CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

1. To question and examine thy own spirit, not presently to believe thy own heart; This is a firebrand in the Church, when men have no modest doubtings and questionings of their own ignorance and proneness to err even in that thing they are so confident of; how modestly doth the Apostle Paul speak 1 Cor. 7. when he determined the case about marriage, I think also I have the Spirit of God, and he distinguisheth between that which he had as an express command from the Lord, and what he was inwardly directed unto, wheresoever the Spirit of God leadeth into all truth, there he doth likewise into all humility; Thus Luther's Tunè solus sapis es is famously known, though the Papists charge him falsely with contempt of all others.

1. To question and examine thy own spirit, not presently to believe thy own heart; This is a firebrand in the Church, when men have no modest doubtings and questionings of their own ignorance and pronesse to erre even in that thing they are so confident of; how modestly doth the Apostle Paul speak 1 Cor. 7. when he determined the case about marriage, I think also I have the Spirit of God, and he distinguisheth between that which he had as an expresse command from the Lord, and what he was inwardly directed unto, wheresoever the Spirit of God leadeth into all truth, there he doth likewise into all humility; Thus Luthers Tunè solus sapis es is famously known, though the Papists charge him falsly with contempt of all others.

2. Before we publish it to the world to communicate our thoughts to those that are able, wise, and learned in the Church of God, who have the Spirit of God and his Unction as well as we; Paul though called immediately by Christ, yet went up to Jerusalem to confer with the chief pillars there, and though he was thus miraculously converted, yet he must go to Ananias to be further directed, 1 Cor. 14.14