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A45328	An apologie for the ministry and its maintenance wherein is set forth the necessity, dignity and efficacy of a gospel-ministry against the Socinians, Swenckfieldians, Weigelians, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, Libertines and the rest of that rout ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing H425A; ESTC R28055	88,780	120

proud severity or a supercilious gravity but by mildeness and a sweet composure of manners and b●haviours strive to win them engage them to us and make them our own so shall we be able to have an Influence upon them prevail with them and live profitably and comfortably amongst them Love me said ●ustine and say what you will and do what you will As an Oratour should not onely be qualif●●d with prudence but with benevolence also so a Preacher For as the Philosopher observes it con●●ibutes much to the creditableness of the Orator if the Auditours be perswaded that he stands well affected to them The gravity of a Minister should not be such as may affright men from coming before him but such as compose them to reverence that do come Let us feed the Flock of Christ not imperiously as Lords much less rigidly as Tyrants but gravely and mildely as Fathers with a fatherly benevolence and affection desiring rather to be loved then feared To this purpose speaks La●renti●● upon 1 Pet. 5. 3. Let every Pastor govern the Church providently and prudently not straining his power to its utmost rigour but exercising a spirit of Lenity not alwayes in all things towards all using his utmost power and au●hority but sometimes denying something of his own right as Paul often did 1 Cor. 9. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 2. 2 Thes. 3. 9. In a word let us imitate Basil who for patience and constancy was an Adamant for meekness a Loadstone 6. Let a Pastour feed his flock zealously not carelesly and coldly Let us cry aloud and lift up our voyce like a Trumpet because we speak to dead men and stones Let us pray the father of Light to touch our tongues with a coal from the Altar that our lips may breath out nothing but what is pure and heavenly that we may be Lamps burning in zeal faith and Love and shining in words and works that we may be coals to our selves and lamps to our people such was Iohn Ioh. 5. 35. Wherefore Christ gave not fleshly but fiery tongues to the Primitive Preachers that they might preach zealously with them and enflame the hearts of their hearers Act. 2. 3. Excellent is that commendation of Luther VVhatever Luther speaks or writes pi●●ces into the ●earts and leaves a wonderfull sting in the cons●●ences of the hearers Let us look unto our Saviou● whom Zeal for Gods glory eat up Let us imitate Elijah qui zelando zelavit who was very zealous for the Lord all ●i●e for God whom God therefore sent for in a Fiery Chariot Let us imita●● Elisha Isaiah Ier●miah Ier. 20. 9. Iohn Baptist Paul Gal 2. 11. Who all being enflamed with the fire of Love did burne the cold hearts of their hearers with zealous Discourses Let our hearts our tongues our hands be all of a fire that we may bring men from sin unto God Even immoderate z●al is better than coldness in Gods cause for it is an error of love and not a love of error Let us neglect nothing through idleness or cowardi●● which may conduce to the Salvation of the soules of our people In a word let us imitate the holy Seraphims who have their name from fire who burning in zeal are alwayes in readiness to execute every command of God having with them six wings with which we may speedily move upward downward forward backward on this hand on that hand as God calls So zealous was the Angel who had the everlasting Gospel to preach who did not creep nor walk nor run but fly with a swift wing through the midst of Heaven Rev. 14. 16. See VVard's Coal from the Altar p. 390. 7. The word of God is to be dispensed purely without any sophisticall or superstitious comments Let nothing be said of God without Gods authority In all doubts we must have recourse to the Law and the Testimony Isa. 8. 20. Moses returning from the Mount brought commands not his own but Gods Exod. 19. 7 8. The Apostles Commission runns not for them to teach humane Traditions private Fancies but to teach all things that Christ Iesus had commanded them Mat. 28. 20. that is either by himself or by his Prophets Therefore the Apostles themselves father their Doctrines upon Christ 1 Cor. 11. 23. I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you so 1 Thes. 4. 2. Ye know what Commandements we gave you by the Lord Iesus● As much as if he had said The Commandements which I gave you are not mine but Christs he is the Law-giver I am onely his Messenger So also 1 Pet. 4 11. if any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God Let him be a Teacher well instructed in the Word of God and produce Oracles as it were out of Gods mouth God cannot abide unlawfull Mix●ures that men should play the huxters with his Word or plow with the oxe of his Word and the Asse of humane traditions together God will not have men set their thresholds by his and their posts by his posts Ezek. 43. 