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A68024	A parte of a register contayninge sundrie memorable matters, written by diuers godly and learned in our time, which stande for, and desire the reformation of our Church, in discipline and ceremonies, accordinge to the pure worde of God, and the lawe of our lande.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592. Demonstration of the trueth of that discipline which Christe hath prescribed in his worde for the government of his Church, in all times and places, untill the ende of the worlde.	1593 (1593)	STC 10400; ESTC S101665	62,546	88

doe declare that the Deacons were to bee wholy imployed in the distributing of the goodes of the Church then must it needes followe that his office is not to meddle with any parte of the ministerie of the worde and Sacramentes but to attende onelie vpon the distributing of the liberalitie of the Church vnto them that stande in neede thereof Their obiections herevnto be these two that followe 1 Obiection Philip one of the seuen Deacons did preach Act. 8. 8. Therefore Deacons may preach the worde Answere Philip was a Deacon of the Church at Ierusalem while they aboade togither but nowe hee was not anie more so but an Euangelist as he is euer tearmed after by vertue of which office he did preache 2 Obiection Steuen being a Deacon preached Act. 7. 2. Answere He preached not for all that is there was but his Apologie at the seate of iudgement which euery man in the like case may doe and which manie of the Martyrs haue done So that the former proposition beeing true vppon the groundes alleadged notwithstanding these obiections wee are to proceede to the seconde which is this There ought to be such Deacons as are described in the former proposition in euerie congregation whiche is thus prooued 1 That office which euerie congregation hath neede of ought to be in euerie congregation But euery congregation hath neede of the Deacons office whiche appeareth by this that they haue poore to prouide for or els they must regard the necessitie of others and the liberalitie of others to distribute Therefore Deacons ought to be in euery congregation 2 That whiche is indefinitely appointed for the good of the Churche belongeth vnto euery Congregation as well as to anie one But such is the appointment of the Deacons 1. Tim. 3. 8. Therefore there must be Deacons in euery Congregation 3 Euery Church ought to haue their office of Deaconshippe 4 All the reasons or the most of them that are alleadged chap. 10. for a Bishop in euery congregation and chap. 12. for Elders in euery congregation are forcible herevnto Therefore if there bee the like neede of Deacons in one congregation that is in another if they be appointed indefinitely for the good of the Church if euery church must haue their office of Deaconship and lastlie if there be like reasons to prooue them belong to euery Church that be for Bishops and Elders then must it needes followe that there ought to be Deacons in euery congregation CHAP. 14. THere ought to bee in euery Congregation an Eldershipp consisting of a pastor or pastors Doctor if there be anie and Elders whose authoritie Christ hath ordayned to be perpetuall in his church to gouuerne the same onely by the rules of Gods worde T. C. 1. booke pag. 175. Discip. Ecclesiast 123. which contayneth these 3. particular propositions defended by vs and gaynesayde by the Bishops and their adherents 1 The Eldership ought to be in euery Congregation 2 The office of the Eldership is perpetuall 3 The Church must be gouerned onely by the rules of Gods worde The first is denyed by them Whitgift page 627. and by their practize in tying the gouernement of many churches to the Bb. sea it is thus prooued 1 Whatsoeuer Christ hath ordayned as a meane to keepe men in obedience to the gospell that same must be in euerie congregation for particular men are in particular congregations But Christ hath ordayned the Eldership for that end as appeareth Matth. 18. 15. c. where Chrisost expoundeth Tell the Church that is sayeth hee the Gouuernours of the Church Therefore the Eldershippe ought to bee in euery Church 2 Where all sortes of Elders ought to be there must be also the ioyning of their offices in one for the good of that cōgregation ouer which they are placed But all sortes of Elders ought to be in euerie congregation as is prooued in the 10. chapter for Bishops the 12. for Elders c. Therfore there must be an Eldership in euery congregation 3 If no particular congregation haue greater priuiledges giuen therevnto by the worde of God then others haue then must there eyther be no Eldershipp at all whiche is false in that Elders are prooued to bee by the worde of God in the Church or els it must be in euery congregation But euerie congregation is of like priuiledge whiche appeareth by this that it is a perfect