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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43040	The sectaries downfall: or, A treatise of the calling of ministers Wherein the orthodox clergie are approved to be the onely true and lawfull pastors of the Church of God. That all others besides them, (pretend what they please) for their usurping the ministry, without any lawfull call, are but thieves and robbers, and seducers of the people. By William Harvey, minister of the Gospell of Iesus Christ.	Harvey, William, fl. 1657-1705.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1093A; ESTC R218427	16,757	49

bond-woman call themselves Sarazens as if they came from Sarah the free-woman And these mungrell Christians would make men beleeve they descend from heaven when indeed they ascend from Hell and their workes which they say are by Divine inspiration are by a Diabolicall delusion These men are like Conjurers who will have the names of God about their Circle when they are raising the Devill But if they be extraordinarily called as they say let them shew us their extraordinary Holinesss Learning and guifts of Gods Spirit Ah poore men if they come to this touchstone once their false Coine will soone appeare The bastard Eagle cannot behold this bright Sun Pray what learning is this to Call all the Ministers of the Gospell deceivers of the People to cry downe Tithes and call their lawfull maintenance Antichristian What learning to deny the God-head of our Saviour CHRIST JESVS to say that there is no Hell but that in a mans Conscience that all things come by Nature that baptizing of Infants is unlawful to deny Obedience to lawfull authority and a world of such stuffe And for Holinesse I blush that they are not asham'd to appropriate it to themselves when no Swine wallowes more in the mire then they in Sinne but I 'le stirre the Dung-hill no further least it raise a stinke THe Mediate or common and Ordinary calling is that Calling of God by ordinary meanes or by the Ministry of the Church by fit men appointed thereunto Although this Calling is by the Ministry of men yet neverthelesse it is Divine as well as the other and hath God likewise for its author For God not onely appoints in his Church Apostles immediatly called but also Teachers that are mediatly Called by the Ministry of men as you shall find 1. Cor. 12.28 and Ephes 4.11 And the Holy Ghost is said to have made and appointed Bishops and Elders in Ephesus who yet were not extraordinarily called by CHRIST but were Ordinary ordained by the Apostles Acts 20.28 Whereupon they are called the Embassadors of Christ as you have it 2 Cor. 5.20 And for this cause our saviour himselfe saith he that heareth you heareth me and hee that despiseth you despiseth me c. Luke 10,16 Hence that Protomartyr Stephen tels the Iewes Yee doe alwaies resist the Holy Ghost as your Fathers did so doe yee Acts 7.51 And St. Paul to the Thessalonians saith He therefore that despiseth despiseth not Man but GOD c. 1. Thes 4.8 But the Question is who ought all this while to ordaine and make Ministers The Politicks say this is in the power of the Secular Magistrate The Anabaptists they ascribe it to the Plebeans the mixed multitude and the Catholicks give it all to Bishops Now what is this One saith the Child is his the other his and the third his Can one Child belong to three Women no. Who then is the Mother of the Child They all make claime unto it Well I am but a foole to Solomon yet I will give it to none but share it amongst them The whole Church hath right to this Ordination and the severall Orders of Episcopacy Magistracy and People must have their due proportion In Confirmation hereof that thou maist be confident of it the practice of the Church in the Apostles time showeth This manifest in the choice and Election of Matthias Acts 1.15.23 And in the Election of the seaven Deacons the point is cleere Acts 6.23 c. Where in the sixth verse wee reade And the saying pleased the whole Multitude and so forth Their approbation was thought necessary in so weighty a matter And in the 15. of the Acts 2.22 it is said Then pleased it the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church to send Chosen men of their owne company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas namely Judas sirnamed Barsabas and Silas chief men among the Brethren Here Bellarmine cavils and saith that this Consent of the Church Non ex quadam necessitate sed ex Petri concessione It was not of any necessity but of Peters Concession only This is as good Divinity as another of his owne side who by these words of CHRIST Let these goe their way would needs defend the lawlesse estate of Clergie men But saith * In Eras Annot. 18. Iohn Erasmus this did hee doe RidiculÃ© fondly or foolishly If the Cardinall had but read that of the Acts cap. 6. ver 3. afore-named he would have found there That it was not Peter's grant alone but of all the rest of the Apostles The text is plaine Wherefore Brethren looke yee out among you Seaven men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and Wisdome whom wee may appoint over this businesse And this way of Ordination the Primative Church having it as it were by tradition from the Apostles own hands alwaies Religiously observed it As appeareth by this Ordinationes Sacerdotales non nisi sub Populi assistentis conscientia fieri oportet ut plebe praesente vel detegrantur malorum crimina vel bonorum merita Praedicentur sit Ordinatio justa Legittima quae omnium Suffragio judicio fuerit examinata * In Decret 15. Dist Sancta Râ—â€¦na Tâ—ste Erasmo Praefat. in Cyprian lib 1. Epist 4. The Ordinations of Priests ought not to be made unlesse the * By People is not meant the Ignorant and factious but the godly and judicious People have knowledge of it that so being present the faults of wicked men may be detected or the deserts of good men made knowne and that is a just and lawful Ordination which shall be by the Suffrage and judgement of all Not including any Sectaries for they by no meanes must be admitted or have any voice here As for the Magistrate we all know if the People much more he hath a voice in this our Ordination In the Election of Ambrose though the People did choose him it was ratified and confirmed by the Emperor * Socrat lib 4. C. 25 Tripar lib. 7. cap. 8. Valentinian And when Athanasius had nominated one Peter to succeed him that Voyce as Theodoret doth witness was confirmed not only by the Priest and People but by the approbation of the Magistrate To make an end one Iames Pamelius in his Annotations to Cyprian confesseth that not only in Africa but also in France Spaine Rome and every where this was the custome And saith further that it so continued all the times of the Emperours Charles the Great and Ludovick the Godly And thus J hope I have given you satisfaction in this Particular Where the Bishop ordaines the People approve and Magistrate confirmes there 's a lawfull Ordination Those therefore whom God hath joyned together let no man put a sunder Take them together and they are a perfect harmony but once seperate them and they foully jarre and are out of tune The Catholicks therefore doe greatly erre and are much out of the way in giving this Power and jurisdiction solely to the Bishops

