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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90265	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.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing O741; Thomason E49_6; ESTC R2375	45,909	59

of us we may let this rest amongst those {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it apappeareth then from the preceding discourse that a man pretending to extraordinary vocation by immdiate revelation in respect of selfe-perswasion of the truth of his call he must be as ascertained of it as he could be of a burning fire in his bones if there shut up CAP. VI What assurance men extraordinarily called can give to others that they are so called in the former way THe next thing to be considered is what assurance he can give to others and by what means that he is so called Now the matter or subject of their imployment may give us some light to this consideration and this is either the inchoation of some divine work to be established amongst men by vertue of a new and before never heard of Revelation of Gods will or a restauration of the same when collapsed and corrupted by the sin of men To the first of these God never sendeth any but whom he doth so extraordinarily and immediately call and ordain for that purpose and that this may be manifested unto others he alwayes accompanieth them with his own almighty power in the working of such miracles as may make them beleeved for the very works sake which God by them doth effect This we may see in Moses and after Iesus Christ anointed with the oyl of gladnesse above his fellows to preach the Gospel the Apostles but this may passe for nothing in such a way shall ever again take place God having ultimately revealed his minde concerning his worship and our salvation a curse being denounced to man or angel that shall pretend to Revelation for the altering or changing one jot or title of the Gospel For the other the work of Reformation there being ever since the writing of his Word an Infallible rule for the performance of it making it fall within the duty and ability of men partakers of an ordinary vocation and instructed with ordinary gifts God doth not always immediately call men unto it but yet because oftentimes he hath so done we may enquire what assurance they could give of this their calling to that imployment Our Saviour Christ informs us that a Prophet is often without honour in his own country The honour of a Prophet is to have credence given to his Message of which it should seem Jonas was above measure zealous yet such is the cursed Infidelity and hardnesse of mens hearts that though they cryed Thus saith the Lord yet they would reply the Lord hath not spoken hence are those pleadings betwixt the Prophet Ieremie and his enemies the Prophet averring of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you and they contesting that the Lord had not sent him but that he lyed in the Name of the Lord now to leave them inexcusable and whether they would heare or whether they would forbeare to convince them that there hath been a Prophet amongst them as also to give the greater credibility to their extraordinary message to them that were to beleeve their report it is necessary that the Arme of the Lord should be revealed working in and by them in some extraordinary manner it is certain enough that God never sent any one extraordinarily instructed onely with ordinary gifts and for an ordinary end the ayme of their imployment I shewed before was extraordinary even the reparation of something instituted by God and collapsed by the sin of man that it may be credible or appeare of a truth that God had sent them for this purpose they were alwayes furnished with such gifts and abilities as the utmost reach of humane indeavours with the assistance of common grace cannot possibly attaine The generall opinion is that God alwayes supplies such with the gift of miracles Take the Word in a large sence for every supernaturall product beyond the ordinary activity of that secondary cause whereby it is effected and I easily grant it but in the usuall restrained acceptation of it for outward wonderfull workes the power of whose production consists in operation I something doubt the universall truth of the assertion We do not read of any such miracles wrought by the Prophet Amos and yet he stands upon his extraordinary immediate vocation I was neither Prophet nor the son of a Prophet but the Lord called me c. it sufficeth then that they be furnished with a supernaturall power either in 1. Discerning 2. Speaking 3. Working the power of Discerning according to the things by it discernable may be said to be of two sorts for it is either of things present beyond the power of humane investigation as to know the thoughts of other mens hearts or their words not ordinarily to be knowne as Elisha discovered the bed-chamber-discourse of the King of Syria not that by vertue of their calling they come to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} knowers of the heart which is Gods property alone but that God doth sometimes reveale such things unto them for otherwise no such power is included in the nature of the gift which is perfective of their knowledge not by the way of habit but actuall motion in respect of some particulars and when this was absent the same Elisha affirmeth that he knew not why the Shunamitish woman was troubled or secondly of things future and contingent in respect of their secundary causes not precisely necessitated by their own internall principle of operation for the effecting of the things so foreknown and therefore the truth of the fore-knowledge consists in a commensuration to Gods purpose Now effects of this power are all those predictions of such things which wee finde in the old and new Testament and divers also since secondly the supernaturall gift in speaking I intimate is that of Tongues proper to the times of the Gospel when the Worship of God was no longer to be confined to the people of one nation The third in Working is that which strictly and properly is called the gift of Miracles which are hard rare and strange effects exceeding the whole order of created nature for whose production God sometimes useth his servants instrumentally moving and inabling them thereunto by a transient impression of his powerfull grace of which sort the holy Scripture hath innumerable relations Now with one of those extraordinary gifts at the least sometimes with all doth the Lord furnish those his messengers of whom we treat which makes their message a sufficient revelation of Gods Will and gives it credibility enough to stir up faith in some and leave others inexcusable All the difficulty is that there have been Simon Magusses and are Antichrists falsely pretending to have in themselves this mighty power of God in one or other of the forenamed kinds Hence were those many false Prophets Dreamers and Wizards mentioned in the old Testament which the Lord himselfe forewarnes us of as also those Agents of that man of sin whose comming is after the working of