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fears that you shall be damned? What need it; nay, how could it trouble you, for your blasphemous thoughts and other sins, if it were not privy to itself, that there is a God, who will bring every thought into judgment? Eccles. xii. 14.

Fourthly, Make use of the eye of faith, whereby you may see God, who is invisible, and that more distinctly, more certainly, and more fully, Heb. xi. 27. Remember that it is the first principle of all religion, which is first to be learned, namely, That God is, that all things are made by him, and that he is a rewarder of all those, who so believe this, that they diligently seek him, Heb. xi. 3, 6.

2d. Proofs of the divinity of the Scriptures.

1. That you may assure yourselves, that the Scriptures are the word of God; consider, first, how infallibly true they relate things past, according as they were many hundred years before; also in foretelling things to come many hundred of years after, which you may see to have come to pass, and daily do come to pass accordingly; which they would not do if they were not God's word.

2. They lay open the particular and most secret thoughts and affections of man's heart, which they could not do, if they were not the word of him, that knows all things; in whose sight all things are naked and open, Heb. iv. 12, 13.

3. They command all duties of piety, sobriety, and equity, and do prohibit all vice, in such a manner as all the writings and laws of all men laid together, neither do, nor can do, Psa. xix. 7.

4. As the Scriptures discover a state of eternal damnation unto man, and condemn him to it for sin, Gal. iii. 22; so they reveal a sure way of salvation, Rom. i. 17; which is such a way as could never enter into the imagination and heart of any man, or of all men together, without the word and revelation of the Spirit of God, who in his wisdom found out, and ordained this way, 1 Cor. ii. 9.

5. The Scriptures are a word of power, almighty beyond the power of any creature; pulling down