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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The last sort of Prophets false, are these meant here, which are of two sorts. 1. They that came in the name of God, but were never sent from God, Jer. 23.21. I have not sent these Prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they have prophesied. Therefore is it said, The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, came to all the true Prophets: it was of the Lords sending, not of their own fetching. Rom. 11.34. Who hath known the mind of the Lord at any time? surely none but they to whom he taught •t. I received of the Lord, saith Paul: God must infuse, before we effuse: the springs of our hearts must be filled from that ocean, before we can derive drink to the thirsty. Christ must give us this bread, and then we cause the people to sit down, and we break it unto them. Moses would not go to Pharaoh, till he had learned his lesson of God. Esa. 40.6. The voice said, cry: the Prophet replied, What shall I cry? he will not trust his own invention, but take his Text at the mouth of the Lord: what was it, All flesh is grass. They that preach the visions of their own heads, have their woes shadowed out, and yet but shadowed, with wormwood and gall. Jer. 23.15. I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the waters of gall. Their cup is so tempered by Ezekiel, the head and foot of their curse being full of unhappiness, their welcome a Woe, their farewell an Anathema. Ezek. 13.3. Woe unto the foolish Prophets, that follow their own spirit. ver. 9, They shall not be written in the writing of the house of Israel.
The last sort of Prophets false, are these meant here, which are of two sortes. 1. They that came in the name of God, but were never sent from God, Ier. 23.21. I have not sent these Prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they have prophesied. Therfore is it said, The word of the Lord came to Ieremie, came to all the true Prophets: it was of the Lords sending, not of their owne fetching.