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A90521	The Scriptures stability or, the Scripture cannot be broken. Proved, explained, and several wayes applied, whereby all Scripture may with singular advantage come to be improved. Very seasonable and usefull in these last and worst dayes, wherein the authority and truth of the Scripture is now much oppugned, and by few so improved as it ought. By Robert Perrot, B.M. and minister of Gods word, at Deane in Bedfordshire.	R. P. (Robert Perrot)	1658 (1658)	Wing P1646; Thomason E1928_2; ESTC R209990	89,342	222

Pro. 16. 16 4. 7. principal thing therefore get Wisdom and with all thy gettings get Vnderstanding Acquaint now thy self with him and be at peace so shall good come Job 22. 21 unto thee There is sayes Elihu a Spirit in Man and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them Vnderstanding Job 32 8. Go to God therefore for it For it is he that is a God of Knowledge 2 Sam. 2. 3. There is a promise the earth shall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea O desire the Isa 11. 9. Lord to fill thy Soul with Knowledge 2. Again Secondly if continuing in a state of Unregeneracy thou be saved the Scripture must be broken you cannot continuing in such an estate be saved except the Scripture be broken for the Scripture in several places speaks quite contrary as to such being saved continuing such As John 3. ● And again the 5. Verse Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a Man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God and except a Man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God I say unto the● I who am the Amen the faithful and true Witnesse yea truth it self and cannot lie I who came to open and give an entrance into the Kingdom of God yet I say yea he does as good as swear Verily verily I say unto thee except a Man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God So Heb. 12. 14. Without Holinsse no Man shall see the Lord. No Man no without being sanctified ther 's no being saved Blessed indeed are the pure in heart for they shall see God but without purity ther 's no seeing God No however it may be at present thou maist scoff at Purity and Holinesse and call it Preciseness yet know it is that without wch thou canst never be saved except the Scripture be broken And rather than the Scripture should be broken God will break ten thousand such as thou art the Scripture cannot be broken And therefore canst not thou but be broken continuing such So Iohn 13. 8. If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me i. e. If I make thee not clean from thy sins freely pardoning them and sanctifying thee if I wash thee not from sinsguiltiness by my blood and from sinsfilthiness by my Spirit thou hast no part with me in Heaven in eternal happinesse in glory in everlasting life in that celestial Paradise And therefore let such harken to that sovereign counsel of the Apostle in Heb. 12. 14 Follow Holinesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 follow hard press with an eager pursute after Holinesse as one who will not leave till he hath what he followes h Est magno studio annit ut assequaris to follow as a Hunter his pr●y who persues it till he take it and is there not cause when as if ever without it we see God the Scripture must be broken 3. Again Thirdly if continuing in a state of Unbelief if not coming to Christ and believing on him you be saved the Scripture must be broken for the Scripture absolutely and indispensably requires Faith in all that are saved and excludes all such from salvation who do not believe Mark 16. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned and that though he be baptized so Iohn 3. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him and he that believes not is condemned already verse 18. and Iohn 8. 24. If ye believe not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins a sad threatning Rev. 21. 8. The Vnbelieving shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the Second Death so that if thou continuing still in Unbelief shouldest see life or be exempt from the wrath of God abiding on thee which is a burthen so exceeding grievous and intollerable or shouldest not be damned and dye in thy sins the Scripture must be broken if continuing shut up in Unbelief thou shouldest not be shut out of Heaven and have thy part in the lake which burneth with fire brimstoné which is the second Death the Scripture must be broken therfore harken to that blessed Counsel our Saviour gives Jo. 12. 36 Whilest you have light believe still in the light while ye have the light of the Gospel believe in the light who is the Son of God while ye have the light of the Word of God believein the Word which is God let these beams lead you to that Sun these streames to that Ocean this is the great Gospel-work Ioh. 6. 29. and the great Gospel-command 1 Ioh. 321. This is the great business both of the light of life Joh. 11. 26. and the light of the Gospel except while we have the light we believe in this light we must unless the Scripture be broken be cast into utter darknesse 4. Again Fourthly if continuing in a state of impenitency you should be saved the Scripture must be broken for the Scripture is absolutely and indispensably for repentance in all that are saved affirms except we repent we shall certainly perish Luke 13. 3. Except you repent you shall all likewise prish and again V. 5. Except you repent you shall all certainly perish aut poenitendum aut pereundum there is no way but repenting or perishing according to what the Scripture holds forth we must either repent of our sins and turn from them here or burn in Hell for them for ever hereafter So that though you now it may be make a mock of sin you must come to mourn for it though you now it may be sport with it you must come to be in pain with it and for it or else if you do not perish the Scripture must be broken though thy heart now be never so stony never so hard and impenitent yet this stony hard and impenitent heart of thine must come to relent must become an heart of flesh it must come to be broken for sin and from sin or else if ever thou beest saved the Scripture must be broken And therefore sovereign Counsel is that which God gives to sinners Ezek. 18. 30. Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine else it will and James 4. 8 9 10. Clense your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded be afflicted and mourn and weep c. And that of the Apostle Acts 3. 19. Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord This made John the Baptist and our Saviour and his Disciples so much to preach and press Repentance making it the Sum of their preaching because though

