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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94296	Of religious assemblies, and the publick service of God a discourse according to apostolicall rule and practice. / By Herbert Thorndike.	Thorndike, Herbert, 1598-1672.	1642 (1642)	Wing T1054; Thomason E1098_1; ESTC R22419	207,469	444

that in his judgement the words of the Apostle are not generall to affirm that no man could call Jesus LORD but by the Holy Ghost but relate to the particular whereof he speaketh to tell us that such as pretended to speak by the Holy Ghost if they glorified our Lord Christ then were they what they pretended to be otherwise not As who should say That it was not in them to persist in their counterfeiting when it was required of them to confesse Christ For we know that in the Primitive times at the naming of JESUS unclean spirits forsook the possessed And thus S. Chrysostome answereth That she which had the unclean spirit Acts xvi 16. confessed Christ indeed but unwillingly and so as she was discovered by it For being a thing evident that men did and might counterfeit themselves Christians and call Jesus LORD with a tongue rather moved by the evil spirit it seemeth an inconvenience to grant that all men in confessing Christ speak by the Holy Ghost in regard of the truth which they confesse But it is reasonable to conceive that God suffered not those that pretended to spirituall Graces of whom the Apostle propoundeth there to speak in particular being moved indeed by the evil spirit This sense I embrace because the same mark is laid down so plainly by another Apostle to the same purpose 1. John iiii 1. Beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false-prophets are gone out into the world Hereby know ye the Spirit of God every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God Spirits the Apostle here calleth Inspirations as in S. Paul 1. Cor. xii 10. discerning of SPIRITS that is Inspirations And 1 Cor. xiv 12. because ye are zealous of SPIRITS that is of spirituall Graces And the difference between his mark to try them by and S. Paul's is but this according to the one He that acknowledgeth Jesus the Messias to be come in the flesh according to the other He that acknowledgeth Jesus that is come in the flesh to be the Lord he it is that speaketh by the Holy Ghost The same is the meaning of the Apostle 1. Thess v. 19 20. according to the same S. Chrysostome where having said Quench not the Spirit despise not Prophesying he addeth immediately Try all things hold fast that which is good instructing them in the particular in hand to examine all that pretended to these spirituall Graces by the Gift of discerning spirits which God then allowed the Church for that purpose and to make use of such as proved that which they professed The Proposition of this Discourse of the Apostle then concerneth those Graces of the Holy Ghost that consisted in speaking whereof therefore there might be use in publick Assemblies which his purpose is to order by such Rules as we shall see him propound in the end of the fourteenth Chapter of this Epistle But this to do he fetcheth a compasse about and lancheth into a generall discourse of all manner of Graces all manner of Ministeries all manner of works that have relation to the publick body of the Church to shew that all were given and intended not for the eminence of those persons on whom they were bestowed but for the publick benefit This is the point to which he proceedeth vers 4. Now there are diversities of Gifts but the same Spirit and there are differences of Administrations but the same Lord. And there are diversities of Operations but it is the same God that worketh all in all But the Administration of the Spirit is given every man to profit withall It concerneth not the purpose of my discourse here to be nice in inquiring the difference between Graces and Ministeries and Operations remembred here by the Apostle It is enough to observe that the name of MINISTERIES is sometimes particular for those that are called Deacons from the Originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they ministred to the Apostles to the Bishop and Presbyters for discharge of their Office sometimes generall for all kind of Service in regard of him to whom it addresseth For as concerning the force of the word as the Apostle saith here There are differences of Ministeries but the same Lord so generally that which is done in service to any person that person is the Lord and those services in his regard are Ministeries Indeed the Apostle when he saith in the next words The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall manifestly proceedeth to speak of none but miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost demonstrating the presence thereof in the Church Though the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is generall in its own nature signifying all manner of Gifts proceeding from Favour and Grace as it is translated in the Syriack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Gifts Whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Operations seemeth particularly to relate to such Graces as tended to miraculous works and is therefore rendred in the Syriack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying Powerfull Operations Thus it is true which S. Chrysostome writeth upon this Chapter in the beginning Because those that were converted from Idoles knew not the Old Testament and the Holy Ghost is invisible God gave in these Graces a sensible evidence of the operation of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this saith he manifested to those that were without the Church that the Holy Ghost is in him that speaketh Therefore so he calleth it saying BUT TO EVERY ONE IS GIVEN THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT TO PROFIT VVITH calling Gifts the manifestation of the Spirit And Oecumenius according to him Though this be true yet the Processe of the Apostles discourse from vers 12. intendeth not onely to comprise miraculous Graces but all Ministeries ordained for the publick Service of the Church whether depending on miraculous Graces or not as appeareth both by the reason whereupon he proceedeth and by the catalogue wherein from vers 8. he recapitulateth and reckoneth the particulars of all that can be reduced under those heads of Graces of Ministeries of Operations For the reason wherewith the Apostle pursueth this point proposed that all these are intended not to make the persons eminent in whom they are but for publick benefit is the comparison of a naturall body and the members of it whereof there is none that envieth or despiseth another to teach private persons not to grudge at them upon whom publick Graces or Places are bestowed and them not to despise private persons This comparison the Apostle setteth on foot also in his Epistle to the Romanes but slighteth it over more in brief there because as S. Chrysostome thinketh it seemeth the abuse against which he writeth as it was also there so was it more rife among the Corinthians This reason it is plain concerneth those that