A26892:1737
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
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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.
6. Therefore a Prophet among the Jews was known to be such, usually, before these Recorded Prophecies of theirs, which we have now in the Holy Scriptures: 1. The spirits of the Prophets which are subject to the Prophets, were judged of by those Prophets that had indeed the Spirit: And so the people had the testimony of the other Prophets concerning them. 2. The Lords own direction to know a true Prophet by Deut. 18. 22. is the coming to pass of that which he foretelleth. Now it is like that before they were received into the number of Prophets, they had given satisfaction to the societies of the Prophets, by the events of things before foretold by them: 3. Or they might have wrought miracles before to have satisfied the members of the College of their calling, though these Miracles are not all mentioned in the Scripture. 4. Or the other Prophets might have some Divine testimony concerning them, by visions revelations or inspirations of their own. So that the people were not left to the credulity of naked unproved assertions, of any one that would say that he was sent of God.
6. Therefore a Prophet among the Jews was known to be such, usually, before these Recorded Prophecies of theirs, which we have now in the Holy Scriptures: 1. The spirits of the Prophets which are subject to the Prophets, were judged of by those Prophets that had indeed the Spirit: And so the people had the testimony of the other Prophets concerning them. 2. The Lords own direction to know a true Prophet by Deut. 18. 22. is the coming to pass of that which he foretelleth. Now it is like that before they were received into the number of Prophets, they had given satisfaction to the societies of the Prophets, by the events of things before foretold by them: 3. Or they might have wrought miracles before to have satisfied the members of the Colledge of their calling, though these Miracles are not all mentioned in the Scripture. 4. Or the other Prophets might have some Divine testimony concerning them, by visions revelations or inspirations of their own. So that the people were not left to the credulity of naked unproved ass•rtions, of any one that would say that he was sent of God.