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Originally Posted by JOwen  Hey, that's interesting! Thanks. | You're welcome! Here is another reference which may be of interest.
Geoffrey F. Nutall, The Holy Spirit in Puritan Faith and Experience (1992), p. 77: Quote: |
In the Congregational churches 'prophesying' thus came to be practised partly through the Separatist strain in their ancestry; but not only so. John Robinson refers twice to the Synod held at Emden in 1571 (the year in which the exercise arose in England), at which it was decreed 'that in all churches,...the order of prophecy should be observed...and that into this fellowship, to wit of prophets, should be admitted not only the ministers, but also...of the very common people (ex ipsa plebe)'; in fact, Robinson claims 'prophesying' as 'the practice of all reformed churches.' The work in which he makes this claim, The Peoples Plea for the Exercise of Prophecy, against Mr. John Yates his Monopolie (1618), is the locus classicus for an early discussion of the subject.
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