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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77901	Poimēnopurgos. Pastorum propugnaculum. Or, The pulpits patronage against the force of un-ordained usurpation, and invasion. By Thomas Ball, sometimes Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now minister of the Gospel in Northampton, at the request, and by the advice, of very many of his neighbour-ministers.	Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1656 (1656)	Wing B584; Thomason E863_10; ESTC R206670	204,465	356

eorum aliquid quibus ens determinatur nothing determined and fixed but something in the dark and at a distance which they laboured to discover and describe So the first mover they beheld afar off called him ens entium movens non motum could say he was natura naturans simplicissimus actus but all this while he was unknown unto the best of them as Paul professeth to them (r) Act. 17. 23 to the unknown God so we that have the Scripture-light for to direct us come to the knowledge of him by degrees per viam remotionis as the School speaks find that he cannot lie (s) Tit. 1. 2. that he cannot deny himself (t) 2 Tim. 2. 13 that he dwelleth not in Temples made with hands (u) Act. 17. 24 which are all negatives shew us rather what he is not than what he is but we are not to sit down and acquiesce in these removals a syllogisme made all of negatives will not conclude in any figure and therefore we proceed to things more positive a learned Doctor of this Land pleasing himself with these removals and negations in opening Gods nature and attributes came at the last to say that God was nothing that is that nothing best resembled him and set him out which was all one as if he had said he was not which was so contrary unto his being as nothing could be more we find amongst the Poets a God that was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but none that ever was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and when God was desired to give out unto Moses a notion or description of himself he doth not say that he was not or that he was nothing but rather that he was all that he was being (w) Exod. 3. 13 14. and God said unto Moses I am that I am and he said thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel I am hath sent me unto you Something we say hath some savour When men intend a building they first desire to find a bottom and seeing much depends in this debate on Ordination we have need to determine it and fix it well that the weight upon it sink it not And though it would be suitable to our proceedings in the former part to approach and come unto it by degrees yet having d●ne already much that way we are constrained to fall abruptly on the definition or description of it and affirm That Ordination is a sacred solemn dedication and investiture of a qualified fitted person with Authority to attend and act in holy things by those deputed there unto by God For the opening and unfolding of this description we desire these few particulars may be considered 1 We affirm it is a Dedication that is an alienation separation or devoting of a man to this attendance for no man saith Christ (x) Mat. 6. 24. can serve two Masters especially when the service is attending When men come theref●re to be ordained they come to be divorced and divided from what they were before Christ findes some that he had a mind to fishing but calls them off (y) Mat. 4. 18 19 20. and they immediatly leave that Trade and devote or dedicate themselves unto another Paul was a very busie Servant to the High-Priests and because Jerusal●m did not suffice him he gets Commissions for Damascus but Christ removes him to a better Master (z) Rom. 1. 1. Paul a Servant of Jesus Christ called to be an Apostle separated to the Gospel of God and we find he left all presentlie (a) Gal. 1. 15. 16. immediately I conferred not with fl●sh and blood and this no doubt was Ordination to him and did devote and dedicate him to the work Yet that it might appear how much God valued him and trusted him there is another separation mentioned (b) Act. 13. 1 2 because he was now to go unto the Gentiles his mission and Commission is repealed and renewed Thus were the Levites dedicated and devoted to attend the holie things instead of the first-born who formerly had been imployed as God sayes expresly (c) Numb 3. 12 13. so Hannah dedicates her son unto the service of the High-Priest (d) 1 Sam 1. 11 and so Timothy gave up himself to Paul to serve and wait upon him in the holy things of God (e) Ph. 2. 22. ye know the proof of him that as a Son with the Father so hath he served with me in the Gospel thus Ordination doth devote and dedicate a man to this attendance 2 We say investiture Dedication doth design and separate the person from what he was before but doth not properly impower and put h●m in therefore for plainness sake and explication we add investiture for if the Genus in a distinction be not compleat and full the definition will be imperfect and we say investiture because the word is metaphorical and relates unto the mode and usage formerly of appointing and transferring Offices (f) Esa 22. 20 21 22. and it shall come to passe in that day that I will call E●iakim my Servant the Son of Hilkiah and I will clothe him with thy Robe and strengthen him with thy girdle will cōmit thy Government into his hand and he shall be a Father to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah and the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder so he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open So when Eleazer was to succeed his Father in the Priesthood he is put in by an invest ture (g) Numb 20. 25 26. take A●ron and Eleazer his son and bring them up unto Mount Hor and strip Aaron of his Garments and put them upon Eleazer his Sonne It s true that Christ in the new Testamen● do●h not estate his Ministers and put them into Office by investiture yet he doth something like it the Apostles were designed and sent into all the world wherein there was and is a very great variety of fashions Garments of different and various shapes it was not therefore fit the Apostles should be tied to any one Garb but left at liberty to vary as they saw occasion and in such things to please and gratifie their hearers as Paul when he was to go unto Judea and to converse a while with them he puts himself into a Garb and Habit suitable for when he was for to take shipping he shaves his head and undertakes a vow (h) Act. 18. 18. yet what was common to all Nations our Saviour forgets not and that was locks and keis for unto Peter he sayes (i) Mat. 16. 19. I will give unto thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatsoever thou dost bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven And when this promise was made good unto them though we find not mention of the keyes yet