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…

If any object (as some fanatic persons have done) Jer. 31. 34. and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, &c. 1 Joh. 2. 27. and ye need not that any man teach you. I answer first, These Scriptures are to be understood comparatively, in the same sense as God said, he would have mercy and not sacrifice, Hos. 6. 6. The Spirit of illumination and knowledge shall be so abundantly poured forth under the Gospel, and God shall so writ his laws in the hearts of his people, that there shall be almost as much difference between those under the old Covenant, and those under the new Covenant, as there is between those that need a Teacher, and those that need not a Teacher. 2. As the Law is not made for a righteous man, 1 Tim. 1. 9. viz. to compel him as with a bit and bridle, for he needeth no such compulsion, but obeyeth filially and willingly, yet the Law is made for a righteous man to be a rule of obedience to him. So believers under the Gospel need not to be taught by men as Ignorants are taught, they are not without understanding as the horse or the mule; for they shall all know me, saith the Lord, Jer. 31. 32. and ye know all things. 1 Joh. 2. 20. yet they need a teaching Ministry for growing in knowledge; for their edification building up, for strengthening and confirming them, and for putting them in remembrance and stirring them up, Ephes. 4. 12. 2 Pet. 1. 12. and 3. 18. Phil. 1. 9. There shall ever be need of the Ministry, both to convert such as are not yet converted, and to confirm such as are converted. The Apostle 1 Thes. 3. 2