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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93130	The Qvakers wilde questions objected against the ministers of the Gospel, and many sacred acts and offices of religion. With brief answers thereunto. Together with A discourse of the Holy Spirit, his impressions and workings on the sovls of men. Very seasonable for these times. / By R. Sherlock, B.D.	Sherlock, R. (Richard), 1612-1689.	1654 (1654)	Wing S3254; Thomason E1495_3; ESTC R208535	67,037	174

thereof All natural and artificial abilities nay Divine qualifications before Ordination are silent by that question of the Apostle Rom. 10.15 How shall they preach except they be sent It was a mutinous speech of Korah Dathan Numb 16.3 and Abiram who said unto Moses You take too much upon you since all the Congregation is holy Numb 16.3 ver 32.35 Their Divine qualification did not license them to invade Moses's chair or sacrilegiously usurp the Priest-hood they paid dear for that usurpation when the fire came out from the Lord and consumed the most forward of them and the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed Corah and all his company a fair warning any man would think for lay-persons to beware how they intermeddle with the Ministerial Function if they do it maliciously let them remember the curse of Corah if they have more fair but mistaken purposes let them remember what was the sad portion of Vzzah for his over-bold approach to the Ark of God 2 Sam. 6.6 7. which belonged to the Priests Office § 24 All Offices Arts and profitable Sciences all great and publick things and imployments are distinguisht in the Societies of men by proper and peculiar Professors Artists and Ministers How then should we think that Religion which is the Art of Arts may ly in common and be exposed to the profanation of every rude illiterate and unskilful mechanick to be unhallowed by the rude intermedlings of undiscerening persons and not rather separate from profane and vulgar touch by select distinct and qualified persons for that end by God ordained In Religion it is true that all have a common interest and so they have in the Laws also and by the same reason that the one by the same the other also may be dispensed by all men promiscuously without order without distinction which must necessarily end in confusion 'T is true that under the Gospel all true believers are Priests unto the Lord and have spiritual sacrifices to offer 1 Pet. 2.5 9. But it is one thing for a man to be a Priest to himself another thing to be so to the whole Church Revel 1.6 Rom. 12.1 It is one thing to offer up our selves a living sacrifice acceptable unto God another thing to represent the Congregation unto God All ordinary and private devotions may and are to be done by private persons but the solemn ritual and publick Worship of God must be left to the publick Minister There is no good man but wisheth with Moses I would all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them Numb 11.29 Numb 11.29 But it is one thing to be qualified as the Prophets of the Lord another thing sacrilegiously to invade their Office Being qualified they may do the Office of Prophets privately to themselves and their familie both by prayers for and with them and also by teaching and instructing them But in Gods house and in the presence of the whole Congregation to dispense the sacred mysteries of Salvation is only peculiar to the Stewards of his house nor may others presume to intermeddle therewithall § 25 No man taketh this honor to himself but he that is called of God Heb. 5 4. as was Aaron who was called of God but consecrated by Moses Exod. 28.1 2. agitatus a deo consecrationis principe saith Dionysius God was the principal Author and Moses the Minister of his Consecration Heb. 5.5 so likewise Christ did not glorifie himself to become High Priest but he was personally chosen and sent or in his own language sealed of the Father Joh. 6.27 and sent into the world that is ordained to be Priest and Prophet of the world The Apostles of Christ received their Commission from him Matth. 28.19 Matth. 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing c. And that we might understand that they had by virtue of this Commission power to Commissionate others to be their successors in all succeeding Generations of the Church it follows And lo I am with you until the end of the world with you your selves until you have fulfilled your course and served your own Generation and with you in your successors until the end of the world and more plainly in those other words of their Commission Joh. 20.21 22 23. Joh. 20.21 22 23. As my Father hath sent me so send I you and when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the holy Ghost whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained which spiritual power and spiritual gifts communicated to the Apostles was not sure to expire with them except we will also say all Ecclesiastical Discipline and Government ended with the Apostles and that all scandals and offences herefies and errors sins and vices are left remediless and without cure or at least without a Physitian to prescribe administer and apply to wounded Consciences and sin-sick Souls their proper salve and medicine As my Father hath sent me so send I you and as I have sent you Act. 14.23 Titus 1.5 so you are to send others and this we read they did They ordained Elders in all Churches and gave Commission to whom they ordained to Ordain others The Ordination was theirs but the power was from above and so the Apostles themselves acknowledged in the very first instance of Ordination when they chose Matthias in the room of Judas They prayed saying Thou Lord shew whether of these two thou hast chosen Act. 2.24 Act. 2.24 God chooses and man ordains God cals the person to the Office and man instals him therein The power is Origninally from God as the Fountain but conveyed through the Ministry of man as the Conduit § 26 All power is given unto me both in Heaven and in Earth Mat. 28.18 19. Go ye therefore c. But because there is no man how sacrilegiously soever he invade the Ministerial Office but will pretend a call and a power from God thereunto and he that is most bold and forward to publish his follies in this kinde is also apt to mistake his boldness for a call from God he may fancy a call from above when it is only a noise in his own head or a deceitful eccho of his own heart therefore we must know this call from God to so high honorable an Office as to be ordained for men in things pertaining to God is either extraordinary or ordinary the first beginning of a lasting necessity is extraordinary and 't is made ordinary in succession and by the lasting continuation of a fixed and determinate Ministry as Adam at the first was extraordinarily formed immediately created by God himself but all mankinde since ordinarily by the mediation of parents so the the Apostles of Christ who received the first issues of the Evangelical Ministry were extraordinarily called but all that have