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A46373	Jus divinum ministerii evangelici. Or The divine right of the Gospel-ministry: divided into two parts. The first part containing a justification of the Gospel-ministry in general. The necessity of ordination thereunto by imposition of hands. The unlawfulnesse of private mens assuming to themselves either the office or work of the ministry without a lawfull call and ordination. The second part containing a justification of the present ministers of England, both such as were ordained during the prevalency of episcopacy from the foul aspersion of anti-christianism: and those who have been ordained since its abolition, from the unjust imputation of novelty: proving that a bishop and presbyter are all one in Scripture; and that ordination by presbyters is most agreeable to the Scripture-patern. Together with an appendix, wherein the judgement and practice of antiquity about the whole matter of episcopacy, and especially about the ordination of ministers, is briefly discussed. Published by the Provincial Assembly of London.	London (England). Provincial Assembly.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing J1216A; ESTC R213934	266,099	375

temporary but morall and so perpetuall All the Disciples of Christ now need the same means as the Christians during the Age of the Apostles that we also might be baptized into Christ to be baptized into his death buried with Christ by Baptism that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newnesse of life Neither doth the Baptism of the Spirit disanull the Baptism of water but rather confirm it For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles bond or free 3. If we consider the nature use or efficacy of Baptism it is called by the holy Ghost a saving Ordinance and is unto believers and their seed in the New Testament as the Ark was to Noah and his ●amily in the Old world who being in the Ark was saved from perishing in the waters when the rest were drowned so Baptism that doth now save us not only or mainly the outward part of it the putting away the filth of the flesh which yet is an Ordinance to further our salvation but when the Spirit of Regeneration effectually concurs so that we finde that there is a renewing of the holy Ghost and thereby the answer of a good Conscience towards God Thirdly For the Sacrament of the Lords Supper it is evident 1. That it is an Ordinance of God appointed by Jesus Christ for he alone who gives grace hath power to appoint the means whereby he will convey grace as no man can create new Articles of Faith to be b●●eeved so no man can appoint new Sacraments to be received Only Jesus Christ the Prince and Mediatour of the New Covenant the High Priest of our profession who hath all power in Heaven and Earth and who alone is able to fill all his own Ordinances which in externall appearance seem but mean with inward efficacy and sprituall fullnesse He hath first instituted this Sacrament and also administred it even the same night in which he was betrayed 2. This Ordinance was not only appointed to and for the Apostles to whom it was first administred but unto all believers both Jews and Gentiles by whom it is to be received not only once as Baptism for we reade no Institution to baptize the same person more then once But our Lord hath prescribed the frequ ent reiterated use of this Sacrament that we should often ●at this Bread and drink this Cup and accordingly the Apostles and the primitive Christians did frequently celebrate thiS Ordinance 3. It is evident that this Sacrament was appointed not only for that age but for all succeeding generations therefore Believers are commanded to frequent this Ordinance and in eating this Bread and drinking this Cup to shew forth the Lords Death till he come for our Lord that will have his Church to continue in all successions till the day of his appearance hath both enjoyned all Beleevers as their duty to perpetuate the use of this Sacrament in their severall generations and hath also foretold for their comfort that this Ordinance shall continue till the day of his last coming So then these Ordinances being appointed by God to continue to the end hereby it appears that the Lord hath designed the Office of the Ministry to hold up and hold forth his Ordinances to the end of the world If the Promises which Christ hath made to uphold the Ministry be perpetuall then the Office is perpetually necessary But these Promises are perpetual That Christ hath made promises to uphold the Ministry hath been proved in the former Proposition out of Mat. 28.20 c. The only doubt which can remain is Whether these Promises were limited to that age wherein the Apostles lived or whether they do reach all succeeding ages to the end of the world Wherein who can better resolve us then Christ himself in the words of the promise Go teach and baptize and lo I am with you alwaies to the end of the world 1. This Promise we grant was made first and immediatly to the Apostles but the Query is Whether solely and only unto them as they were Apostles It cannot be denied but many precepts and promises given to them were of a different nature 1. Some to the Apostles as Apostles and 2. Some to Apostles as Ministers and 3. Some to