[ 492 J 7. In cafes not I revealed by the Spirit, they had the fame ufe for confulting and reafoning the cafe ' and learning of others, as all other men: In this . cafe reafoning was to belp them to know : But in cafe of Infpiration Reafoning did but exprefs and exercife their Knowledg. 8. As that A,Ft. 15. was no more a General Council, than the other Sacred Converfe of the Apoftles till they difperfed themfelves, fo in their determinaton they lay it upon the Holy Ghofc: And Paul and Btlrnabas had before by the fame Spirit accordingly determined : 13ut becaufe they were not ofthe men that had received their know– ledge from Chrifts own works and mouth in con– verfe with him on Earth, no wonder if the Jew- · i{h Chriftians defired fuller fatisfattion. '§ 5. II. From hence it is apparent, r. That ordinary Paftors or Bi{hops w110 have not the fame Commiffion,nor the fame lnfpiration or promife ofit, nor the fame gift of Tongues and Miracles to con– firm their Dodrine,have none of the extraordina– ry Apofcolica1 work to do.The Commands which Chrift gave his Apoftles to teach the World, are already told us and recorc;led by the Apoftles. They left not part ofthat work undone for others after them to do. If they had, how could the Eiihops have known but from the Apoftles them– felves what Chrift Commanded ? And what means ba,ve they to know it but what all other men have? The Scripture now (added to the Law of Nature) containethall that can pretend to be an Univerfal Law: For no Law but ofa Univerfal Lawgiver, can be Univerfal. And ifall Bi{hops pretend to Apoftolick Infpiration, they muft prove it by Mi– ·racles or pais for Fanaticks : And methinks thofe · among
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