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For our Saviour 
Vou 
of God ; cin before us two books or volumes. to study, 
if we will be secured from error; first the- es, 
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pressing his power ; “whereof the Jatin te ik dee nies the 
former: not only opening our understanding to conceive 
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the true sense of the scriptures, by the general notions 
of reason and rules of speech; but chiefly opening our 
belief, in drawing us into a due meditation of the- omni- 
“potency of God, which is chiefly signed and engrave 
upon his works. Thus much t : 
mony and evidence concerning t the ‘true. dignity.and-valu 
of learning. 
VII. 1...As_ for human_proofs, it is so large a field, as 
in a discourse of this nature.and-brevity_it is fit rather to 
use choice of those things which we shall produce, than 
to embrace the variety of them. First therefore, in the 
degrees of human honour amongst the heathen, it was 
the highest to obtain to a veneration and adoration as a 
tres, nor the power “t 
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God. This unto the Christians is as the forbidden fruit..»~ 
But we speak now separately of human testimony: ac- 
cording to which, that which the Grecians call apotheosis, 
and the Latins re/atio inter divos, was the supreme honour 
which man could attribute unto man: specially when it 
was given, not by a formal decree or act of state, as it 
was used among the Roman Emperors, but by an inward 
assent and belief. Which honour, being so high, had 
also a degree or middle term: for there were reckoned 
above human honours, honours heroical and divine: in 
the attribution and distribution of which honours we see 
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