the Morning is before the Evening, The same day at Evening, being the first day of the week, came Jesus, &c.","proofs":["John 20:19"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"59","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/59","segments":[{"text":"The Apostle having given order from the Lord, to the Churches of Galatia, and of Corinth, and by consequence the other Churches of the Gentiles, for Collections on the First day of the week, as God had prospered them on other days; we may infer, this being a Sabbath-day work, that he had also from the Lord, given order for the Observation of this First day, as the weekly Sabbath. 4. We read of the Disciples being Assembled together on the First day of the week, and that Jesus then came amongst them,","proofs":["John 20:19"]},{"text":"and that eight days after they met again, which was another First day, and Jesus came to them,","proofs":["John 20:26"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"If he sleep he shall do well.","proofs":["John 11:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"When they were filled, he said unto his Disciples, gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.","proofs":["John 6:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"Now Barrabas was a robber.","proofs":["John 18:40"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"3. Falshood and unfaithfulness in our promises, and in regard of any thing committed to our trust. This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a Thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.","proofs":["John 12:6"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"2. Because this Sin is promoted by, and makes us like the Devil that envious Spirit, Ye are of your Father the Devil, and the lusts of your Father you will do.","proofs":["John 8:44"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.","proofs":["John 3:19"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Faith is a saving Grace, not by the act of beleiving, as an act; for then it would save as a work, whereas we are saved by faith in opposition to all works: but faith is a saving Grace, as an instrument, apprehending and applying Jesus Christ and his perfect righteousness whereby alone we are saved, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever beleiveth on him, should not perish, but have everlasting Life.","proofs":["John 3:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"The Object of this grace of faith is the Lord Jesus Christ, and his Righteousness, and the Promises which are made through him in the Covenant of Grace, He that believeth on him is not condemned.","proofs":["John 3:18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"The acts of Faith in Jesus Christ, are 1. A receiving of Jesus Christ: As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that beleive on his name.","proofs":["John 1:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testifie of me.","proofs":["John 5:39"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/94","segments":[{"text":"By our ingrafting into Christ, is meant our being cut off from our old stock of nature and being joyned unto Jesus Christ, whereby we come to draw virtue from him as from our root, that we may grow up in him and bring forth fruit unto him, I am the Vine, ye are the Branches.","proofs":["John 15:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"We ought to pray unto God onely in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; If ye ask any thing in my Name, I will do it.","proofs":["John 14:13–14"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"1. 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By the effectual application of it to us.","proofs":["John 1:12"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"5. The Spirit of God perswades, and enables us, to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel.","proofs":["John 6:44–45"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"2. By Adoption we are received into the number of the Sons of God.","proofs":["John 1:12"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"Some sins, in themselves, and by reason of several aggravations, are more hainous in the sight of God, than others.","proofs":["John 19:11"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"85","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/85","segments":[{"text":"1. Faith in Jesus Christ.","proofs":["John 3:16"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"2. By Faith we receive Jesus Christ.","proofs":["John 1:12"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"3. Is to be made in the name of Christ.","proofs":["John 16:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"No, For we are not of the World,","proofs":["John 17:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much Fruit,","proofs":["John 15:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"No: For these are not the Words of him that hath a Devil,","proofs":["John 10:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in them we think we have Eternal Life, and they are they which testifie of Christ,","proofs":["John 5:39"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Search the Scriptures,","proofs":["John 5:39"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For this is Life Eternal to know thee the only true God,","proofs":["John 17:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For no Man hath seen God at any time, the only Begotten Son, which is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declar’d him,","proofs":["John 1:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For these Things are written that we may believe,","proofs":["John 20:31"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Christ himself hath said, God is a Spirit,","proofs":["John 4:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Father hath Life in himself,","proofs":["John 5:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Yes. This is Life Eternal, to know thee the only true God,","proofs":["John 17:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,","proofs":["John 1:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is the only begotten of the Father,","proofs":["John 1:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Christ saith, I will send you the Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father,","proofs":["John 15:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Christ saith, I and my Father are One,","proofs":["John 10:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That we all may be One as the Father is in Christ, and he in the Father, that we also may be One in them,","proofs":["John 17:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"8","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/8","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Christ saith, My Father Worketh hitherto, and I Work,","proofs":["John 5:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For without him was not any thing made that was made,","proofs":["John 1:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"and Created all Things by Jesus Christ,","proofs":["John 1:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He was a Murtherer from the beginning,","proofs":["John 8:44"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For that which is born of the Flesh is Flesh,","proofs":["John 3:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Marvel not that I said unto you, ye must be born again,","proofs":["John 3:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"No. For he is a Liar and the Father of it,","proofs":["John 8:44"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"No. