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The jus divinum of presbyterie. Or, A treatise evidently proving by Scripture; all true ministers or embassadours of the Gospell to be rightly called divines or, Jure divino.
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Writer, Clement, fl. 1627-1658.
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thereof also given him to profit the body withall Scripture Acts 6. 3. Wherefore Brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest repute full of the Holy Ghost 8. Quer. Whether from this Scripture may not be collected That Deacons were to be men full of the Holy Ghost that is eminently furnished with these gifts How much more then ought those who take upon them to be superiour Ministers of the Gospell to be such Scripture Joh. 16. 7 8 9 10. If I go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you And when he is come he will reprove the world of sinne and of righteousnesse and of judgement of sinne because they believe not in me of righteousnesse because I go unto the Father and ye see me no more 9. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected That no ministry of the Gospell since the assention of Christ had power so to convince their hearers as to bring the sin of unbelief upon any that rejected their ministry nor to give any certain and undoubted ground of faith unto them without this witnesse of God by signes and gifts of the spirit which may be another reason why the Disciples themselves were cōmanded to stay untill they were indued with power from on high by the comming down of the holy Ghost upon them Scripture Joh. 5. 31. If I bear witnesse of my self my witnesse is not true 33 Ye sent unto John and he bare witnesse unto the truth 34 But I receive not testimony from man 35 But I have greater witnesse then that of John for the works which the Father hath given me to finish the same works that I do bear witnesse of me that the Father hath sent me Compared with Joh. 15. 24. If I had not done among them the works which no other man did they had not had sinne but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father Joh. 10. 37. If I do not the works of the Father believe me not 10. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected That Christs own Ministry witnessed both by himself John the Baptist or any other man or men was not sufficient so to convince his hearers as to bring them under the sin of unbelief unlesse it had been also witnessed by the mighty works which he did in their sight being such as none could do but by the speciall power of God Scripture 1 Cor. 2. 4 5. My speech and my preaching was not with inticing words of mans wisdome but in demonstration of the spirit and of * That is God povverfully vvrought vvith him confirming his preaching vvith signes and miracles c. as Act. 19. 11. 12. Heb. 2. 4. power that your faith should not stand in the wisdome of men but in the power of God 11. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected That that faith which is grounded upon any word Scripture or doctrine convayed to us by the hands or ministry of any men whatsoever not being also witnessed and confirmed by demonstration of the spirit and power of God as aforesaid stands in the wisedome of men and not in the power of God nor is such faith as the Church of Corinth had and therefore can be no true faith of the Gospell For all divine newes or doctrine such as the Gospell is requiring belief and obedience upon penalties as the Gospell doth ought to have some divine evidence and demonstration to confirm it otherwise it is no sufficient ground for true faith but may be waved without sinne because whatsoever is but uncertainly or fallibly evidenced as all in this case delivered meerly upon the credit of men is may as uncertainly or fallibly be entertained without any sinne yea it were folly if not sinne to do otherwise Scripture Joh. 16. 12 13 14. I have many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now howbeit when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that he shall speak and he will shew you things to come he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you Acts 20 29 30. For I know that after my departure shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things Acts 21. 10 11. There came down from Judea a certain Prophet named Agabus and when he was come unto us he took Pauls girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said Thus saith the Holy Ghost so shall the Jews at Jerusalem binde the man that oweth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles 1 Tim. 4. 1. Now the spirit speaketh expresly that in the later times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits Acts 8. 29. Then the spirit said unto Philip go near and joyn thy self to this Charet Acts 10. 19 20. While Peter thought on the vision The spirit said unto him behold three men seek thee arise therefore and get thee down and go with them doubting nothing for I have sent them Acts 13. 2. As they ministred to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them 1 Cor. 14. 29 30. Let the Prophets speak two or three and let the other judge if any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace for ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted 2 Tim. 4. 3 4. The time will come when they will not indure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves Teachers having itching ears and they shall turn their ears from the truth and shall be turned into Fables 12. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected 1 That the gift of prophesie is not a power of utterance enabling a man to speak the space of an hour two or three and therein to declare some notions or doctrines contrived by Arts and learning or gotten by reading studying or the like which is as falsly as commonly stiled preaching the word of God when indeed it is farre more likely to be that Ministery of Fables foretold of by St. Paul unto which the people should give up themselves and as we see evidently is come to passe 2 That the gift of prophesie was an expresse revelation by the spirit of the minde of God for their direction in things of speciall concernment to the Church in generall or to some member thereof in particular and a fore-telling things to come 3 That whensoever any thing was thus revealed by the spirit to any of the Members the same was to declare it for the mutuall edification and exhortation of the Church that all might learn and all might have comfort Scripture Matth. 3. 11.
