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The duty of pastors and people distinguished [sic]. Or A brief discourse, touching the…The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the…
The duty of pastors and people distinguished [sic]. Or A brief discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their performances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid down in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the several ways of extraordinary calling to the office of public teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Owen, M.A. of Q. Col. O.The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their peformances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid downe in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the severall wayes of extraordinary calling to the office of publike teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Ovven, M.A. of Q. Col. O.
London: printed by L. N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644
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1. By immediate Revelation.
2. By a concurrence of Scripture rules, directory for such occasions.
3. By some outward acts of providence necessitating him thereunto.
For the first, not to speak of light Prophetical, whither it consists in a habit, or rather in a transient irradiating motion, nor to discourse of the Species, whereby supernatural things are conveyed to the natural faculty, with the several ways of divine Revelation, (for St. Paul affirmeth it to have been [Greek or Hebrew] as well as [Greek or Hebrew]) with the sundry appellations it received, from the manner whereby it came; I shall only show, what assurance such a one as is thus called may have in himself, that he is so called, and how he may manifest it unto others. That men receiving any revelation from God, had always an assurance that such it was, to me seems most certain: Neither could I ever approve the note of Gregory on the 1. of Ezek. viz. That ⟨p. 31⟩Prophets being accustomed to Prophesying, 1