The Question Of The Authority Of The Scriptures Stated. Their Authority And Interpretation CHAPTER XXXIV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF SPIRIT, ANGEL, AND INSPIRATION IN Body And Spirit How Taken In The Scripture Spirit Of God Taken In The Scripture Sometimes For A Wind, Or Breath Secondly, For Extraordinary Gifts Of The Understanding Thirdly, For Extraordinary Affections Fourthly, For The Gift Of Prediction By Dreams And Visions Fiftly, For Life Sixtly, For A Subordination To Authority Seventhly, For Aeriall Bodies Angel What Inspiration What CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF KINGDOME OF GOD, OF Kingdom Of God Taken By Divines Metaphorically But In The Scriptures The Originall Of The Kingdome Of God That The Kingdome Of God Is Properly His Civill Soveraignty Over Sacred What Degrees of Sanctity Sacrament CHAPTER XXXVI. OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND OF PROPHETS Word What The Words Spoken By God And Concerning God, Both Are Called Gods Word Secondly, For The Effect Of His Word Thirdly, For The Words Of Reason And Equity Divers Acceptions Of The Word Prophet Praediction Of Future Contingents, Not Alwaies Prophecy The Manner How God Hath Spoken To The Prophets To The Extraordinary Prophets Of The Old Testament He Spake God Sometimes Also Spake By Lots Every Man Ought To Examine The Probability Of A Pretended Prophets All Prophecy But Of The Soveraign Prophet Is To Be Examined CHAPTER XXXVII. OF MIRACLES, AND THEIR USE A Miracle Is A Work That Causeth Admiration And Must Therefore Be Rare, Whereof There Is No Naturall Cause Known That Which Seemeth A Miracle To One Man, May Seem Otherwise To Another The End Of Miracles The Definition Of A Miracle That Men Are Apt To Be Deceived By False Miracles Cautions Against The Imposture Of Miracles CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF ETERNALL LIFE, Place Of Adams Eternity If He Had Not Sinned, The Terrestrial Paradise Texts Concerning The Place Of Life Eternall For Beleevers Ascension Into Heaven The Place After Judgment, Of Those Who Were Never In The Kingdome The Congregation Of Giants Lake Of Fire Utter Darknesse Gehenna, And Tophet Of The Literall Sense Of The Scripture Concerning Hell Satan, Devill, Not Proper Names, But Appellatives Torments Of Hell The Joyes Of Life Eternall, And Salvation The Same Thing, The Place Of Eternall Salvation Redemption CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE SIGNIFICATION IN SCRIPTURE OF THE WORD CHURCH Church The Lords House Ecclesia Properly What In What Sense The Church Is One Person Church Defined A Christian Common-wealth, And A Church All One CHAPTER XL The Soveraign Rights Of Abraham Abraham Had The Sole Power Of Ordering The Religion Of His Own People No Pretence Of Private Spirit Against The Religion Of Abraham Abraham Sole Judge, And Interpreter Of What God Spake The Authority Of Moses Whereon Grounded Moses Was (Under God) Soveraign Of The Jews, All His Own Time, All Spirits Were Subordinate To The Spirit Of Moses After Moses The Soveraignty Was In The High Priest Of The Soveraign Power Between The Time Of Joshua And Of Saul Of The Rights Of The Kings Of Israel The Practice Of Supremacy In Religion, Was Not In The Time Of The Kings, After The Captivity The Jews Had No Setled Common-wealth CHAPTER XLI. OF THE OFFICE OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR Three Parts Of The Office Of Christ His Office As A Redeemer Christs Kingdome Not Of This World The End Of Christs Comming Was To Renew The Covenant Of The Kingdome Part Of His Office The Preaching Of Christ Not Contrary To The Then Law Of The Jews, The Third Part Of His Office Was To Be King (Under His Father) Christs Authority In The Kingdome Of God Subordinate To His Father One And The Same God Is The Person Represented By Moses, And By Christ CHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICALL Of The Holy Spirit That Fel On The Apostles Of The Trinity The Power Ecclesiasticall Is But The Power To Teach An Argument Thereof, The Power Of Christ Himself From The Name Of Regeneration From The Comparison Of It, With Fishing, Leaven, Seed From The Nature Of Faith: From The Authority Christ Hath Left To Civill Princes What Christians May Do To Avoid Persecution Of Martyrs Argument From The Points Of Their Commission To Preach And Teach To Baptize; And To Forgive, And Retain Sinnes Of Excommunication The Use Of Excommunication Without Civill Power. Of No Effect Upon An Apostate But Upon The Faithfull Only For What Fault Lyeth Excommunication Of Persons Liable To Excommunication Of The Interpreter Of The Scriptures Before Civill Soveraigns Of The Power To Make Scripture Law Of The Ten Commandements Of The Judicial, And Leviticall Law The Second Law The Old Testament, When Made Canonicall Of The Power Of Councells To Make The Scripture Law Of The Right Of Constituting Ecclesiasticall Officers In The Time Matthias Made Apostle By The Congregation.
