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…

Sixthly, take heed of proud, and lofty, and self conceited new Lights, 1 Cor: 14. 32, 33. And the spirits of the Prophets, are subject to the Prophets; for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. If the spirits of the Prophets must be so subject, how much more the spirits of private persons? Wherefore in a reformed Church, all pretended new Lights, which are against the received Doctrine, government, or form of worship, ought to be in all humility and submission, offered to be tried ⟨p. 132⟩by a learned and godly Synod. The Lo•rean severity was such, that no man might move for a new law, but with a rope about his neck, that if his motion were thought good, he might be spared: but if bad, hanged. So Demosthenes advers: Timocr: tells us. I will not allow this severity against such as offer new Lights, or move for new changes in the Church. But I may well apply here, the Athenian law recorded by Demosthenes in the same Oration. The Athenians went not so far as the Locri, yet no man might move for a new law in Athens, unless the motion were offered and submitted to the Senate, who were to judge, whether the old or the new were better.

Sixtly, take heed of proud, and lofty, and self conceited new Lights, 1 Cor: 14. 32, 33. And the spirits of the Prophets, are subject to the Prophets; for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. If the spirits of the Prophets must be so subject, how much more the spirits of private persons? Wherefore in a reformed Church, all pretended new Lights, which are against the receaved Doctrine, government, or forme of worship, ought to be in all humility and submission, offered to be tryed ⟨p. 132⟩by a learned and godly Synod. The Lo•rean severity was such, that no man might move for a new law, but with a rope about his neck, that if his motion were thought good, he might be spared: but if bad, hanged. So Demosthenes advers: Timocr: tells us. I will not allow this severity against such as offer new Lights, or move for new changes in the Church. But I may well applie here, the Athenian law recorded by Demosthenes in the same Oration. The Athenians went not so farre as the Locri, yet no man might move for a new law in Athens, unlesse the motion were offered and submitted to the Senat, who were to judge, whether the old or the new were better.