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1. That the Prophet speakes not of any whom the Spirit should endue with the gift of tongues, is so evident, that you could not deny it; and yet you dare say, [If this exception were true, it would prove, that the Apostle citeth the words impertinently.] Belike then the Apostle must be outin citing them, rather then you in shewing to what end he cited them. No, Sir, the Apostle alledgeth it very pretinently, in that he shewes by it, that the disciples spake not thus out of drunkenness, as some accused them, (and conse∣quently from an evil spirit) but by reason of the effusion of that Spirit on them, of which Joel had spoken. And therefore the mis∣take is in you, who doe very impertinently conclude from hence; that the same effusion of the Spirit, which Joel spake of was then fulfilled. For although the same Spirit may be powred out divers times, yet that powring out of it which Joel speakes of, can be ful∣filled but once: & consequently, not at our Saviour's first comming, and second comming too. And now who fights most against the Apostle, & the Spirit of God, he that understands them rightly, and endeavours to make others do so too; or he that misunderstanding them himselfe, had rather condemne them both, and draw all others into an error with him, then yeeld to the truth and here I would intreat thee, reader, to take notice, that when Mr Petrie hath little or nothing to say, he commonly breaks out into the more violent speech, thereby to disgrace what he cannot answer.
2. This part of your answer, is as much to the matter as the former. For whereas I speake of the gift of tongues, as the most remarkeable effect of the Spirit in the Apostles: you speake of the manner of the Spirits descending upon them, as the most remarke∣able worke of the Spirit. But doe you know what you say? was it not a greater worke to make the Apostles speake divers lunguages, then to cause the sound of a mighty winde, or the appearance of tongues, which were onely outward signes of the extraordinary gift, which the Spirit then wrought within them? I can hardly thinke, that any man but you will say otherwise. And by your leave, it was the Apostles speaking with other tongues, which made the Multitude come together, and at which they were con∣founded, as the 4, 5, 6, 7. ver. &c. doe shew. And not the sound of the rushing winde, that filled the house where the Apostles were