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A82508 A defence of sundry positions, and Scriptures alledged to justifie the Congregationall-way; charged at first to be weak therein, impertinent, and unsufficient; by R.H. M. A. of Magd. Col. Cambr. in his examination of them; but upon further examination, cleerly manifested to be sufficient, pertinent, and full of power. / By [brace] Samuel Eaton, teacher, and Timothy Taylor, pastor [brace] of [brace] the church in Duckenfield, in Cheshire. Published according to order. Eaton, Samuel, 1596?-1665.; Taylor, Timothy, 1611 or 12-1681. 1645 (1645) Wing E118; Thomason E308_27; ESTC R200391 116,862 145

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it in a definite latitude especially since no reason is or we suppose can be by you brought why we may not take it in a limited sense and yet deny it to be taken in an unlimited sense Is not this an ignorance of the Elench Can you ever inferre contradictorium propositionis negatae with this medium St John saith Christ hath made us Kings and Priests c. Because these words Rev. 1.6 Kings and Priests taken in their indefinite latitude will inferre that the people of God are temporall kings having Soveraign power over others and Priests to offer up corporall sacrifices to God as the Priests of the Law did Will it therefore follow that he that shall expound these words in a definite latitude as importing only that in Christ they have overcome the Law Death Sin the World and do triumph over them that they are Priests by a speciall sequestration of themselves from the world to offer up spirituall sacrifices to God the Father do pervert and abuse this Text Questionlesse there were Elders amongst them Answer it may be the Seventy Disciples were not quite out of Commission certainly Philip was amongst them who was an Euangelist c. Suppose that amongst those that were scattered and preached Reply some were Elders yea preaching Elders Suppose the Commission of the Seventie by vertue of which they were to carry neither purse nor scrip nor shoes neither were to salute any man by the way Luke 10.1 2. Nullos dum habes hic Apostolos sed Discipulos illorum Discipulori● Discipulos sic quovis medio utiliter Deus uti potest Aretius in Acts 11. but to go before the face of Christ two and two into every city and place whither Christ himself would come were in full force at this time Lastly Suppose that Philip were an Euangelist amongst them Will it from hence follow that all that preached were Church-officers and that none of them were gifted persons out of Office and consequently that those that say that all were not Officers that went preaching do abuse the Text certainly this is a wide consequence But you say They were all filled with the Holy Ghost Answer Acts 2.4.10 and 4.31 which made them Doctors the first day and gave both ability and a call to speake the Word c. Reply But did their extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost make them all Officers yea or no for you suppose that all received the Holy Ghost If so then there was a Church of Officers and none over whom those Officers were set and that were under the authority of Office If the gifts did not make them Officers then we have what we assume viz. Gifted persons not in Office may preach yea if all the members of a Church had gifts fit for the work all might preach Numb 11.29 1 Cor. 14.12.31 If it be said Objection these were extraordinary gifts by immediate inspiration So were the gifts of the Officers in those times Answer Now by the same reason you deny Church-members though orderly called to the work we mean not to the Office because eminently gifted for it a liberty to exercise their gift because their gifts are not extraordinary as were those of the Primitive Christians By the same reason you may deny Officers though both orderly called and competently gifted a liberty to exercise their gift because their gifts are not extraordinary as were the gifts of the Primitive Officers Again if a Brother gifted by immediate inspiration might preach or prophesie publikly in those Churches where the Officers were gifted by immediate inspiration then a Brother eminently gifted by Gods blessing upon his labour and industry being orderly called thereunto may preach in those Churches where the Officers are gifted only by Gods blessing upon their labour and industry without any immediate inspiration That these did preach ordinarily Answer and usually to the Churches like to Pastors and receive maintenance for the same as some do in London and elsewhere is impossible to be proved That which is not affirmed by the Elders Reply need not be proved by them We have already proved that eminent gifted persons being orderly called thereunto may lawfully preach though not in Office and if by ordinarily and usually you mean that toties quoties as oft as the Church shall have need suppose by reason of the sicknesse death or just absence of the Pastor or any other lawfull ground and occasion and his calling and condition will permit we suppose the person eminently gifted may preach though for divers moneths together And if he do the work why may he not receive the wages not in the capacity of a Pastor but of one that hath done the work that deserves wages Suppose he hath spent his means in many yeers painfull study in the Vniversity may he lawfully preach and yet must he necessarily famish because he is not in the Pastorall relation May he lawfully dispence unto them his spirituall things and may he not lawfully receive of them a dispensation of their temporall things May he nay must he by a conflux and concentering of all things that make up his Call to such a work for such a time usually and ordinarily tread out the corn and yet his mouth be muzzled during all that space May he lawfully communicate unto them by teaching them in the Word and may he not lawfully communicate with them in receiving who are freely willing to communicate with him in giving all good things In the Church of Israel none besides the Priests and Levites Answer did ordinarily prophesie either in the Temple or in the Synagogues unlesse they were either furnished with extraordinary gifts of prophecy as the Prophets of Israel or were set apart and trained up to prepare for such a Calling c. In case that either those whose Office it is in an ordinary way to prophesie be unable many of them to the work Reply or the people grown bold in sinfull courses so that they sleight and contemn them If the King and certain choyce men of the Princes of the Realm be able and in parts no way inferiour to those able men whose Office it is to preach unto the people they may they ought to prophesie as well as Kings Princes Noble-men being gifted may sit in Ecclesiasticall Synods and declare what they conceive to be the minde of God therein And this Jehosaphat and his Princes did by vertue of that generall equity which is of perpetuall use whereby eminent gifts are to be put forth upon just occasion for the Publike good though by men not in Office Luther and the first Preachers in the beginning of Reformation were not Church-officers nor could be unlesse we will say that the Antichristian Hierarchie could institute a Christian Ministery and yet they preached lawfully as gifted persons stirred up by God in a time of defection and apostasie And so Jehosaphat and his Princes preached not meerly as King and Princes for then all Kings and