. Vindiciae Ministerii Evangelici : a Vindication of the great Ordinance of God, viz. a gospel-ministry ... is,that they are Gods Ordinances,andwho art thou that blafphcmcft ?* but men^ more then others in their na-lurall capacity %m& fubjcd to like infirmities;but in theirmwstteriall capacity,they are the ftewards of the myfteriesof God; officers in his Church whom he hath authorizedto thofe ads $ and to fet apart others, they arc betruftedfrom Chrift with that power. If none muft preach but thofe that are fet apart by the ki Pref D ffert Rlcftjoab ordinattone,quia ilia pr*a-dit
. Vindiciae Ministerii Evangelici : a Vindication of the great Ordinance of God, viz. a gospel-ministry ... is,that they are Gods Ordinances,andwho art thou that blafphcmcft ?* but men^ more then others in their na-lurall capacity %m& fubjcd to like infirmities;but in theirmwstteriall capacity,they are the ftewards of the myfteriesof God; officers in his Church whom he hath authorizedto thofe ads $ and to fet apart others, they arc betruftedfrom Chrift with that power. If none muft preach but thofe that are fet apart by the ki Pref D ffert Rlcftjoab ordinattone,quia ilia pr*a-ditybac fubfe-qjtitur^ *m pra-ctpuim*7i%. 68 VindieU Miniflerii Eyangelici. Presbytery and ordained by themy then preaching is at anend\for there are no Prejbyters to ordaincjbutfuch as havetheir authority thcmfelves from Rome, which is a falfeCh*rcht andnone could have true ordination from it; andtherefore cannot give it to others. But to this Popiftv Argument, I (hall fpeake when Icome to handle that queftion; By whom Goftell-preachcrsmufi befet apart, which I now haftcn VindicU Minifterii Evangelici. — i • ■ * &&&&&&&&&&&& fiyyyidiJiwAiA Queft. Ill- Whether thofe that are te be fet apart for the vork of ordinary preaching and difpen- fing out the myfteries of Cjod mufl be fet apart by the Presbytery, that isf by other Miniflers in Office. N the difcuffing of this queftionj {Kailoblerve the fame method which Iobferved in the former. i. I (hall tell you negatively, whatI contend not for, and truly ftate I {hall prove the IJkaUaHfrverobjeftiotts. Firft, the Queftion rcachetb not to cafes of xcceffitjwher there can be no preaching, if there be not a libertygranted for fome to preach ordinarily tbatare not formal-ly ordained .• As if a company of Chriftians fhould be byprovidence caft amongft Heathens by fhipwracke, ha-ving no lawfully ordained Miniflers with them, nor noPresbyters to ordain them. Doubtlefle, in iuc
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