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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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2. Conclusion. The act of foretelling things to come, especially things merely contingent, which are determined only in the free Decree of God, is not so under our free-will, as the acts of preaching and interpreting Scripture out of a Prophetical infused habit: For prophesying things to come seemed to have come on the Prophets of old, as a fire-•lash appeareth to a mans eye in the dark air, he cannot choose but see it, Ezech. 2. 14. So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, 1in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was str•ng upon me, Jer. 20. 9. And I said, I will not make mention of him, 2nor speak any more in his name, but his word was in my heart, as a burning fire shut up in my bones, 3and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay, 2. King. 3. 15. The hand of the Lord came upon Elisha, and he prophesied. See Jerome. Oecumen. Greg•r. and Thomas.
2. Conclusion. The act of foretelling things to come, especially things meerly contingent, which are determined onely in the free Decree of God, is not so under our free-will, as the acts of preaching and interpreting Scripture out of a Propheticall infused habit: For prophecying things to come seemed to have come on the Prophets of old, as a fire-•lash appeareth to a mans eye in the darke ayre, he cannot chuse but see it, Ezech. 2. 14. So the spirit lifted me up, and tooke me away, and I went in bitternesse, 1in the heate of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was str•ng upon me, Jer. 20. 9. And I said, I will not make mention of him,