The dying man's testament to the Church of Scotland, or, A treatise concerning scandal…

If it be enquired how he prosecuteth this? We¹ may observe these particular ways; As, 1. Although he question not a Ministry in the general, Yet he wakeneth Questions, 1. concerning the calling of such and such men, if they be duly called Ministers or not; thus Paul's Apostleship is questioned, because he had not conversed with the Lord; and for thi• cause he is put, in the Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians, so largely to vindicate his Calling and Apostleship, and to produce, as it were, not only his Commission, but the Seal thereof also, particularly, 2 Cor 3. 2, 3. and the occasion thereof is expressed, 2 Cor. 13. 3. since •e seek a proof of Christ speaking in me▪ 2. He endeavoureth the discrediting of their gifts, as if the m•tter spoken by them were common, their expressions mean, and their carriage base and contemptible, as we may see in the instance of that s•me great Apostle Paul, 2 Cor. 10. 1. and 11. 6, he is called •ude in speech. 3. This is especially by comparing them with the fair show of corrupt teachers in their flourishing, spiritual, ravishing▪ like discourses, which are by many […] mysteries, and are ⟨p. 185⟩called depths, Revel. 2. 24. The Lord indeed calleth them depths of Satan, but it is not to be thought that they themselves meant so, who yet are said to give them the name of depths; sometimes unconceivable non-sense, will be admired, and plain truths and duty despised. 4. They cry-up their revelations and spiritual attainments in an immediate manner beyond what is in the Ministers of Christ: Therefore,