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A49813 A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson. Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691. 1680 (1680) Wing L728; ESTC R34510 85,782 120

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Subsumptions c. Were such Grave and Conscientious Persons saith this Author admitted into the Ministry as the Apostles ordained such Preaching set up as they practised and all other decryed then Thousands in the Nations would preach the Gospel for Conscience sake Paul speaking of the Aaronical Priesthood said No man taketh this Honour to himself but he that is called of God as Aaron was Heb. 5.4 Aaron was not to execute the Priests Office till called of God he was to be anointed with Oyl to have a Breast-plate and the Vrim and Thummim in it a Girdle c. Exod. 28. Without these he was not to Minister a Type of Christ and of the Evangelical Ministry fulfilled in the Substance Christ Jesus a Kingdom of Priests a Royal Priesthood into which no man is to intrude nor pretend till called of God furnished with the heavenly Anointing Breast-plate of Righteousness Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection Girdle of Truth c. Such as deny an Immediate Call and confess they have not the Apostles Spirit they want their Armour their Breast-plate they plead against their Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection so are man-made Ministers excluded from the Call of the Aaronical Priesthood the Type and of Christ the Substance and of the Evangelical Ministry The Call of God saith Aug. Marlorat on this place makes a Lawful Office this was common to Christ Aaron for God call'd them both Let such saith one as run before they be sent with their Dead Carnal Formal Worship and Erronious Doctrines remember Nadab and Abihu with their strange Fire such as was not sent down from Heaven Lev. 10. Core and his Complices with their dismal Usurpations Numb 16. Vzza with his exemplary Punishment 1 Chron. 13. The Lord commanded That such of the Sons of Aaron as had Blemishes and Corporal Deformities should not execute the Priests Offi●e Lev. 21. Implying that Gospel Ministers should be freed from Spiritual Blemishes the Defilements of Sin Iniquity Superstition and Idolatry whom the Lord calls to be his Witnesses he reconcils them to himself and cleanses them from the Defilements of Body Soul and Spirit The legal Priest was not to be blind but was to have his Eye-sight implying that Gospel Ministers anointed with heavenly Eye-salve are Quick-sighted not Blind but Openers of Blind Eyes 'T is said of Hagar That God opened her Eyes and she saw a Well of Water Gen. 21. So the Lord opens the Eyes of his Witnesses to see the Well of the Water of Life and to feel its comfortable Virtue so they cannot but invite others thereunto and that Freely and blind Watch-men are offended such as have no Call but from Man commended thereto through Natural Tongues Heathen Arts and Sciences These are Blind not Gospel Ministers The legal Priest was not to be Lame Lameness was prohibited Gospel Ministers are not Spiritually Lame They run without Weariness walk without Fainting but Man made Ministers are in Spiritual Lameness not knowing the use of that Foot that leads to Life these halt in the Way How can they say as Paul that excellent Way-guide said Be ye Followers of me even as I also am of Christ 1 Cor. 11. And walk as you have us for an Example Phil. 3.17 The legal Priest was not to have a flat Nose such as have their Olfactory Nerve is often obstructed so that they are void of the sense of Savour Gospel Ministers called of the Lord they savour the things of the Lord they savour the Sweetness of Christ's good Oyntment and are refreshed thereby but Man made Ministers through a spiritual Obstruction they savour not the Things of God but their Understandings are so darkned and depraved as that they call Evil Good and Good Evil and put Darkness for Light and Light for Darkness and put Bitter for Sweet and Sweet for Bitter Isa 5.20 The legal Priest was not to have any thing Superfluous Excess in Number Quantity or Quality implying that such as are truly called to the Evangelical Ministry to the Gospel Dispensation what they are they are in the Lord New Creatures Old Things are put off all things are become New James admonished the scattered Tribes To lay apart all Filthiness and Superfluity of Naughtiness and to receive with Meekness the Engrafted Word which was able to save their Souls James 1.21 The legal Priest was not to be broken Footed nor broken Handed What implies this That such as are truly called into the Gospel Ministry they are Sound Footed and Handed the Foot of their Mind keeps in Sions Way it breaks not off from the Way of God it keeps in the Path of Judgment their Hands handle the Word of Life but such as have no Call but of man they are Revolters broken off from the Path of Life The legal Priest was not to be Crook-Backt What implies this but that Gospel Ministers made so contrary to the Will of Man are not pressed down with the weight and burden of worldly Cares Now what but the World its Pleasures Profits Lucre Gain Advantages and Preferments is in the Eye of Man made Ministers The legal Priest was not to be a Dwarf of small Bodily stature implying That the Ministers of the Gospel impowered from above must not be stinted in spiritual Growth not Novices of low stature in the saving Truth but grow like the Palm Tree Tall Upright always Green Flourishing Fruitful in spiritual Growth always tending Heaven-ward till they attain unto the measure of the stature of the Fulness of Christ Ephes 4. But such as are called by the will of Man and stand therein they are strangers to the first Principle of pure Religion not so far as the Novice or young Schollar's state so no Ministers of Christ The legal Priest was not to have a Blemish in his Eye whereby his sight might be diminished or depraved implying That the Evangelical Witnesses whose Eyes are anointed with spiritual Eye-salve grow up in clearness of Understanding for their comfortable walking with God and for bringing of others into the Path of the Ransomed but Man made Ministers may be exquisite in Tongues Arts Histories Civil and Ecclesiastical Councils Fathers Schoolmen yet spiritually blind The legal Priest was not to be Scorbutical nor Scabbed wherein the Peccant humor of corrupt Blood so abounded that it brake out and deformed the Flesh this rendred a man uncapable of discharging the Priests Office What implies this but that the Gospel Ministers should through the Power Virtue and Influence of the Cross of Christ know the Flesh Crucified with the Affections and Lusts thereof and lift up pure Hearts and clean Hands without wavering and doubting but such as have no Qualification but from Man from Natural Tongues Arts Sciences Pagan Metaphysicks the Virtue of the Cross not being known Flesh ruling within manifests it self without The legal Priest was not to be Concussus testiculo that is have his Stones broken this Imperfection unqualified the Sons of Aaron dis-inabled them