bodie of it selfe Therefore there must bee an Eldership in euery congregation 4 The same warrant that is in the worde of God for to haue an Eldership in one place is a warraunt for it in all for the worde of God tyeth it not to Churches in cities but indefinitely to the church But there is warrant for it out of the worde to be somewhere as appeareth by this that the Apostles are sayd to establishe it and make mention of it Therefore it must be in euery congregation Therefore if the Eldership bee ordayned by Christ as a meanes to keepe men in obedience vnto the Gospell if all sortes of Elders must be in euery church if euery congregation be of equall priuiledges lastly if there be the like warrant for it in euery church that is in any then must it needes followe that there ought to be an Eldershipp in euerie Congregation What soeuer is obiected against this that hath any shew in it is answered in the 12. chap. of Elders The office of the Eldership is ordayned by Christe to bee perpetual and ordinarie for the gouernement of his church T. C. 1. booke 177. denied by them Whitgift 627. and by their practize in keeping it out but the trueth of it appeareth by these reasons that doe follow 1 If the causes why Christ would haue an Eldershippe in his Church be perpetuall then must also the thing it selfe be perpetuall But the causes are perpetuall which bee to gouuerne the church by the rules of his worde and that ecclesiastically Therefore the Eldership is perpetuall 2 If Christ be the author of the Eldership and left it by the Apostles to be established in the Church then it is perpetual for his commission giuen to the Apostles is to bee obserued vnto the ende of the worlde But Christ is the author of it as appeareth both by his giuing of the giftes for the particular members thereof and the whole body of it as also in that the Apostles did establishe it in the church who went not frō their commission 1. Cor. 11. 12. Therefore the Eldershippe is perpetuall 3 Whatsoeuer is the commandement of God once deliuered by him is neuer repealed againe and to be acknoweledged of euery spirituall man that same is to be receyued by the Church of God to be perpetuall But such is the gouernment of the church by Pastors Doctors and Elders and so of the whole Eldership as appeareth in that they are all mentioned in the writings of S. Paule whiche are so esteemed 1. Cor. 14. 37. Therefore the

the Lorde But the former is true as the Historie teacheth vs Therefore must the latter needes be true also 4 That which giueth comfort vnto a man in the time of his troubles must haue a warrant out of Gods worde But euery lawfull calling giueth comfort vnto a man in the time of his troubles Therefore euerie lawfull calling hath a warrant out of Gods word 5 That which helpeth Gods people forward in godlines must haue a warrant out of Gods worde for God hath promised a blessing to his owne ordinance onlie But euery lawfull calling in the Church helpeth Gods people forwarde in godlines Therefore euerie lawfull calling hath a warrant out of Gods worde Therefore if Iohn did prooue his calling out of the Scriptures if euerie calling vnder the lawe was warranted out of the scriptures if Corath c. were punished for enterprising that which they had no warrant for out of the scriptures if comfort in troubles commeth onely from the scriptures and lastly if euery help to godlines is warranted in the scriptures then c. They confesse all these reasons to bee true but doe denie that the Archbish. lord Bish. c. bee distinct Ministers from others Whitgift pag. 303. which wee hold T. C. 2. booke pag. 438. and proue it thus 1 Those thinges that haue diuers efficient causes are diuers Our BB. and the Ministers of the worde haue diuers efficient causes for the one is the ordinance of God the other the constitution of humane pollicie as themselues doe confesse Therefore they are distinct Ministers from others 2 A diuers forme maketh diuers things the Ministers of the word and the Lord Bishops haue diuers formes for their ordination euen in the Church of England is diuers seeing one Lord Bishop may ordaine a Minister But there must be three to ordaine one of them therefore they are distinct Ministers 3 Members of one diuision are distinct one from another the L. Bishops and ordinarie ministers bee members of one diuision for vsually the Ministers bee diuided into the rulers and them that are to bee ruled therefore they are distinct Ministers 4 The things that haue diuers effects are diuers in them selues one from another the L.BB. and other Ministers haue diuers effects for the one effecteth rule and gouernment the other subiection and obedience Therefore they are diuers and distinct Ministers 5 They that be imployed about diuers thinges are diuers one from another The L.BB. and the ordinarie Ministers be imployed about diuers things for the one is exercised in generall view of many congregations and the other in the particular direction of one Therefore they bee distinct Ministers 6 That which is perpetuall and that which may be taken away by men are distinct one from another The office of the Minister is perpetuall Ephes. 