Of Reading, and Hearing.

Of Reading, and Hearing.

IN the last place, it is also clear, that people are not indifferently and without warrant to read or hear, except they know that they be warranted therein: for, this command of writing, is not only inserted, for the confirming of John in his Call to write, but also tendeth to warrant these who are written unto, confidently to receive and make use of what is written. And it follows upon the former: for, if a Call be necessary, to speak or write in the Name of the Lord, then ought also people some way to be clear, that in their reading and hearing they may be walking according to Gods rule and call to them in reading what He calleth them to read, seeing men cannot be supposed to be left to arbitrariness therein. Hence it is, that where the Lord disowneth the commissionating of such to teach, and accounts them guilty for running whom he hath not sent, and that either by writ or word, as may appear, by Jer. 23. and 29. vers. 24. &c. So also doth he reprove the people that do countenance such in their hearing or reading, while as their Call is not evidenced to be of Him. Hence so frequently, both in the Old and New Testament, are we commanded not to countenance such, but to beware of them; and that must reach the reading of their writing as well as conversing with their persons, the one being dangerous, as the other is: for, one of these two must necessarily follow, supposing them not to be called of God thereto.

IN the last place, it is also clear, that people are not indifferently and without warrand to read or hear, except they know that they be warranted therein: for, this command of writing, is not only ins•rted, for the confirming of Iohn in his Call to write, but also tendeth to warrand these who are written unto, confidently to receive and make use of what is writen. And it follows upon the former: for, if a Call be necessary, to speak or write in the Name of the Lord, then ought also people some way to be clear, that in their reading and hearing they may be walking according to Gods rule and call to them in reading what He calleth them to read, seing men cannot be supposed to be left to arbitrarinesse therein. Hence it is, that where the Lord disowneth the commissionating of such to teach, and accounts them guilty for running whom he hath not sent, and that either by writ or word, as may appear, by