2 Sciences, arts, and tongues, are either considered in their substance and nature, or in the way of acquiring them, either by supernatural infusion, as they were in the Prophets and Apostles, or by education, industry, pain, studying, reading and teaching of men. In the former consideration, the same knowledge of the doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, and of speaking with tongues in the substance and nature of the gift that is in Paul and the Apostles by supernatural and immediate revelation, or infusion, is in men that acquire the same knowledge and speaking with tongues, for Paul otherwise, who received this knowledge not from, or by flesh and blood, not his own industry Gal. 1.11, 12, 13, 14 15, 16, 17, 18. Ephes. 3.2▪ 3. should then counsel and exhort Timothy to labour for another knowledge of the Gospel and so another Gospel by reading, studying,1 meditating and industry. 1 Tim. 4 15, 16. 2 Tim. 3.14, 15, 16, 17, then he himself had received by revelation, which is a manifest untruth, for he saith, But continue thou in the things which th•• hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou hast known the Holy scriptures, which are able to make the wise to salvation ▪ And 2 Tim. 2.1. Thou therefore my son be st•ong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus ▪ now least any should imagine, as Antinomians do, that the grace that i• in Jesus Christ, is contrary to, and inconsistent with the industry of learning and studying and acquired knowledge▪ he addeth. ver 2. and the things that thou h•st heard of me, amongst many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful m•n, then as the same rose may grow by nature, and by the industry ⟨p. 48⟩of the gardener, and by singular art, as by causing an Oven hot to send warmness and heat to the root of the rose in the winter, when otherwise the cold earth should produce no roses at all, nor can these three sort of Roses be said to be different in nature, & species, though produced 3 sundry ways, by nature industry, and art fomenting and supporting weak nature, so also the same knowledge of the Scripture, doth come to Paul by revelation, to Timothy by industry and teaching, and the same knowledge and faculty of speaking with tongues is Act. cha.
2 Sciences, arts, and tongues, are either considered in their substance and nature, or in the way of acquiring them, either by supernaturall infusion, as they were in the Prophets and Apostles, or by education, industry, paine, studying, reading and teaching of men. In the former consideration, the same knowledge of the doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, and of speaking with tongues in the substance and nature of the gift that is in Paul and the Apostles by supernaturall and immediate revelation, or infusion, is in men that acquire the same knowledge and speaking with tongues, for Paul otherwise, who receaved this knowledge not from, or by flesh and blood, not his owne industry Gal. 1.11, 12, 13, 14 15, 16, 17, 18. Ephes. 3.2▪ 3. should then counsell and exhort Timothy to labour for another knowledge of the Gospel and so another Gospel by reading, studying,1 meditating and industry. 1 Tim. 4 15, 16. 2 Tim. 3.14, 15, 16, 17, then he himselfe had receaved by revelation, which is a manifest untruth, for he saith, But continue thou in the things which th•• hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou hast knowne the Holy scriptures, which are able to make the wise to salvation ▪ And 2 Tim. 2.1. Thou therefore my son be st•ong in the g•ace that is in Christ Iesus ▪ now least any should imagine, as Antinomians doe, that the grace that i• in Iesus Christ, is contrary to, and inconsistent with the industry of learning and studying and acquired knowledge▪ he addeth. ver 2. and the things that thou h•st heard of me, amongst many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithfull m•n, then as the same rose may grow by nature, and by the industry ⟨p. 48⟩
- 1Sciences, arts and tongues, in their nature, though not in m•nner of acquiring them necessary for understanding of the scriptures and both ways they are the good giftsSciences, arts and tongues, in their nature, though not in m•nner of acquiring them necessary for understanding of the scriptures and both wayes they are the good gifts
