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 he sayeth it doth agree to them, and that false seducing Preachers (pretending to be true, sound, and orthodox) are providentially sent with gifts effectual, viz. to deceive in the secret judgement of God, according to Ezek. 14. 9. 1 King. 22. 23. then how he will reconcile his interpretation with Isa. 52. 7. 8. let him see to it. And withal he leads a man upon this opinion, that he may have faith wrought in him, and so be saved under any Ministry, true or false, orthodox or heretical. He must also justify the sin so often condemned in the false prophets, that they run unsent, for (by his principles) they are sent, as well as the true Prophets. If he will say that his description ⟨p. 41⟩of the providential sending agreeth not to false or heretical Preachers, but to the true Ministers of Christ, then he leads a man into this doubt, that he cannot be sure that he believes and shall be saved, unless he be sure that the Preacher providentially sent to him, is a true Minister of Christ, and not a Minister of Satan transformed into a Minister of righteousness. 2 Cor. 11. 15. or a wolf in sheeps clothing, Matth. 7. 15. But 4. if this providential sending be enough, it takes away the necessity, not only of Ordination, but of the peoples choosing or consenting. It shall be enough that God give a man a gift, and work by them, whether the Church consent or not: yet as I take it, he that makes this objection, holds it necessary, not only that Pastors be chosen by the Church, but that gifted brethren be allowed by the Church to prophesy, else that they must not prophesy.

If he sayeth it doth agree to them, and that false seducing Preachers (pretending to be true, sound, and orthodoxe) are providentially sent with gifts effectuall, viz. to deceave in the secret judgement of God, according to Ezek. 14. 9.