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The Learned Tostatus menti∣ons four several ways whereby God is said to have made Re∣velations in former times; as for Example: First, when God and his Angels assumed a visi∣ble shape, as when he appeared to Gideon, Judg. 6. and to Ma∣noah and his Wife, Judg. 13. Se∣condly,
When he was not seen, but only heard, as Numb. 7. and when he called Samuel, 1 Sam. 3. Thirdly, When he wrought on∣ly upon the Imaginations of men, sleeping or waking; as when God told Abimelech in a Dream, that he was a dead man, for taking away another mans Wife, Gen. 20. Fourthly, and lastly, When God raiseth the Un∣derstanding to know those things which otherwise he could not know, either by a kind of Extasie, or without; and of this kind was Paul's rap∣ture into the third Heavens; at which time it may be doubt∣ful whether the Soul remained in the Body or no.
Having thus now recited his several kinds of Revelations, it will be necessary in the next
place to enquire, whether there might not be Fallacies in all these ways? And when there was no Fallacy, whether their Proof was not only by single Witnesses? The Popish Clergie (in such a case) will tell us, That we must believe reverent∣ly of things delivered to us in Holy Writ, for that they have neither Errour nor Fraud in them: And if that does not sa∣tisfie you, they will then tell you, you must come to them for a further Answer: Not considering, that if the Gentiles should require the same credit to be given to their Revelati∣ons upon their own single Te∣stimony, how we should do to shake them off: the same Rea∣son lying for us to believe the one, as the other, both equally depending on Faith.