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…

Object: 3. These gifts which are required in a Prophet, 1 Cor: 14. 3. 26. are such as men ordinarily may, and do attain by industry and study Answ. 1. The contrary hath been clearly proved, and that weary Text, vers: 26. proveth it; the more strange it is, that a Text which mentioneth revelation, tongues, should be cited for ordinary study and industry. 2. 'Tis said indeed, vers: 3. He that prophesieth, speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. What then; did not an extraordinary Prophet, an Apostle, an Evangelist speak unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort? No man dare deny, but they did, yet this cannot prove that Apostles and evangelists were not extraordinary Ministers: The edification and fruit which come to the Church by these Prophets, is one thing, the way of revelation and inspiration by which the prophecy came, another thing: the Apostle is there only comparing two extraordinary and miraculous gifts together, tongues and prophecy: Of the two, prophecy is rather to be desired, for the edifying of the Church, for he that speaketh a strange tongue, cannot edify the Church, except it be interpreted, but he that prophesieth, edifieth the Church by his very gift of prophecy, with less business, and without an interpreter; This being the scope and sense of the Text, it may discover the weakness of that ground, upon which many have supposed that the Apostle means nothing by prophecy, but the ordinary gift of expounding, and applying Scripture; yea, vers: 6. prophecy and revelation, are at once held forth, both as edifying, and as distinct from doctrine, and revelation distinct from knowledge, must needs be taken a gift, and not to be numbered among ordinary gifts (as Junius upon the Arabic, in the place noteth) what ever acceptions of the word, ⟨p. 81⟩we may find else where in Scripture.

Object: 3. These gifts which are required in a Prophet, 1 Cor: 14. 3. 26. are such as men ordinarly may, and do attain by industry and study Answ. 1. The contrary hath been clearly proved, and that wery Text, vers: 26. proveth it; the more strange it is, that a Text which mentioneth revelation, tongues, should be cited for ordinary study and industrie. 2. 'Tis said indeed, vers: 3. He that prophesieth, speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. What then; did not an extraordinary Prophet, an Apostle, an Evangelist speak unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort? No man dare deny, but they did, yet this cannot prove that Apostles and evangelists were not extraordinary Ministers: The edification and fruit which come to the Church by these Prophets, is one thing, the way of revelation and inspiration by which the prophesie came, another thing: the Apostle is there onely comparing two extraordinary and miraculous gifts together, tongues and prophesie: Of the two, prophesie is rather to be desired, for the edifying of the Church, for he that speaketh a strange tongue, cannot edifie the Church, except it be interpreted, but he that prophesieth, edifieth the Church by his very gift of prophesie, with lesse businesse, and without an interpreter; This being the scope and sence of the Text, it may discover the weaknesse of that ground, upon which many have supposed that the Apostle means nothing by prophesie, but the ordinary gift of expounding, and applying Scripture; yea, vers: 6. prophesie and revelation, are at once held forth, both as edifying, and as distinct from doctrine, and revelation distinct from knowledge, must needs be taken a gift, and not to be numbred among ordinary gifts (as Iunius upon the Arabike, in the place noteth) what ever acceptions of the word,