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A45336	The pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publike preaching, and expounding the Scriptures without a call ... : occasioned by a dispute at Henly in Arden in Warwick-shire, Aug. 20, 1650 ... : in the close are added six arguments, to prove our ministers free from antichristianism / composed and compiled by a friend to truth and peace.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1651 (1651)	Wing H437; ESTC R11676	84,387	104

variety of Nails that if some should chance to go awry to blunt or turn crooked yet others might hold and O that they might be as Nails fastned by the Masters of the Assembly to keep us stedfast and unmoveable in the truth My Record is on high that I have not done any thing out of envy spleen or passion against the persons or parts of any I can freely wish that all the Lords people were Prophets and that those private persons that have gifts would use them more in their Families and Spheres then they do It troubles not me to see Christ preached but it troubles me to see him dishonoured by Antinomians Arminians Anabaptists Familists c. who under pretence of preaching Christ preach their own fancies Nor do we fear the loss of our imployment the Foyl sets off the Iewel and Bunglers make Workmen more esteemed and when I speak against preaching-Artificers yet I speak not against their Arts but against their usurpations of anothers Office There is not the poorest servant that washeth pots in whom I shall see but aliquid Christi any thing of Christ but I shall love and honour them and esteem them as my fellow-servants and Brethren of the Church of God remembring 'tis God that gives us our several Callings and a Scavenger may honour God in his place as well as a Minister in his Philip King of Macedon being troubled with two dissolute Subjects he made one to run out of the Kingdom and the other to drive him and so was shut of both Authority hath wisely provided Banishment for some of your Sects but I shall rather desire your Repentance Onely adde not Obstinacy to your Folly lest it prove your ruine This is finis operis the end of the work though not finis operantis the end you aym it for as Piety hath the promise and brings its reward with it and though no man should recompence the good we do yet doing good is recompence it self So every evil work brings its punishment with it and though no man should punish it yet the evil we do is punishment it self Read all before you censure for one part helps to uphold the other like stones in an A●ch If this little Tract cannot satisfie yet you have references to learned men that will All the imperfecti●ns weaknesses c. I own as mine let not the Truth suffer for them Consider 't was work redeemed from a double Calling from rest and Recreations There is no man can judg● so me only of me my work and pains but I shall desire to judge my self yet lower 〈◊〉 knowing more by my self then he doth or can and though mine adversary should write a book against me full of lyes and reproaches yet would I wear it as a Crown in token of triumph esteeming reproaches for Christ greater riches then the treasure of the world To conclude if any shall reap any satisfaction by this Tract they may accidentally thank you if your Cause receive any hurt you may thank your selves who called me to the work It hath cost me some pains and study as Demosthenes said of his Enthymems they did olere lucernam so doth this savour of some reading But so it may be useful to the Church of God I have enough I have now used all means to do you good by Preaching Praying Disputing and now by Writing if none of these means can reclaim you but you will walk on in the by-paths of Seperation Anabaptism c. yet I have discharged my duty and my ●oul shall weep in secret for your pride mine eyes shall drop down tears This is the desire and resolution of Your Friend and servant in the service of Christ THO. HALL A List of those Authors whose Works are cited and made use of in this Treatise A Abbot against Separat A Lapide Al●teed Ames Annota●ions on the Bible Answer to Spencer Antidote against Lay-preach Apollonius Aretius Augustine de H●res B. Ball Baine Bayly Baxter Bellarmine Bernard Bernard of Batcombe B●za Bowles Brinsly Bullinger Burges Byfield C. Calvin Chemnitius Cheynel D. Davenant De Loque a Frenchman Dell Diodati Dithmar Dixon Doway Bible E. Edwards F. Feild of the Church G. Greenhill H. Hall against Seperat Harmony of Confessions J. Jacksons Johnsons Junius L. Lavater Leigh Dr. Love Sir H. Lynd. M. P. Martyr Mayer Mornay Dr. Morton Moulin Musculus N. Nalton O. Owen Oxford Account P. Pareus Paget Perkins Piscator Prideaux R. Rathband Ricraft Robinson Rollock Rutherford S. Seaman Sleiden Smith on the Creed Spanheim Simpson Hi●t Synopsis purioris The T. Taylor on Tit Thompson concio ad Cler. Thorndike Topsel Trap V. Dr. Vines Vind of Presbytery W. Willet Workman Z. Zanchy Zepper IMPRIMATUR Feb. 3. 1650. Edm. Calamy The Thesis discussed was this That Private persons though they be gifted yet may not Preach in a constituted Church without a Call The * Arminians Socinians Anabaptists Libertines Separatists c. Affirm We with all the Reformed Churches in Christendome c. Deny IN the handling of this Controversie I shal observe this Method 1 I will briefly explain the Terms as they lye in Order I shall have occasion to enlarge upon them in the Answers 2 I shal confirme the Thesis with divers Reasons and A●guments drawne from the Word of God 3 I shal answer all those Objections which in my little reading I have met withall First By Private persons I meane such as the Apostle cals the Flock the people of God Hearers such as must obey their Teachers in the Lord c. The Scripture is cleare that some in the Church are Superiours some Inferiours some are as Eyes some Ears Some Feet and as in the body Natural some members are for more honourable employment some less honourable but all useful in their proper places This is fully set forth 1 C●r 12. from v. 4 to 30. These private persons we call only for distinction sake Lay-men as being contra-distinct to Ministers and Preachers who are men in office and if we thus use the term not as opposed to Clergie for all the godly are called Gods Clergie 1 Pet. 5. 3. Not lording it over Gods heritage a or Clergy God is their Lot and Portion and the Church is his but to Ministery and to a man that is a Preacher in Office so it cannot be offensive for Laicus is only one {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the people Hence a b learned man distinguisheth thus 1. There is Clerus Ecclesia Clerus Ecclesiae Clerus Ecclesia est sors Domini quae omnes includit fideles 1 Pet. 5. 3. Rev. 2. 6. 2. Clerus Ecclesiae sunt certae inter fideles personae segregatae legitimè vocatae ad munus ministerii ut Act. 13. 2. Titus 1. 5. Secondly though gifted though excellently gifted so that they excel many Ministers in Praying Elocution Learning c and other abilities yet