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A44932	The spirit of prophecy a treatise to prove, by the wayes formerly in use among the Jews, in the tryal of pretenders to a prophetic spirit, that Christ and his Apostles were prophets : together with the divine authority of christian religion and the Holy Scriptures, the insufficiency of human reason, and the reasonableness of the christian faith, hope, and practice, deduced therefrom, and asserted against Mr. Hobbs, and the Treatise of Hvmane Reason / by W.H.	Hughes, William, b. 1624 or 5.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3346; ESTC R19799	183,906	298

from Advice or Counsel consists in Obligation for the Latter doth only direct to the doing of what is thought fit to be done but the Former doth moreover oblige and bind them to whom it is given to the doing of it thus also doth the Gospel and that very severely to them to whom it is Preached for the Author and Finisher of our Faith in it viz. Christ Jesus our Lord is He of whom Moses said unto the Fathers a Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me Him shall you ●ear in all things whatsoever He shall say unto you and it shall come to pass that every Soul which will not ●ear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people We ought therefore to give the more earnest heed to the things that we have heard l●●t at any time ●e should let them slip for if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and d●sobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Obliged then it seems we are by the Gospel much more severely than the Jews were by the Law because the Gospel first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers Miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own So that this its Obligation is primarily derived not from the Laws of Civil Soveraigns in favour of it but from the Lords speaking it its Authority therefore is Divine Sect. 2. So also is that of the Holy Scriptures That those Books of the New Testament which bear the Apostles Names did drop from their pens we have as great assurance as any can be given of a matter of that Nature Affirmative Demonstration that Homer wrote the Poems Plato or A●istotle Cicero or Plutarch the Books that are Extant under their Names is impossible uncontrolled Tradition is all the Proof whereof this matter is capable and this we have in behalf of those Books that bear the Apostles Names as fully as of any other whatsoever The Sceptical Hereticks in Tertulli●ns time who it seems made a Question of it he therefore thus bespeaks Go to now thou that wouldest exercise thy Curiosity in matters of thy Salvation betake thy self to the Apostolick Churches where thou mayest find the very Chairs of the Apostles yet abiding in their proper places wherein also their very Authentick Epistles as it were Sounding each ones voice and representing his face are still recited If Achaia be nighest thee thou hast Corinth if Macedonia be not far from the thou hast the Philippian and Thessalonians If thou canst go into Asia there thou hast Ephesus But if thou art neer Italy thou hast Rome From these and other Apo●●olical Churches Copies of the Apostles writings were undoubtedly dispersed among the Primitive Christians who received and delivered them as theirs and this their Tradition hath run throughout all Ages down to ours and that without any contradiction for those that either in the Primitive or Latter times have thought fit to oppose Christianity yet did it not under the pretence that these Books were Spurious neither ●ews nor Heathens ever had the confidence to make that objection but rather they have yeilded their suffrages to the Testimony of the Church that they were written by the Apostles it is true indeed that some few particular and private persons have both of late and heretofore either out of their Error rejected or out of their Curiosity more than befitted them debated the Canonical Authority of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews the Epistle of St. James the second Epistle of St. Peter the second and third of St. John the Epistle of St. Jude and the Apocalyps beside some other lesser parts of the Gospel yet can it never be shewed that any entire Church nor that any National or Provincial Council nor that any multitude of men in their Confessions or Catechisms or other such publick writings have rejected them or made any doubt at all of them so that the Scruples that some few have raised about them should no more weaken the Credit of such an universal Tradition than the Opinion of Atheists overthrows the Faith of all the World besides for very evident it is that such Conjectures are at best but Negative probabilities against the Affirmative deposition of all the Christian World beside and forasmuch as Negatives especially in such competition prove n●thing were they imbraced by Ten Thousand times more than they are or ever were they would not amount to a Proof against and therefore ●ught not in Reason to derogate from the Credibility of the Churches Tradition that they were written by those Apostles concerning these therefore and those other Books of the New Testament which bear the Names of Apostles we have no Reason to doubt and that they wrote them in prosecution of their Apostolick Office the Books themselves declare And for this cause since the Apo●●les were Prophets concerning them it must be concluded that they are given by inspiration of God and if these be so then so also are the Books of the Old Testament because they are therein said expresly to be so and impossible it is for Scripture given by Divine Inspiration to testify a Falshood and indeed had not the Scriptures of the Old Testament been so expresly called the word of Prophecy and said to have been given by Inspiration of God as we find they are in the New yet because the Apos●les in their writings found their Disputations upon them and prove their Doctrines by them as the word and Truth of God from whence there lies no Appeal it would be very Evident that they ascribed Divine Authority to them and this their Testimony being given by the Spirit of Prophecy is beyond the reach of a Doubt about the Truth of it All the doubt therefore that can be raised will be about those Books of the New Testament which the Apostles themselves did not write viz. the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke together with His History of their Acts But for the removal hereof from all besides Scepticks it may methinks suffice that these Books also had the approbation of the Apos●les For the Gospels of these Evangelists do not only agree with the other two but they themselves after the death and Resurrection of our Blessed Saviour conversed with and adhered to the Apostles and forasmuch as they were eminent fellow-Labourers with the Apostles it is not to be doubted but they received the Holy Ghost perhaps at the day of Pent●cost as well as others After which time we know that the Apostles dispersed themselves into their respective Provinces and certain it is by all Antiquity that St. Mark did accompany St. Peter and St. Luke St. Paul in almost all his Travels it is therefore very unlikely that

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