4. 13. and the Bishops may be taken away as themselues doe confesse Therfore they are diuers and distinct Ministers Therfore if the Ministers of the worde and Lord BB. proceede from diuers causes if they haue their being by diuers formes if they be members of one diuision which in nature cannot bee one if they produce diuers effects if they bee exercised about diuers subiectes Lastly if the one bee perpetuall and the other but for a time then must it needes follow that they are diuers and distinct Ministers one from another The name of an Archbishop and also the office that he executeth is contrarie to the worde of God First the reasons that prooue it vnlawful to giue the name vnto any man in the church are these 1 No man may haue the name giuen him which is proper to our Sauiour Iesus Christe But the name of Archbishop is proper vnto our Sauiour Iesus Christe as appeareth in the places quoted therefore no man may haue the name of Archb. giuen vnto him 2 If the name of Pope be therefore odious because of that Antichriste who is intituled therewith then must also the name of Archbishop when it is ascribed vnto any mortall man for so much as it is the title of a speciall member of that kingdome of Antichrist But the former is true euen by their owne confession Whitgift pag. 300. Therefore must the latter be true also But they obiect diuers things against this for the proouing of the name Archb. to bee lawfully giuen vnto some men which together with their answeres doe brieflie followe 1 Obiection Clemens alloweth of those names as Polydor reporteth lib. 4. cap. 12. Answere Polydor is but the reporter and M. Iewel hath prooued euidently against Harding that Clemens is counterfeite and worthie of no credite Obiection Erasmus saith that Titus was an Archbishop Answere He spake as the times were wherein hee liued but that proueth not that he helde him one in deed no more then our naming of the Archbishop of Canterbury when wee speake of him proueth that wee like and allow his authoritie 3 Obiection Anacletus saith that Iames was the first Archbishop of Ierusalem Answere He is forged as our answeres to the Papists haue shewed but a witnes of better credite calleth him only a Bishop Euseb. lib. 2. cap. 23. and Simon bishop after him lib. 3. ca. 22. And Iraen saith lib. 4. ca. 63. that the Apostles ordained Bishops euerie where making no mention of Archbishop 4 Obiection The Councell of Nice Canon 6. mentioneth a Metropolitan Bishop Answere That proueth nothing for it was only as much as to say the Bishop of the chiefe citie Secondly the reasons that prooue the office of the Archbishop vnlawfull be these 1 Euerie Ministerie that is lawfull must be of God The office of the Archbishop is not of God for that he is not described in the worde and them selues confesse that hee is of humane pollicie Therefore the office of the Archbishop is vnlawfull 2 That Ministerie whose originall is vnknowen hath no warrant from Gods worde and consequently is vnlawfull The originall of the Archb. is vnknowne as they confesse Whitegift pag. 351. Therefore it is vnlawfull 3 That office which is needles in the church is also vnlawfull to bee exercised in the same The office of the Archbishop is needlesse for the Ministerie is perfect without it as the Apostle proueth Ephes. 4. 13. Therefore the office of an Archb. is vnlawfull 4 If all the gifts needfull for the prefecting of the church be appropriated vnto other Ministeries then is his Ministerie vnlawfull But all the needefull giftes are appropriated vnto Pastours Doctours Elders and Deacons whereof he is none Therefore his office is vnlawfull 5 That office is vnlawful which none may lawfully giue But none may lawfully bestowe the office of an Archbishop because none can giue any new gifts to adorne him withal Therefore his office is vnlawfull This reason beeing vsed of all founde diuines against the Pope is of the same value against the Archbishop 6 If the office of an Archbishop bee lawefull then it is either in respect of his