8. VVhat is the cha●●e to the wheat What are false Prophecies to the truth of God Ier. 23. 28. Mens inventions are like light and empty cha●●e that has no substance in it nor give any spirituall nourishment but Gods Word is nu●ritive like the purest wheat We are called to be dispencers of the Ministries of God not broachers of out own groundless conceptions prop●gators of the old way and Doctrine not coiners of a new If an Angel from heaven should preach any other Gospell let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. Reject therfore all new and feigned worships and worship God after a way that is Gods 8. The word of God is to be dispensed plainly He is the best Preacher not who s●●atcheth the ears but who pricketh and pierceth the heart Therefore does Paul profess that he had rather speak 〈◊〉 words in a known and intelligible Language than five thousand in a strange and unknown tongue 1 Cor 14 19. Let us preach a crucified Christ in a crucified stile not with the perswasive words of mans wisdome but in the demo●station of the spirit and power not Rhetorically but Apostolic●lly not so much fi●ely as soundly not so curiously as carefully not so ●dmirably as intelligibly Let our speech be simple witho●● figures plain without mysteries pure without mixtu●e not curious painted affected unnecessarily adorned and so shall they be as fiery darts piercing the inmost conscience and strong hammers bre●king the hardest rock 9. The Word of God is to be dispensed fully For so runns the Dispensers Commission Mat. 28. 20. all things whatsoever c. The least particle of Gods Word is not fraudulently to be detained but the whole counsel of God without addition or diminution is to be declared Act. 20. 27. And then if any soul dye it shall fall by its own hand and not by ours and its blood charged upon its won head not ours when we shall faithfully

4. 11 12 1. Cor. 3. 10. For by their doctrine the people of God are built up and do grow in faith and mutuall charity The Church of God is a building the Master builder or Architect is God the inferiour workmen are his Ministers whereof some ●ay the foundation others build upon it that so we may become as a temple fit for God to dwell in The prophets of old were Gods masons Hos. 6. 5. I have hewed them by the prophets For as the Mason cutts hews and squares the stones so by the means of the law do the Ministers of Christ hew us square prepare us that we may be fit materialls for the building up of a spirituall house Thus ought the Ministers of Christ like wise builders prepare every particular house committed to their charge to be some part in this building wherein let them use discretion according to the nature of their materialls breaking some stones in pieces before they can make good work of them squaring and smooting others by gentler instruments cu●tting and hewing all by the law and plaining and placing and compacting and building up by the Gospell all that are so cut 14. They are called Christs witnesses Ioh. 15. 27. Act. 1. 8. Rev. 2. 13. 11. 3. 22. 16. Now they witnesse to Christ both by their preaching as by a verball and their conversations as by a practicall and reall testimony For it every ordinary judge will look for faithfullnesse and veracity exact and personall knowledg of the thing and honesty and integrity of conversation in every one of his currant witnesses much more doth Christ require at the hands of his Ministers those extraordinary witnesses that by life as well as language they do truly freely explicitely ingenuously and constantly own and witnesse to him and his truth And that those qualifications of every su●●icient witnesse be by no meanes wanting in his witnesses to make them sufficient 15. They are called Servants of Iesus Christ Rom. 1. 1. Phil. 1. 1. sam 1. 1. Not servants of men of pri●ces but of that God who is above all men of that Monarch who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Neither are they of Gods ordinary sort of servants as all creatures are his servants by the right of creation Ps. 119. 91. Or as all the Elect are his servants by the right of redemption but his servants by vertue of their mission commission and ambassage after a more peculiar manner They are the servants of Christ by way of Eminence in that they doe him more Eminent service then others and in so serving him doe govern his which title yet doth enforce pains as well as conferr honour for a servant is all his Masters For him he works for him he wins to him he lives and dyes He doth all things for his Masters profit and according to his Masters pleasure So they owe to Christ what ever they have or are and therefore ought to lay out and expend whatever they have or are life liberty wit wealth for this honour and glory and esteem themselves great gainers in being profitable ●o him 16. They are called fathers 2. Kin. 2● 12 1 Cor 4● 15. 