Apostles as Beleevers If any demand how shall we know when Christ spake to them as Apostles when to them as Ministers and when to them as Christians We answer That the best way to discern this is to consider the nature of these precepts and promises if they be of an extraordinary nature ●●ove what God hath commanded or promised to all beleever● o● to all ordinary Ministry Then these commands or promises are peculiar to Apostles as Apostles as extraordinary Officers For instance When Christ had called the twelve He gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sicknesses and all manner of diseases And these being extraordinary promises it appears they were made to the Apostles as Apostles and not to them either as Beleevers or as Ministers If they be of a common nature wherein all Saints and Disciples of Jesus Christ are equally concerned then though they were given to the Apostles yet not only to them as Apostles but to them as Beleevers who also partake of like precious faith with them through the righteousnesse of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ When Christ commanded them to watch for ye know not what hour the Lord will come this duty was laid upon them immediatly and apart from others as appears His Disciples came to him privately saying When shall these things be Yet this duty is of such a nature as is common to all beleevers and so elsewhere Christ expounds it What I say unto you I say unto all Watch When Christ taught his Disciples to pray in them he taught the same duty to all beleevers And all these commands to deny our selves take up the Crosse and follow him are so given to the Apostles as they also oblige all beleevers So when Christ praied for the Apostles that God would sanctifie them with all truth he prayed not for them alone but for all that were given to him of the Father which should also beleeve in him through their Word So all those great and precious promises which pertain to life and godlinesse whereby all beleevers partake of the divine nature having escaped the pollutions which are in the world through lust were given not only to the Apostles but to all Beleevers The ignorance or non-observance of this distinction hath led the Papists into many absurdities as when Christ gave the Cup to the Apostles because they all were Ministers therefore they do not conceive themselves obliged by that example to give the Cup to the Laity whereas Christ gave the Cup to the Apostles not

so it was foretold that it should be also in the Christian Church consisting of Jew and Gentile It was Gods great Promise to be fullfilled in Gospel-times that he would take of the Children of them that should be brought into the Church for Priests and Levites alluding to the Officers that then were in being which cannot be understood of spirituall Priests such as all Saints are in some sense stiled for these are said to be singled out from the rest for such a speciall Office And that in the times of the Gospel according to the Promise such an Office was appointed by our Lord Jesus is beyond all question to all who reade and beleeve the New Testament Christ before his death appointed the Apostles to go and preach He ordained twelve that they should be with him and that he might send them forth to preach And after this the Lord appointed other seventy also and because the Harvest was great and the Labourers were but few therefore they are bid to pray the Lord of the Harvest that h● would send firth Labourers into hi● Harv●st To his Apostles he revealed himself especially after his resurrection and gave them commission and command to preach the Gospel to all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghos● And when Iudas being numbred with them had obtained part of this Ministry from which by transgression he fell the rest of the Disciples did not magnifie themselves to be Apostles but sought to the Lord that God himself would shew whom he had chosen to take part of that Ministry and Apostleship and the Lo● falling upon Mathias he was numbred with the eleven 3. The Ministry in the daies of the Apostles was not only dispensed by the Apostles the seventy Disciples and other Prophets and Evangelists whose Call Gifts and Works were extraordinary but by other ordinary Pastors whose spirits were not insallible and whose commission was not extraordinary The extraordinary Officers were commanded to commit the word to faithfull men who shall be able to reach others also And this Ministry dispensed by ordinary Pastors was by the Apostles themselves and the severall Churches of the New Testament esteemed as a Ministry by Divine Institution Paul stiles Ep●phras a dear Fellow-Servant who is for you a faithfull Minister of Christ Tychicus he calls a beloved Brother and a faithfull Minister in the Lord. And these ordinary Pastors distinguished from those extraordinary Officers the Scriptures do affirm to be as truly by divine appointment as the former though not so immediatly and eminently 1. The same God that set in the Church first Apostles then Prophets the same God set in the Church some to be Teachers Some by way of distinction from others and not all For the holy Ghost argueth as if it were equally absurd to have all to be Teacher● as all to be Apostles and appeals