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A49813 A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson. Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691. 1680 (1680) Wing L728; ESTC R34510 85,782 120

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Error Heresie and Traditions are excluded Augustin Marlorat said on this place Christ sent out his Apostles with this Exception That they should not press upon others their own Inventions but that they should purely and faithfully distribute what he commanded that they should gather Disciples unto him not unto themselves Yea and Poole our Country-man saith on this place Christ commands no other thing to be taught than what he had commanded hereby excluding the Traditions and Inventions of Apostatised Men. Paul said to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus I have not shunned to declare unto you all the Counsel of God Acts 20.27 So Ministers of Christ are to teach the Will and Counsel of God not their own But Man-made Ministers are guilty in this case who neither know the Call nor do the Work nor are content with the Wage of Gospel Ministers though for Lueres sake they are pretenders thereof Paul writing to the Saints at Ephesus mentions the Work and End of the true Ministry saying When Christ ascended he gave Gifts unto men to Apostles to Prophets to Evangelists to Pastors to Teachers To what end were these Gifts given For the Perfecting of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry for the Edifying of the Body till we all come in the unity of the Faith c. unto a Perfect Man unto the Measure of the Stature of the Fulness of Christ Ephes 4. Yea and the Apostle writing unto the Hebrews mentions their precious Growth and high Attainment in the Life of Righteousness saying Ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the Living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the First Born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of Just Men made Perfect Heb. 12. Now Man made Ministers deny Perfection in this Life so deny the end of the Ministry of the truly Gifted Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors Teachers Yea and they exclude themselves from the precious Attainments of the believing Hebrews Yea and they deny the Substance of the Aaronical Vrim and Thummius What is that Aaron was to have a Breast-plate of Judgment in which was put the Vrim and Thummim by Interpretation Light and Perfection or Lights and Perfections Exod. 28.15 30. A Type fulfilled in the Substance Christ Jesus This implies that in the Evangelical Dispensation the Breast-plate of Righteousness with Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection should be received Christ the Breast-plate of Judgment and Righteousness the Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection said to his Disciples Be ye Perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect Mat. 5.48 Yea and the Apostles having received the Breast-plate of Righteousness the Urim and Thummim Spiritually Light and Perfection they preached Perfection as before is touched So that Urim and Thummim spiritually that is Light and Perfection was witnessed and preached in the Morning beauty and purity of the Evangelical D●spensation Now the Aaronical Urim and Thummim were lost in the Babylonian Captivity Ezra 2. So after the Apostles dayes the Star fall●ng from Heaven such a weight of Smoke evaporated out of the Bottomless Pit as that it darkned Sun and Air so spoiled the Glory of the Primitive Church as that the Christian Church became Babylon Mystery Babylon In this Babylon spiritual Captivity the heavenly Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection was lost and the Smoke of the Pit during this Captivity was and is preached up for Gospel Truths Nehemiah foretold the Restoration of the Aaronical Vrim and Thummim Nehem. 7. So Christ Jesus the Son of Righteousness the heavenly Nehemiah by interpretation The Consolation of the Lord by the Breath of his Mouth and by the Brightness of his Coming is chasing away Smoke out of a Remnant the Carnal Exhalations of Mystery Babylon and the Spirit of Life from God is entring into Witnesses and the true Breast-plate of Judgment with Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection is restored and restoring Now the Locusts Man-made Ministers which come out of the Smoke are bred and formed in the Smoke of Earthly Wisdom they cannot endure to hear of the finding of them plainly discovering they want the Breast-plate of Righteousness for where it is Urim and Thummim Light and Perfection is witnessed and contended for The Dispariety of the Ministers of Christ and of such as come by the Will of Man in several Particulars 1. Christ's Ministers were not to be called Rabbi Masters he forbad it they were Obedient Paul called himself a Servant but never pleaded for Mastership James Peter and Jude stiled themselves Servants but no where Masters Mat. 23.8 James 3.1 Zuinglius on Mat. 23. said Thou hears here that the Titles of Masters and Doctors are not of God because Christ forbids this thing Further Wilson in his Christian-Dictionary said That Ambitious seeking after Titles ought to be eschewed But Man made Ministers plead for the Title of Rabbi Masters having let in the Poyson of Ambition Pride and Arrogancy 2. The Apostles preached against such as were in the Way of Cain and in the Error of Balaam affecting Gifts and Rewards 2 Pet. 2.15 Jude 11. The Apostles walked not in the Wayes of these Now Man-made Ministers shew themselves to be in the Way of Cain Drunk with the Wine of Envy Murder Persecution in the Error of Balaam pursuing the Wages of Unrighteousness which Christ the Branch of Righteousness ordained not Suing men at Courts of Judicature Assizes in Courts Temporal and Ecclesiastical Imprisoning men neither sparing their own Flocks nor others not content with Gospel Maintenance taking Money for Funeral Sermons taking or forcing Mortuaries Smoke-Money Money for Churching of Women for burying the Dead for Bread and Wine Easter-Reckonings Midsummer-Dues making their Gospel chargeable Are not these Hearts exercised with Covetous Practices 3. Paul preached That the true Church was in God made up of Living Stones fitted prepared polished for their Places in that heavenly Building offering up a Spiritual Sacrifice 1 Thes 1.1 1 Pet. 2. But Man-made Ministers have taught and do teach That a House of Lime and Stone is the Church founded by Papists for the Popish Service and such as deny their Doctrine herein are branded a● Heretical Schismatical Heterodox 4. The Apostles preached God to be the Word and that it became Flesh by it the Prophets prophesied it grew and multiplied John 1.1 14. Acts 12.24 Man-made Ministers say The Scriptures are the Word The Scriptures were not in the Beginning it became not Flesh it was not the Ground of the Prophets prophecying Such as got the Scriptures without the Word such ran unsent The Scriptures contained in the Bible grow not 't is no greater now than a Thousand Years ago is not the Saviour 't is a true Declaration of the Engrafted Word which is able to save the Soul Luke 1.1 James 1.21 5. The Ministers of Christ preached up Christ to