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A23664	A doubt resolved, or, Satisfaction for the seekers wherein the case touching an administrator of gospel ordinances, in these times, is handled : wherein also some other questions are more briefly touched, viz. I. Whether water-baptism was to continue in force after the ministry of John the Baptist ceased, II. VVhether Gospel ordinances are things spirituall, or carnall, III. VVhether a power to preach by immediate revelation of the spirit, be necessary in every Gospel minister?, IIII. What is is to be baptized with the Spirit : well worthy the consideration of many who in these times are unsetled in their judgements touching these points / by William Allen.	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1655 (1655)	Wing A1063; ESTC R15502	29,149	40

he discharged his office and trust towards them and that they were made partakers of his Ministry even by that Epistle which he now wrote to them Which is also further manifest by Rom. 11.13 For I speak to you Gentiles in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles I MAGNIFIE mine Office How did he speak to them but by his Epistle and why but because he being the Apostle of the Gentiles he hereby magnified his Office that is laboured to make the most of it or to improve it to the utmost And therefore when he wanted opportunity otherwise he discharged his Office of an Apostle by writing If so what else is the consequence but that men by the Apostles writings are partakers of the Apostles ministry SECT. 24. And it is worth observing and that which makes this Scripture case the more applicable to us viz. in that when the Apostle wrote this Epistle to these Romans he had not as yet been personally with them at Rome as may easily be made out by comparing Rom. 15.23 24 25 26. with Acts 19.21 together with the precedent History of Paul's travels in the book of the Acts For if Paul were an Apostle to those that had his mind and Doctrine in writing who otherwise never saw his face then the Apostle is an Apostle to us also who have his writings as well as they then had To the former Scriptures you may adde Col. 2.1 compared with chap. 1. ver. 25. It should seem that Paul had never seen the faces of those Colossians to whom he writes I would saith he that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and for them of Laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh From which those that write upon this Epistle gather that Paul had never seen the face of these Colossians when he wrot this Epistle to them Which opinion is much confirmed by the 6 7 8 9. ver. of chap. 1. where it appears that they came to the knowledge of the Gospel by the ministry not of Paul but of Epaphras who having acquainted Paul with the successe of his Ministry Paul thereupon takes occasion to write this Epistle to them By the writing of which Epistle he acted the part of a Minister or an Apostle towards them as you may see chap. 1.25 Whereof I am made a Minister according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you to fulfill the Word of God or fully to preach the word of God as the marginal reading hath it Where note that Paul had received from God such a dispensation or Stewardship as it s rendred by some from the Greek to them ward or on their behalf according to which he was made a Minister of the Church in general and this Stewardship he discharged towards them by writing not having opportunity of discha●ging it otherwise So that still we see that the Apostles were Ministers and Apostles to men by their writings as well as otherwise And should the Apostles come again personally amongst us yet doubtlesse they would preach but the same thing for substance which now we have in their writings 2 Cor. 10.11 Let such an one think this saith he that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent such will we be also indeed when we are present And it must needs be so because the Gospel is but one simple and unchangeable thing whether preached or written 2 Cor. 1.18 But as God is true our word toward you was not yea and nay SECT. 25. 2. The Ministry of the Apostles reaches as far as their Doctrine reaches Rom. 10.14.15 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not beleeved and how shall they beleeve in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent Here the Apostle makes all mens beleeving the Gospel to depend upon the Apostles preaching of it I say upon the Apostles preaching of it For when he saies how can they preach except they be sent he speaks of those that were first sent to preach the Gospel to wit the Apostles who indeed could never have found out nor have preached such a Doctrine to the world as the Gospel is had they not been sent on this errand had they not been indued with power from on high wherwith to do it the Apostle denies any such sufficiency to be of themselves and ascribes it wholly unto God 2 Cor. 3.5 That the sending here spoken of Rom. 10.15 is Christs sending his Apostles to preach the Gospel will further appear if you compare the effects with their causes as here set down in order by the Apostle How can they saith he beleeve in him of whom they have not heard That 's a principle in reason that a man cannot beleeve that of which he hath never heard And how shall they hear without a Preacher Here 's another thing as manifest in reason for which cause the Apostle makes themselves Judges in the case a man cannot hear that of which no report hath been given or of which no Declaration hath been made And how shall they preach except they be sent that is how should any man at the first have divulged the Gospel and Doctrine of salvation had he not first been taught it of God and impowered with knowledge and utterance from him wherewith to preach it which was the Apostles case And that the preaching and sending here spoken of is the preaching and sending of the Apostles appears yet further by the 18. verse of the same chap. where having continued his discourse of the hearers and preachers of which he had spoken three verses before ver. 14.15 he here saith of the same Preachers that their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world which all acknowledge to be spoken of the Apostles If then every mans beleeving depends upon his hearing the Gospel and if his hearing of i● likewise depends upon their declaring or preaching it who first received it from God viz. the Apostles for if they had not declared it we had never heard it then it is a thing out of doubt that every mans beleeving the Gospel doth depend upon the preaching and ministery of the Apostles And if so then the Apostles by their Doctrine are preachers to all those that in all places and ages where the Gospel comes do beleeve SECT. 26. Which thing viz that the Apostles Ministry extends as far as their Doctrine may be further illustrated and confirmed thus The Apostles Commission was to preach the Gospel to every Creature in all the world Mark 16.15 and the Apostle Paul whilest he was yet living affirmed that accordingly it had been preached to every creature under Heaven Col. 1.23 But how did twelve Apostles think we in their own persons carry the Gospel to every man and woman under Heaven Why surely no that is not