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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65700	A discourse, confirming the truth and certainty of the Christian faith from the extraordinary gifts and operations of the Holy Ghost vouchsafed to the apostles and primitive professors of that faith / by Daniel Whitby ...	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1723; ESTC R39042	30,421	35

you so that you are deficient in no Gift He spends his whole Twelfth Chapter in the Enumeration of those Gifts by which the Manifestation of the Spirit was confirmed among them viz. the Gifts of Wisdom 1 Cor. 12 8 9 10 29 30. Knowledge Prophesie and the discerning of the Mind of God the Gift of Miracles of Faith of Healing of divers kinds of Tongues and the Interpretation of them concluding with these Questions Are all Apostles Are all Prophets Are all Teachers Are all Workers of Miracles Have all the Gifts of Healing Do all speak with Tongues Do all interpret but covet earnestly the best Gifts 2 Cor. 8 7. In his Second Epistle he declares that they abounded in Faith in Utterance and Knowledge He chides them for abusing these extraordinary Gifts by making them Occasions of their Boasting in that mistaken Place 1 Cor. 4.7 What hast thou of these Gifts which thou hast not received and if thou hast received them wherefore dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received them and for their using them so as to breed Confusion in the Church 1 Cor. 14 26. saying How is it Brethren that when ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine hath a Tongue hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation Let all things be done to edifying His Apostleship being despised or questioned by some or being judg'd inferior to that of others he confirms and justifies it by declaring That his Preaching was not in the enticeing Words of Man's Wisdom 1 Cor. 2.4 but in Demonstration of the Spirit and in Power that they themselves were manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by him written not with Ink 2 Cor. 3.1 3. but with the Spirit of the living God and that he therefore needed no other Letters of Commendation to them that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the Apostles 2 Cor. 11.4 5. and that they had received no other Spirit than what they had received from him that in nothing was he behind the very chief of the Apostles the Signs of an Apostle being wrought among them by him in all Patience in Signs and VVonders 2. Cor. 12.12 13. and mighty Deeds and that in nothing were they inferiour to any other Churches In his Epistle to the Galatians he compares himself with the chief of the Apostles and the Pillars of the Church 2. Cal. 7.8 9. declaring that he who wrought effectually in Peter to the Apostleship of the Circumcision was as efficacious in him towards the Gentiles that these Pillars saw and perceived by the Grace given to him that the Gospel of Uncircumcision was committed to him as the Gospel of the Circumcision was to Peter and therefore gave unto them the Right-hand of Fellowship that he with Barnabas 3. Gal. 13 14. 1. Eph. 3.15 Rom. 29. 6. Heb. 4. should go unto the Gentiles and they unto the Circumcision Adding for Consolation to the Gentiles that Christ had redeemed them from the Curse of the Law that the Blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles that they might receive the Promise of the Spirit through Faith He magnifies the God of Heaven for blessing his Ephesians with all Spiritual Blessings in heavenly things * Note that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be so rendred in this Place is probable 1. From the Phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Gifts of the Holy Ghost are stiled 15. Rom. 29. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Blessing of the Gospel and the Promise of the Spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Blessing of Abraham 3. Gal. 14. 2. Because these Gifts are stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus when our Saviour had 3. John 12. discoursed of the Spirit received in Baptism he saith he had told them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they who were Partakers of these Gifts are said to have tasted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vis of the heavenly Gift 7. Heb. 4. or Gifts in Christ Jesus he prays that God would farther give unto them the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation for the Acknowledgment of Christ and he exhorts them to be filled with the Spirit speaking one to another in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs The same Exhortation he repeats to his Colossians And a like Prayer he makes for them that they may be filled with the Knowledge of his Will in all Wisdom and spiritual Vnderstanding Two of his Admonitions to the Thessalonians are conceived in these Words quench not the Spirit despise not Prophesies * 5 Eph. 16.17 † 3 Col. 16. 1 Col. 9. ‖ 1 Thes 5.19 20. The Author to the Hebrews pronounces it a dreadful thing to fall from the Profession of the Christian Faith 6 Hebr. 4 5. because upon their first embracing of it they had tasted of the heavenly Gift and of the powers of the VVorld to come and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and therefore by revolting after they had thus received the Knowledge of the Truth chap. 10. vers 29. they did despite to the Spirit of Grace St. Peter advertiseth the same converted Jews that the Gospel was preached to them by the Assistance of the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven 1 Pet. 1.12 And he gives these instructions to them for the Use of their extraordinary Gifts ch 4. 10 11. As every Man hath received 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Gift so let them minister the same one to another as good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God if any Man s●eak let him speak as the Oracles of God if any Man minister let him do it as of the Ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ St. John informs the Christians 1 John 2.20 27. that they had an Vnction from the Holy one and they knew all things necessary and that the Vnction they had received abiding in them they had no need that any Man should teach them but as the same Anointing taught them all things Moreover saith he c. 3.24 hereby do we know that we abide in Christ by the Spirit which he hath given us and that this was their Preservative against the many Antichrists that were in the World 4. That these extraordinary Operations of the Holy Ghost were thus vouchsafed to confirm the Christian Faith is farther evident from the Consideration that the Apostles do with the greatest Confidence produce this Testimony of the Holy Ghost as a convincing Demonstration of the Resurrection of our Lord and of the Truth of what they had delivered in his Name and as a full justification both of their Office and their Actions The God of our Fathers 5. Acts 30 31 32. saith St. Peter hath raised Jesus to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance unto Israel and we are his Witnesses of these things and so is also the Holy Ghost which he hath given to those