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A75967 The agreement and resolution of severall associated ministers in the County of Corke for the ordaining of ministers 1657 (1657) Wing A768A; ESTC R70 10,421 25

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observance wherof in the lowest measure is kindly accepted by CHRIST Math 10.40 Ioh 13.20 the neglect condemned as the worst of Sins 2 Cron 36.15 16. Lu 10.16 Hos 4.4 Resisters of them are said to resist the Holy GHOST Act 7.51 52 dispisers of them are said to be despisers of GOD 1 Thes 4.8 to judge themselves unworthy of eternall life Act 13.46 to reject the counsell of GOD against themselves Lu 7.30 punnished with the worst of judgments 2 Cron 36.16 17. 1 Thes 2.16 2 Kings 2.24 Amos. 2.12 to v. 16. The Apostle Jude v. 11. taxeth the primitive Hereticks with three horrid crimes against Christianity 1 Cruelty against their Brethren as Cain 2 Vassalling Religion under covetousness as Balaam 3 Opposition to the ministerial Function as Core and adjoines perishing as the necessary product of that contradiction To this Sin temporall punnishments are often consequent 2 Cron 36.17 Amos. 2.12 to v. 16. 2 Kings 2.24 Spirituall alwaies That dreadfull judgment threatned Isai 6.9 10 and so often repeated in the new Testament Mat 13. Mar 4.12 Lu 8.10 Ioh 12.40 Act 28.26 Rom. 11.8 where Gods dispensations both in mercies and judgements are especially spirituall in each of the Evangelists in the Acts and in the Epistles is the speciall fruit of this impiety When those who are antiministeriall reele so fast to Atheisine and a sottish insensibility let none imagine that GOD leaves them unpunished The distinct ministeriall-werke and Office proved by Reason §. 4. THough grace doth unbeast us yet it doth not unman us The will of GOD therefore discovered by right reason binds our observance and right reason gives in its suffrage to the distinct worke and Office of the Ministry as 1 From the nature of Religious Ordinances which are 1 High and difficult such as require the whole time 1 Tim 4.15 yea more than the whole man 2 Cor 2.16 2 Mysterious and excellent mysterious because religious of inward grace as well as outward rites excellent because mysterious And the difficulty Act 6.2 excellency Heb 5.4 and mysteriousness 1 Cor 4.1 1 Tim. 3.16 as of every Employment so especially of that which is sacred distinguisheth Persons to attend it 2 From the manner of religious duties A worke done in religion is not done if the manner of doing confutes the matter of the thing done 1 Cor 11.17 20. Hos 7.14 But such as are regardless Who performes religious cuties are cōmonly regardless whether alwaies regardless how they are performed 1 Kings 12.31 32. 3 From the end of Religion the deligne whereof is GODS glory i.e. the manifestation of divine excellency 1 GODS Being is manifested when as in the darker glass of the world so in the clearer glass of the Church representing more lively GODS Image 2 Cor 3.18 by this dependance of one on another we are led to him the originall of all 2 GODS Power is manifested when by such neake distinct Instruments of divine appointment 1 Nations propossessed with enmity and prejudice are subdued to owne the way of Religion 1 Cor 1.27 28. 2 The heart which is GODS privy-chamber is reached Paul a prisoner at the barre makes Felix a Judge on the bench to tremble Act 24.25 Agrippa becemes almost a Christian at one of the same prisoner-preachers Sermons Act 26.28 3. Supernaturall treatures are conveyed by earthen vessells the power therfore is of GOD 2 Cor 4.7 upon which account the Apostle puts Faith wrought by Gospell-preaching in the first ranke of the admirable things of the great day 2 Thes 1.10 3 GODS universall Soveraignty is manifested by our united services as sociable creatures which are required of us Heb 10.25 and can not be performed by us without distinct Ordinances nor those orderly administred without distinct Officers And as GOD is the GOD of order in the whole Universe so especially in the Churches of the Saints 4 GODS goodness is manifested by imploying 1 such distinct Iustruments as are symbolicall and therfore most probable to be effectuall Ex 20.19 2 Such as may in their lives exemplify what in their doctrines they teach Phil 3.17 1 Tim 4.12 1 Pet 5.3 3 such as have their adventurers in the same vessell 2 Cor 1.6 8 So that they can not deceive others but they must deceive themselves Math 15.14 5 GODS wisdome is manifested in the institution of this distinct double witness Ioh 15.26 27 double meanes 1 Cor 3.9 inward and outward GOD is a Spirit his conveyances of himselfe must be spirituall we are Bodies our present receptiōs must be corporeall so the infinite wisdome of our GOD that suits his institutes to both to the former by the Spirit of his grace to the latter by the Ministry of Man That it is GOD who calls to the Office-worke and power ministeriall §. 5. BUt all meanes ought to be proportioned to their proper ends The Streame can not rise higher then the spring-head As therfore the ends so likewise the institution of the Ministry is supernaturalls Not to speake of the Poiest-hood before and under Mosaicall Paedagogie GOD promiseth Esa 66.21 to single or take out from the rest of beleevers under the Gospell some for Priestes and Levites ●●es New-Testament Officers set forth in old Testament characters And according to this promise GOD sets such in the Church 1 Cor. 12.28 29 2 Cor 5 18.19 Christ 〈◊〉 gives them to the Church Ephe 4.11 1 Tim. 1.11 12 The Holy GHOST seperates them for the Church Act 13.2.20.28 Ordinary Ministers §. 6. THis truth reacheth not only Apostles Prop hets and Evangelists extraordinary but Past ours and Teachers also ordinary Church-officers Thus Apollo 1 Cor 3.5 Epaphras Col 1.7 Archippus Col 4.17 Silvanus 1 Thes 1.10 with cap 2.4 Tychicus Col 4.7 Eph 6.21 ordinary Ministers received their Ministry from the LORD And mediately by Ministers §. 7. ANd as it is perpetually necessary that those who minister in the things of GOD should be thereto seperated by GOD so is it perpetually necessary that by some externall act it might appeare who are thus separated This Express under the Gospell Christ at first determined either by personall or miraculous signation Personall during his humiliatiō as the 12 Apostles Math 10 Miraculous after his ascension as Matthias by Lot Act 1.26 Paul Barnabas by vision Act 13.2 Timothy by prophesy 1 Tim 4.14 But though Miracles cease yet the Gospell-ministration and Ministry must continue 2 Cor 3.11 in regard that the Churches neede of it as Sect 1. GODs care to supply it is the same to the end Math 16.18 24.14 Esa 30.20 Therefore doth CHRIST send Gospell-Ministers as the FATHER sent him Ioh 20.21 authorizeth them acting under him and in his stead 2 Cor 5.20 to authorize others 2 Tim 2.2 And as their worke office shall continue to the end of the world so he promiseth his presence with them alwaies even to the end of the world Mith 28.18 19 20. By the way