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lord_n	aaron_n	belong_v	priesthood_n	44	3	10.0987	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45152	A plea for the non-conformists tending to justifie them against the clamorous charge of schisme. By a Dr. of Divinity. With two sheets on the same subject by another Hand and Judgement.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1674 (1674)	Wing H3703A; ESTC R217013	46,853	129

where the High-Priests Office was to be Executed at Hierusalem and to confine him to Anathoth where he could not execute the Office of the High-Priest and so he was in effect turned from the High-Priests Office 4. And Zadoc to whom that Office was due is invested with it But Abiathar remains a Priest still is so called after and joyned next to Zadoc but the High Priesthood could not truly belong to him but to the Elder House from Aaron and besides God had declared his Will that this should be done he is said to have done it that he might fulfil the Word of the Lord and he that did it was a man inspired by God and a Pen-man of Holy Writ What will follow from hence think we therefore Kings and Magistrates may remove 1. The chiefest Priests from their Preferments Dignities and their own Courts 2. That in case they have deserved death and the Magistrate thinks fit to shew mercy but yet to punish them with Banishment to remote places where their flock cannot come he may thus in effect turn them out from their Pastoral Relation 3. That in case he finds them no true Ministers of Christ he may forbid them to Minister 4. That if God from Heaven by a revelation or by any plain Scripture commands them to turn true Ministers out of Office they may do it I can see nothing more let the Author make his best of this § 55. But he had thought the distinction of the Office and the exercise of it had been uncontrouled by the Presbyterians and that they had granted that though the Magistrate could not degrade them yet as to the exercise of their Office he might and that he had power to silence such as he judged unmeet to Preach Presbyterians can without the help of this Authors Logick distinguish betwixt the Office and the exercise of the Office and make one distinction more between the exercise of the Office in publick places undoubtedly in the Magistrates disposal and in their own private Houses or in the private Houses of others They do believe it in the power of the Magistrate though not to take away their Office or Relation to their Flock Yet to hinder the exercise of it and that they ought to obey him commanding them to forbear the exercise of it in publick places belonging to the Magistrates and accordingly have generally been so obedient though the Law so far be not so plain that any are prohibited to Preach except such as are disabled which is the case of very few They know Paul Preached in his hired House at Rome Act. 28. and in the School of Tirannus when the Jewish Rulers forbad them the Synagogues the Office not taken away nor to be taken away they conclude the Relation attending the Office abiding But hitherto we have only justified our first Plea It is no separation because there never was an Union nor could be of very many of us to a Parochial Ministerial Governing Church And considering it only as a part of the Catholick Church we are in all points one with it § 56. But we will suppose that this is not the case of all our Brethren but some have been United to the Parochial Societies wherein they lived and implicitly consented to be one body with them by not only hearing the Ministers there but receiving the Communion with them What shall be said for them We say they are not sinfully separated 1. Are they separated They now indeed meet for worship in other places and that statedly but do they condemn the Ministers or Churches from which they are come do they not own them as true Ministers and such Churches as true Churches Do they not pay to the Ministers love the Brethren where 's the Schisme then For when men have said all they can Schisme is a sin against the command of Love to our Neighbour It is no command of God you shall be of this Congregation or another other then it falls under general precepts commanding us to use the best means for our Souls Now cannot I love my Neighbour except I dwell in his Family or chuse her for my Wife or him for my Husband Besides it is most certain I am bound to love my own Soul in the first place and as an Evidence to that I am tied to use the best means I can not contradicted by God's Word according to my own Conscience which certainly must judg for me in my highest concern for the Salvation of it § 57. I am a-ware of what this Author hath said That a man may not depart from a Congregation to which he was United either to enjoy the Ordinances of God more powerfully or purely or perfectly administred in another convenient enough for me to joyn with This is the substance of what he hath said and quoted from others as their Opinion But this will never enter into my thoughts Let them speak plainly to this Is it not the duty of every Christian to use what appears to his Conscience the best and most probable means for his Salvation The light of Nature as well as Scripture will evince this Now I would fain know of any person what it is under Heaven except the bare Word and Sacraments that God hath appointed as means for the Instruction Edification and Salvation of my Soul but the gifts of his Ministers or People with which in order to these ends his holy Spirit works not miraculously but in a national orderly way secundum quae nactus est Organa There is nothing more evident than that in Ministers there is a great diversity of Gifts and as much a diversity of Wills Humours and Fancies and also a great variety of peoples Capacities There 's nothing more evident than that our Ministers parts method of Preaching c. is really more fitted to the Instruction and Edification of some people than the Gifts and Methods of others are as we say every good Man makes not a good Husband for every good Woman so it is demonstrably true that every able and good Minister is not a fit and good Instructor for every good Christian they possibly understand not his language nor cannot learn his method possibly 't is Cryptick and requires a Schollar to understand it Shall these people be perpetually staked down in the case that let their Souls be never so much concerned they must not ordinarily joyn with another Minister and hear him though their habitations be convenient enough for it or must these persons possibly to the loss of their Trade and Livelihood which in Towns lyes much upon their habitation be forced to remove into that other Parish where hath God required any such thing § 58. Besides that I understand not much those of my Brethren that are so Zealous in this point In my little dealings in the World I use always to be afraid of that Trades-man whom I perceive using arts to tye me to his Shop and upon that Work-man that I see