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EXCEPT. XVI. p. 9. Answered. Having Dir. 27. given five proofs by which I knew many to be mistaken that expound Texts of Scripture, by the Impressions on their own spirits, I said Dir. 28. [It is very ordinary with poor fanciful women and melancholy ⟨p. 55⟩persons, to take all deep apprehensions for revelations; and if a Text come into their ¹minds, to say,—This text was brought to my mind, and set upon my spirit, as if nothing could bring a text to their minds but some extraordinary motion of God? and as if this bringing it to their mind, would warrant their exposition.] Whereupon I advise men to know the necessity of the spirits ordinary sanctifying work, and not to despise mens pretences of revelation; but yet to believe none against Scripture. As to the ground of this passage, it is such as is not disputable with me, being matter of sense; (so impossible is it for me to escape all the heinous accusations of this brother.) It is not many years since I have had several persons with me (two or three out of one County) that brought me books written for the Press, and urged me to procure them printed and showed to the King, in which were abundance of Scriptures abused to many daring predictions of things presently to come to pass, and all upon pretence of Visions and Revelations, and the setting of such an exposition on their hearts: And the men were ignorant, melancholy, and crazed persons, and the Scriptures almost all falsely interpreted, and the predictions fail. And all of them had the fifth Monarchy notion without conference (that I could learn) with any about it.

EXCEPT. XVI. p. 9. Answered. Having Dir. 27. given five proofs by which I knew many to be mistaken that expound Texts of Scripture, by the Impressions on their own spirits, I said Dir. 28. [It is very ordinary with poor fanciful women and melancholy ⟨p. 55⟩