. Vindiciae Ministerii Evangelici : a Vindication of the great Ordinance of God, viz. a gospel-ministry ... Mutt confefs I Have in my own weakJudgment been more remifs, as to thenecttfity of this Rite in a lawful! Or-dination than now I iee eaufe, or durft] be j and I cannot think that in an or-_ derly Ordination it can without Sin been many eminent Divinesthat have been more remifs in it, as Bez,a,Pota*w, andAretiw, BHchAnu$iChemnitins&\&diverfeothers 5 butthey all fpeak very tenderly of it >as that which was therite ufed by C£r//?,andthc Jpojlles^nti the Patriarch
. Vindiciae Ministerii Evangelici : a Vindication of the great Ordinance of God, viz. a gospel-ministry ... Mutt confefs I Have in my own weakJudgment been more remifs, as to thenecttfity of this Rite in a lawful! Or-dination than now I iee eaufe, or durft] be j and I cannot think that in an or-_ derly Ordination it can without Sin been many eminent Divinesthat have been more remifs in it, as Bez,a,Pota*w, andAretiw, BHchAnu$iChemnitins&\&diverfeothers 5 butthey all fpeak very tenderly of it >as that which was therite ufed by C£r//?,andthc Jpojlles^nti the withali,the mod have been as zealous for it,as PeterMart?$2$,* $ 784,785. Calvinus, Bncernsf quoted both [vJnftitM>c^JtZt-16< But Authorities are worth little on either fide, I fhallrather give you my reafons. Reafi ^TbiswastheConftantpradiceof the Apo-ftles,^\ 6. All. ^#. Tim 2 Tim they ordained thus,and I knowno other Copies, I am fure no better that wc are to fol-low-. VindicU Miniflerii Evangelic!. 77 low. I know nothing can be anfwered to that Argu-ment, A* the Afoftles ordained Gofpel Preachers, fo theyought to be ordained; but they alwaies in their Ordinati-o ns made ufe of Impojitton of hands, 2. Nay, fecondly,77> butthey exprejithe whole Aft of Ordination by ft 3 whichfhould argue it a material thing, i Tim. 1 14,23. i Tim. 3. In its relating to GoJpel-tVorJhip it if dangerous nottokeep clofe to our muffc give rules himfelf forhis Houfe, and when we have them we muft not judgethemnecdlefs, and fay the thing may be done withoutthem. 4. It is a Rite that hath much in it. 1. Certos de officio reddebat \ It aflfured and fealed upthe Office/faith Aretius)<kx by this figne the party re-ceives plenam docendi poteftatemji full power to wonder to read that, and find him within a few linesbefore call it libe
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