A demonstration of the trueth of that Discipline which Christ hath prescribed in his worde for the gouernment of his Church in all times and places vntill the end of the world Wherein are gathered into a plain forme of reasoning the prooft thereof out of the Scriptures the euidence of it by the light of reason rightlie ruled and the testimonies that haue been giuen thereunto by the course of the Church certaine hundreths of yeares after the Apostles time and the generall consent of the Churches rightly reformed in these latter times according as they are alleadged and maintained in those seuerall bookes that haue been written concerning the same Math. 21. 38. The husbandmen said among themselues this is the heire come let vs kill him and let vs take his inheritance Luke 19. 27. Those mine enemies vvhich vvould not that I should raigne ouer them bring hither and flea them before me To the supposed Gouernors of the Church of England the Archbishops Lord Bishops Archdeacons and the rest of that order MANY and most euident haue our declarations been concerning the trueth of that gouernment which Christe hath prescribed in his worde for the ruling of the Church which we haue manifested vnto you both by our writings and speeches as occasion hath been offered neuer hath any one of you taken in hande to say anie thing against it but it hath made his eyes to dazle as the clearest Sun-shining whereby hee hath been driuen to wander hither and thither groping for euasions and yet coulde not escape but hath falne into infinite most mostrous absurdities and blasphemous assertions as by their writinges yet extant it may appeare so forcible is the trueth to amaze the painesayers thereof and so pregnant is falshood to beget and bring foorth thousands of absurdities and euery one worse then other And will you still continue in your damnable and most diuelishe course Haue you solde your selues vnto Satan to fight for him vntill you bee dammed in hell with him Haue you morgaged the saluation of your soules and bodies for the present fruition of your pompe and pleasure is it because you see not what you should doe It may be so for many are so blinde that they grope euen at noone day but me thinkes it can hardly be so vnlesse you bee they that haue eyes see not for the cause hath been by the blessing of God so managed that many plough-men artificers and children doe see it and know it and are able by the worde of God to iustifie it and condemne you to bee aduersaries vnto the Gospell in resisting it But you thinke that gouernment not so needfull and your fault but small if it be any in continuing your course begunne The necessitie of the thing is many wayes apparant both in that it hath so plentifull warrant from Gods own word as the course of this booke doth uidently declare and also in that the Gospell can take no roote nor haue any free passage for want of it and the greatnesse of your fault appeareth by this that in so doing you are the cause of all the ignorance Atheisme schismes treasons poperie and vngodlinesse that is to be founde in this lande which we challenge to proue to your faces if we may indifferently be heard wherof in the meane while we will giue you a taste for the first it is cleare that you are the causers of that damnable ignorance wherein the people are so generallie wrapped for that you haue from time to time stopped the streames of knowledge in those places where the Lorde in mercie bestowed the same and in steed of able and painefull Ministers haue pestered the Churche eyther with presumptuous proude persons that are esteemed learned and take no paines to bringe the people vnto the knowledge of Iesus Christe or which is the greatest number suche ignoraunt Asses and filthie swine as are not worthie to liue in a well ordered common-wealth and that you are the cause of all Atheisme it is plaine for one may as in deede many doe professe it and you say nothing to him for it If the most filthie liuer will fawne vpon you and bribe your seruants you will not only fauour him but assist him against any godly Minister or other but if any that feare God refuse to come vnder the least of your popish ceremonies hee shall bee molested till his purse be emptie or els by your tyrannous dealing he haue made shipwrack of a good censcience And are not you the cause of all schismes that make a hotch-pot of true religion and poperie and so giue some occasion to fall into this course and others into that And it is as cleare that you are so farre the cause of all treasons as without you they had not bin for if euery Church had had her gouernment according to Christes institution our young Gentlemen and students had not bin for want of teaching careful ouersight made a pray vnto the seducers and consequently to those practises which haue brought the bodies of so manie vnto Tyborne and their soules into hell and who but you be the causes of Poperie whilest you vse them so well let them doe wat they list yea and keepe them in office authoritie vnder you yea which more is giue them such offices as none that is not popish can execute I speak not of the ignorance which by your meanes raigneth euerie where which as they confesse is the mother of their deuotion and you are the wretched fathers of that filthie mother whereby you must needes be grandfathers at the least to all kind of poperie And who can without blushing