as much danger as a Ship in a storme without Anchor or Cable ready every minute to be cast away for I may say of them as Solomon of a whore Their house is the way to hell going downe to the chambers of Death Prov. 7.27 O Lord J pray thee so to open the eyes of thy People and so to inlighten their understandings that they may know thy voyce alone in the mouth of thy faithful Ministers and that among all the changes and chances of this mortall life they and wee may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen And now I come to my fourth and last Particular viz. That every Minister being lawfully Called must attend upon his calling without medling with Secular affairs No man that warreth saith St. Paul entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life c. 2 Tim. 2.4 Which words saith * Super locum Theophilact are spoken to all Bishops When there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrewes because their Widowes were neglected in the daily Ministration Then the twelve saith the text called the multitude of the Disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of GOD and serve Tables Acts 6.1,2 Pluribus intentus minor est ad singula Sensus A mans mind busied about many things is lesse intent to any one thing alone I hope you will beleeve him that said it a man cannot serve two Master for either hee will love the one and hate the other or else he will cleave to the one and despise the other wee cannot serve GOD and Mammon Even so a man cannot serve two Callings well for if one be followed the other will be neglected If a Divine hath his thoughts too much upon the world he must of necessity be more remisse in the Service of God one cannot Plough and Cart at once The mischiefe of this was so well knowne to our fore-Fathers that Clerks were forbidden to meddle with Civill affaires as unbeseeming Divines and such as serve at the Altar Can Apost 6. 82. and Concil Chalcedonens can 7. act 15. Non Convenit unum duplicem habere Professionem saith St. Ambros It is not for one man to have two Professions The Prophet Isaiah will tell you what the Office of a Minister is Chap. 52. vers 6 7. J have set Watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem which shall never hold their peace day nor night Yee that make mention of the Lord keepe not silence and give him no rest c. When the Apostles were sent forth our Saviour saith And as yee goe Preach saying The Kingdome of heaven is at hand Math. 10.7 and Math. 28.19,20 Goe yee therefore and teach all Nations c. Teaching them to observe c. And to make an end St. Paul saith Woe be unto me if J Preach not the Gospell What can our Laicks then say for themselves What starting holes have they now By what Divinity or by what Logick can they prove it lawfull to Cobble all the weeke and Preach upon the Sabbath day To throw a Shuttle and cry What doe you lack Sir the six dayes and then presume in God his house to tell a Tale or their owne Dreames to the people Proh pudor Quis cui as they said of a simple unlearned man that succeeded St. Chrysostome Alas what a sory fellow is this In whose roome is he placed So may wee justly exclaime against this froth and filth who leap our of their Shops into a Pulpit Alas what sory fellowes are these In whose roome do they stand And as for that Common objection to maintain their actions St. Paul was a Tent-maker and some of the Apostles Fishermen c. it is so poore and void of Sence as it s not worth the answering In the meane time if they be still hardened seeing their wayes are perverse before the Lord as the Angel said to Balaam Num. 22.32 God give the People grace to avoid them as Mariners doe rocks and â—ands And as for them Hee that is filthy let him be filthy still Apoc. 22.11 And now my Brethren and fellow labourers in the Lord's harvest Let it be farre from you to doe the work of the Lord negligently Heare this and tremble J charge thee therefore before GOD and the Lord JESVS CHRIST who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and Kingdome c. Preach the word being instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine 2 Tim. 4.12 Never were there more ravening Wolves that come in Sheepes clothing in the memory of man Let us have a care Sirs then of the flock The thief we know commeth not but for to steale and to kill and to destroy Iohn 10.10 Let us then stand up and defend the poor Sheep of CHRIST If by our default any shall dye in his iniquity his blood will God require at our hand Ezek. 3.18 How doth it behoove thee then thou man of God to looke to thy charge and to take heed to thy Selfe and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made thee Over-seer to feed the Church of God which hee hath purchased with his owne blood as St. Paul chargeth the Elders of Ephesus Acts 20.58 But I blush to speaste it There be many Ministers that mind the world more then the weale of their Flock Here one is a Physitian another a Lawyer a third a Merchant One minds more the Ploughing of his field then the ploughing up the fallow ground of mens hearts and delights more to sow his Land then to cast the seed of God's saying word into the hearts of his Congregation You shall have them oftner at a Faire or Market to buy and sell then at their Studies for the good of mens Soules Hence it is that they are so cold and faint in their Exhortations and Reproofes to the people When they should be bold and lift up their voyees like Trumpeâ—s shew the people of God their transgressions and the house of Iacob their Sins Isiah 58.1 Then * Exod. 14.25 the Chariot wheeles of their zeale and devotion are taken off so that they drive heavily Not long since if a Minister was abus'd undeservedly hee had the Law to right him though that hedge be broken downe But saith Bishop * Babing in Pâ—â€¦ Babington If hee follow the Cow faire and Sow faire and so happen to get a broken pate as the Law saith he in this kind will not help him so I for my part and I too will not greatly pitty him And so I will conclude with that of St. Hierome Hierom. ad Nepot Negâ—tiatorem Clericum ex inope divitem ex ignobili gloriosum quasi quandam pestem fuge A worldly Minister growne rich from poverty glorious from baseness avoid and shun as a kind of Plague But againe in case of Necessity a Minister may step aside when

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