Objection.
Another Objection is grounded upon Heb. 8.11. and 1 John 2.20.27. They shall not teach every man his brother, and every man his neighbour, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me, saith the Lord. And ye have an unction from the holy one, and ye know all things. And ye need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you, &c. Whence some argue, All the teaching of man shall cease; and God alone shall teach by his Spirit.
I answer first, to that in the Hebrews, It is in the new Covenant; which Covenant tooke place at the death of Christ, Heb. 8.6, 7. and 10 14-20. Now then, If it mean there shall be no teaching by man, as an instrument in Gods hand: Then it will follow, that all the time of the Apostles, who taught, and were but men, they disobeyed the Cove∣nant, They shall not teach every man, &c. Yea, and they gave exhorta∣tions to disobey and breake the Covenant, 2 Tim. 4.2. and 2.2. But they obeyed God, as Peter maintaineth, Act. 4. and 5. Therefore it can∣not meane, Man shall not teach as an instrument in Gods hand; for the words are, Ye shall all know me, and they shall be taught of God. Now God teacheth two wayes, Either immediately by himselfe alone, or mediately by meanes, Jer. 32.33. compared with 2 Chron. 36.15. Now the word doth not say, Ye shall be taught of God immediately with∣out means. And he that is taught by a Messenger of Gods sending, is as truely taught of God, as he that is taught immediately.
2 It may meane. They shall not teach every man his Neighbour, and Brother, upon the old Testament terms, Doe, and live, Doe not, and dye; Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things written in the Law: for here is the new Covenant opposed to the old; and the enjoyments