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A49508	An apologie for our publick ministerie and infant-baptism written som years ago for private satisfaction of som dissenting brethren and upon request enlarged and published for the same ends / by William Lyford.	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3544; ESTC R24102	42,825	54

is an Office appointed of God and that Ordination for executing that Office is an Ordinance of Christ in the New Testament our third Conclusion will naturally follow viz. That no man uncalled and unordained can with good conscience intrude upon that work and Office This position or Conclusion is proved by two places especially remarkable for this purpose the first is that of Zach. 83.3 4 5. And it shall com to pass that the Prophets shall bee ashamed every one of his Vision when hee hath prophesied neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceiv but hee shall say I am no Prophet I am an husbandman for man taught mee to keep Cattel from my youth 1. This place is a plain Prophecie of the times of the Gospel wherein many blessings are promised when the Messiah is com vers 1.2 Concl. 3 2. The words vers 4.5 are words of Recantation and repentance of som that pretended the Spirit and took upon them the Office of Prophesying when as they were not Prophets but husbandmen or bred up to som other Trades 3. The means by which this kind of Teachers were brought to shame and repentance is the zeal of the Christian Magistrate upon complaint made to him of their doings by their dearest friends vers 3. And it shall com to pass that when any shall yet Prophecie i.e. notwithstanding all spiritual means used to cleans the Land of seducing spirits and Teachers of fals Doctrines vers 2. if for all this they shall prophecie then his Father and his Mother which begat him shall say unto him Thou shalt not live c. the meaning is this that as in the Law of Moses Deut. 13.5 8. Hee that pretended himself a Prophet and was none was to bee punished by the Magistrate such a like zeal should bee used against fals Prophets in the New Testament their best friends endued with knowledg and discerning shall oppose them preferring their zeal and pietie towards God before the natural affection they bear towards their own children And there is reason as Mr Borough's thinks why their best friends should withstand them in this way 1. Becaus it is a thing abhorring to Nature Heart-divisions p. 19.23.24 that men should suffer God whom they honor to bee blasphemed 2. To see their wives and children and dearest friends to bee seduced into waies which wee think will undo their souls to eternitie and not bee able to help them nor our selvs unless wee can perswade the Seducer to desist and ask them why they do so and entreat them to forbear Therefore these must com under the Magistrates restraining power 4. Then follow 's the fruit of the Magistrates dealing with them viz. Their shame and repentance they shall disclaim their usurped profession and confess that they were never brought up nor fitted for it and so return to their former cours and Trade of living This Scripture is fulfilled in one part by the rising of fals Teachers in our daies and if it bee not fulfilled in the other part viz. in their repentance one principal caus thereof is becaus our Magistrates are so far from putting them to shame that they rather uphold them having enfranchized every Sect to hold Assemblies to preach who will yea to the disadvantage of Christ's Gospel have suffered his Ministers to bee vilified reproched even in Almanacks and to bee made the scorn and derision of the raging waves of the Sea and mocking spirits of which S. Jude complains v. 13.18 I pray God this bee not laid to their charge Conclus 3 Our second place is Num. 16.1 2 3 5. Dathan and Abiram were Gentlemen of the Tribe of Reuben the eldest son of Jacob Num. 26. 5 9. This is that Dathan and Abiram which were famous in the Congregation they thought they had as much right to the Government as Moses who came of a yonger Tribe and therefore like Levellers they say to Moses and Aaron wherefore lift you up your selvs above the Congregation of the Lord ver 3. And when they were summoned to appear before Moses they refused saying wee will not com vers 12.13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us out of a Land flowing with milk and honie except thou make they self altogether a Prince over us their quarrel was especially against Moses against the Civil Power Korah for his part was a Levite and hee would have none above him in the Church hee would needs do the office of a Priest as well as Aaron seek yee the Priesthood also saies Moses to him v. 10. His quarrel was Ecclesiastical against Aaron vers 11. What is Aaron that yee murmur against him Thus yee see how Korah did endevor to make common the Offices of the Priesthood and why becaus said hee all the Congregation of the Lord is holy vers 3. All have the gifts of the Spirit as if God's Ordinarie gifts of Sanctification did take away distinction of Callings and Offices But what saies Moses to all this geer vers 5. To morrow the Lord will shew who are his and who is holy and will caus him to com near unto him i.e. God will by miracle shew whom hee accepteth for his servant in the Government you or mee And who is holy i.e. whom hee hath consecrated to com near unto him by special Calling to do the Office of a Priest Aaron or you All the Congregation is holy by the Gift of common vocation unto Grace but not by special Gift of consecration to the Office of a Priest As Paul 1 Cor. 11.7 saith that the Husband is the image of God in respect of domestick Autoritie the wife is the image of God in respect of the gifts of grace as well as her Husband but the Husband and so every good Magistrate hath on him a twofold image of God 1. One by gifts of Grace common with other Saints 2. The other by special Calling and Autoritie to his Office in Church or State Well you see Korah's sin what it is but how doe's the Lord take this at his hands see v. 35. Those 250 men which offered incens and invaded the holy Office were burnt to death with fire from Heaven And for a Monument to all Posteritie that None who is not Called and Consecrated should presume to take upon him the Office of ministring holy things to make himself near to God in these peculiar Conclus 3 Services God commanded the Censers wherewith they had offered the Incens to bee kept for a memorial unto the children of Israël that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron com near to offer Incens before the Lord that hee bee not as Korah and his Companie vers 40. Also God commanded Aarons rod that budded to bee kept for a token against the Rebels and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings Num. 17.10 And they shall know that whosoëver cometh near to the Tabernacle of the Lord without a Calling to do the Office of a

