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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02990	A friendly triall of the grounds tending to separation in a plain and modest dispute touching the lawfulnesse of a stinted liturgie and set form of prayer, Communion in mixed assemblies, and the primitive subject and first receptacle of the power of the Keyes: tending to satisfie the doubtfull, recall the wandering, and to strengthen the weak: by John Ball.	Ball, John, 1585-1640.	1640 (1640)	STC 1313; ESTC S122227	213,948	338

derived from the community of the faithfull as the immediate receptacle Christ hath given some to be Apostles and some to be Doctours not all to be Apostles nor all to be Doctours But if the power of ordinary ministers be in the church and the power of ordinary teaching be given to every believer all should be made Doctours though not to continue so in excercising the power God hath set some in the church first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers after that miracles c. Teachers in respect of their function office and jurisdiction are immediately from God as well as the Apostles and God hath set some onely to be Teachers not all The steward is appointed of the master of the family alone and hath all his authority and jurisdiction from him but the ministers of the Gospel are the stewards whom he hath set over his house The harvest is the Lords and to him it belongeth to send forth labourers into the harvest There be differences of ministeries but the same Lord. But if they have their order office and authority from God immediately they derive it not from the community of the faithfull Every embassadour in the cause of his embassage doth immediately depend upon him from whom he is sent both with the incorrupt and indelible instrument of commandements or mandates But the ministers of the word are the embassadours not of men but of Christ they are the ministers of Christ as having received power office and gifts from him and not of the church as if they derived their power from the faithfull The Pastours may be called the ministers of the church as the Lords ministers or servants and the churches ministers or servants are taken indifferently but they are the Lords ministers as they receive their authority office and gifts from him which they are bound to exercise and imploy to the glory of his name the ministers or servants of the church because they minister to the church or in the church and are instituted by the head of the church for the use and profit of the body The people are sheep and not the ministers but the Lords and for the Lord and the ministers are servants for the church but the Lords and not the churches in the sense above named And so they are and ought rather to be called the ministers of Christ then of the church for all power spirituall and ecclesiasticall is a gift of God supernaturall given to the church because it is first given to certain persons in the church and by them agreeth to the church as faith prophesie c. is in the church not primò and immediately but agreeth to particular persons in the church The officers are part of the house and houshold and they are the Lords servants in his house also and the people are the Lords servants in his house and not onely his house or houshold but they give not authority to the officers neither be they servants peculiar to do the things which belong to servants in office by peculiar right Power ecclesiasticall both of Order and Jurisdiction as it is usually called is signified by the power of the keyes or the power of binding or loosing But the power of the keyes is immediately given to the ministers and guides of the church from God and not from the church or community of the faithfull For the keyes contein not onely order but power exercise and all ecclesiasticall jurisdiction which the guides of the church received immediately from Christ As Peter received the keyes of the kingdome of heaven so the rest of the Apostles and as the Apostles so all their successours received them from Christ The Apostles had extraordinary power and might in some cases exercise it singularly and personally without concurrence of others and their commission was of larger extent then the charge of ordinary Pastours or church-governours but the spirituall power to bind and loose remit and retein sinnes open and shut the kingdome of heaven is communicated to all officers from the hand and by the mandate of the same Lord and Master One ministeriall power may be in degree of dignity above another for the power of one may be about more noble acts then the power of another or in the same kind the power of one may be more extended and the power of another more contracted Thus the Deacons had for the object of their power and care not so excellent a thing as that of Pastours Evangelists and Apostles thus the power of ordinary Pastours was not so universall as the Apostles even as in the orders of servants domesticall some are imployed about lesser some about greater and more honourable subjects But all power of the servants must be derived from the same master of the family upon whom they depend and unto whom they ow service and the whole power of the Lords ministers is derived immediately from Christ and not from the faithfull knit together in covenant The church cannot convey what she never had But the church may chuse her ministers as the Papists say The church doth chuse the Pope for the Cardinals do not chuse the Pope by their authority but of the church Therefore the church conveyeth authority to her ministers The church cannot virtually or formally convey what she never had but ministerially she may sc as ministring to him who hath power and virtue of deriving it Nothing can give that which it had not formally or virtually unlesse it give it as an instrument to one who hath it but so it may give what it never had nor is capable of A man not having a penie of his own may give an hundred pounds if the King make him his almoner A steward may give all offices in his masters house as ministerially executing his masters pleasure Thus the church deriveth as taking the person whom Christ describeth and out of power will have placed in this or that office in the church The persons of the ministers are not immediately separated by Christ to that function as were the Apostles but their gifts calling and authority is immediately from him In respect of their graces and office there interveneth to midst betwixt Christ and them but the appointment or designation of them to this or that place is from the church The office is not given of men but of God onely although in conferring and speciall applying that power and exercise he use men as instruments or ministers The church is in setting out or ordaining this or that man as the colledge is in chusing when she taketh the man whom the statute of her Founder doth manifestly designe And therefore though the church have power to elect their minister it followeth not that the power of the keyes is immediately in the whole multitude or society of the faithfull For electours have not evermore authority over him whom they elect

