One of the main authors of the Westminster Confession on prophecy:
There are four kinds of revelation:
Prophetical (scripture)
Illumination
Facts peculiar to godly men (words of knowledge, etc)
False and Satanical
On facts peculiar to godly men, Rutherford explains that there is a revelation of some particular men who have foretold of things to come (ie. Luther, Hus, Wycliffe, Wishart, Knox) ever since the closing of the canon.
Grudem adds that the report of such things is prophecy. Hence, it is not contrary to the Westminster Confession that such a revelation (not inerrant, but always to be tested against the straight and truly inerrant, final and authoritative rule of canon) can be given to the people of God from time to time.
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