[ 1166] Anabaptisticall spirits, their madnesse.
SUppose a Man invited to Dives his rich Table,* 1.1 furnished with all sorts of delicacies, and delicious fare, and that he should passe by all the provision, and sit sullenly at the Table, not eating a bit of the meat, but staring about him, should look for a second course to drop down from Heaven, or to be usher'd in by a Raven,* 1.2 as it was to the Prophet Eliah; Would not one think such a one to be a kind of Mad-man? Yes surely; And such have been at all times, and are the Anabaptistical spirits of our times; Whereas God hath in his Word, set before them a plentiful Feast of holy and sacred vyands, full and clear discoveries of himself, yet they must needs gape after new Revelations, and Enthusiasticall inspirations, not much unlike to the Man that pull'd out his eyes, and then put his Spectacles on his nose, that he might see the better.