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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43998	Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, and power of a common wealth, ecclesiasticall and civil by Thomas Hobbes ...; Leviathan	Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2246; ESTC R17253	438,804	412

say the Word or Promise that Christ should come into the world who in the beginning was with God that is to say it was in the purpose of God the Father to send God the Son into the world to enlighten men in the way of Eternall life but it was not till then put in execution and actually incarnate So that our Saviour is there called the Word not because he was the promise but the thing promised They that taking occasion from this place doe commonly call him the Verbe of God do but render the text more obscure They might as well term him the Nown of God for as by Nown so also by Verbe men understand nothing but a part of speech a voice a sound that neither affirms nor denies nor commands nor promiseth nor is any substance corporeall or spirituall and therefore it cannot be said to bee either God or Man whereas our Saviour is both And this VVord which St. Iohn in his Gospel saith was with God is in his 1 Epistle verse 1. called the VVord of life and verse 2. the Eternall life which was with the Father so that he can be in no other sense called the Word then in that wherein he is called Eternall life that is he that hath procured us Eternall life by his comming in the flesh So also Apocalypse 19. 13. the Apostle speaking of Christ clothed in a garment dipt in bloud saith his name is the VVord of God which is to be understood as if he had said his name had been He that was come according to the purpose of God from the beginning and according to his Word and promises delivered by the Prophets So that there is nothing here of the Incarnation of a Word but of the Incarnation of God the Son therefore called the VVord because his Incarnation was the Performance of the Promise In like manner as the Holy Ghost is called the Promise There are also places of the Scripture where by the Word of God is signified such Words as are consonant to reason and equity though spoken sometimes neither by Prophet nor by a holy man For Pharaoh Necho was an Idolater yet his Words to the good King Josiah in which he advised him by Messengers not to oppose him in his march against Carchemish are said to have proceeded from the mouth of God and that Josiah not hearkning to them was slain in the battle as is to be read 2 Chron. 35. vers 21 22 23. It is true that as the same History is related in the first Book of Esdras not Pharaoh but Jeremiah spake these words to Josiah from the mouth of the Lord. But wee are to give credit to the Canonicall Scripture whatsoever be written in the Apocrypha The VVord of God is then also to be taken for the Dictates of reason and equity when the same is said in the Scriptures to bee written in mans heart as Psalm 36. 31. Ierem. 31. 33. Deut. 30. 11 14. and many other like places The name of PROPHET signifieth in Scripture sometimes Prolocutor that is he that speaketh from God to Man or from man to God And sometimes Praedictor or a foreteller of things to come And sometimes one that speaketh incoherently as men that are distracted It is most frequently used in the sense of speaking from God to the People So Moses Samuel Elijah Isaiah Ieremiah and others were Prophets And in this sense the High Priest was a Prophet for he only went into the Sanctum Sanctorum to enquire of God and was to declare his answer to the people And therefore when Caiphas said it was expedient that one man should die for the people St. John saith chap. 11. 51. that He spake not this of himselfe but being High Priest that year he prophesied that one man should dye for the nation Also they that in Christian Congregations taught the people 1 Cor. 14. 3. are said to Prophecy In the like sense it is that God saith to Moses Exod. 4. 16. concerning Aaron He shall be thy Spokes-man to the People and he shall be to thee a mouth and thou shalt be to him instead of God that which here is Spokes-man is chap. 7. 1. interpreted Prophet See saith God I have made thee a God to Pharaoh and Aaron thy Brother shall be thy Prophet In the sense of speaking from man to God Abraham is called a Prophet Genes 20. 7. where God in a Dream speaketh to Abimelech in this manner Now therefore restore the man his wife for he is a Prophet and shall pray for thee whereby may be also gathered that the name of Prophet may be given not unproperly to them that in Christian Churches have a Calling to say publique prayers for the Congregation In the same sense the Prophets that came down from the High place or Hill of God with a Psaltery and a Tabret and a Pipe and a Harp 1 Sam. 10. 5 6. and vers 10. Saul amongst them are said to Prophecy in that they praised God in that manner publiquely In the like sense is Miriam Exod. 15. 20. called a Prophetes●…e So is it also to be taken 1 Cor. 11. 4 5. where St. Paul saith Every man that prayeth or prophecyeth with his head covered c. and every woman that prayeth or prophecyeth with her head uncovered For Prophecy in that place signifieth no more but praising God in Psalmes and Holy Songs which women might doe in the Church though it were not lawfull for them to speak to the Congregation And in this signification it is that the Poets of the Heathen that composed Hymnes and other sorts of Poems in the honor of their Gods were called Vates Prophets as is well enough known by all that are versed in the Books of the Gentiles and as is evident Tit. 1. 12. where St. Paul saith of the Cretians that a Prophet of their owne said they were Liars not that St. Paul held their Poets for Prophets but acknowledgeth that the word Prophet was commonly used to signifie them that celebrated the honour of God in Verse When by Prophecy is meant Praediction or foretelling of future Contigents not only they were Prophets who were Gods Spokesmen and foretold those things to others which God had foretold to them but also all those Impostors that pretend by the helpe of familiar spirits or by superstitious divination of events past from false causes to foretell the like events in time to come of which as I have declared already in the 12. chapter of this Discourse there be many kinds who gain in the opinion of the common sort of men a greater reputation of Prophecy by one casuall event that may bee but wrested to their purpose than can be lost again by never so many failings Prophecy is not an Art nor when it is taken for Praediction a constant Vocation but an extraordinary and temporary Employment from God most often of Good men but sometimes also of the Wicked The woman of