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A49813 A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson. Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691. 1680 (1680) Wing L728; ESTC R34510 85,782 120

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from executing the Priests Office This implies that the Lord's Witnesses under the Evangelical Dispensation should be enabled to beget others into the healing Power of the Living God Paul told the Corinthians saying In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel 1 Cor. 4.15 Phil. 10. Now Man made Ministers beget others into dry partched sandy Forms without Power and persecute others for Non-Compliance thereunto Peter the Apostle gave a pregnant and lively Testimony for a Divine and Immediate Call saying As every man hath received the Gift even so minister the same one to another as good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God 1 Pet. 4.10 So Gospel Ministers minister out of the Treasure of God's Gift not from a stock acquired by Natural Languages Arts and Sciences Further saith Peter If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God If any man minister let him do it as of the Ability which God giveth vers 11. So that the true Ministry proceeds from the Spring of divine Ability not from the muddy Lake of acquired Pagan Arts Parts and Endowments Nothing conduces more saith Aug. Marl. on this place to correct Murmurings then in considering that we minister not of our own but what the Lord hath given us Further 't is said I will give Power unto my two Witnesses and they shall Prophesie a Thousand Two Hundred and Threescore Dayes clothed in Sackcloth Rev. 11.3 Gospel Ministers saith Pareus on this place who are the Lords Witnesses are impowered and qualified by the Lord for the Performance and Discharge of their Work After three dayes and a half the Time of the Beasts Reign that ascended out of the Bottomless Pit and Locusts coming out of the Smoke Anti-christian Teachers bred and qualified in the Smoke of humane Wisdom Spoiling Philosophy Unsavory School Divinity whereby Kindreds Tongues and People are made Drunk I say after the Reign of the Beast and of the Locusts Antichrist and his Man made Ministry John fore-tells the Restoration of Witnesses and of their Call to the Ministry saying The Spirit of Life from God entred into them Rev. 11.11 So that the Succession of true Witnesses of the true Ministry after the Apostacy shall be through the Operation of the Spirit not through the Smoke of the Pit Spoiling Philosophy School Divinity and through the Operation of the Finger of the Antient of Dayes The Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall Reign forever and ever Rev. 11.15 So that the Spirit of Life entring into men after the Beast and his Locusts Anti-christ and his Ministers have had their Day is to be the only Qualifier for the Evangelical Dispensation Most of the Ministers among the Waldenses were Trades-men as Merchants Fisher-men Taylors Shoe-makers Husband-men and these Waldenses antient Pratestants Witnesses against the apostatised Roman Church bare Testimony That it were lawful for any to Preach who were called of God Though Strangers to Natural Tongues Arts Sciences Philosophy such the living God is raising up to stand on their Feet and they must bear their Testimony in order to Season and rectifie the Nations though by the Sons of Belial under the Delusion of Anti-christ they be branded as Anti-magistratical and Anti-ministerial and Persecuted CAP. II. Of a Humane Call into the Ministry WHile the Primitive Faith was kept the Ministers of the Gospel were Stars in Heaven shining as Stars through purity of Doctrine and heavenly Spotless Coversation while Stars in Heaven fixt in heavenly Places in Christ Jesus they had the heavenly Key letting them into the royal Court of the Lords Presence they entertained no Wisdom in Church or School but what was Heavenly no Call into the Ministry but what was Divine Immediate contrary to the Will of Man Holy men of God as Peter said spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost Yea and these in the Life of Righteousness Power of Godliness saw such as got the Letter without the Spirit the Scriptures without the Power and bare Testimony against them to be false Teachers Antichrists Preaching for filthy Lucre Gifts and Rewards Yea Paul spake of the Rise of Self-lovers Covetous c. who should have the Form of Godliness without the Power thereof Scriptures without the Spirit such said he are to be turned from 2 Tim. 3. John foresaw a great Star fall from Heaven to Earth then being in the Earth an earthly Key was thrust into the hand of his Mind even the Key of the Bottomless Pit out of the Pit arose a Smoke darkning Sun and Air Spoiling Corrupting and Depraving the Glory and Purity of the Primitive Church What was this Smoke Earthly Wisdom gushing as a heady Torrent into Church and School Traditions Errors Lyes strange Doctrines Superstition Idolatry Lacivious Poems Wanton Comedies Vain Tragedies Frivolous Fables Spoiling Philosophy Heathen Logicks Ethicks Metaphysicks As this Smoke steamed into Church and School the Pearl of heavenly Wisdom and the Pure Divine Immediate Call into the Ministry was lost in the Smoke Yea and John foresaw Locusts come out of the Smoke What 's that Swarms of Man-made Ministers bred and qualified in the Smoke of earthly Wisdom be they Garduates or Under-graduates if they have nothing but from Man so that since the steaming in of that Smoke the Call hath been of Man through Natural Languages Heathen Arts Parts Endowments Qualifications at Schools and Colledges yea and the Locusts have been so senseless and benummed as to plead against any other Call or Manner of Qualification The true Ministry was and is peculiar to the New man 2 Pet. 1.21 John 20.21 But the heavenly Capacitating Ability being lost through the Smoke of the Pit a Qualification without was set up in the place of it gained by Schools Universities Languages Spoiling Philosophy so Preaching is made an Art of the old Man by Antichrist Let none apprehend that I deny Schools of Learning for Schools teaching the knowledge of the Creation and of useful and necessary Things and Languages useful in their place I own but 't is the Lord of the Harvest that must send forth Labourers into the Harvest Universities cannot do that I might produce a Cloud of Witnesses shewing that after the Beast was risen out of the Sea and Earth Apostatised Christendom was become as Waters Kindreds Tongues People and Nations professing Christianity yet were made drunk with the Cup of Fornication Spiritual Idolatry no other Call into the Ministry was admitted but what was gained at Schools and Universities by Acquired Tongues Heathen Arts and Sciences though in all or most of Ages as by the Waldenses Albigenses c. the Lord had his Witnesses bearing Testimony to the Virtue and Power of a divine Call and that without it all Natural Tongues Heathen Arts and Sciences were insignificant and insufficient In the dayes of King Henry the 4th the King Lords and Bishops agreed That no man within his Dominions should preach privily