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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Luther observing how many were deluded in his time by dreams and visions, which they falsely attributed to God, as the immediate Author of them; earnestly prayed about two things: First, that God would give him a sound understanding of his mind revealed in the Scriptures. Secondly; that he would nor send him dreams or visions, yea, saith he, I even contracted with God that he would not. And doubtless he did this upon a double ground. First, to oppose the wild opinions and practices of those, who had nothing to pretend for them but dreams and visions. Secondly, to advance the honour of the written word in its sufficiency, not ⟨p. 289⟩only without the help of any humane tradition, but without any further divine revelation. And therefore though God should please to speak to us now by dreams and visions, yet that were only (as the Apostle speaks about his adding of an oath to his promise (Heb. 6.17.) to show that he is (ex abundanti) more abundantly willing to satisfy our weakness by such a condescension, then that there is a necessity of it, with respect to any deficiency of the Scriptures fullness. And hence it is, that if men shall profess they have received any thing from God by dreams or visions, concerning what is either to be believed or done, the matter of those dreams must be examined and weighed at the balance of the Scriptures, and is no further to be credited then as 'tis found agreeable thereunto.
1Luther observing how many were deluded in his time by dreames and visions, which they falsely attributed to God, as the immediate Author of them; earnestly prayed about two things: First, that God would give him a sound understanding of his mind revealed in the Scriptures. Secondly; that he would nor send him dreames or visions, yea, saith he, I even contracted with God that he would not. And doubtlesse he did this upon a double ground. First, to oppose the wild opinions and practices of those, who had nothing to pretend for them but dreames and visions. Secondly, to advance the honour of the written word in its sufficiency, not ⟨p. 289⟩only without the help of any humane tradition, but without any further divine revelation. And therefore though God should please to speak to us now by dreames and visions, yet that were only (as the Apostle speaks about his adding of an oath to his promise (