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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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3. Conclu. Hence prophesying is not a habit, and it is a habit. It is not an habit. 1. Because no Prophet can simply prophecy when he will, except the man Christ, especially of things to come by contingent causes (the presence of which things (saith Suarez) is only connatural to God, 1and to no moral man) coming on men by a transient irradiation, while as the candle of Gods prophetical light glanceth upon the fancy, and from thence to the mind, that the man may see and read the species and images, and when this light shineth not Nathan and Samuel read beside the Bible and are widely out. Prophecy also is an habit. For 1. something remain in Isaiah and Jeremiah while they sleep, and prophecy not, from whence they are named Prophets, and really are Prophets; for when God hath once revealed himself to one as to his own Prophet, even from by past revelation. 1 There remaineth a disposition to prophecy, 1 Sam. 3. 20. All Israel knew, even from Dan to Beersheba, that Samuel was established to be a Prophet of the Lord. 2. Because there remaineth a prophetical light, whereby the man gave assent to the last prophetical revelation, and so the species and prophetical images must remain in the fantasy, and with these a prophetical memory of by past predictions, and so some experimental certainty, that what he fore-telleth shall come to pass: See Thomas and Caietan, 2now the object prophetical is known three ways,3 1. When the naked natural images or species of the material object are only cast in by God and no more, and this is most in dreams, as Nebuchadnezzar saw a tree in his dream, but knew not that it was a King, Pharaoh saw seven blasted reeds and seven lean kine, but knew not that they were seven years of Famine. And sometimes in a vision being in an ecstasy, as John, Rev. 1. saw 1. seven candlesticks, but knew not that they were the seven Churches of Asia, while Christ revealed the meaning to him. 2. The ⟨p. 253⟩images and species are known formally, as signs signifying thus and thus, as Joseph by a prophetical light saw the seven lean kine to be seven years of famine. 3. Now there is a third light, to judge of the act of seeing, which I take to be two-fold. 1.