1. Thes. 2● 11. and frequently elsewhere because they are serviceable in the hand of God by means of the word of God to beget spirituall Children unto God For although God be our father principally and properly yet this hinders not but that his Ministers may be out spirituall fathers organically and analogically which title bespeaks love and ●everence which tributes God is pleased to allow parents Ex●d 20. 12. And if they have been fruitfull in this relation it will be their joy and Crown of rejoycing at the comming of Iesus Christ. 1. Thes. 2. 19. Let us pray therefore and let all that are already begotten by any of us to Christ Iesus pray that since God hath honoured us with the title of fathers he would also honour us with the relation of sons that so we may not be fathers without Children And let us all desire to encrease the family of Christ with Rachels importunity leaving out her impatience Lord give us Children before we dye 17. They are called Seers and the eyes of the body 1. Sam. 9● 9. I● 30 10 Cor 12. 17. They used to say in Israel Come let us go the seer for men prophesyed by visions and revelations Ezechiel saw visions of God Ezech. 1. 1. being enlightned by the spirit of God they saw things at a distance Hab 1 2. 1 And hence they are called seers for the prophets and pastors are that to the Church which the eyes are to the body Let us pray therefore that God would enlighten our minds wich the Psalmist Ps. 119. 18. Open thou our eyes that we may behold the wondrous things out of thy Law that so we may not be blind guides and seers that see nothing 18. They are called Christs Souldyers 2 Tim 2 3. 4. Now a souldier has much to doe and more to suffer their action is fighting 1. Tim 1. 18. Their suffering is not only the violence of their adversaries which they must sustain but they are exposed to hunger and thirst the heat of the day and the cold of the night and many wearisome watchings Hence the Apostle calls his fellow-Ministers fellow-Souldiers Phil 2. 25. Philem 1. 2● For although every believer be a Souldier Eph 6 12 13 Yet amongst those the Ministers obtain the first place as they that lead the troops and receive the first impressions of the enemyes fury There are Souldiers that are no Ministers and could happily with there were none and there are Ministers that do not act like souldyers But let them all know that they are called to a warfare that there is a combat prepared for them and that therefore they must either fight for Gods cause or dye for the cause of not fighting 19. They are called Guides of the Church Act. 8. 31. Rom. 2. 19. Heb. 13. 7 17 24. because they lead others in the ways of Salvation They are the examples of believers whom all behold for imitation and do conform themselves to as to a living law 1. Tim. 4. 12. Some sone has alluded to the Apostles words in verse Past●rs are the glasse the schoole the book VVhere peoples eyes do learn do read do look It is with an Emphasis that the Apostle calls them so oft the guides or the leaders in that 13. Chap. to the Hebrews Because they either lead or ought to lead the people of God in the ways of God For although it be proper to God onely to lead men yet because he leads them by his word he is pleased to communicate this honourable title to the preachers of this word 20. They are called the Charriot of Israel and the horsemen thereof as it is in an expresse aknowledgment 2. Kin. 2. 12. and 13. 14. and by a faire consequence from 1. Sam. 7 13. ●4 As long as Samuel lived the

Constant lib. 2. cap. 21. 36 39. Sozomen Hist Eccl. l. 2. cap. 8. l. 2. cap. 4. 3. Let them take heed lest the Levellers do also levell the weal publike and convert it into private-wealth for after the contempt of Moses follows the insurrection of the people Numb 26. Nay for this amongst other causes do these men decry Ministers because they are the pillars of the Magistracy But that I may handle these things the more exactly I will discuss this position There are certain and fixed stipends due to the Ministers of Gods VVord by a divine right from their people that they may be freed from the secular cares and wordly incumbrances and give up their whole selves to the work of the Ministry All the Churches of God are Patrons of this Truth the Opponents and Adversaries are the Anabaptistical party and other sectaries But that the thing may be the rather clear and evident I will 1. Confirm the position by the Testimony of the sacred Scripture 2. I vince the same by Arguments 3. Briefly answer the wranglings and break the Forces of the Truths Adversaries 1. The Truth is confirmed by the mouth of Truth it self even Christ Iesus whose words are express for it Mat. 10. 10 〈◊〉 10. 