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: 5. But these Prophets were to be judged, examined and tried, 1 Cor: 14. 29. 32. therefore it seems they were not extraordinary Prophets infallibly inspired. Answ: 1. If ⟨p. 82⟩those who came under the name of extraordinary Prophets, might not be tried and examined, why are there so many caveats in the new Testament, to beware of false Prophets, Mat: 7. 15. and 24. 11, 24. 1 John 4. 1. Did not the Lord admit of Moses his objection, that peradventure the children of Israel would not believe him, that God had appeared unto him, and sent him, wherein God will have him to satisfy them by signs and miracles, Exod. 4. 1. to vers: 10. are not the Bereans commended, Acts 17. 11. for proving and trying the Doctrine of the Apostles themselves by the Scriptures? 2. Although such as had the gift of prophecy, did not, nor could not err, so far as they were inspired by the holy Ghost in prophesying, much less in writing Scripture, yet they might have, and some had their own mistakes and errors in particular cases; whereof I shall have one instance in Elijah, who said, he was left alone: But what saith the answer of God unto him, I have reserved to my self seven thousand, &c. He spake from his own spirit, when he said he was left alone, but the answer of God corrects his mistake. Another instance in those prophesying Disciples, Acts 21. 4. Who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. Therefore foretelling and foreknowing of Pauls danger at Jerusalem, was from the spirit of prophecy, but the consequence they did draw from hence, that therefore Paul should not go up to Jerusalem. This Interpreters conceive, was only from their own spirits, though they misfathered it upon the Spirit of God. 3. 'Tis well observed in the English annotations upon 1 Cor. 14. 32. That although those prophesies were infused by the holy Ghost, that cannot err, yet all things are not always revealed to one, and that which is not revealed to one, is oftentimes revealed to more, and sometimes in clearer manner.