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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34087	The several kinds of inspirations and revelations pretended by the Quakers tried and found destructive to Holy Scripture and true religion in answer to Thomas Ellwood's defence thereof in his tract miscalled Truth prevailing &c.	Comber, Thomas, 1645-1699.	1698 (1698)	Wing C5493A; ESTC R27907	138,731	240

Delusive nor in the gratifying the inferiour Power but in a sound Mind a Living Faith and a Consciencious Practice And Enthusiasm hath carried others higher than the Quakers Spirit be it what it will hath yet carried them Satan can transform himself into the likeness of God himself Im. Rev. p. 239. and Actually doth it so that men should be cautions about their comforts The presenting some of their Experiences will discover their Excellency all that which you call the History New Law p. 97. is all to be seen and felt within you Adam and Christ Cain and Abel Abraham Moses Israel Canaanites Amalekites Philistins all those Armies the Land of Canaan Judas c. are all to be seen within you rarely Experienced Devon-shire house or the Trojan horse cannot contain such a Company But Keith denying the History to be conveyed by Revelation this man makes out the Receit by Experience Saints Paradise p. 29. He Experiences what the Devil is I shall shew in my Experiences what I see and know the Devil is viz. in the full body of him he is Vnrighteous flesh and the Imaginations thereof and every Lust is a particular Devil he truly found in his Experience that the flaming Sword is the Enmity of Natures which Enmity he had before Experienced to be the Devil and Murderer and lastly from what he had Received and seen within him p. 47. p. 30. New Law p. 103. True Christian faith and Experience p. 33s 34. he denies a local Hell Shewen believes God 's Oneness Omnipresence and his other Attributes from the Manifestation of him in his own Heart so he saith God is pure from his Appearance so pure in his heart strange Ideas have they of the Divine Perfections to measure them by their own sensations he truly and experimentally knoweth p. 106 that God cannot be tempted with Evil because that Heavenly Light he is indued withall cannot be Tempted with Evil. he can give an experimental account of the two great Ordinances of Christ Baptism and the Lords supper p. 76. that is he hath an experimental feeling of Allegories Univer Gra. p. 86. p. 117. Keiths Experience made him know and feel the seed in others and he experienced the belief of Christ in the outward not to be necessary to Salvation Univer Gra. p. 86. p. 117. and from this head he infers the Apocrypha to have proceeded from a Measure of the True Spirit Quo Popery p 30. Some Prim. 120. and Pennington bids wait to feel the glorious State of the Church before the Apostacy Such mens Faith consists in Experience and that in Fancy but hereby they take away the very proofs of Christianity p. 96. Women now are Witnesses of Christs Resurrection but thus They must know only as they Experience Pen. in Fal. vin of 21. Div. p. 7. True Christ experience p. 39. and the knowledg of the Scriptures avails nothing Except accompanied with a living Experience of the same power working after the same manner as it did in others in times past who have left their Testimonyes thereof upon Record CHAP. XI How the Primitive Christians came to the knowledge of the Gospel VI. THomas Ellwood is the Successour of the Primitive Christians as well as of the Apostles and he informs that the Primitive Christians did receive the knowledge of the Gospel from the Immediate Teachings of the Holy Spirit p. 233. to the like purpose p. 245. which he enlargeth from the Primitive Christians to have been in all ages Revealed to the Saints in some Degree or other p. 237. This is matter of Fact and the Truth of it Depends upon Proof from History not one word thereof is produced and the former Instances about St. Basil Nazianzene c. do not encourage us to trust either his Learning or Infallibility We are now upon the Negative and it belongs to him to prove out of undoubted Histories that the Gospel came to be known in all Ages by Immediate Revelation we find the Fathers very learned and coming thereto by Study and using such means of expounding as Protestants do We find their Expositions differing both among themselves and from the Quakers let Thomas Ellwood shew which Fathers were Inspired which of their Works were writ by it how we must understand those Inspired Expositions of theirs for they seem likelier to have Immediate Revelation than any in this Age In Epist ad Paulin. St. Hierom makes that Prophecy of Joel 2.28 fulfilled super 120 credentium nomina effusum iri in caenaculo Syon upon those 120 Names in Act. 1. and at the descent upon the Apostles Act. 2. Cateches 17. And Cyril of Jerusalem refers it to the coming upon Peter and the Apostles And Theodoret makes it to receive its Evident Comment in loc and literal accomplishment at the day of Pentecost Thomas Ellwood inlargeth it to all Believers and all Ages Whom shall we trust But he making them Inspired I have more Reason to believe such great names rather than his Conceit The Pretence to Revelation was all along disowned in the true Church after the settlement of Christianity Cont. Haeres 48. Epiphanius condemns the Montanists for bringing in new Prophets post terminum Propheticorum donorum after the Expiration of Prophetical Gifts and saith They bring alios prophetas post prophetas would introduce a new brood or Series of them The Prophets of the New Testament are oft by name recorded l. 5. c. 19. which is not done to any other of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this was urged by Miltiades in Eusebius adding to them Ammias of Phyladelphia and Quadratus and that if the Montanists challenge Prophecy after the Prophets others by the like rule may challenge it after the Montanists and so in infinitum We are certain that the Extraordinary Visible gifts are ceased and thence we infer that the Invisibles bore at most but an equal date with them and that Miracles continued longer in the Church than Immediate Inspiration is apparent in that we find footsteps of the one after the other was disowned and the Divine will might soon be made known whereas the continuance of its Testimonials in the World some while after was more necessary Tertullian called his by the name of Nova Prophetia New Prophecy an Evidence that the old was ceased and how he was disowned by the Church is Notorious Though there were many succeeding Prophets under the Law that doth not infer it must be so under the Gospel for those Prophets brought in Light by degrees and prepared the way for Christ but then Prophecy lay Silent for about 400 years before his appearing a sign that he came to fulfil and Seal up all and when God himself took the chair and in our nature discharged his Office it fastens Imperfection on him to maintain a Series of Prophets to explain what he spoke or relate what he omitted The new Testament