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A44613 The sufficiency of the spirits teaching without humane learning a treatise tending to prove humane learning to be no help to the spirituall understanding of the word of God ... / by Samuel How. How, Samuel.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701. 1655 (1655) Wing H2952; ESTC R24385 44,603 49

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converted and so they did as the h Act. 2.44 17.4.34 Scripture manifests in many places which might be noted Again it is to be minded that God himself counts all the faithful to belong to the i Rev. 12.4 5 Woman the Church of God as appears in the Revelations where the Man-child as is evident by k Exod. 4.23 23. other places contains all the faithful even the whole Church of God This Son of God and his Man-child is called his l Exod. 5.1 people The like appears in Isay 66.7 8. where the Man-child is interpreted to be a whole Nation of Children including all the faithful Now this Woman is said to be in Travail crying and if yours be that Church that is in this Travail crying and in pain according to the Scriptures I am content the Child shall be acknowledged yours but if it be in jollity and without sorrow putting the others to pain and ready to cut the living Child in pieces how then can I acknowledge it for the true Mother when as also the Apostle saith That Jerusalem that is from above is the m Gal. 4.24 Mother of us all and she is not one that gendreth to bondage but to freedome as saith the Apostle and therefore methinks it appears that every ones conversion strongly binds him to make speed to that Church which consists of such as are faithful in Jesus Christ as being the proper inheritance to which they all belong and to know that all such places as are alledged to conclude otherwise be but wrested and perverted though never so fair a glosse be set upon them for God ever since the beginning hath put enmity betwixt the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent and accu●sed shall all they be that joyne those together that God hath so far separated and therefore let none of Gods servants stand with one foot on Mount Sion and another on Babylon lest that which is halting be turned out of the way Heb. 12. Object 3 Another Objection against us is brought in the defence of your Ministery after this manner That Ministery that doth the work of the Ministery of Jesus Christ spoken of in Ephes 4. for the perfecting of the Saints is a true Ministery but your Ministery you say doth the same work c. Answ Was it the work of the Ministery of the Apostles c. to read Divine Service Church women Marry and bury the Dead and such like services as these are Did the Apostles perfect the Saints after this manner For who knows not but that this is the substance of what your office of Ministery binds you unto as for Preaching that may be dispensed withall and a little now and then may serve the turn Besides as is granted your offices are not the same there mentioned that Jesus Christ from on high gave gifts unto for you have others that the Scripture speaks not any otherwise then by the n Rev. 17.3 names of blasphemy But for the power and work of the Ministery which you say is answerable to that of the Apostles by your gathering of the Saints together taking it for granted that you say from what do you convert them If from the power of darknesse as you would seem to imply into the Kingdom of Christ as o Col. 1.13 did the Apostle then by your own grant in the power of darknesse you found them and the truth is that where you found them there you leave them when you found them before their conversion you professed of them that they were regenerate and bo●●● anew to what then do you convert them or have you conversion after regeneration you also bade these persons before to take and eat in remembrance that Christ died for them and so give them the Seals of Life and Salvation and yet after all this you being Ministers to them come to justifie the truth of your Ministery by your conversion of the people that by these things no need of amendment and yet when all is done that you plead for they still abide in the same Church under the same Ministery in the same worship that they were conversant in before whereas I have declared before that when as the Apostle converted any those converts left their former places turning from dumb Idols to serve the living God Now it hath been long acknowledged and professed that the worship of your Church * Ministers that now are saith be come of Rome and the Ministery of it came out of the Popes Shop and must needs be reformed or else the judgment of God cannot but light upon you as hath been manifested in the first and second admonition to the Parliament in the daies of Queen Elizabeth and all know that yet it continues the same that then it was and if it were so bad then as it is reported that a thousand Ministers said it was small cause have any to plead Conversion when as they shall continue in such abominations as that the plagues of God cannot by their own confession be withheld Seeing that the Scriptures and Spirit of God teacheth us that the p Psa 119.101 fear of the Lord teacheth men to refrain their feet from every evil way and to cleanse our selves from all filthinesse both of flesh and spirit and to grow up unto full holinesse in the fear of God or the worship of God as our Saviour q Mat. 4. 2 Cor. 2.1 interprets it and to hate the very r Jude 23. garment spotted by the flesh Now these things well considered it will appear that the several Scriptures that are continually brought for the maintenance of your Ministery are but so many flourishes by which the Word of Truth is wrested and wringed like to a Nose of Wax contrary to their proper intents and scopes to serve their own turns which who they be of you or others that are the perverters of them God knows and one day will judg betwixt the righteous and the wicked and give to every one according as his works shall be In the mean while to me it appears plain that men destitute of the Spirit of God be they as learned as may be in mans learning yet they do pervert all Scriptures to their own destruction when as the unlearned one simple men and women having the Spirit of Truth in them shall rightly know them and Gods mind in them for their great comfort Again seeing this is so that such men do thus pervert the Scriptures this should provoke all that are made able Ministers of the Spirit as saith the ſ 2 Cor. 3.2 Apostle that they take the same Apostles t 1 Tim. 4.6 advise saying If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good Minister of Jesus Christ If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things What thing those things mentioned u From the 1 Verse before how that the Spirit hath foretold of