14. “Another passage that (your Lordship thinks) has been misapplied by _enthusiasts_, but was really peculiar to the times of the apostles, is 1 John ii. 20. and 27. (page 35.) _Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.――――But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you: And ye need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie. And even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him._” “Here the apostle arms the true Christians ♦against seducers, by an argument drawn from _the unction from the Holy One_, that was _in_ or rather _among_ them: that is, from the _immediate inspiration_ of some of their teachers.” page 37. ♦ “again” replaced with “against” Here it rests upon your lordship, to prove (as well as affirm) 1. That ἐν should be translated _among_: 2. That this _unction from the Holy One_ means, “The inspiration of some of their teachers.” The latter your lordship attempts to prove thus: “The inspired teachers of old were set apart for that office, by an extraordinary effusion of the Holy Ghost: Therefore page 38. ♦_The unction from the Holy One_ here, means such an effusion.” I deny the consequence; so the question is still to be proved. ♦ Printer incorrectly started a new paragraph here. Your lordship’s second argument is drawn from the 26th verse of the 14th chapter of St. _John_’s gospel, Proposed in form, it will stand thus: “If those words, _He shall teach you all things_, relate only to a _miraculous_ gift of the Holy Ghost, then these words, _The same anointing teacheth you of all things_, relate to the _miraculous_ gift: “But those words relate only to a _miraculous_ gift: “Therefore these relate to the same.” I conceive, it will not be very easy to make good the consequence in the first proposition. But I deny the minor also: the contradictory whereto, I trust, has appeared to be true. I grant indeed, that these words were more _eminently_ fulfilled, in the age of the apostles. But this is altogether consistent with their belonging _in a lower sense_, to all Christians in all ages: Seeing they have all need of _an unction from the Holy One_, a supernatural assistance from the Holy Ghost, that they may know in the due use of all proper means, _all things_ needful for their souls health. Therefore it is no _enthusiasm_, to teach that _the unction from the Holy One_, belongs to all Christians in all ages.