i88 Chap. ;3. An Expofitíon upon the BoólZ,of J o s. Verf. I,S, sort in the on the Lords day, &e. That's is a famouspromife, which was fir(f reported by the Prophet Joel ( Chap: z. 28.) and after repeated by the Apollle Peter ( Ads z. i7. ) 1 will.pourt eta my Spun upon all iu lJlcíh, d c. andyouryoungmenthat! fee vifions, and your old men faildream dreams. Thus it is every where clear in Scripture, that dreames and vifions were frequent both in the Old -Tellament times, and in the beginning of the New; Butnow in thefe 14 dayes ( as the Apof }le faith 1-leb. I. 2,3 patlïng from those former wayes of Revelation déicribed in the fi rft verfe ) Godhaving fpoken to us byhis Son, whom he bathap- pointedheir of all things, by whom alfohe made the Worlds, who is alto] the 'brightneffe ofhisglory, and the expreffe Image of his perfon :. God Ifayhaving f poken to us by his Son,and we having now a clearer manifeflatio4 of the mind of God then the old faihe% had, the Son who once fpake to us in perfon on earth,flill-flíeak- ingto us in the Gofpell every day ; therefore now for any to look after dreams and vifions, or vifibleapparitions for the revealingof the mind of God, is to goe backward to the old (late of the Jew- it'll Church, or to the infancy of the Gofpell Church, while the Canon or Rule of the Scripture as to all mattersof faith and holy life was not fully finifhed and compleated. And though we ought tobe farre from limitingGod,yet he bath limited us from looking 'after any wildome in the knowledge of his will above that which is written (i Cor. 4. 6. ) The Apo{}le allo teflifying -br the 'Spirit ofGod, that the Scripture is fufficient to make every man wife tofalvation and the man ofGod perfetb,throughly furnifhed in- to allgood workf ( that good work efpecially of helping others to falvation) I Tin,. 3. I. 17. hrdentibur v6- Luther obfervina how many were deluded in his time by tss.precatusfum dreamesand virons, which they falfely attributed toGod, as the ue darer mi immediate Author of them ; earnefily prayed about two things : n: fen- give him a found underflanding ofhis mind jumfcripturr ; )~irfl> that God would feci revealed in theScriptures. Secondly,ethathe wouldnot fend him nondomino deo dreames or vifions, yea, faith he,I even contracted with God that Arles meonoMinivi- r velhewouldnot. And doubfleflehe did thisupon a double ground. fom- ¿a tnirrercr. Firft, tooppofe the wildopinions and prgltces of thofe,who had Luth. loci nothing topretend for them but dreames and vifions. Secondly, bow. quarts: to advance the honour of the written word in its fuffiiciency,onot slaw.
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