to their naturall conscience about it Are all Apostles Are all Prophets Are all Teachers And if God himself the Father of all mercies hath placed these Teachers in his Church what is man who is but ● worm that he should attempt to displace them 2. The same Redeemer the Lord Jesus who gave some to be Apostles some Prophets and some Evangelists the same Christ gave also some to b● Pastor● and to be Teachers 3. The s●me holy Spirit which said Separat● me Barnabas and Saul for the work of the Ministery and who committed to Paul th● Gosp●l of Vncircumcision as he did the Gospel of Circumcision to Peter The same blessed Spirit gave charge to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus to take heed to th● Flock of Christ And though they were no where recorded to have received a Commission extraordinary and a spirit infallible Nay so far were they from being infallible that the Apostle foretel● that some of them would speak perverse things to draw away Disciples after them v. 30. Yet is it said expresly that the holy Ghost h●d made them Overseer● over the Flock As the Saints converted to the Faith of the Gospel by the Ministry of Tychichus Epaphras and Onesimus and the Saints that in those daies were really added to the Church wer● no less● truly Saints then those which were converted immediatly by Paul and Peter and the rest of the Apostles So these ordinary Pastors and Teachers aforementioned did no l●sse truly receive their Ministry from the Lord for their ordinary employment then the Apostles did though they more eminently for their employment extraordinary As he committed to them the Word and Ministry of Reconc●liation and gave to them both Commission and Command to dispense his Ordinances so that to them it was not only lawfull or arbitrary but necessity was laid upon them and a Woe denounced if they preached not the Gospel So was it also to the ordinary Teachers and therefore Archippus no where mentioned to be an Officer extraordinary is commanded to fullfill his Ministry which he also received from the Lord. Now if the Father the God of Truth the Son the Way the Truth and the Life and the holy Ghost the Spirit of Truth hath designed peculiar persons to this Office then the Ministry by way of Office is necessary by Divine Institution The Second Argument is drawn from the peculiar Names or Titles whereby the Persons thus designed and distinguished from other Saints If God hath given peculiar Names and Titles whereby the Persons designed to this Office are distinguished from other Saints then this Office is by Divine Institution For as the judgement of God is so are the denominations which God giveth to things according to truth If Adam gave distinguishing Names to all creatures sutable to their beings Surely our only wise God will not distinguish where he himself hath made no difference But God hath given to the persons designed to this Office peculiar Names and Titles 1. These are called Pastors and the other Saints respectively are called the Flock Now is there not a reall distinction as well as nominall betwixt the Flock and Pastor the Sheep and the Shepherd 2. They are called Teachers and doth not the holy Ghost evidently distinguish betwixt them that do instruct and those that are instructed 3. They are called such as Rule well not in any civil way as State-Officers but such as labour in the Word and Doctrine 4. They are such as are Over the Saints in the Lord and the holy Ghost doth expresly distinguish betwixt the Officers in the Church which have rule and inspection over the Saints and all the rest of the Saints under that Inspection 5. They are called Stewards of the Mysteries of God all the rest of the Saints are of the Houshold of Faith and who may appoint Stewards in the House but the Master of the Houshold And if the Master call them Stewards let all Saints do so who

yet crucifie Christ again in his members Is not this to partake of Antichrists sin Howsoever when you have done your worst these holy Ministers and Martyrs are happy in heaven and their memorial shall be in all ages blessed upon earth when their enemies shall perish and leave their names for a curse unto Gods chosen If the Lord had his holy Ministers not onely in suffering times to be Martyrs but also in times of Reformation if the Lord stirr'd up his Ministers as his chiefest instruments to bring his people from the power of Antichrist as of old he led his people out of Egypt by the hands of Moses and Aaron then surely the Ministers are not Antichristian But the Lord did stirre up his Ministers in several places to detect the frauds of Antichrist and by their Ministry he did reduce his people from that Antichristian tyranny Before you heard of many Worthies as Wickliff Hus Hierom Prague c. But in the 16. Century how wonderfully did the Lord raise up for the rescue of his people the Ministry of Luther and with him what a troop of expert valiant Champions Philip Melancthon Conradus Pellican Fabricius Capito Osiander Bucer and many others in Germany Zui●glius in Helvetia Iohn Calvin and Farellus that unwearied souldier of Christ as he is called These with multitudes of others in England France and oth●r Countreys held their life in their hands hazarded all for the Gospel of Christ these smit