A37049:599
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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
2. For adjuring of Devils, it is two ways lawful, and two ways not.
1. It is lawful to command Devils in the Name of God by those who are called to it, and are gifted to cast them out. 2. It is lawful for any by Prayer to God, and the exercise of Faith on Him, to endeavour to repel and resist them, and to beg that he would rebuke them; as thus, The Lord rebuke thee Satan; this way we neither command the Devil, nor pray to him, but pray unto the Lord to command him.
Again: It is unlawful, 1. When one adjureth him who is not called to it, as those Sons of Sceva did, Act. 19.13, 14. This certainly being a peculiar and extraordinary gift, as those of prophesying, fore-telling of things to come, speaking with Tongues, and healing of the Sick with a word, were; ought not without special warrant to be usurped more than they.
Again: It is unlawful, 1. When one adjureth him who is not called to it, as those Sons of Sceva did, Act. 19.13, 14. This certainly being a peculiar and extraordinary gift, as those of prophecying, fore-telling of things to come, speaking with Tongues, and healing of the Sick with a word, were; ought not without special warrant to be usurped more than they.