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honour_n	doctrine_n	double_a	elder_n	1,742	5	9.4785	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88943	Church-government and church-covenant discussed, in an answer of the elders of the severall churches in New-England to two and thirty questions, sent over to them by divers ministers in England, to declare their judgments therein. Together with an apologie of the said elders in New-England for church-covenant, sent over in answer to Master Bernard in the yeare 1639. As also in an answer to nine positions about church-government. And now published for the satisfaction of all who desire resolution in those points.	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.; Mather, Richard, 1596-1669. Apologie of the churches in New-England for church-covenant.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing M1270; Thomason E106_8; Thomason E106_9; ESTC R18913	104,756	140

be the case of any Church when they come to be without Officers as by warre pestilence c. it may come to passe There are some things common to Pastors with Teachers as that they are both Officers of the Church appointed by Christ both Elders or Bishops to rule and feed the Church by labouring in the Word and Doctrine Act. 20 28 1 Tim. 3. 1. Tit. 1. 5 7. and therefore the name of Pastour in a generall sense may be given to them both Ier. 3. 15. as also the name of Teacher Isa 30. 20. as those names may also be given to Apostles in as much as they also are Elders Pastors Teachers to rule to feed to teach the Church of God 1 Pet. 5. 1. Ioh. 21. 15. 16. 1 Tim. 2. 7. 2. 1. 11. And if Pastors and Teachers be both of them Church officers to feed and rule the Church by labouring in the Word and Doctrine they must not do this without application of it to the consciences and states of the hearers as God shall helpe them for this application is one part of his worke that is by his office to preach the Word without which the Word is not handled in such a manner as it ought to be 2 Tim. 2. 15. 1 Cor. 14. 25. Luk. 12. 42. and many hearers need this the Word delivered in generall without application of it being to them as bread set before children in the whole loafe And if both of them must labour in the Word and Doctrine and not onely in a generall way but with application we see not but they may both of them administer the Seales or Sacraments wherein there is a speciall application of the promises of the Gospel and the grace of Christ therein unto the faithfull and believing receivers 2. And yet for all this community between them they are not in propriety of speech the same Officers but distinct and so the Scripture speaketh of them Ephes 4. 11. For if a man would say their Offices are confounded because the same generall worke of preaching the Word and applying the same belongs unto them both By the same reason a man might say the offices of Apostles and Evangelists were confounded for both of them were to preach the Word with application of the same by doctrine and Seales and also that the ordinary Pastors were the same office with them both because hee also is to doe the same worke of preaching and applying But an Apostle is to feed and rule and teach by way of Doctrine and Application as an Apostle an Evangelist as an Evangelist and an ordinary Pastor as an ordinary Pastor and therein lyes the difference and wee may adde a Teacher as a Teacher and therein is he distinguished both from the Pastor and from all other Church Officers even as by the same they all are distinguished one from another the same generall worke of Doctrine and Application being common to them all 3. And for the Teacher and Pastor the difference between them lyes in this that the one is principally to attend upon points of Knowledge and Doctrine though not without Application and the other to points of Practice though not without Doctrine and therefore the one of them is called He that teacheth and his worke is thus expressed let him attend on teaching and the other He that exhorteth and his worke to attend on exhortation Rom. 12. 7 8. and the gift of the one is called a word of knowledge and the gift of the other a word of wisedome 1 Cor. 12. 8. as experience also sheweth that one mans gift is more doctrinall and for points of knowledge and anothers more exhortatory and for points of practise It is not the manner of Elders among us whether Ruling onely or Ruling and Teaching also to strive for authority or preheminence one above another as remembring what lesson our Saviour taught his Disciples when they were at strife among them which of them should be the greatest Luk. 22. 24 25. c. If Diotrephes strive for preheminence 3 Ioh. 9 10. verily we abhorre such striving and by the grace of God respect one another as Brethren As for the peoples duty toward their Elders it is taught them plainly in that place 1 Thes 5. 12 13. as also in that of 1 Tim. 5. 17 Let the Elders that rule well bee counted worthy of double honour specially they that labour in the Word and Doctrine and this Word specially shewes them that as they are to account all their Elders worthy of double honour so in speciall manner their Teaching or Preaching Elders These are answered in that which was sent the last yeare We doe believe that every Minister of the Gospel ought to be maintained with sufficient and honourable maintenance according to his need and occasions in regard of his person calling charge of children and hospitality so as he that preacheth the Gospel may in all these respects live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 14. Gal 6. 6. 1 Tim. 5. 17. And this maintenance is not to be allowed as almes and courtesie but as debt and duty to bee paid according to the rule of Justice the Labourer is worthy of his wages Luk. 10. 17. which the Apostle sheweth to be according to all Lawes of nature nations Moses and Christ 1 Cor. 9. But for setled and stinted maintenance there is nothing done that way amongst us except from yeare to yeare because the conditions of Ministers may vary and of the Church to which they doe belong Neither doe we know any such thing to be appointed by Christ our Lord for the maintenance of the Ministery in these dayes but this we know that the great mountaine burning with fire cast into the sea upon the sounding of the second Trumpet Rev. 8. 8 9. is applyed by some good Writers to those times when Constantine brought setled endowments into the Church with ampla praedia as they are called are counted by some to bee no better then poyson to the Church as the Stories say that upon the fact of the good Emperour a voice was heard which said Hodie seminatum est virus in Ecclesiam And if those Writers be not deceived which so expound that Scripture as for our parts wee know not but they expound it truely then in as much as upon the casting of that mountaine into the sea a third part of it became blood and a third part of living creatures dyed and a third part of ships were destroyed it may be truely gathered thence that the bringing in of setled endowments and eminent preferments into the Church hath been the corruption and to some the destruction of such as lived by them both Church-officers and Church-members We doe not permit and call upon such whom you call meere Lay men and private persons neither being in the Ministery nor intended to it ordinarily to preach or prophecy publiquely in or before the Congregation if by ordinarily you meane frequently