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Though the Impression be of God, yet if the Application be beyond the Impression, I am still in an Error. There is an Impression of a Word, and there is the Application of it: the Impression may be Gods, and the Application may be mine own. The Lord gave Abraham a Word, that his Seed should be as the Stars; but he made a false Application thereof, when he went unto Hagar for the fulfilling of that Word. So the Lord gave a Word to Eliphaz, Job, 4.12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof, fear came upon me, and trembling, verse 14. Then a Spirit passed before my face, it ⟨p. 27⟩stood still, but I could not discern it: then I heard a Voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God, verse 15. Here was an Impression with a Word, and this was from God; but he applies this to, and against Job, Chap. 5.1. the Impression was of God, but the Application was his own. Possibly then a man may have an Impression from God with a Word, yet the Application may be his own; but though the Impression be never so •ul, and deep, yet if the Application be beyond the Impression, he is still in an Error. And therefore, seeing that it is an easy thing, and usual, even for the Children of Abraham, to make Application beyond the Impression, the safest, sure I way, is to keep clo•e to the written Word of God, which is both the Judg of all our Doctrines, and the only Rule of all our Practices; and therefore above, and beyond all Impressions, whether with, or without a Word. And thus I have done with the Third Instance.

Though the Impression be of God, yet if the Application be beyond the Impression, I am stil in an Error. There is an Impression of a Word, and there is the Application of it: the Impression may be Gods, and the Application may be mine own. The Lord gave Abraham a Word, that his Seed should be as the Stars; but he made a false Application thereof, when he went unto Hagar for the fulfilling of that Word. So the Lord gave a Word to Eliphaz, Job, 4.12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof, fear came upon me, and trembling, verse 14. Then a Spirit passed before my face, it