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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75967	The agreement and resolution of severall associated ministers in the County of Corke for the ordaining of ministers		1657 (1657)	Wing A768A; ESTC R70	10,421	25

of Ordination §. 8. THe Ministers of the Gospell thus separated and authorized to separate and authorize others are herein directed to Gospel Ordination as GODS institution for this end and purpose Thus Paul though immediately chosen by GOD even to an Apostolate must be ordained Act 13.1.2 and the Seven though ●mediately chosen by the multitude of disciples but even a Deaconship must be ordained Act 6.3 6. Paul and Barnabas goe from place to place to ordaine Presbyters in every City Act 14.23 Titus is left at Crete to ordaine Presbyters Tit 1.5 all which had been nedless if qualifications or popular election without ordination had been authoritative mission Timothy received his cōmission by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery 1 Tim 4.14 and though in the negative he be forbad to lay hands sudenly on any man yet thereby in the affirmative he is cōmanded to lay on hands i. e. ordaine Ministers 1 Tim 5.22 Gospell-Ministers in the County of Corke excited to ordaine Ministers 1 By Sence of Duty §. 9. VVE doe not we dare not apologize for all or any the infirmities errors offences scandalls c of any in the Ministry It is the LORD knows a cause of sadness and heart-searching to us as often as we thinke of them and the rather considering how prodigiously provoking and of what dangerous destructive consequence the excesses and obliquities of the Sons of Levi are which the LORD hath been wont to prosecute with flaming expressions of an hot displeasure Mal 2.8 9 Yet since the unbeleife miscarriages of men can not make the faith of GOD of none effect in any thing that he hath promised to his Church Rom 3.3 2 Tim 2.13 and since even in the deepest defection of the Aaronicall Priest-hood which was to give place in time to the Evangelicall GOD tooke care ere he threw out one to provide for the substitution of another as if he would thereby acquaint us that it is some part of the mystery of his waies to be angry with men in Office and well pleased with the institution and Office it selfe at one and the same time as we may see in that famous portion of Scripture 1 Sam 2.27 ad fin Yea especially since we are incompassed with such a cloud of Scripture-testimonies already expressed That GOD will not leave his Church at any time after the manifestation and resurrection of his Son destitute of Pastours according to his own heart which shall to the end of the world teach and make Disciples out of all Nations unto whom our LORD JESVS hath annexed a Loe of his being present with them alwaies or every day Math 28.20 which word and phrase in our judgment imports a promise of a clear and daily manifestation of what a CHRIST present can discover and hand forth unto them We have therefore resolved through GODS assistance being confidently comfortably perswaded of the promised presence of our MASTER with us to put forth that power wherwith the LORD hath in this instance intrusted us That in this part of CHRISTS Church 1 A Gospell-Ministry may be regularly continued 2 Intruders prevented 3 CHRISTS Flocke preserved as well from dispersion as infection 2 By experience of divers sad consequents of non-ordination §. 10. COntraries are best illustrated by their Contraries We shall therefore particularize some of the sad cōsequents which by experience we have observed to arise from entrance into the Ministry by other waies than GODS way of Ordinatiō 1 The most of those who take upon them the Ministry without ordination are far from having such gifts as are necessarily required in those that are instructours to others 2 Those Congregations who give this liberty to persons unordained are incompetent Judges of their gifts 3 Conversion-worke went on more lively when Ministeriall-worke was wholly in the hands of ordained men and Church-Guides 4 Such confident Intruders are seldome without their considerable errours not only in discipline but doctrine 5 Popery Apostacy have little prevailed but where and when either such as pretended to be Ministers laboured not in the word and doctrin or such as pretended to labour in the word and doctrine were not Ministers 6 Enthusiasmes in such we see often pretended to and no wonder when Learning which in an ordinary way should furnish with abilities is wanting 7 Though this Gangrene begins at the foote yet it suddenly cates to the heart we seldome see any who are against Ordinances Sabbaths of Scriptures CHRIST but such as were first against ordained Ministers Some of them who without ordination pretended to be prime Preachers of CHRIST doe now themselves protend to be CHRIST 8 In such unordained men is easily discernable not only the bublings up but the flowings over of a Spirit of pride selfe-confidence 9 They who exclaime against Ministers as preaching for Tithes have given shrewd cause of suspition that themselves preached for places and employments 10 Such unordained persons cōmonly divide and breake insunder such Congregations in which they have liberty to exercise 11 They ordinarily obtrude themselves on such Congregations as are conscientiously scrupled and professedly unsatisfied with them 12 Many or them neglect the duties of their particular and generall Calling and whilst they pretend to teach whole Congregations they omit to instruct their Children and Servants 13 Because of such wild and irregular practises the Ordinances of the Gospell come to be contemned and the offering of the LORD to be abhorred 14 Men of learning and ability whose labours might have been of singular and signall advantage have by this meanes been slighted excluded 15 Even by naturall conscience the prophane are convinced that duties of Religion ought to be performed and distinct Persons attend them when therefore they see such as pretend to the power of Religion to despise the forme which is the utmost their Capacities can reach they are easily induced by the old Serpent to over value the forme and despise the power and when they see other prophane ones prize what they prize and those that pretend to the power despise the same by making it cōmon and of ordinary address they are rootedly hardned in their prophaness 16 The Irish and Papists are alienated from the Protestant Religion 1 Ignorance is the mother of Popish devotion they therefore respect more the persons of teachers than the things taughts and where these are contemned they are apt to repute Religion denied 2 Order and Unity are essentiall properties in the Papists opinion of the true Church but disorder and Schisme are the naturall consequents of unordained Intruders and where these are the Papists doe readily conclude that Religion is not 3 Many Papists though so ignorant in the choise principles of Christianity that their faith is implicate yet in many things especially Popish controversied they clearly discover a greater ignorance and weakness in these Intruders the discovery whereof together with the admiration of their own dark Sophisters