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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77295	The smoak of the Temple cleared, through the light of the Scripture· By the unworthiest of al the ministers of Christ Jo. Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4332; Thomason E455_9; ESTC R205015	42,833	64

as Christ said to the Church before the Gospel-Ministry concerning Moses and the Prophets so the Apostle saith of Apostles and Prophets Ephesians 2.20 We are saith the Apostle builded on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets so that these are in and to the Church as a foundation to a house 2. If the Apostles and Prophets were not in the Church what means of Ministry were there left unto the Church to edifie it in the world by 3. Is there not their work in our Ministry working with us now still as heretofore 4. Are not these the ground of all other publick Church-Administrations so that this being pul'd down all the rest comes down after Hence I may say of these as the Spirit of God on another occasion said They being dead yet speak they are not silent now they are dead The third Administration is an Evangelist 1. Some think this office ceased in those that wrote the Gospels but that is clearly evinced by the Scriptures before mentioned Eph. 2.20 We are builded on the Apostles and Prophets but not on the Evangelists Now were those to be builded on would the Apostle not have set them out unto us to be so or should those be left out in the building 2. Mark and Luke are no where called Evangelists in Scripture which did write the Gospels and those which wrote them not are called Evangelists as Philip Acts 21.8 Titus and Timothy 3. The work of an Evangelist is a preaching work 2 Tim. 4.5 Do the work of an Evangelist make full proof of thy Ministry and differs from that which Mark and Luke did as is thought concerning the Gospels who only wrote them as dictated by the Apostles Now this work being not extraordinarily in the Church as can be made to appear by any work remaining in the Church for its publick edification it remains that it ought to be in the Church ordinarily for the Churches edification 2. That it is an ordinary work pertaining to an ordinary standing office in the Church to remain to the worlds end appears 1. From Rom. 10.5 How beautiful are the feet of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those that Evangelize peace that Evangelize good things which without question is no other but the ordinary office of that part of Ministry in the Church thus in 1 Pet. 1.12 those things are now reported to you by them which have Evangelized which Evangelizing was no other then what is proper to the ordinary Ministry for it was no other then the applying of the grace prophesied of to be under the Gospel-Ministry to the then times in which it was administred Object Were not Timothy and Titus Evangelists and have we not their Epistles Resp The Epistles written to them were the Apostle Pauls Epistles not theirs so that they left nothing thereby to the Church as theirs 2. They left in their name of Evangelist this unto the Church that there was such on office pertaining to the Church-Ministry in the primitive times and that that office ought to be still in the Church for edification Chrysostom on the words aforesaid Ephes 4.11 tels us of walking Evangelists and after of others Qui occupabantur circa unum duntaxat locum ut Timoth. Titus alias ex hoc loco subiectio praelatura colligi non potest which is that other Evangelists were imployed about one only place as Timothy and Titus or hence subjection and prelature cannot be gathered For the walking Evangelist I suppose there were none in the Church Authoritatively but as Acts 14.7 some men Evangelized being by persecution dispersed did where ever they came out of the gracious apprehensions they had in their hearts of the excellency of Christ exalt him to others by which they may be said to Evangelize Mat. 11.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the poor are Evangelized So that I suppose there is much difference between one speaking as Evangelized or taught by an Evangelist and an Evangelist teaching one to be Evangelized The Conclusion hence concerning the Evangelists Ministry may be this 1. That that Church which is without the ordinary administration of an Evangelist is an imperfect Church and imperfect Church-Ministry 2. That if Moses were careful to do all things according to the pattern in the Mount concerning the shadows of the Gospel-grace then there ought to be much more respect had by us now concering the dispensation of the word contained in the Gospel Moses left not out a ring or an ouch but made all according to the pattern for which faithfulness of his God left him commendations in the word to be preacht in the Church to the end of the world and why but that his fidelity may make us faithful and shew how God accepts it in whomsoever he finds it now of what concernment this is to Magistrate and Minister may appear to all in these times especially 3. I cannot but conceive that when the way of God comes clearly to be revealed God will gather up the Spirits of his Saints into a gracious union again though now divided When the controversie about a right Ministry about making Members and seperation and combination in the Ministry will be taken all up and ended The fourth Officer in the Church is the Pastor 1. That this Office ought to be in the Church is confessed but what it is and how to be imployed in the Church that is not agreed on 2. If this be not known to us no wonder then if not the Evangelists which was an office tending more fully to perfection Some say the Pastors Office is to expound Scriptures others to exhort this is no distinct Office in our meetings every one doing the same in his dayly Ministry so that this part of Ministry we have not in the Church or at least not distinctly as in the Ministry in the Apostles times used in the Church 3. I suppose that both Evangelists and Pastors lost their place with the Churches losing her visibility ever since have been in that lost estate Cant. 5.7 it is said the watchmen beat her and wounded her and those that kept the walls took away her vayl which signified as some conceive that persecution the Church should undergo under the Gospel by persecutors and then how Antichrist should take away her vail depriving her of her Ornaments which Christ had left her to be adorned with in the world then the restoring of which there cannot be a work more admirable to be done by Angels or men by the godly Magistrate or Minister The fifth Officer is the Doctor or Teacher which office is not now so executed amongst us as under the first Institution it being not done in a Church way Object Then it may seem hence we have no Ministry Resp I say not we have no Ministry but no Church-Ministry for besides these there was a Ministry which prepared for the Church but was not of the Church-Ministry 1. It went before the Collection of Churches as John the Baptist who