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Minifers
fhould
not ha-
ftu
y
remove
from their
firft
charge
to
ano-
ther.
Peeoople
are fpe-
cially te
do-
pend
on their
owne Pat
lour.
VflR.3.
What
revelati-
on is,
and the
hinds
nun.
Ephefans,Chap.
2..
V
E
R.
3.
fwaded
that God
as
hee gave him this
or that
people,
fo
hee
did give
him gracetoward them
in a
fpeciall manner,
hee
would feare left
ac-
cepting
a
new
people,
hee fhould want
his
old grace.
They
fay
that
firth
as
have
loved
onceto
parpofe, cannot
love againe:
it
is
true here, that
if
men in rafting
the
grace
of
God
had ever
taken
in a
love
of
a
people,
they could never love fo
lightly
as
many doe, but thefe
flickering
ro-
ving perfons
from one
place
to another
,
doe teftify that they
never
knew
what
that
office and
grace
of
God meant, but the
benefice
is
the
morfell at
which their moutheswater.
This doth
alto ferve
to
inffruét people
to
depend efpecially
on thofe
that
are fet
over
them,
for thofe
are
they who
are furnifhcd from God
in an
eminent manner with grace
toward you. They
are
foolifh pi-
geons
that know
nottheirowne
lockers,and
foolifh
fheep
that
know
not their fhepheardsvoyce
;
and fooli(h people
that
know not
their
Minifter.
Neither
mutt this be taken
as
if
wewould clacke you
altoge-
ther
under our
wings,
or fought further property then
wee
have,
butit
is
your good which doth enforce
us
to
fpeak
it, for
till you
know
your
fhepheards
fet
over you, the wolfedoth threaten you. God
give
every people
a
teacher
that
wee might not bee blowen
up
with the
windy
doEtrine
of
everyfeducer:
And looke
as it
is
in
marriage,
it
is
not the having
a
husband which maketh
a
wife free from
all undermi-
nersof Chaftity,
but the
loving herhusband
:
So
in this
marriage
of
Parlour
and people,
it
is
not the
having
a
Preacher which doth
fecure
you
from feducers,
but your
acknowledging
of
him
and dependingon
him in
the Lord.
V
E R
5.
3.
How
that
by
revelation
he made
known
unto
me the
my-
flery (as
1
wrote afore
in few
words.
Now
followeth
the explication
of
this
grace,
which hath two
branches.
r.
His enlightening.
2. His Commiffion.
The
r.
to the
7
verfe. the
s.
to the
r 3.
verfe.
His enlightening
hath three Confiderations.
r.
The
manner.
a.
The
matter
¡Propounded.
ZProved.
3.
The
thing wherein he
was
taught,
amplified from the
pro -
perty,in
the 5.verfe;and
fubjed
about which it
is
conver-
fant
in,the 6. verfe.
For the opening
of
themanner, we
mußt
know
,
r.
What
is
meant
by
revelation.
2.
The
kindes
of
it.
r.
To
defcribe
it
from the
force
of
the word; it
is
the
taking away
the
vayle
wherewith
any thing
is
co-
vered.
There
are
two
kindes
of
it.
Ordinary which the Spirit worketh
in
the
Word.
Extraordinary, that
is
mediate, by
the
benefit
of
feeing and hea-
ring; thus the Apoftle
had
extraordinary revelation, yet
the
things
which
they
faw,
heard and handled,
thofe they
taught,
i
Johns.
Immediate