Of the Dissolution

People should bestow upon them one m oreor equally noble; and that after they vvefjjextremely degenerated and fallen into amanner of Impiety , Superstition and H e 'refy,&c. And a little alter, if I mayly speak what I think, those innumeraP*Stories, which every where occur [ in 1,1Jewisti Writings] concerning Bath Kol,fto be reduced to two Heads : viz. i. smost of them are meer Fables, invented 1honour of this or that Rabbin, or to grcredit to some History, z. The rest sd eCMagical and Diabolical Illusions, &c.

In the Primitive Churches of Christ^planted by the Apostles, there was also ^Order of Prophets , i Cor. iz. 2,8. ^hath set some in the Church , firSi Apo0* !•secondarily Prophets , &C. This Spirit 0Prophecy was an extraordinary and terflP^rary Gift, as were the Gifts of Heals 11 *and Speaking with Tongues, continu^not long after the Death of the ApostK 5 'and Consignation of the Canon of ScrtTture. So that now we have no means l e £us of coming to the knowledge ofEvents , but the Prophecies contained id ^Writings of the Holy Penmen of Scripts ’which we must search diligently, coiiu^lattentively, and compare together , so vV ' (

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