Answ. An immediate Voice, say you! Either that immediate Voice, is from Hell, or from Heaven: If it come from Hell, to report, and certify you of the Torments thereof, that you may repent of your Sins, then hear what our Saviour saith of that, in compare with the Scripture; Luke, 16.31. they have Moses, and the Prophets, And if they hear not Moses, an• the Prophets; neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. And if that Voice which you have, do come from Heaven; then either it is the voice of an Angel, or of God himself: If it be the Voice of an Angel; then see what the Apostle saith of that in compare with the Word and Scripture, Gal. 1.8. Though we, or an Angel from Heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto •ou, let him be accursed: And this is th•• Gospel which we have now written in this Book of the Galatians. And if the Voice which you have, do come from God himself, then see what the Apostle saith here of that, in compare with the Scripture, verse 17. There came a Voice to Christ, from th• excellent Glory, saying, This is my beloved Son; and this ••yce which came from Heaven, we heard, verse 19. And we have also a more sure Word of Prophecy, which is the written Wo••; for saith he, no Prophecy of Scripture, &c. So that ye see, this written Word of God, or the Scripture, is beyond all Dreams, and immediate Voices. It may be some will say, But may not God •peak by an immediate Voice to a Soul now? To which I answer: What God may do, is one thing; and what he doth in the way of a settled Ordinance, wherein we are to wait on him, and expect from him, is another thing: ye read in Heb. 1.1, 2. thus: God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past by the Prophets, hath in these last days, spoken by his Son: In time past, he spake by Visions, Dreams, and Voices. If there be such ⟨p. 23⟩an Ordinance still, wherein we are still to wait on God, why doth the Apostle make this difference between times past, and the present time of the Son? Nay, says Luther, but there is such a sufficiency in the Scripture, That th•ugh some men should have Visions, Dreams, and Voices, yet the Scripture is so ful, that nec curo, nec desidero, I neither care for, nor desire them.
Answ. An immediate Voyce, say you! Either that immediate Voyce, is from Hel, or from Heaven: If it come from Hel, to report, and certifie you of the Torments thereof, that you may repent of your Sins, then hear what our Savior saith of that, in compare with the Scripture; Luke, 16.31. they have Moses, and the Prophets, And if they hear not Moses, an• the Prophets; neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead. And if that Voyce which you have, do come from Heaven; then either it is the voyce of an Angel, or of God himself: If it be the Voyce of an Angel; then see what the Apostle saith of that in compare with the Word and Scripture, Gal. 1.8. Though we, or an Angel from Heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto •ou, let him be accursed: And this is th•• Gospel which we have now written in this Book of the Gala•ians. And if the Voyce which you have, do come from God hims•l•, then see what the Apostle saith here of that, in compare with the Scripture, verse 17. There came a Voyce to Christ, from th• excellent Glory, saying, This is my beloved Son; and this ••yce which came from Heaven, we heard, verse 19. And we have also a more sure Word of Prophesie, which is the written Wo••; for saith he, no Prophesie of Scripture, &c. So that ye see, this written Word of God, or the Scripture, is beyond al Dreams, and immediate Voyces. It may be some wil say, But may not God •peak by an immediate Voyce to a Soul now? To which I answer: What God may do, is one thing; and what he doth in the way of a setled Ordinance, wherein we are to wait on him, and expect from him, is another thing: ye read in Heb. 1.1, 2. thus: God, who at sundry times, and in d•vers manners, spake in time past by the Prophets, hath in these last daies, spok•n by his Son: In time past, he spake by Visions, Dreams, and Voyces. If there be such ⟨p. 23⟩an Ordinance stil, wherein we are stil to wait on God, why doth the Apostle make this difference between times past, and the present time of the Son? Nay, saies Luther, but there is such a sufficiency in the Scripture, That thugh some men should have Visions, Dreams, and Voyces, yet the Scripture is so ful, that nec curo, nec desidero, I neither care for, nor desire them.
