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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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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. those that had extraordinary gifts yet were to submit themselves to others, The Spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets, which is interpreted two ways, and both pertinently to my matter:
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 Ʋnction 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. those that had extraordinary gifts yet were to submit themselves to others, The Spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets, which is interpreted two waies, and both pertinently to my matter:
1. If the meaning be, The spirit of the Prophets is subject to other Prophets, they have power to judge the doctrine we publish, then it will much more follow, that what we have in an ordinary way is exposed to the examen of others.
2. If by it we understand it thus, there is no Prophet having the Spirit of God moving in them that is so extraordinarily wrought upon but he may retain those motions, and vent them in an orderly way, not to speak while others are speaking, which seemeth to be the scope of the Apostle in that place; This is very pertinent to my matter, that no man can have such revelations and impulses from Gods Spirit but that he is in a divine method and good order to declare them, for the unseasonable publishing of some things is like good Physic but not administered in its fit season.