To the Right Honourable, the Lord Fairfax, and His Councell of Warre

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Excerpt from To the Right Honourable, the Lord Fairfax, and His Councell of Warre: The Humble Addresse (m A f E S T T, and 4 allow, who. Attitgoyfa¿m intojottr bandit, I befeech you to confider, in thegpre'fence o£that God, to whole dire¿ions and Spirit you aprctend, what fafe ground you have for lo doing for, I l'hall'fup'pofe that the plaine words ofscrip ture are not that voice of the Spirit which is your onely guide in this matter, or if it be, Ideiire that Charity from you for my felf'e and Others, that' you will point us out thol'e Scriptures and I mull profe¿'e to believe you bound in duty to God, and man, and to your (elves, to fatisfie this delire, to produce that'voice of the Spirit in the received Scriptures of God, which may fay that to other Chrifiians alfo which it appears to doc to you But if God: Spirit be by you conceived to have (poken to you any 0 ther way than in, or by bme part of the written Word, Then my fecond requelt is, that you will declare to others the ground of this your perfwafion, that you have received any foch Revela. Tion from God that (0 that preteridtd Spirit may according. The rules prqf'a'éétd. 5] in ht} acknowledged Word i! Tried and. Examined regularly, Whether it beef god pr no, before the fubjefi-matter of futh Revelation be believed infallible, or ar cordingly built upon by you as your warrant or principle of ¿ing any thing: For, there are will Spiritt'that come into the world, and which many times are by God permitted torfednc'e men, and that they may doe fo the better, they confiantly pi-n. Ttml to come from God, and a¿'ttm divine Authority to re commend and authorize their delufions (a thing l'o ordinary in all Ages, that the Poet that would exprcfl'e the lmbroyling of a Kingdome, thinks he cannot doe it better than by bringingin Misfit, a Pray, m'th 4 Me¿'age from Heaven, to avenge/nth, a} fit]: an injury) And ofithefe our Saviour forewarns us, and tells us, that m flu/l know them 5} their fruit: and [o direfis us to judge of the truth of their pretenfions by the good ne¿'e accoun mendablene¿'e, at leali, juliifiablene¿'e of their allies, and not to judge of their aé't't'ortt by their pretenses. And befidcs thcfi 10 Spirit: from without, there is alfo an will Spirit within, a great dealt ofdifguil'cd wickedneii'c in the heart of man, which when. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.