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spirit_n	aaron_n	call_v	function_n	23	3	9.9078	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64806	Panoplia, or, The whole armour of God explained and applyed for the conduct and comfort of a Christian in all his tryals and tentations : as also the dying preachers legacy in several sermons, being the last labours of the reverend author in the course of his ministry : together with certain seasonable considerations proving the lawfulness and expediency of a set form of lyturgy in the church / by Richard Venner.	Venner, Richard, b. 1598?	1662 (1662)	Wing V194; ESTC R27038	215,543	611

have a Pastoral power to dispense the Mysteries of salvation administer the Word and Sacraments Non sequitur it follows not besides teaching and admonishing is either 1. Publick expounding the Oracles of God revealing the whole Councel of God to men for their salvation 2. Private By catechizing our Families conferring with others repeating what men have learned from the Scripture from other good Books and good Preachers advising encouraging reproving comforting as occasion is Ap. And is all this nothing to exercise our zeal upon but that the fire must needs burn besids the hearth the proper place and be upon the house top to destroy the whole building Object 3. But Eldad and Medad Numb 11.27 prophesied in the camp Saul also 1 Sam. 10.9 among the Prophets And Philips daughters Acts 21.9 prophesied i.e. did tell things to come by the instinct of the Spirit not teach in the Church against those prohibitions 1 Cor. 1434. And Amos a Herds-man Amos 14.15 And the Lord said to him Go prophesie c. Peter and others Fisher-men Mat. 4.18 And Paul a Tent-maker did so Acts 18.3 4. Ergo Trades-men may preach if they be gifted but let ours shew such an extraordinary Call and consider that Answ 1. Extraordinary instances must not be brought in as Presidents For if so then false Prophets may expect Asses to reprove them as it befel Balaam Num. 22.28 and Soldiers may make use of Priests Rams horns to scale Walls in a Siege as Josh 6.3 and lamps and pitchers to subdue enemies Judg. 7.16 2. True predictions of future things speaking strange tongues which the Speakers never learned and miraculous cures were the wondrous effects of an extraordinary Calling Ap. Let our Sectaries shew the like Call and the fruits thereof and the Day is theirs we will yield what they desire else not 3. But now none are born Priests or Ministers but admitted by order to that Office and publick imployment We condemn not all Trades-men eo nomine from being orderly admitted into the Ministry in some cases Some mens Parts are too broad for their Callings and some mens Callings for their Parts Parents are sometimes mistaken in the Genius of their Children and sometimes at first do place out their Children and dispose them to what proves not to be suitable with them ☞ These Children dislike betake themselves to learn and study then are approved and orderly admitted such we condemn not but we blame those men 1. That take upon them the Honour and Office of a Minister and Preacher not being called thereunto as was Aaron 2. And despise the regular Ordination of the Church by the imposition of hands 3. That mangle instead of handle the Holy Scriptures with unwashen and unadvised hands 4. That presume they have those gifts and graces of the spirit which indeed they have not 5. That usurp upon the Place and Function of a Minister of the Gospel which they are very unfit for 6. That undervalue the cure of souls which is ars artium saith Gregory a marvellous piece of skil and wisdom 7. Which cross the grave and serious Question of the Apostle 2 Cor. 2.16 But now who are not sufficient Mechanicks are able Minsters and dare exercise ut dicunt per famam populum in great Assemblies to the great dishonour of God prophanation of his Ordinances and scandal of reformed Churches ☞ The good Lord rectifie these things that we may be compleatly shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace Amen The Apostle you know is instructing us concerning the spiritual Warfare of a Christian In which you have the War and the Weapons or the Ability and Art wherewith the War is managed Verses 10 11 12 13. The Armour with which the Conflict and Combate of the same is acted and performed Vers 14 15 16 17 18. The parts or pieces of this Armour are seven 1. a Belt 2. a Breast-plate 3. Shooes 4. a Shield 5. an Helmet 6. a Sword 7. Frayer and Supplication Ap. Of the first three I have spoken and you know how ill this Girdle of Truth doth agree with Falshood and this Breast-plate of Righteousness with the Unrighteousness of men and this preparation of Shooes to profess practise and preach the Gospel doth suit with meer formal Professors and presumptuous intruding Preachers ☞ I do now proceed to the fourth particular viz. A Shield or Buckler which stands in the midst of the rest like the tree of life in the midst of the Garden Gen. 2.9 or a mighty Champion in the midst of an Army which is ushered in with a Preface Above all or principally put off with the Praise and Eulogy of admirable and wonderful effects viz. wherewith ye shall be able to quench c. Exp. In the words are little difficulty yet accept of this Explication 1. Above all i.e. in our account or esteem Whatsoever other Armour defensive or offensive we have or want let us be sure we want not this 2. Above or over all in the first place and principally in reference to all the whole man whom it is ready to defend in every part or all the rest of the Armour of all which it is both defensive of all our other Armour all which the Shield or Buckler is ready to save from harm and comprehensive of all the rest for that it is impossible to be armed her with without Truth and Righteousness and the profession and practise of the Gospel or without hope of salvation of which it is the substance and evidence or the Word of God by which it cometh or Prayer which it produceth to perfection So as that if we have true Faith we have all these in some proportion though each of them also have their proper place in our defence and do mutually concur with this and not one of them can be in sincerity without this Faith 2. Taking the shield or Buckler you may note that these two words are promiscuously and indifferently used one for another for the substance shape Dimensions and use of them with horse and Foot I might acquaint you out of Polysbius Livy and other Authors vid. Mat. Mart. p. 35 15 35 16. ☞ But to let that pass they were Weapons of special defence and use in war and they were made of Gold 1 Kings 10.17 by Solomon or Brass 1 King 14.27 as by Reheboam or Wood 1 Chron. 12.8 wrought by some artificial workman to the use and purpose before named and the word Shield in Scripture is used properly and figuratively in a fourfold sense viz. for a Shield 1. Artificial made by man for a defence of the body against an enemy and so had Goliah 1 Sam. 17.7 and those mentioned 1 Chron. 12.8 and I think all do easily apprehend this 2. Political so Rulers Magistrates and Governours are styled Psalm 47.9 Hos 4.18 signifying that they are or ought to be for defence and protection of the body politick not destruction like the Rump 3. Spiritual against the