mee thinks hee doe's better reform manners and punish vice then your old rotten Magistrates must wee stay for a Commission when things bee amiss Absalom will minister justice better then his Father David aie by all means things are like to go well Conclus 3 if every man that reckon's himself gifted may bee judg what is best and himself the fittest to do it But God is a God of Order Unitie Peace and not of Confusion 2. And this I dare affirm that the Devil hath not a more subtil prevalent engine to pull down the Kingdom of Christ and set up his own which is establisht by Heresie Sedition Fals-worship Envie Hatred Schism Dissention c. then by destroying the Ministerie whereby God hath erected and built his Church But as long as Christ will have a Church among us hee will hold those stars in his right hand Rev. 1.16 20. And whensoëver you see them pluckt out of the Firmament of the Church Luk. 19.41 42 2 Chro. 36.16 then look for nothing but a sad night of darkness and miserie upon this Nation They are the greatest malignants and avowed enemies of our Nation that are haters of it's Ministerie But let them beware what they do for if hee that loveth and receiveth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet M●t. 10 41. shall receiv a Prophet's reward then hee that despiseth derideth hateth vilifieth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet or becaus hee is a Minister of the Gospel hee carrie's in his breast the mark of a Reprobate and let him bee sure that hee shall receiv the reward of a Prophet-hater The truth is God hath made these Preachers a check a shame and a just rebuke to a rotten See Mal. 2.3 7 8 9. formal dead Clergie that understood not nor ever endeavored the conversion of souls God would by a foolish people provoke men of abilities to a more spiritual and conscionable discharge of their duties 't were good this use were made of it But what good els this promiscuous preaching hath don how it hath advanced truth or godliness is their part to shew What mischief it hath don what Errors it hath spread how many unstable souls it hath beguiled what fearful Schisms and Factions it hath brought into our Land what discord among brethren c. There bee too many Instances in most Counties of England By such like men you see what preaching you are like to have if ever your establisht Ministerie bee extinguished People by degrees will grow to a loathing and contempt of the Gospel preached through their prophaning it with their fulsom fooleries I shall close up this point with a remarkable passage of Mr Owens in his Treatise of Toleration joined with that Sermon of his which hee preached before the Hous Jan. 31. 1648. His words are these There are a sort of persons termed in Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unruly disorderly Mr Owen of Toleration p. 82. 1 Thes 5.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the baser sort Act. 17.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conclus 3 absurd unreasonable men 2 Thes 3.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lawless and disobedient 1 Tim. 1.9 and the like disorderly vagabond wandring irregular persons fixed to no calling abiding in no place taking no care of their Families that under a pretence of Teaching the truth without mission without Call without warrant uncommanded undesired do go up and down from place to place creeping into Houses c. Now that such waies as these and persons in these waies may bee judicially enquired into I no way doubt I did yet never observ any other issue upon such undertakings but scandal to Religion and trouble to men in their civil Relations Therefore according to the Aposiles order 1 Cor. 7.24 Let every man in the same Calling wherein hee was Called to Christianitie therein abide with God studying to bee quiet and to do his own business 1 Thes 4.11 and not other mens as the Lord hath commanded Object 1 The chief Argument for preaching without Ordination is taken from Act. 8 ver 4. with Act. 11.19 20. they that were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen went every where preaching the Word yet these that were scattered were not Ordained men therefore men unordained may Preach Answ 1 1. It must bee in such cases as in the Text This example will not hold in cases altogether unlike Suppose that when Ministers are persecuted Congregations scattered when Christians are fain to flie into strange Countries among Infidels when such cannot bee had as by God's ordinary Call have power to preach I say admit that in such a Case any man may preach the Word declare among the people the name of Jesus Christ his Death and Resurrection yet by what analogie of reason can this bee alleged against the established cours provided in Scripture for sending men to preach In Case of extreme danger when I am assaulted for my life I may rather kill then bee killed I may bee my own Magistrate But this warrant 's not an ordinarie usurping of the Magistrates sword so in our present Question Rule When wee have a Rule and an extraordinarie Example that crosseth that Rule as in the case of Phinees and Abraham's killing his son then wee must leav the Example and follow the Rule wee must not follow dispensations and forsake the standing precept Answ 2 2. But how will it appear that these They in the Text that preached abread were men unsent and unordained seeing there bee precepts in Scripture for Ordination Col. 4.10 11. Philem. v. 24. if wee finde any doing the work of Elders wee are to presume that they are Ordained though their Ordination Concl. 3 bee not recorded as Marcus Aristarchus Demas Lucas Tychichus c. And that those preachers above mentioned were so sent I shall offer unto you for proof these Textual considerations 1. All that are named Act. 9.10 Act. 21.8 as Philip the Evangelist and Ananias and Lucius of Cyrene were men in Office 2. Nothing appear's to the contrarie but all make's for it That the seventie were at Jerusalem till that scattering they kept companie with Christ while hee lived and with the Apostles at Jerusalem after hee was Ascended Act. 1.21 For out of the seventie Matthias was chosen to bee an Apostle and becaus they nestled themselvs in their warm quarters at Jerusalem God send 's a persecution to dispers them about their business that so the preaching might bee more fully known according as Christ fore-told Act. 1.8 so it came to pass the seventie were appointed to preach in the places where those that were scattered did preach Act. 8.1 Therefore it is altogether likely that these were the men 3. Besides it is said Act. 6.7 that a great Companie of the Priests were Converted to the Faith and these were Paul's Fellow-helpers unto the Kingdom of God Aristarchus and Marcus and Jesus which is called Justus who are of