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Show . ( 44) he was carryi11g back his Biblo to the Bookfe!Jers, ~ Books now become altogethel' u{elefs, arlfl refolved to ' kNp no dead Letter_:.but in the way .'vas met by Thatcher) who feeing the Man look 'JJJtld, &c. p~rfwat! ed him to ga ajitle with him, and recovered hzm from the Error o( his 1JJays, and !he Man was never .,.. · - a··n .r, mor e a ~nt·t a·k er· , Anfw. Thts Srory wed "ufrl rerly · difown, rbat ever any QEaker went. to 1 grace or degrade 1 he Bible, or perf wade h1m to remrn rhem ~s ufelefs, whic~1 we always gready valued, and, rhrough the Grace of God, have made go~d ufe of rhem ; Lho', as the A potl-le fays, The Letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Ufe_; and thel:efvre no Enchammenr, as he calls n,. to ad~1fe him and all Men to hearken ro the L1ght within which is all One wilh rhe Spirit and Grace which rhe Lord faid ro Paul was Jufficieut fo : him ; and confequendy for orhers, no~ only to direCl: ro Heaven, bur w lead them rhuher that follow ir, and give rhe right u~c: and ~nderfian~ing of Scripture, from whom 1_r denved~ all tts . Verity, Perfpicuiry and ~urhonry_, as thetr great + Exerctt. o1ven faid t: And rho C . .t~. !ays, .Book VI~. :2,7,9·a~a. p. ~. c. 1 • That M. G. Oeni{on s 2vrztten Irem-nuakers. J • h · d" r.r h l Sp; '<.:: . cum, relanng to r etr tuerences, as a goor, .- rit breathing in it; yet he m~!l: know, rh.ar the bell Writings, even the Scnptures r~em~elves, are bur a dead Leuer, wirhout the qUickmng of rhe Spirit, as rhe Apofile fays above; and y~r this is not to difgrace or degrade them of rheu right ufe; nay, we have them by us, as a cl?ud Gf Wirne!fes againft thee and rhy Generarton, and in behalf of the per(ecuced Saints and P~o- I Tim. 3'· ple of God in all Ages-~eing projitabl.e fo~ D_o~nne, ~s, I6, 17:for Reproof~ for CorreBion, for Inflru8zon m Rtghte; oufnejs, that the Man of God may be perfeCI, thru~tgb~. ly furnifhed urJto ali good Workso , · Book ( 4S ) Book IV. p. 1 15'· He calls thdr Colledge,. A {[fJett River 'JVithout the fh·eams whereo( the(e R flf!,:M r ~01 - wautl have been mrf'r tAnwatered places for thP D.·'r.JII, it g~. · And p. 13 1. c. 1.-That Rn;er, the Streams where-of have made Glad this City of GrJd. Obf The grofs Dnknefs and Bh(phemy of rhis M m, o. call or compare rheit 111 d ertn C >lledge, for rbe ~~~ making Minifiers, ro 'dr River the )treams whereof make Glad thf Cz y IJ( Ge -l, PC1J. 46. 4· _rhe fame which is Lid R"v 11 . 1 . ro pror..eed nut of the Throne of GfJrl crml (' 1-· the r am!J; and is indeed (.he Warer of the Life> of rh Lamb, which he givestoLhem th ,H :He a rhirf~ ro drink fieely: The Jiving lf/ater rh;n r;hriit lprJke of,Jr·hn 4· which rhe Spirit and the 81 ide invi1ed him that is a thirfo ro 'come andt~lk eo( th t: f1/ater of'Li(e freely; ReV.2.1.17. (which none can of rhdrs, nor being free) and who{oev rr drinketh of tbio f¥atef thflt Chrzft ]hall ~ive him, ]hall 11ev er thirft aftt!r their pudled Water~ of the Rivers of Brtbylon .any more; bur ir {halt be in him tJ. WelL of lf'ater, fpringing up into Eternal Life, John 4· 1 4· when ar rhe bell proceeds ou.t of their Colledge, or Univerfi ry~ but Humane Learning, Tongues and Languages, which, rho~ ufefui iu ics place, yer not of necef-firy to rhe .being of a Minifter of Chritl, nor ro be gloried in, as b ~g·nning at Babel ; and confequendy Thio Ciry, rhar be fays ir makes Glad, is but Btfbylon, rhe Streams of thofe unclean Fountains, being fo far from making Glad rhe Ciry Qf 'God, that from them have ofren pro- <:eedecl fuch Wickednefs, Cruelty and Oppref-fiOn, as have made Sad rhe City and People of God; and infiead of being rhar River, without the Screams whereof rhofe Regions would be unwJrered.pbces for the Devil, rhey have rather ~arered ic tqr the Devil; yea, many lime~ with ~h~ B!ood of Saints and Martyrs,. as here in New- . ~ 1 4. 'Englt~JI,: |