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A42771 A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ... Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.; Gillespie, Patrick, 1617-1675. 1649 (1649) Wing G761; ESTC R8829 216,733 306

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to comfort them 3. As long as we are in this world that promise that wee shall not need any man to teach us is not perfectly fulfilled for we know but in part 1 Cor. 13. 9. 12. we shall ever need a Teacher til we be in heaven and see Christ face to face 4. And thus we must needs understand these Scriptures objected unlesse we will make them to contradict other Scriptures Ier. 3. 15. Rom. 10. 14. 1 Cor. 1. 23. and how can a man understand without a Teacher Acts 8. 31. Object 2. But if we beleeve the Ministery to bee a perpetuall ordinance and if there be a promise that Christ will bee with the Ministery to the end of the world then wee must also beleeve a succession of Ministers since the Apostles dayes and that in the midst of Popery it self Christ had a true Ministery Answer If our beleeving the holy Church universall and that in all ages Christ hath had and shall have a true Church doth not inferre that wee must beleeve the Church either alwayes visible or alwayes pure so our beleeving a perpetuall Ministery doeth not inferre that therefore wee must beleeve either a lineall or visible succession of Ministers or their purity and preservation from error There is nothing of this kinde can bee objected against our beleeving a perpetuall Ministery but it falleth as heavy upon our beleife of the perpetuity of the Church Object 3. The multitude of beleevers are under the new Testament made a royall Priest-hood 1 Pet. 2. 9. And Christ hath made us Kings and Priests unto God Revel 1. 6. Answer First Peter explaineth himself 1 Pet. 2. 5. ye are anholy Priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ. VVhat these spiritual sacrifices are we may finde in other Scriptures the mortification of the flesh and offering up of our selves to God Rom. 12. 1. Contrition Psal. 51. 17. Prayer and supplications Psal. 141. 2. Heb. 5. 7. Rev. 5. 8. thanksgivings Psal. 50. 14. 23. Heb. 13. 15 almes deeds Phil. 4. 18. Heb. 13. 16. As to these all beleevers are indeed an holy Preist-hood but not as to publick Ministeriall administrations 2. This objection drives at the taking away of Magistracy and civill government aswell as of the Ministery for Christ hath made beleevers Kings aswell as Priests and if Kings then not Subjects 3. The same thing was said to the people of Israel Exod. 19. 6. and ye shall be unto me a kingdome of Priests yet God appointed the sonnes of Aaron onely to be Priests as to the publick administration of holy things 4. The same God who hath made Christians an holy Priesthood hath promised to the Church of the new Testament that he will set a part and take from among them or of them by way of distinction and speciall calling Priests who shall Minister before him in the holy things Isa. 66. 21. Ezek. 44. 15. 16. c. Whom hee calleth Priests not in the Jewish nor Popish sence but for their offering up of the Gentiles to God by the preaching of the Gospel and sanctified by the holy Ghost Rom 15. 16. Or wee may conceave they are called Priests by the Prophets that they might be the better understood speaking in the language of those times even as for the same reason when the Prophets spake of the Church of the new Testament They mention mount Zion Jerusalem sacrifices incense the feast of Tabernacles c. But I must not forget what the Erastian Grallator with so much spite and derision rejecteth viz. that there is not onely a perpetuall Ministery in the Church but that Ministers lawfully called are to be receaved as the Embassadours of Christ and as sent of God If there must be a perpetuall Ministery yet That child of the devill and Enemy of Christ for hee can be no other who is an Enemy to the Ministery of the word and Sacraments ceaseth not to pervert the right wayes of the Lord. He will by no meanes acknowledge any Ministers in the Reformed Churches to be the Embassadours of Christ though the Apostles were It seemes he hates this name the more because Embassadours by the law of Nations are inviolable persons how much more the Embassadours of Christ But let us now see whether the word of God gives not as high a rise and Authority even to the ordinary Ministery of the Gospell as an Embassadour from Christ. When Paul saith Wee are Embassadours from Christ 2 Cor 5. 20. he speaks it not in reference to any thing peculiarly apostolicall or any thing incompetent to ordinary Ministers the contrary is most plain from the Text it self He hath committed unto us the word of Reconciliation Now then wee are Embassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us wee pray you in Christs stead be yee reconciled to God Now if Paul was the Embassadour of Christ because he had committed unto him the word of reconciliation then all true Ministers of the Gospell are also the Embassadours of Christ for the same reason See the like Eph 6. 20. For which I am an Embassadour for what Not for working miracles casting out Devills planting Churches in severall Kingdoms or the like but for opening my mouth boldly to make knowne the mistery of the Gospell vers 19. wherein he desires to be helped by the prayers of the Saints By the same reason all faithfull and lawfully called Ministers are the Embassadours of Christ as well as the Apostles Even as under the old Testament the Priests who were ordinary Teachers and called in an ordinary mediat way were the Angels or Messengers of the Lord of Hosts Mal 2. 7. as well as the Prophets 2. Chron 36. 16 So wise men and Scribes are said to be sent of God as well as prophets Math. 23. 34. And the Ministers of the seven Churches in Asia are called Angels Revel 2. 3. and an Interpreter of the word of God is a Messenger Iob 33. 23. Now Christ hath given to the Church Pastors and Teachers as well as Apostles Prophets and Evangelists all these are from Heaven not from men Ephes 4. 11. CHAP. II. Of the Election of Pastours with the Congregations consent THe Question is not whether the power of Ecclesiasticall government or jurisdiction belong to the people or body of the Church for the Tenents of Brownists and Anabaptists concerning popular government we utterly abhorre nor whether the whole collective body of the Church ought to be assembled and their voi es severally asked in Elections for all may consent when none vote in Elections but the representative body of the Church nor whether the consent of the people to the admission of a Pastor is to be sought and wished for it being generally acknowledged by all and denyed by none that it is better to enter with the peoples consent then against it Nor whether liberty ought to be granted to the whole congregation or any member thereof to object against