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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45328	An apologie for the ministry and its maintenance wherein is set forth the necessity, dignity and efficacy of a gospel-ministry against the Socinians, Swenckfieldians, Weigelians, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, Libertines and the rest of that rout ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing H425A; ESTC R28055	88,780	120

comparatively to ours wherein men and minds are of all equall number Oh memorable wish of that famous preacher Dr. Stoughton So that brotherly unity may be preserved quoth he Let me below even in the dust rather than exalted in a tryumphant Chariot by a Cadmean conquest Let others affect the great title of Ptolomaeus I am more pleased with the pleasant name of Irenaeus This peaceable frame concerns all but more especially the Ministers of Christ who are sent to preach to and to pray for not to prey upon others to build up the Church of Christ not to demolish it to worke and not to wrangle The harmony and joynt consent of the builders promotes the building Neh. 4. 76. Solomons temple was built without noyse 1 King 6 7. which by a profitable type doth shadow out the peaceableness of the builders and quietness of Christ's Church in which the noyse of contentions schismes ought not to be heard The builders of the Church of Christ should not be divided as Nehemiah's servants were halfe to the worke and halfe to the warre neither must these spirituall builders have swords girded upon their sides when they build as his builders had Neh. 4. 18. If we will revenge our selves upon the bitternesse and malice of base spirits the best way of revenging is by forgetting and the onely way to vex them is to be more zealous and servent in the study practise and pursuit of opposed Godlinesse If we will contend with their murmurings and malice let it be by faith and patience and meeknesse of spirit as knowing it better to neglect them than to stand to confute them to pass them by in silence than to take notice of them Neither do we want motives to this peaceableness 1 Our God is the God of peace Rom. 15. 33. 2 Cor. 13. 11. 2 Christ Ie●us is the Prince of Peace Isa. 9. 6. 3. The sons of God are the sons of Peace Luke 10. 6. 4. The Gospel which we preach is the Gospel of peace Eph 6. 15. In a word we are called unto peace 1 Cor. 7. 15. Therefore follow peace pursue it with the greatest vehemency nay although it flye from you and men will not suffer themselves to be reconciled yet pursue it with indefatigable pains Psal. 34. 15. H●b 12. 14. love Truth Peace Zach. 8. 19. for otherwise Truth is better with Discord than a sinfull Concord But if it be possible as much as in us lyes let us follow peace with all men Rom. 12. 18. For we are one body we are governed by one Spirit we have one hope one Lord one Faith one Baptism Eph. 4. 2 3 4 5 6. Moreover this is just honest good pleasant as Sibelius out of Ps. 1 33. 1. Tom. 1. pag. 576. proves by many strong and savory Arguments CHAP. VIII Asserts and vindicates the Maintenance of Ministers Fifth use is for the reprehension and correction of Anabaptists Levellers c. who deny those stipends to the Ministers of Christ which are due by a right both divine and humane by the Law both of heaven and earth for grant a Ministry and you must needs grant stipends by which it may be maintained This is almost as clear as a Demonstration can make it For VVho goeth to warre at his own charges even the Law of Nature dictates this that the workman is worthy of his wages Hence Moses gave unto the Levites by divine appointment the Ten●● the first-Fruits the best of the Sacrifices the yearly pension of a ●hekel the mony for the redemption of the first-born the mony for vows as appears Exod. 34. 26. Lev. 27. 3● c. Numb 18. In that universal famine in Aegypt when Ioseph the Kings Steward bought all the Land for Pharaoh he bought not the Priests land but allowed them Corn out of the Kings Granaries Gen. 47. 22. Even Pharaoh himself although an Idolater had yet a singular care of the worship of his Gods and maintined their Priests at his own proper cost and charges And if Pharaoh was so carefull for his Priests as to mantain them for the ruine and destruction of himself and his people that he might not be thought to be wicked and ungratefull to his ●eigned Deities What an ingratitude what a sacriledge is it that the true Ministers of the true God should be neglected by Princes and Powers that call themselves Christians whose pains they know to be of Gods approbation and for their salva●ion Hezekiah that Father of the Priests did not only give a good part of his own substance to them but commanded the people to maintain the Priests and Levites that being freed from secular cares they might wholly give themselves to the Law of the Lord and lay out themselves in their sacred function in the service of the Temple 2 Chron 31 4 12. c. It was not the least was it not the greatest of Alexander's Commendations that he loved and honoured Learning and larned men which made his times be so fruitfull of great wits and witty Inventions He so well know how to esteem Learning and to treat the learned that it afterwards became a Proverb If thou hadst lived in Alexander's times he would have given thee a Cyprus or a Phoenice for every Verse For as a good refined disposition of the ayr begets plenty of fruits so the benign and ingenious disposition and constitution of Kings and Powers produces a great encrease of Arts and Ingenuities But on the contrary the envy ignorance and baseness of Princes blasts the fruit and makes the birth of the brain abortive Therefore we have Nehemiah contending even with the Rulers because they had denyed the Levites their tythes and salaries Neh 13. 10 11 12. and he accounts this contention a subject fit for divine Remembrance ver 14. 1. Then let all Christian Magistrates take care that the Ministers of the Church who are ignorant of manual employments be not driven to wrestle with want and hunger and by this meanes be turned aside from the diligent execution of their weighty calling to the care of providing inecessities for nature All know that the Ministry is a very weighty Calling great enough for the shoulders of Angels and such as may justly take up and challenge the whole man neither can the Preachers of the Gospel nor ought they to ex●●cise any manuall Art whereby to provide sufficient supplies or maintenance for themselves and theirs who must either therefore live upon their people or dye amongst them for want of a livelyhood 2. Let them take heed they do not diminish or suffer to be diminisht or withheld the gifts given to God by pious Ancestors For God is the revenger of all such who will send upon the unthankfull world a famine of his Word for the famishing of his Messengers but rather let them imitate Constantine the Great who took care that the Clergy should receive liberall and honourable stipends and confirm'd it by a Law Euseb de vita