denie you to bee the cause of all vngodlines seeing your gouernment is that which giueth leaue to a man to be any thing sauing a sounde Christian. For certainely it is more free in these dayes to bee a Papist Anabaptist of the famely of loue yea any most wicked one wahtsoeuer then that which we should be and I could liue these twenty yeres any such in Englande yea in a Bishops house it may bee and neuer bee muche molested for it so true is that which you are charged with in a Dialogue lately come foorth against you since burned by you that you care for nothing but the maintenance of your dignities bee it to the damnation of your owne soules and infinite millions moe Enter therefore nowe at the last into the serious confideration of these thinges remember that one day you must bee presented before the tribunall seate of Iesus Christe to bee arraigned for all the soules that haue gone to hell seeing you will needes bee the rulers of the Churche since the Gospell first appeared in this land then shall you not be excused with this the Queene and Counsell will haue it so not with that our state cannot beare it For it shall be said vnto you why do you not informe thē better of my will why taught you them not to worship with

haue onlie executed iustice vpon vs as malefactors and they perswade men that we desire a thing not warranted by the worde not heard of in the Church of God vntill within this fewyeares nor tollerable in any Christian Common-weal whatsoeuer The which monstrous slaunders albeit they haue been many wayes and by many men of moste worthie giftes detected and made knowne in those seuerall bookes that haue beene published concerning the same yet haue I thought it necessarie in an other course to write also of it The course of my enterprise is first in respect of the fauorers of the desired reformation secondlie of the aduersaries of the saeme the fauorers of it are also of two sorts Ministers of the word priuate persons both I hope may haue profit by it Concerning the former when these woefull troublees that were renued vppon vs by that wretched subscription that was euery where vrged did begin to increase I thought it meete to betake my selfe vnto that which I had read or might any way by studie finde out concerning the cause and collected all into a briefe summe referred euery thing vnto some head which beeing euer present with mee might furnishe mee to aunswere in the defence of the trueth though it were of a sodaine by which thorow the blessing of God I found such profit in my seuerall troubles that I thought it a course not altogether vnprofitable for others also and vpon that occasion betooke my selfe vnto a more serious meditation about the matter and communicating the thing with diuers verie worthie men I founde encouragement and heartening on generallie by all whom I made acquainted therewith so that I trust the iudgements yea and wishes also of others so iumping with mine manie Ministers that loue the cause and haue not so throughlie studied as were meet they should may reape some profite therby Now concerning priuate men that loue the cause some haue great affaires in hande and haue no leasure to reade the seuerall bookes of this argument some when they reade are not of sufficient capacitie to conceiue the force of a reason or to make vse of it to informe themselues in the grounded knowledge of the cause thereby some which is the generall fault of our religious Gentlemen will take no paines to reade some are poore and not able to buye the bookes which might let them see the cause all these I hoope may finde helpe in some measure heereby Nowe concerning the aduersaries vnto the cause they are of two sortes also they that know it and they that are ignorant of it the former if they write any thing against it are contented to deale in so rouing a course as may rather arise vnto great volumes then soundlie to say any thing against the cause Wherein D. Whitgift but especially D. Bridges haue giuen vs an euident example and these with others of their iudgement though none in these latter dayes haue written more vnlearnedly then they of any argument of diuinitie what soeuer are contented to make the world beleeue if men will be so wilfully seduced that our argumentes bee no arguments that they be grounded vpon false foundations and that we are not able to conclude our cause in any forme of reasoning The course that is heere taken I trust shall shewe that they are lyers the other sort of aduersaries be they that be meerly ignorant of anie thing either for it or against it and perswading themselues that the sway and shew of the worlde must needes carry the truth with it doe like blinde bayardes boldly venture to say any thing against it and thinke they doe well Now of all these sorts of people I haue to request some thing I hope I shall obtaine my request at