á 124 . The Covenant of Works . Chap.17 Lord promifes to caufe the Prophets, and the unclean Spirits to pa fJe out of the land. Prophets there, are men of unclean fpirits; of thofe fare fPirits that are gone out into the world. Thefe fhall be brought to a lerious conviction, And fhall be afhamed every one of his l Pion, of the Spirit of the which they ufe to fpeak of, the revelation of which they were wont to boaff; and fhall no longer wegre a rough garment to deceive,fhal relinquifh that calling,fund ionor practice, giving in this reafon ; I am no Prophet, man taught me to keep cat- tell from my youth. Becaufe bred for husbandry bred another way, therefore not for this function ; In thè cafe ofextraordi- nary infpiration, this indeed holds not ; Therefore Amos pleads, Amos 7. tq. 1 was no Prophet, nor a Prophets fon, but I was an herd - man, and a gatherer of Sycamore fruit; he was ths trained up, and therefore lived in this calling in which he was trained till God gave him an extraordinary call ; and this he pleads3 7 he Lord took me as 1 followed the flock, and the Lord faid untome , Go, pro- , phefie to my people Ifrael, verf. i 5. Robinfon the learnedit Pen (I fuppofe) of that party, undertaking to defend the liberty of all promifcuoufly to preach the Gofpel, (and that it is no proper work of a Select Miniftery) inftances in Chrift and his Apofiles, who preaclq (faith he) in the Jewifh Church without contradi- &ion And whereas we except againft this, that they were ex- traordinarily called, and qualified ; he anfwers, that the excepti- on,though true,yet is not of force; for their argumentis not that they preached ( which their extraordinary call would warrant.) but that they preached , and were not excepted againft by the Jews ; for they did not beleeve any extraordinary immediate call of theirs, yet they never excepted againft them but received them upon the account of private men ; and therefore it appeares that it was their ordinary courfe , any gifted man might preach without controll. t.einfo. Anf.It is wonder fo quick lighted a man could not fee that Chrift himfelf was excepted againft by the Jewifh Elders, and that upon this very point , how often we know not, but we fee it up= on record in three-feverall Evangelifts that they excepted againft him. 7 he chief Priefis, and the Elders of the people came to him u he wasteachir and faid, Bytt'hat authority doff thou thefe things; and who gavt thee this authority? Luke 20. aI, Matth. 21. 23. Mark. n.: 7.. Their argument runs thus They that preach the Gofpel
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