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A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and…A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and…
A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolic way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the independency [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiastical presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tried / by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolick way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the indepencie [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiasticall presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tryed / by Samuell Rutherfurd ...
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Answ. In the case of infallibility all are alike, none are infallible by any infused habit of a Prophetical spirit; but false Prophets were inspired with an habitual spirit of lying, which spirit is not in Canonic writers. Robinson and others of his side think them not extraordinarily inspired. 1. Because these Prophets might have been interrupted and put to silence, that another to whom choicer things were revealed, might prophesy, v. 3. 2 Because Paul exhorteth to pray for the gift of interpretation, and to covet (saith others) to prophesy. Now we cannot seek in faith from God an extraordinary and miraculous gift. 3. Others add, this prophesying was subject to the free-will of the Prophets, for they might prophesy, or keep silence, as they pleased; ⟨p. 251⟩but the acts of extraordinary prophesying are not subjected to the free-will of the Prophets; therefore this was but ordinary prophesying, to the which all gifted professors even out of office are obliged for the edifying of the Church of Christ to the worlds end.
Answ. In the case of infallibility all are alike, none are infallible by any infused habit of a Propheticall spirit; but false Prophets were inspired with an habituall spirit of lying, which spirit is not in Canonicke writers. Robinson and others of his side thinke them not extraordinarily inspired. 1. Because these Prophets might have been interrupted and put to silence, that another to whom choiser things were revealed, might prophesie, v. 3. 2 Because Paul exhorteth to pray for the gift of interpretation, and to covet (saith others) to prophesie. Now we cannot seeke in faith from God an extraordinary and miraculous gift. 3. Others adde, this prophecying was subject to the free-will of the Prophets, for they might prophesie, or keep silence, as they pleased; ⟨p. 251⟩but the acts of extraordinary prophecying are not subjected to the free-will of the Prophets; therefore this was but ordinary prophecying, to the which all gifted professors even out of o•fice are obliged for the edefying of the Church of Christ to the worlds end.