the least at the handes of some of them The first sort of fauorers which be the Ministers I intreate that as they tender the glory of God and honour of the cause which they stand in so they would diligently employ themselues in this that they may be found able to defend the same by sounde and euident groundes out of the worde and so much the rather for that the aduersaries doe greatly triumph when they meete with one that professeth the cause and is not able to defend it and confute the gaine sayers of it The second sort of fauourers be the priuate persons that loue the cause whom I beseech to be carefull as of all other pointes of religion of this that they grow in the knowledge of the worde of God whereby they may be able vpon their owne knowledge to defende the trueth and not giue the enemie any occasion to thinke or say that they be of that minde because such and such Ministers whom they doe affect doe thinke so Now concerning the former sort of aduersaries to wit they that know it I pray them to looke into their own hearts they shall finde they mislike it either because it correcteth their excessiue pompe and maintenance or requireth more trauaile in their Ministerie then they are willing to vndergoe or at the least controlleth that dissolutenesse of behauiour wherein they willingly wallow and if it would please God to bring them to a serious meditation of this that it is the will of the mightie God before whom they must be called to giue an account which they doe resist they would I doubt not more carefully looke about them And lastly for them that be ignorant of the cause speake euill of that they knowe not let them if they will be admonished vouchsafe to reade this little booke and wey the reasons with an vpright iudgement which shall cause them at the least to suspend their sharpe censures which so vsuallie appeare in their ordinarie communication and concerning vs all let vs know for one day we shall be sure to feele it that the controuersie is not about goates wooll as the Prouerbe faith neither light trifling matters which may safely be followed or reiected as in deed the enemies of this cause do confidentlie affirm but about no lesse matter then this whether Iesus Christ shall be King or no For if none is said to be a King but he that ruleth by the scepter of his lawes thē the turning out of these orders which Christ hath prescribed in his word for the ruling of the church is to giue him the title and denie him the authoritie belonging to the same and so in trueth to make him an Idoll making him to carrie a shew of that which hee is not and with the crucifiers of him to put a reede in his hand in steed of his yron rod and crowning him with thornes in steede of the crowne of greatest glorie which is the cause that so many Atheistes spit in his face and so many godlesse persons doe make but a iest of him but when hee commeth to shewe him self in his glorious maiestie it shalbe said vnto all these sortes of aduersaries Those mine enimies which would not that I should raigne

euery good minister and also in that hee describeth no other minister but the Bishoppe Therefore there ought to be a Bishop in euerie congregation 2 S. Paules bishoppes and his deacons were appointed to one place as appeareth both in the description of them and the practise of the Apostles But the Deacons were in euerie congregation which appeareth Phil. 1. 1. Act. 6. 2. that office being needfull euery where and in that it continued so longer then the office of Bishoppes Athanasius Apol. 2. Ierome contra Luciferianos c. Therefore there ought to be a Bishop in euery congregation 3 That which Paule enioyned to Titus is also to be practised alwayes in the like case But he commaunded him to ordaine Elders in euery Citie Tit. 1. 5. which are expounded in the next verse to be Bishops Therefore there must bee a Bishop in euery congregation 4 Euery Church should haue her Communion table euery Church her Bishop 5 Where there was founde anie worthie to be a Bishopp there a bishoppe was appointed and where there was not to furnishe both bishop and preaching Elder he meaneth the Doctor there the Apostles made a bishoppe and left the Elder 6 If a Bishop run into a slaunder and many Bishops can not suddenlie be gathered his cause shalbe hearde of twelue Bishops c. 7 If an Elder bee accused hee may call sixe Bishops from the places harde by 8 Stories make mention of Bishoppes of little townes as Soticus bishop of the village Cuman Mares bishopp of a small towne called Solicha Gregorie bishoppe of a small citie called Nazianzum The bishop of a Castle 9 A minister that is to saye a bishopp and a little after the Apostle doeth plainely teache that a minister and a Bishop is all one and vpon Titus a bishop and a minister are the same and ad Oceanū with the ancient fathers Bishops and Elders were all one 10 