9. Mark 16. 20. And they went forth and preached every where the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signes following 1 Thes 1. 5. For our Gospell came not to you in word onely but also in power and in the Holy Ghost 1 Pet. 1. 12. By them that have preached the Gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven Heb. 2. 4. God also bearing them witnesse both with signes and wonders and with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost 4. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected 1 That as soon as they were thus enabled from above they presently preached to beget others to the faith beginning at Jerusalem as they were appointed Luk. 24. 47. 2 That this their preaching came not in word onely but in power and in the Holy Ghost which was by Gods bearing them witnesse or every where working with them and confirming the word both with signes and wonders and divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost and therefore it was that he that despised them despised God and he that believed not made God a liar which none can be said to do in respect of any Ministry not being so vvitnessed by God Scripture Acts 2. 38 39. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sinnes and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost For the promise thereof is unto you and to your children and to all that are a farre off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Acts 8. 15 16 17. Who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost for as yet he was faln upon none of them onely they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus then laid they their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost Acts 9. 17. And Ananias went his way and entred into the house and putting hands on him said brother Saul the Lord hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost Acts 19. 1 2. And came to Ephesus and finding certain Disciples he said unto them have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed 6 And when PAVL had laid his hands upon them the Holy Ghost came on them and they spake with Tongues and Prophesied Ephes 1. 13. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the Gospell of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise 2 Cor. 3. 6. Who also hath made us able Ministers not of the Lotter but of the Spirit Gal. 3. 2. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of Faith 5 He therefore that ministreth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you doth he it by the works of the Law or by the hearing of Faith 1 Tim. 4. 14. Neglect not the gift which is in thee which was give thee by the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie Also 2 Tim 1. 6. 5. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected That these were enabled not onely plainly and distinctly to declare the Gospell with Gods bearing witnesse so as is aforesaid but also to administer the spirit to others and did administer it to all believers who had it not immediately from heaven by the laying on their hands upon them which they could not have done before they were indued with power so to do by the comming down of the Holy Ghost upon them Therefore were they commanded to stay untill it came Scripture Mark 16. 15 16 17 18. Go ye unto all the world and preach the Gospell to every creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned And these signes shall follow them that believe in my Name they shall cast out Divels they shall speak with new tongues they shall take up Serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover Joh. 3. 37 38. In the last day that great day of the Feast Jesus stood up and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink he that believeth on me as the Scripture saith out of his belly shall flow Rivers of Living water but this spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified Joh. 14. 16. I will pray the Father he shal give you another coforter that he may abide with you for ever Ephes 1. 13 14. Ye were sealed with the Holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance untill the redemption of the purchased possession Ephes 4. 8. He led captivitie captive and gave gifts unto men 11 He gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers 12 For the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ 13 Till we all come to the untiy of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Sonne of God unto a perfect man 6. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected That these gifts of the Spirit were one specificall Character whereby to distinguish the true Ministry of the Gospel and Churches of Christ from false to the end of the * world * Herevvith agreeth a Marginall Note in our English Bibles printed 1576 upon Ioh. 14. 12. He that believeth in me the vvorks that I do he shall do and greater The Note hereupon is This is reserred to the vvhole body of the Church in vvhom this vertue of Christ doth shine and remain for ever Scripture 1 Cor. 12. 7. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every one to profit withall 12. For as the body hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body Rom. 12. 4 5. As we have many members in one body and all the members have not the same Office so we being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another Rom. 8. 9. Now if any one have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his that is none of his body or Church Ephes 2. 21 22. In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an Holy Temple in the Lord in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit 7. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected 1 That none were capable of true membership in the visible Church or body of Christ being a spirituall state without being baptized with the baptisme of the spirit 2 That every member of the Church in generall had not onely one or more of these gifts of the spirit but had the manifestation