greenbaggins
Puritan Board Doctor
Thomas Watson explains:
Bad men could not be the authors of it. Would their minds be employed in inditing such holy lines? Would they declare so fiercely against sin? Good men could not be the authors of it. Could they write in such a strain? or could it stand with their grace to counterfeit God's name, and put, Thus saith the Lord, to a book of their own devising? Nor could any angel in heaven be the author of it, because the angels pry and search into the abyss of gospel mysteries, 1 Pet i 12, which implies their nescience of some parts of Scripture; and sure they cannot be the authors of that book which they themselves do not fully understand. Besides, what angel in heaven durst be so arrogant as to personate God and, say, 'I create,' Isa lxv 17, and, 'I the Lord have said it'? Numb xiv 35. So that it is evident, the pedigree of Scripture is sacred, and it could come from none but God himself. (A Body of Divinity, p. 26).