D. Barnes in his sixt article sayeth I will neuer beleeue neyther can I euer beleeue that one man may by the lawe of God be a bishop of two or three cities yea of a whole countrie for that it is contrarie to the doctrine of S. Paule who writing to Titus commaundeth that he should ordaine a bishop in euerie towne 11 It is pitie to see howe farre the office of a Bishop is degenerated from the originall in the Scripture it was not so in the beginning when Bishops were at the best as the Epistle to Titus testifieth that willeth him to ordayne in euerie citie c. They knowe the primitiue Churche had no such Bishops as we haue vntill the time of Siluester the first Therefore if a Bishop and a Minister be all one if bishops were to bee where Deacons are who were in euery congregation if Paule enioyned Titus to ordayne bishops in euery citie and if euerie Church had her Bishop a long time after the Apostles as appeareth by the testimonies of Councelles Histories and learned writers both olde and newe then must it needes followe that there ought to bee a Bishop in euerie Congregation CHAP. 11. FOr the further reuealing of the trueth God hath ordayned that there should be in the Church Doctours whose office is to be employed in teaching of doctrine and is an office different from that of the Pastour The latter parte of this proposition is the thing whiche especiallie they doe denie whiche is thus prooued to bee true 1 Those which the Apostle in speaking of distinct officers doeth distinguishe one from another are seuerall and distinct one from another But the Apostle doeth distinguish the Pastour and Teacher one from another Rom. 12. 7. 8. and Ephes. 4. 11. euen as hee distinguisheth man and woman Gal. 3. 28. See the Greeke of them both Therefore the office of Pastour and Doctour are distinct one from another 2 As are the giftes that adorne offices so are the officers them selues for the execution of the office consisteth in the employing of the giftes But the giftes of the Pastour Doctour are diuers as appeareth 1. Cor. 12. 8. and by experience for some hath an excellent gifte in doctrine and not in application and others excell in application and exhortation that are verie meane in deliuering of doctrine Therefore the office of a Pastour and Teacher are distinct one from another 3 Those that are to take a diuers course in teachinge are diuers and different in their functions for els why shoulde they be enioyned to take a diuers course But the Pastour is to take one course and the Doctour another for the one is to direct him selfe principallie to exhorte and the other to attende vpon doctrine Rom. 12. 7. 8. Therefore the office of Pastour and Doctour be distinct offices the one from the other 4 The ecclesiasticall stories especiallie speakinge of the Church of Alexandria doe vsuallie make a difference betwixt the Bishop and the Doctor 5 Cathedrall Churches haue yet some shewe thereof left in them who besides the Bishop haue also one that readeth a Lecture in diuinitie 6 If the distinguishing of them make more for the building of the church then the vniting of them then are they to be distinguished and not made all one But the former is true as appeareth by this that hardlie is a people brought to a sounde knowledge of godlines by him that instructeth in doctrine continuallie and as hardlie are wee stirred vppe to a zealous care of our duetie though we be exhorted continuallie which both should bee with lesse continuance if one man were to performe all Therefore they are to bee esteemed distinct offices and not partes of one office whiche one is to performe Therefore if the Apostle Paul distinguisheth them one from another if God doe vsuallie bestowe doctrine and exhortation vpon seuerall persons wherein eche is founde to excell and to bee no bodie in the other if the Pastour bee commaunded to take one course in teaching and the Doctor another if Ecclesiasticall stories doe vsuallie distinguish them if Cathedrall Churches haue yet some steppes lefte of the distinction if to distinguish them maketh more to the building of the Church then to vnite them then must it needes followe that the office of Pastor and Doctour be distinct and different the one from the other CHAP. 12. EVerie congregation ought to haue Elders to see into the maners of the people and to bee assistant vnto the Ministers in the gouernement Ecclesiasticall T. C. booke 1. pag. 174. Dise fol. 120. which they denie Whitgift pag. 627. and their practize in keepinge them out of the Church but it is prooued to be true by these reasons following 1 That which the Apostles established in euery Congregation ought still to continue seeing the Church must bee ruled by the same lawes that it was ruled by then and needeth as great furtherance nowe as it did then But the Apostles established Elders in euery congregation Actes 14.