11. The Labourer speaking unto them that were to labour in the word is worthy of his hire Christs Ministers shall not want maintenance for the promise leans upon the justice of God which will not deceive them A true paraphrase of the word is this that the people ought by right to maintain those that preach the Gospel to them They ought by right to do it 〈…〉 which springs from poverty as its object without obliging the person upon whom it is bestowed to any work or duty save onely that by the law of nature the Alms-receiver is bound to be thankfull to and pray for the Alms-giver But what is given to the Ministers of Christ is not properly given upon the account of their poverty or is there be some respect had to their poverty yet not purely and onely upon that account but for their works-sake No one will say that he has received an Alms when he has received it with an obligation to a piece of service especially to a service that deserves much more to which Austin gives his suffrage saying It is his Power not his poverty when a Minister of the Gospel receives from his people for if we judge watchmen that watch by night for us and our estates worthy of wages what do the watchmen of our souls then deserve from what has been said I thus argue Whatsoever things 〈◊〉 due may be honestly demanded and ought to be honestly payed But maintenance and wages are due to the Ministers of the Gospel Therefore they are lawfully demanded by the Ministers and ought by right to be paid by the people 2. That which is due to labourers by the Law of nature is to be payed But a ju●● recompence is due to labourers by the Law of nature therefore it is to be paid 〈◊〉 But Ministers of the Gospel are not labourers but 〈◊〉 and slow-bellies Answ. So say idle and ignorant Anabaptists But I will con●idently averre that the labour of the mind far exceeds the work of the hands For although the Ministers of the word do not work with their hand yet if they diligently and faithfully discharge their office give diligence in reading watching over praying for preaching to admonishing reproving and comforting of their people c. it will be but an idle and unreasonable part to accuse any of them of idleness Either let their adversaries confess them to be Labourers or at once accuse all Souldiers Shepherds Husbandmen of idleness for such are they as was before made to appear 2. A second proof is easily fetch from Gal. 6. 6. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all good things That is 1. freely and liberally not covetously and repiningly 2. Not in some onely but in all temporall good things For as the Teachers communicates to the Learners their spirituall good things the knowledge of Christ and all heavenly Treasure so it is fit that the Learners communicate unto their Teachers temporall good things all things ordained for the relief of the necessities of an animall life which things carry no proportion in them to spirituall good things although the blind world put a great price upon them and stick not to preferre them before spirituall things It is a sad complaint that Musculus takes up Now that there are no Tithes no Revenues no stipends constituted by our Ancestors the people contribute to their Teachers so freely that whilst themselves either by covetousnesse contract all things unto or by luxury consume all things upon themselves the Minister of Christ has source dry bread with which to satisfie the hunger of himself or his But here men begin to flinch one pretends that he has a Family to maintain another that he has nothing to spare Others declaim against the Ministers They are cove●ous greedy insatiable men if they were right Gospel-Ministers they should have nothing of their own but should nakedly follow a naked Christ. To all which the Apostle given a sharp answer Gal. 6. 7. Be not deceived God is not m●cked c. Many men be deceived but in this you have to deal with God who cannot be will not be is not deceived 3. The Apostle judgeth them worthy of double honour who rule well especially they who labour in the Word and Doctrine 1. Tim. 5. 17. He would have a liberall honest and honourable allowance given to the Ministers of Christ not onely for nourishment but ornament not onely for necessity but for honour also For the manner of the Scripture is by Double to mean manifold Elisha in 2 King 29. aske a double portion of the spirit of Eliah ●hat is a very great and ●ealous spi●●t So Rev 18. 6. double unto her double according unto her works That is Let Babylon be punisht af●er a fuller measure Thus give unto them double honour that is honour them fully and freely maintain them cheerfully pay them stipends readily and as it is meet speak reverently and honourably of them Hence it appears that the maintenance of Ministers ought to be sufficient honourable certain 1. It ought to be sufficient to relieve their necessityes This is a sacrifice well pleasing to God an odour of a sweet smell Phil. 4. 18. I have received all things and abound I am full That is ye have not onely supplyed my necessi●yes but have also made me to abound not unto lust and luxury but for necessity and use Therefore the Holy Ghost expresses a stipend or a livelyhood by salt because it is as nec●ssary as salt To have maintenance from the Kings Pallace in the Chaldee is exprest by being salted with the salt of the pallace Ezra 4. 14. Even Christ himself received subsistence of the