spiritual Egypt in her first-born These even these bare the heat of the day and we are entred upon their labours And is this all the thank that ye render to God or them that when they delivered you from Antichristianisme you condemn them as Antichristian If ever since the beginnings of Reformation the pious painfull Ministers in the Reformed Churches have stood in the breach have prevented our spiritual relapsing into Aegypt if they have spent their time parts and studies night and day to fight the battels of Christ against Antichrist then it is not only a groundlesse mistake but an ungodly sinful scandall to censure them as Antichristian How is it that ye are not afraid to speak evil of the servants of the Lord set up by his Spirit for the defence of the Gospel Will any rational man versed in the writings of those Worthies believe that Zanchius Bullinger Beza Brentius Iunius Pareus Piscator Musculus Scultetus Chamier or of our Countreymen Iewel Reignold Whitaker Perkins with multitudes of others who were willing to spend and be spent in defending the truths professed in the Reformed Churches against the Romanists Will any sober Christian believe that these were members of the Roman Harlot The Popish party cannot so bely them but have found them to be their greatest adversaries Will any man be so senslesse and stupid as to account David who slew Goliah or Eleazar the son of Odo who slew the Philistims till his hand was weary or Shammah who when all Israel fled from the Philistims he stood in the midst of a ground full of Lentiles and defended it and slew the Philistims and the Lord wrought a great victory Will any man be so mad as to say that David and his worthies were the only friends of the Philistims and so bury them and cause them to go down to the grave among the uncircumcised Forget not the great appearances of Christ which have been gloriously seen and felt in the faithfull Ministers of this Land Have not they preached and pressed to the conscience the practical points of Christianity and hath not the Lord set a visible seal to their Ministry in the souls of thousands Dare you say that these practical Ministers Greenham Dod Dent Dyke Bains Rogers Hildersham with a world more of whom the world is not worthy that they were Antichristian Who art thou that givest thy mouth to evil and thy tongue frameth deceit Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother and slanderest thine own mothers son Hast thou considered their work of faith labour of love patience of hope If thou hast not why wilt thou speak evil of things and persons thou knowst not And if thou hast read and considered confesse and give glory to God and say God was in these Ministers of a truth Be not like those seduced Professours Who measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves with themselves were not wise These silly or rather proud Christians and their false teachers traduced the great Apostle as if he had not Christ to whom Paul answers and we with him If any man trust to himself that he is Christs let him of himself think this again that as he is Christs even so are we Christs These holy Ministers were the precious members of Christ and will you make them as much as is in you the members of an harlot God forbid The 9thConsideration is drawn from the sad consequences of this censorious groundles opinion For as touching our selves and the Ministers of this present Age We say nothing but We resolve in the strength of Christ to be faithfull to the death and not to fear the revilings of men and in the midst of all your undeserved reproaches to persist in the work of the Lord and to commit our selves to him that judgeth righteously Concerning these sad consequences we appeal to your serious and sober thoughts in these few Queries Q. 1. Doth not this Opinion in rejecting all the godly Ministers of the Reformed Churches as Antichristian much promote the Cause of Antichrist which you seem vehemently to oppose Now if any build that which he hath destroyed he makes himself a transgressor For 1. Is it not the great work of Antichrist to destroy our Ministers to smite the Shepherd that the Flock may be scattered Certainly if the Lord in his wrath should suffer you so far to prevail as to suppresse Learning trample upon the Universities and ruine the Ministers That there should be no Learned men to detect Popish Impostures and refell their errors That neither shield nor spear should be left among thousands in Israel you would in this more advance Antichrist then if you were his sworn Vassals even an Army of Friars and Jesuites deceiving and being deceived 2. Do not most of your Arguments symbolize with the Romanists as if they were arrows shot out of their quiver They renounce us upon this ground That we are no true Church have no true Ministry and do not you agree with them in this unchristian principle and are not we forced to prove the being of our Church and Ministry in all ages against you with the same Arguments we use against them and herein do not you gratifie the common Adversary and strengthen their hands 3 Have you not cause to enquire whether you be not acted by the same Spirit For you know the Spirit of Christ is a Spirit of meeknesse and that wisedom which comes from above is first