ever setled in heaven however the effects thereof through the over-cloudings of manifold troubles and temptations may not sometimes appear on earth yet O Lord for ever thy word is setled in heaven there it s established and is not subject to those It a amplum ut omnes terminos metas superet ad omnia tempora aetates se extendat id est ut sit durabile firmum perpetuum nec unquam aboleri queat Moller in locum Ita ut finis illius vider● non potest i. e. infinitum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Junius mutations as things on earth are so Psal 119. 96. I have seen an end of all perfection but thy Commandement is exceeding broad or large that is it lasteth for ever it reacheth and extendeth to all eternity I can see an end of all other things even the perfectest that are I can see they shall have an end but I cannot see an end of thy word that shall never have an end that 's so broad as it reacheth beyond all limits and bounds and perpetually abides so Matth. 24. 34 35. verily I say unto you this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled You may probably think that what I have spoken shall not come to pass at least in all the circumstances thereof but there are some now alive shall see every whit fulfilled that I have spoken as concerning the destruction of Jerusalem heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away * Promissi●num certitudo constat verbo dei quo nihil potest esse constantius aut firmius Pet Mart. in Rom. 4. these words may be taken and understood as spoken either comparatively or possitively 1. Comparatively the heavens and the earth shall sooner pass away than any of my words pass away or prove false and so Luke expresses it Luk. 16. 18. and it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the Law to fail 2. Or secondly positively thus heaven and earth shall indeed pass away as at the end of the world as the Apostle Peter expresses it 2 Pet. 3. 10. but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away and verse 12. wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and v. 11. seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved he speaks of the heavens and the earth and the works that are therein these all shall pass away P●● 75. 3. 1 Cor. 7. 31. 1 John 2. 17. and be dissolved but the word shall not pass away or be dissolved but shall have its full and perfect accomplishment The earth saith the Prophet Isay is utterly broken down the earth is clean dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly the earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a Cottage c. Isay 24. 19 20. But now the Scripture never is nor can be broken at all or dissolved or be removed but remains most firm Thus the Scripture the word that which God hath said is more firm than the Fabrick of heaven and earth it self and shall remain firm and inviolable for ever for the mountains shall depart and the hills shall be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the Covenant of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee Isay 54. 10. So Isay 55. 11. So shall my word be that goeth out of my mouth it shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it I will accomplish and make it good it shall not be without effect nor fall to the ground God may as well cease to be as his word be broken disanull'd and not effected and hence are those frequent expressions in Scripture that it might be fulfilled which was spoken Matth. 1. 22. 4. 14. 8. 17. 12. 17. 13. 35. 21. 4 c. implying that God will have what he hath spoken fulfill'd 2. From Reason The Scripture cannot be broken Reas 1 Because all Scripture as the Apostle speaks in the 2 Tim. 3. 16. is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divinitus inspirata given by the inspiration of God it is divine as is likewise exprest elsewhere Heb. 1. 1. God who at sundry times and in divers maners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets mark it was God who spake by them so Hosea 8. 12. I have written to him it is Gods writing so 2 Pet. 1. 21. Luk. 1. 70. Acts 4. 24. 25. And therefore it cannot be broken or made void because it is divine and that in a proper and more peculiar sense being immediately revealed from God what indeed is humane is subject to mutation and change as man himself is it s like himself his breath goeth forth he returns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hic titulus etsi omni veritati de quacunque re sit significatione largiori possit tribui quoniam spiritus est in hominibus inspir at io omnipotentis dat intelligentiam Job 32. 8. attamen immediatè à Deo revelata doctrina merito titulum illum sibi proprie vendicat River in Isagog pag. 9. to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish but the Scripture being divine and that which in a proper and peculiar way is the writing of God that cannot alter or change or be dissolved 2. Because as it is given by inspiration of God so it is the Scripture of that God who is a God of truth and faithfulness and cannot lye 1 Tit 2. In hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised before the world began and therefore the Scripture cannot be broken being the Scripture of such a God who cannot lye whose Psal 36. 5 57. 20. faithfulness and truth reacheth unto the clouds and is great unto the heavens yea above the heavens that is it cannot be traced who though we believe 2 Tim. 2. 13. not yet abides faithful and cannot deny himself and also the strength of Israel 1 Sam. 13. 29. will not lye nor repent for he is not a man that he should repent and thus David makes the Stability of Gods word to depend on the Stability of Gods truth and faithfulness because he is most faithful his word is most stable and firm Psa 119. 89 90. thy word for ever O Lord is setled in heaven thy faithfulness is unto all generations Gods truth and faithfulness being firm his word is so likewise thus the Scripture cannot be broken because of Gods truth and fidelity which is infinite yea he is truth it self 3. Because it is the Scripture of that God who is Iehovah who is the Lord as he proclaimed his name before Moses Exod. 34. 6. and the Lord passed by before him and proclained Iehovah Iehovab which we render the Lord the Lord now this name properly belongs unto God