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,","proofs":["John 15:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me,","proofs":["John 17:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For this is the Father’s Will, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing,","proofs":["John 6:39"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me,","proofs":["John 6:37"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God so loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son,","proofs":["John 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whosoever believes in Christ shall not perish,","proofs":["John 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He that believeth on the Son hath Everlasting Life,","proofs":["John 3:36"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Son of Man was lifted up, that whosoever believes in him should not perish,","proofs":["John 3:14–15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I lay down my Life for the Sheep,","proofs":["John 10:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou hast given him Power over all Flesh, that he should give Eternal Life to us many as thou hast given him,","proofs":["John 17:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For their sakes I sanctifie my self, that they also might be sanctified,","proofs":["John 17:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I and my Father are one,","proofs":["John 10:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For all Men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father,","proofs":["John 5:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We beheld his Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father,","proofs":["John 1:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us,","proofs":["John 1:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He came forth from the Father, and came into the World,","proofs":["John 16:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Father sanctified him, and sent him into the World,","proofs":["John 10:36"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Before Abraham was I am,","proofs":["John 8:58"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the same was in the Beginning with God,","proofs":["John 1:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am in the Father, and the Father in me,","proofs":["John 14:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the World,","proofs":["John 4:42"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Works that I do bear Witness of me that the Father hath sent me,","proofs":["John 5:36"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"No. For he said, Ye are beneath, I am from above,","proofs":["John 8:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Being weary with his Journey, he sat on the Well,","proofs":["John 4:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him,","proofs":["John 3:34"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Father judgeth no Man, but has committed all Judgment to the Son,","proofs":["John 5:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For as the Father has Life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have Life in himself,","proofs":["John 5:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am the Light of the World,","proofs":["John 8:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In him was Life, and the Life was the Light of Men,","proofs":["John 1:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am the Door of the Sheep,","proofs":["John 10:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,","proofs":["John 14:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"No. For no Man cometh to the Father but by me,","proofs":["John 14:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am that Bread of Life,","proofs":["John 6:48"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For him hath God the Father sealed,","proofs":["John 6:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. This is of a Truth that Prophet that should come into the World,","proofs":["John 6:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I have glorified thee on the Earth,","proofs":["John 17:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whosoever comes unto me I will in no wise cast out,","proofs":["John 6:37"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We know that thou art a Teacher come from God,","proofs":["John 3:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Law was given by Moses, but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ,","proofs":["John 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he said, My Doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me,","proofs":["John 7:16","John 12:49–50"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"No. But Verily, verily I say unto you,","proofs":["John 3:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Believe me (said he) for the very Works sake,","proofs":["John 14:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Many Signs did Jesus in the presence of his Disciples,","proofs":["John 20:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he said, I have declar’d thy Name unto them, and will declare it,","proofs":["John 17:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For these Things are written that ye may believe,","proofs":["John 20:31"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, he shall teach you all Things,","proofs":["John 14:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If ye continue in my Word, then are ye my Disciples indeed,","proofs":["John 8:31"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes. No Man taketh my Life from me, but I lay it down of myself,","proofs":["John 10:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He hath Authority to Execute Judgment, because he is the Son of Man,","proofs":["John 5:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Yes. My Kingdom is not of this World,","proofs":["John 18:36"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"No. For he was in the World, and the World knew him not,","proofs":["John 1:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"No. He came to his own, and his own received him not,","proofs":["John 1:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?","proofs":["John 1:46"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"No. Have any of the Rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him,","proofs":["John 7:48"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Jesus wept,","proofs":["John 11:35"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"No. He had Barley Loaves,","proofs":["John 6:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They said, He hath a Devil, and is mad,","proofs":["John 10:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he said, Now is my Soul troubled,","proofs":["John 12:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my Life,","proofs":["John 10:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Prince of this World cometh,","proofs":["John 14:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"No. He hath nothing in me,","proofs":["John 14:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Devil put it into the Heart of Judas Iscariot to betray him,","proofs":["John 13:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For this Cause came I to this Hour, Father, glorifie thy Name,","proofs":["John 12:27–28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He said, It is finished,","proofs":["John 19:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For one of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced his Side, and forthwith came there out Blood and Water; and he that saw it bare Record,","proofs":["John 19:34–35"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As the manner of the Jews is to bury,","proofs":["John 19:40"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I have glorified thee on the Earth, and now, O Father, glorifie thou me,","proofs":["John 17:4–5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Destroy this Temple, and in Three Days I will raise it up,","proofs":["John 2:19","John 10:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is expedient for you that I go away,","proofs":["John 16:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I go to prepare a Place for you,","proofs":["John 14:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If I go to prepare a Place for you, I will come again,","proofs":["John 14:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I will raise him up at the last Day,","proofs":["John 6:39"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"No. Thou wilt manifest thy self to us, and not unto the World,","proofs":["John 14:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"No. A Man can receive nothing except it be given him from above,","proofs":["John 3:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it is the Spirit that quickens,","proofs":["John 6:63"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you,","proofs":["John 16:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He is the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name,","proofs":["John 14:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when Christ had purchased it, ’twas expedient for us he should go away, that he might send the Comforter,","proofs":["John 16:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Another Comforter shall abide with you for ever,","proofs":["John 14:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He shall bring all Things to their Remembrance,","proofs":["John 14:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"29","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/29","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when he is come, he shall convince,","proofs":["John 16:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Wind blows where it listeth, so is every one that is Born of the Spirit,","proofs":["John 3:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me,","proofs":["John 6:37"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"No. He that believeth not is condemned already,","proofs":["John 3:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. This is the Work of God, that ye believe,","proofs":["John 6:29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For of his fulness have all we received,","proofs":["John 1:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am the Vine, ye are the Branches,","proofs":["John 15:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I ascend to my Father, and your Father,","proofs":["John 20:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye call me Master and Lord,","proofs":["John 13:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. When he is come he will convince the World of Sin,","proofs":["John 16:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye will not come to me that ye might have Life,","proofs":["John 5:40"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For every Man that hath heard, and learned of the Father, cometh unto me,","proofs":["John 6:45"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All that the Father hath given me shall come unto me,","proofs":["John 6:37"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"No. For no Man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him,","proofs":["John 6:44"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As many as received him to them gave he Power to become the Sons of God, even to them that believe on his Name,","proofs":["John 1:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They are Born not of the Will of Man, but of God,","proofs":["John 1:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Children, have ye any Meat?","proofs":["John 21:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He will gather together the Children of God that were scattered abroad,","proofs":["John 11:52"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For their Sakes I sanctifie my self, that they also might be sanctified,","proofs":["John 17:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God,","proofs":["John 3:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. There is a Well of Waters springing up to Eternal Life,","proofs":["John 4:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you,","proofs":["John 14:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. No Man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s Hand,","proofs":["John 10:29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"No. For in the World ye shall have Tribulation,","proofs":["John 16:33"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That where I am, there ye may be also,","proofs":["John 14:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your Sins,","proofs":["John 8:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Hour is coming when all that are in the Graves shall hear his Voice, and shall come forth; they that have done Good unto the Resurrection of Life, and they that have done Evil to the Resurrection of Condemnation,","proofs":["John 5:28–29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am the Resurrection and the Life,","proofs":["John 11:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If any Man serve me, him will my Father honour,","proofs":["John 12:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"41","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/41","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Law was given by Moses,","proofs":["John 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. A new Commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another,","proofs":["John 13:34"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"44","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/44","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed,","proofs":["John 8:36"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"45","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/45","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We must know what we Worship,","proofs":["John 4:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"Yes. My Lord, and my God,","proofs":["John 20:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For such the Father seeks to Worship him,","proofs":["John 4:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"52","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/52","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If ye keep my Commandments ye shall abide in my Love,","proofs":["John 15:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"57","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/57","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we must Work the Works of God,","proofs":["John 6:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"60","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/60","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For on the First Day of the Week the Disciples were assembled,","proofs":["John 20:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"61","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/61","segments":[{"text":"No. Make not my Father’s House a House of Merchandise,","proofs":["John 2:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"61","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/61","segments":[{"text":"Yes. This Man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath Day,","proofs":["John 9:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"62","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/62","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when they were assembled on the First Day of the Week Jesus stood in the midst,","proofs":["John 20:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he was a Murtherer from the beginning,","proofs":["John 8:44"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is a Liar, and the Father of it,","proofs":["John 8:44"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"No. If I should say I know him not, I should be a Liar like unto you,","proofs":["John 8:55"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"No. He that deliver’d me unto thee hath the greater Sin,","proofs":["John 19:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/84","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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But while they are obstinate, and pertinacious, in maintaining Lies, and Untruths, they ought to be confuted, as the man was, that denyed Snow to be white. For it is not so much a blindness of mind, or a weakness of judgement, as many well meaning people are misled by, as a wilful, obstinate resisting of the Truth, as the perverse Jews did, or as, Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses. They that are against commanded Gospel Ordinances, and the Ministers of Christ, whom they look upon as the Priests of Baal, would (if they durst) shake off the very Scripture, and Word of GOD. And it is more than probable, that if they could shun the odium of open Blasphemy, and the hazard of standing Laws against blasphemers, the most part of them would disown the Scriptures, as many of them have done. For what kindness or respect can they have for the Scriptures, but such as men carry to Topicks or common places, whence they draw Arguments to impugne others, or defend themselves with. For they do not look upon the Word as their Rule, seing (as they dream) they have a Light within them, beyond that more sure Word of Prophesie, which the Aopstle Peter prefers to a voice from Heaven. 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