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but now (as can be seen from the repeated Peace-Memorial or Declaration of the Prophet Haggai, page 10), the sending of those prophets who were not ordinary ordinarii: Clergy or officials holding an established, regular office within the church hierarchy., being neither consecrated by high priests nor called as ambassadors legates: Official representatives or messengers, often sent by authorities. by princes, has commonly been caused by the negligence of the ordinary priesthood, by their own departure from good order, and by their scandalous lives. In this, Mr. Johann Heinrich Ursinus, a preacher in Speyer, agrees in his Divine Trumpet of Threat from Tekoa original: "Göttl. Droh-Posaun von Thecoa," a work by Ursinus published in 1660, referencing the home of the prophet Amos., or sermons on the Prophet Amos, stating among other things:

This is how it goes: when people feel most secure and think of no danger, meanwhile misfortune stands at the door and total destruction is at hand. Those who ought to be servants of God wait upon their fat benefices original: "faissten Pfründen," referring to lucrative church positions. and concern themselves not at all with the affliction of Joseph A biblical reference to Amos 6:6, often used to describe the suffering or spiritual decay of the faithful.. Then God sometimes sends His extraordinary ones extraordinarios: Individuals called directly by God to speak or act outside of traditional institutional channels., and indeed to those places first where the danger is closest and greatest.

Just as the Prophet Amos, when he wished to announce the heavy judgments of God over the people of Israel, explicitly states: That the Lord does nothing, unless He first reveals the secret to His servants the prophets (Chapter 3, verse 7); a verse which Micrelius Johannes Micrelius (1597–1658), a German historian and theologian. here in his Historical Compendium original: "Syntagmate Histor." applies even to the prophecies that preceded Luther himself. Likewise (alongside the former Swedish Superintendent Fabricius Jacob Fabricius (1593–1654), a prominent Lutheran chaplain.), Dr. Mengering Arnold Mengering (1596–1647), an orthodox Lutheran theologian. has not denied such extraordinary gifts of prophecy even among us, although Stolterfoth Jacob Stolterfoht (1600–1668), a Lübeck theologian who analyzed visions and revelations. with the Triple Ministry original: "Ministerio Tripolitano," referring to the joint ecclesiastical body of the cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, and Lüneburg. such...