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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59215	Rex theologus the preachers guard and guide in his double duty of prayer and preaching : deduced from scripture, reason, and the best examples : in three parts ...	Seppens, Robert.	1664 (1664)	Wing S2560; ESTC R37366	44,281	75

1 Pet. 2.25 The Second is that the authority and power necessary for the Government of his Church which was inherent in his own person during the oeconomie of his Humiliation he did before his Ascension delegate to his Apostles Inchoatively Iohn 20.21 22 23. fully and perfectly upon the day of Pentecost when by the descending of the holy Ghost upon them he endued them with power from above according to his promise Luke 24.49 Acts 1.8 But the particular delegation to this power of preaching we have in particular mentioned by it self Once Mat. 10.6 7. But this was limited to the lost sheep of the house of Israel The generall commission was given them Mat. 28.19 20. In which our Lord and Saviour impowereth them as Planters to preach the Gospel to unbelievers as Governours and Pastors to feed his flocks the Church If it be objected here That our Lord and Saviour granted a Commission to the Seventy to preach the Gospell as well as to the Apostles Luke 10.1 I grant it but withall answer That that was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 temporary of short duration and to expire at their return But this is of perpetual duration And that 's the third thing I would lay as a ground that the Apostolate is of perpetual duration though the Apostles taken divisim in their persons were to die shortly after yet taken conjunctim with their Successours as Abraham with his Posterity they are to continue to the Worlds end Though the Persons of the Apostles were mortal like other men yet the Office of the Apostolate was quoad ordinariam potestatem ever to continue in the Church This is evident First by Christs promise added by way of encouragement in their Commission Mat. 28. ult I am with you to the end of the World but he could not be with them in their persons to the end of the World and therefore though they failed in their persons yet the Apostolate must continue Secondly by matter of fact for when Judas by transgression fell Matthias by the eleven was chosen to the Apostleship in his room and it was thought in St. Peters judgment a thing necessary Acts 1.20 When James was slain Saul and Barnabas were called to the Apostolate And 't is very memorable what Clemens Romanus in his Epistle to the Corinthians avoucheth to this purpose Our Apostles saith he knew by the Lord Jesus Christ that there would be contention 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the name of Episcopacy and for this cause being endued with perfect prescience ordained the foresaid persons and afterwards made a Law or order that when they died other approved men should succeed in their Office and execute the Function Lastly by the testimony of St. Paul Ephes 4. ver 11 12 13. He gave some Apostles c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 till we all meet together and that could not be within the compass of that Generation wherein the twelve primary Apostles lived and therefore there were Secondary Apostles to follow them Lyra upon the place observes that those words till we all meet c. do denote the duration of that Office till Christs coming again to judgment All the question is now concerning the Persons who succeed in the Apostolate and we might supersede that enquiry if we would hearken to the unanimous suffrage and voice of Antiquity delivered to us by St. Jerome in his Epistle to Marcella against Montanus who he saith places the Bishops in the third place but apud nos Apostolorum locum tenent Episcopi with us Bishops hold the place of the Apostles Thus much is evident out of the Scripture it self that as the Apostolate is called by St. Luke a Bishoprick Acts 1.20 so afterwards Bishops were called Apostles which argues the identity of the Apostolate and Episcopacy St. Paul was none of the twelve yet called an Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. James Bishop of Jerusalem was none of the twelve 1 Cor. 15.5 7. yet called an Apostle Gal. 1.19 Epaphroditus was none of the twelve yet called an Apostle Phil. 2.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus Timothy Titus Clemens and many others being Bishops are all called by the Ancients Apostles All which abundantly shews the identity of the ordinary power of the Apostleship and Episcopacy These things being premised it will be easie to determine to whom the Office of Preaching chiefly belongs namely to those who succeed in the Apostolate to them who are Secondary Apostles Bishops as will further appear by three things First because Bishops have the chief cure of all Souls in their Diocese all Presbyters entrusted with the cure of Souls are but their Curates and so were anciently called and so styled still in our Liturgy Send down upon our Bishops and Curates c. in the 40. Canon of the Apostles Presbyters and Deacons are forbidden to attempt any thing without the Bishop and the reason is added nam Domini populus ipsi commissus est pro animabus earum hie redditurus est rationem The Lords people is committed to him and for their Souls he must give an account This agrees with a Canon of St. Pauls Heb. 13.17 Obey them that have the rule over you for they watch for you Souls as they that must give an account Who are these Rulers whom the Apostle requires us to obey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he speaks of Bishops saith Oecumenius Bishops then have the chief cure of Souls Secondly because they are concerned to see the Unity of the Church kept The chief end saith St. Jerom of Episcopacy was to obstruct the diffusion of Heresie and Schism Comment in Titum cap. 1. In toto orbe decretum est ut unus de Presbyteris electus superponeretur caeteris ut Schismatum semina tollerentur It was decreed in all the World that one being chosen out of the Presbyters should be set over the rest that the seeds of Schism should be taken away But how can Episcopacy be a deletory of Schism and Heresie if the Bishop have not the chief power of regulating the Pulpit and prescribing forms of wholsome Doctrine within which all shall be obliged to contain themselves without this 't is impossible to preserve either Peace or Truth in any Nation or Christianity it self which is made up of both these Thirdly by the Titles given them in the holy Scripture they are called Prophets not of prediction only but of ordinary Function Acts 13.1 they are called Doctors Ephes 4.11 they are called Pastors Pastor is the Bishops Title saith the Scholiast and therefore the Apostle does not distinguish them as he did the other He hath given some Pastors some Doctors but joyns them by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some Pastors and Doctors for certain the Title of Pastor remained peculiar to Bishops for many hundred years after Christ insomuch that the most Learned Bishop of Winchester does challenge Moulin to shew him where ever it was given to a Presbyter Eò ergo te revoco