; so this is good news to poor souls that find their heart

[Buresh Mahabir]

Erein he hath appointed us to wait
for him. And if he think good to come another way more immediate, let him always be welcome; but let not us limit
him nor prescribe ways to him, but follow his directions. 2. When any thing is borne in upon their
spirit as a truth
to be received, or as an error to be rejected, more immediately, they should beware of admitting of every such thing without trial and examination; for

we are expressly forbidden to believe every spirit,
and commanded to try them whether they are of God or not, 1 John iv. 1. The Lord will not take it ill that even his own immediate motions and revelations be tried and examined

by the word; because the word is given us for this end, to be our

test and standard of truth. The way of immediate revelation is not the ordinary way now of God's manifesting his mind to his people. He hath now chosen another way, and given us a more
sure word of prophesy than was, "even a voice from heaven," as Peter saith, 2 Pet. i. 18, 19. It is commended in the Bereans, Acts

xvii. 11, who upon this account were "more noble than those of Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so." Even Paul's words, though he was an authorised and an infallible apostle of Christ's, are here put to the touch-stone

of the word. "Many false prophets
may go out, and deceive many, and speak great
swelling words of van
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