but authority and power onely to apply that power to him whom they chuse The power of the Imperiall dignity is not in the electours of the Emperours nor the power of that office and authority whereunto a minister is elected in the church who chuseth him to that office If we consider what men give or give not universally it must be denyed that any men can make ministers because they do not give the office gifts or authority which is from Christ alone And therefore as they receive their office and graces from God so they execute their office in the name of Christ and not of the church whereas if the church did virtually and out of power make an officer he should execute his office in her name as we see with those whom the king maketh in the common-wealth But the church dealeth in the election of ministers in a steward-like manner ministring to the sole Lord and Master of the house and receiveth them into the house not in her own but in the Lords name and to do their office not in her name but in the name of their Lord and Master who onely out of power did conferre that office upon them Whence it followeth that ordinary power of the keyes with the execution thereof is not given to the communitie of the faithfull or the whole multitude much lesse to two or three knit together in covenant The keyes of the kingdome of heaven were promised and given to Peter as to a faithfull man and so to all the faithfull or to the communitie of the faithfull By the keyes is meant the Gospel of Christ opening a way by him and his merits as the doore into the kingdome and we must take heed of this deep delusion of Antichrist in imagining that this power of binding or loosing sinnes is held to any office or order in the church Whereupon it followeth necessarily that one faithfull man yea or woman either may as truly and effectually loose or bind both in heaven and earth as all the ministers in the world Either this is not to the purpose or the power of the keyes and so all communicated power ecclesiasticall with the execution thereof is committed to every faithfull man and woman as truly as to the Apostles That private Christians yea women and children may exhort rebuke or comfort ex officio charitat is generali out of the generall office of charity we confesse that by such exhortations people have been brought to the faith we also believe But that power to preach per modum legationis by way of embassage or power of the keyes hath been committed to them we never find rather this power was proper to the ministers ex Divino instituto speciali by speciall Divine institution and established upon speciall promise Unto Peter making confession was the promise of the keyes made but not to him as a confessour but to him and the rest as they should be Apostles sent forth with authoritie and commission to preach the Gospel plant churches bind and loose c. Otherwise not onely the communitie of the faithfull but every faithfull man or woman might excercise those acts of feeding binding and loosing and ruling implyed in the power of the keyes In phrase of speech to deliver the keyes unto a man is to make him an officer steward or dispenser in the house under his lord and master to give him authority to open and shut bind and loose When our Saviour said to his Disciples Whose sinnes ye remit they are remitted As my Father sent me so send I you Go teach all nations Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven doth he not appoint them to chief offices in his house and what doth he give them more then the keyes of the kingdome A legate or messenger is not sent without authority power and jurisdiction nor the keyes of the house committed to his trust and care who is not in office The keyes of the kingdome import not onely authority and jurisdiction but power of exercising and for that reason some have thought Peter to be a sociall type of the whole church because the church doth exercise the keyes But the community of the faithfull are not officers in the house to exercise the power of the keyes to open and to shut And if Peter received the keyes from Christ as a faithfull man then the Apostles and their successours received their order and jurisdiction their authority and power of exercising from the faithfull and not from Christ immediately Thus Protestant Divines dispute against the Papists If Bishops receive their authority and power of exercising immediately from Christ by mandate mission and commission then they derive it not from the Pope And by the same reason if the power of the keyes be the immediate gift of God to the Apostles and their successours then they derive not their power and authority from the people or faithfull in covenant There is a key of supreme Authority proper to God alone a key of Excellency given to Christ and proper to him a key of Ministery given to the Apostles and their successours and if any be pleased so to call it a key of Charity given to all the faithfull who are able to exhort rebuke comfort and instruct For every Christian may admonish rebuke comfort exhort and so convert a sinner from the errour of his way and cover a multitude of sinnes but this is onely an act of love and charity an office or duty which by right of brotherhood every one oweth unto his neighbour without any speciall calling or authority Whereas the matter we speak of is the spirituall power which Christ hath given for the preservation and government of his church the exercise whereof consisteth in acts of order office ministery or function whereunto they are in speciall designed and called And so if the matter of the exhortation rebuke or admonition be one for substance the order function authority commission power of exercising and calling to exercise is not the same And therefore the power of the keyes promised to Peter which doth note power and authority of function was not promised nor given to the communitie of the faithfull much lesse to every faithfull man or woman The power of the keyes given to the Apostles was given to the church intuitu ejusdem tanquam finis totius The flux of ecclesiasticall authority from the church is two fold per intuitum as in them that be immediately called of Christ per interventum as in them that are called mediately It is true the Apostles were given to the church intuitu ejusdem tanquam finis and the power they received was for the good of the whole but this is not enough that power may be said to be received immediately by the church as the first receptacle of it and from it derived unto others but this power must be in the community as the