A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

persuaded that the gifts of tongues and prophecy might be used, not so as the men might be most admired, but so as the Church might be most ⟨p. 78⟩edified, and that not so much the gifts, as the profitable use of the gifts was to be desired, he concludeth this point, vers: 26. Making a transition to certain Canons, for order in the use of tongues and prophecy, as if he had said, If these gifts be thus improved to edify, then although every one of you hath not the gifts of tongues, prophecy, &c. Yet when ye come together, every one of you hath all these tongues, prophesies, &c. They being yours, for your good and edification. 4. But if our dissenting Brethren will not receive this sense, (which is quite contrary to theirs). Yet in this Text, here, they can no more extend to all or most of the members of the Church, one of these branches, then another: If all or most of them did prophesy, then all or most of them had the gift of tongues, and the Interpretation of tongues, and Revelations, and the •ift of composing Psalms, and so the same president shall bring in strange tongues, as well as prophesying, (of which more before) beside that of composing Psalms. I shall hardly believe that our dissenting Brethren themselves will say, that all or most of the Church of Corinth had the gift of tongues. Let us see then, how they will restrict the words [Greek or Hebrew] every one of you in reference to tongues, they must allow us to make the same restriction in reference to prophecy: But if they will say at large, that all or most of the Church of Corinth, had the gifts of tongues, as well as that of prophecy, then they are losers another way, by yielding the president of the Church of Corinth (in that very place upon which they build their prophesying) to be extraordinary and miraculous. 5. Whereas the Objection saith, that all or most of them did prophesy, this addition, of most of them, is fictitious and fallacious to hide weakness, for the Text hath no such thing, but saith, every one of you: Themselves dare not understand every one of you, universally, but in a restricted sense, for then Prophets, and Brethren should be acciprocall, ⟨p. 79⟩and convertible names in the Epistles to the Corinthians, and when 'tis said, the spirits of the Prophets are subject to the prophets, 1 Cor. 14. 32