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spirit_n	aaron_n	call_v	vocation_n	31	3	12.1406	5	false

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A90265	The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their peformances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid downe in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the severall wayes of extraordinary calling to the office of publike teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Ovven, M.A. of Q. Col. O.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing O741; Thomason E49_6; ESTC R2375	45,909	59

never observe that any of those who wereso forward of late to stile themselves Priests were at all greedy of the apellation of Prophets no this they were content to let goe name and thing and yet when Christ ascended on high he gave some to be Prophets for the edification of his body Ephes. 4. 11. none as wee finde to be Priests Priests then like Prelats are a sort of Church Officers whom Christ never appointed whence I conclude Fourthly that whosoever maintaineth any Priests of the New stament as properly so called in relation to any Altar or Sacrifice by them to be offered doth as much as in him lyeth disanull the Covenant of grace and is blasphemously injurious to the Priesthood of Christ the Priest and the Sacrifice under the new Testament are one and the same and therefore they who make themselves Priests must also make themselves Christs or get another sacrifice of their owne As there is but one God so there is but one Mediator of God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. now he became the Mediator of the New Testament chiefly by his Priesthood because by the eternall spirit he offered up himselfe unto God Heb. 9. 14. 15. neither is any now called of God to be a Priest as was Aaron and without such divine vocation to this office none ought to undertake it as the Apostle argues Heb. 5. now the end of any such vocation and office is quite ceased being nothing but to offer gifts and sacrifices unto God Heb. 8. 3. for Christ hath offered one Sacrifice for sin for ever and is sate downe at the right hand of God Heb. 10. 12. yea by one offering he hath perfected them that are sanctified v. 14. and if that did procure remission of sins there must be no more offering for sin v. 18. and the surrogation of another makes the bloud of Christ to be no better then that of bulls and goates Now one of those they must doe who make themselves Priests in that sence concerning which we now treat either get them a nevv sacrifice of their owne or pretend to offer Christ againe the first seemes to have been the fault of those of ours who made a sacrifice of the Sacrament yet pretended not to beleeve the reall presence of Christ in or under the outward elements or species of them the other of the Romanists whose Priests in their Masse blasphemously make themselves Mediators between God and his Son and offering up Christ Iesus for a Sacrifice desire God to accept him so charging that sacrifice with imperfection which he offered on the Altar of the Crosse and making it necessary not only that he should annually but daily yee hourely suffer afresh so recrucifying unto themselves the Lord of glory Further themselves confessing that to be a true sacrifice it is required that that which is offered unto God be destroyed and cease to be what it vvas they doe confesse by what lyes in them to destroy the Son of God and by their Masse have transubstanciatd their Altars into Crosses their Temples into Golgatha's their Prelates into Pilates their Priests into Hangmen tormentors of Iesus Christ Concerning them and ours we may shut up this discourse with what the Apostle intimates to the Hebrews viz. that all Priests are ceased who were mortall now small cause have we to beleeve them to be immateriall spirits among whom we finde the Workes of the flesh to have been so frequent And this may give us some light into the iniquity of those times whereinto we were lately fallen in which Lord Bishops and Priests had almost quite oppressed the Bishops of the Lord and Ministers of the Gospell how unthankefull men were we for the light of the Gospell men that loved darkenesse rather then light A wonderfull and horrible thing vvas wrought in our Land the Prophets prophesied falsly the Priests bare rule by their meanes almost the whole people loved to have it so and what shall we now doe in the end thereof Ierem. 5. 30. 31. such a hasty Apostacy was growing on us as we might justly wonder at because unparalelled in any Church of any age but our revolters were profound hasty men and eager in their masters service So what an height of impiety and opposition to Christ the Roman Apostacy in a thousand yeeres attained unto and yet I dare aver that never so many errors suspitions in an 100. yeeres crept into that Church as did into ours of England in 16. and yet I cannot herein give the commendation of so much as industry to our Innovators I accuse not the whole Church but particulars in it and that had seized themselves of its authority because they had a Platforme before them and materialls provided to their hand and therefore it was an easie thing for them to erect a Babel of Antichristian confusion when the Workemen in the Roman Apostacy were forced to build in the plaine of Christianity without any praeexistent materialls but were fain to use brick and slime of their own provision besides they were unacquainted with the maine designe of Satan who set them on worke and therefore it is no wonder if those Nimrods oftimes hunted counter and disturbed each other in their progresse yea the first mover in Church Apostacy knowes that novv his time is but short and therefore it behooves him to make speedy worke in seducing lest he be prevented by the comming of Christ Then having himselfe a long tract of time granted unto him he allowed his agents to take leasure also but what he doth novv must be done quickly or his whole designe will be quashed and this made him inspire the present businesse with so much life and vigor Moreover he was compelled then to sow his tares in the darke while men slept taking advantage at the ignorance and imbroylement of the times if any man had leasure enough to search and learning enough to see and finde him at it he commonly filled the world with clamors against him and scarse any but his vowed champions durst be his Advocates in our time he was grown bold and impudent working at noone day yea he openly accused and condemned all that durst accuse him for sowing any thing but good Wheat that durst say that the tares of his Arminianisme and Popery was any thing but true doctrine let us give so much way to indignation we know Satans trade what it is to accuse the brethren as men are called after their professions one a Lawyer another a Physitian so is he the accuser of the brethren now surely if ever he set up a shop on earth to practise his trade in it was our High Commission Court as of late imployed but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} CAP. 4. Of the duty of Gods people in cases extraordinary concerning his Worship THis being thus determined I returne againe to the maine {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} concerning the duty and