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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…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
Fifthly, beware of those new Lights, which come not from the Sun of righteousness: To the Law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is, because there is no light in them, Isa. 8. 20. When men walk in the light of their own sparks, they shall lye down in darkness: New fancies are not new lights, 'tis no truth, which cannot be grounded upon the word of truth?
Fifthly, beware of those new Lights, which come not from the Sunne of righteousnesse: To the Law and to the testimony, if they speake not according to this word, it is, because there is no light in them, Isa. 8. 20. When men walk in the light of their owne sparkes, they shall lye down in darknesse: New fancies are not new lights, 'tis no truth, which cannot bee grounded upon the word of truth?
It was a wild fancy of the Weigelians, that there is a time to come (which they cal seculum Spiritus sancti,) in which God shall by his Spirit reveal much more knowledge and light, then was revealed by Christ and his Apostles in the Scriptures. There is so much revealed in Scripture, as the Apostle calls the wisdom of God, and the hidden wisdom of God, 1 Cor: 2. 7. the things which are preached and written to us, are the things which the very Angels desire to look or pry into, 1 Pet. 1. 12. and saith not Christ; That which ye have already, hold fast till I come, Revel: 2. 25? more of this error, see in Brochm and System. theol: come: 1. Article 6. cap: 2. quaest: 12.
It was a wilde fancy of the Weigelians, that there is a time to come (which they cal seculum Spiritus sancti,) in which God shal by his Spirit reveal much more knowledge and light, then was revealed by Christ and his Apostles in the Scriptures. There is so much revealed in Scripture, as the Apostle calls the wisdome of God, and the hidden wisdome of God, 1 Cor: 2. 7. the things which are preached and written to us, are the things which the very Angels desire to look or pry into,