A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

or any other way, not having a Warrant, to find out some secret, or to know something ⟨p. 42⟩that is to come; (it being God's Property and Prerogative to declare what is to come, Isaiah 41.) for when there is no Efficacy, no Reason in the mean used, the Effect must be looked for, either from God, or from the D •vil: Now when God has neither put it naturally in the mean, nor by his reveal •d Will any way warranted it, as sometimes he doth, (as when he appointed Washing in Jordan for curing Naaman's Leprosy, and Anointing in the Primitive times for healing the Sick) it cannot b • from him. Hence sometimes one Charm or word to one at one time, will do what it never doth to another: These means have alway some circumstance in word or action immediately and explicitly, or implicitly flowing from the Devil, which may be good in it self, yet has no force for the end, and so draweth men to own the Devils Institution, which is exceeding derogatory to the Honour of God.

or any other way, not having a Warrant, to find out some secret, or to know something ⟨p. 42⟩that is to come; (it being God's Property and Prerogative to declare what is to come, Isaiah 41.) for when there is no Efficacy, no Reason in the mean used, the Effect must be looked for, either from God, or from the D •vil: Now when God has neither put it naturally in the mean, nor by his reveal •d Will any way warranted it, as sometimes he doth, (as when he appointed Washing in Jordan for curing Naaman's Leprosie, and Anointing in the Primitive times for healing the Sick) it cannot b • from him. Hence sometimes one Charm or word to one at one time, will do what it never doth to another: These means have alway some circumstance in word or action immediately and explicitly, or implicitly flowing from the Devil, which may be good in it self, yet has no force for the end, and so draweth men to own the Devils Institution, which is exceeding derogatory to the Honour of God.