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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94728	Anthropolatria; or The sinne of glorying in men, especially in eminent ministers of the gospel. Wherein is set forth the nature and the causes of this sinne, as also the many pernicious effects which at all times this sinne hath produced, and with which the church of Christ is still infected. With some serious disswasives from this sinne, and directions to prevent the infection thereof. A discourse usefull, and in these times very seasonable. / By John Tombes, B.D. and preacher of Gods word at the Temple.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1792; Thomason E282_13; ESTC R200049	17,625	23

for some other men whose case is propounded And that the Apostle saith he had transferred to himselfe the arrogance of the false Apostles being unworthy to be named or that he might not offend them or that his speech might be lesse grievous to the Corinthians to this end that ye might learne in us that is in our taking it upon us not to thinke of men that is of the false Apostles above that which is written and that no one of you be puffed up with pride for one in the extolling of one against another to his contempt VI This conceit is refuted and it is proved that glorying in true Apostle is here forbidden COncerning which interpretation Parcus Com. in 1 Cor. 1. 12. speakes thus Miror verò hoc loco omnes fere interpretes fictionem statuere quasi quod in pseudo-apostolos competebat Paulus ad Apostolorum personas transferat That is I marvaile that in this place all Interpreters almost conceive a fiction as if the Apostle Paul had transferred that to the persons of the Apostles which did agree to the false Apostles And indeed that such a fiction should be here made I conceive to be against plaine and evident reason For first if this be so then it is to be conceived that the Corinthians did not indeed call themselves by the name of Paul but by the name of some false Apostle in whose place in this Epistle St Paul hath put his by a fiction But he that shall reade Chap. 1. ver. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. may easily perceive by the relation of this schisme from those of Cloe that the Apostle intended to set downe a history of that they did now in narrations of facts done no man useth such a fiction 2. He useth the name of Christ without a fiction ver. 12. in the same relation surely then the names of those Apostles too 3. To make it yet clearer he useth arguments to disswade them from these schismes in his name And to cleare himselfe as no occasion or abettour of them though his name were used he alledgeth a thing or accident meerely personall ver. 14 15 16 17. 4. When chap. 3 4 he speakes againe of their schisme he adds to convince them of the evill in patronizing the schisme by their name ver. 5. 6. Who then is Paul and who is Apollo but Ministers by whom ye believed even as the Lord gave to every man I have planted Apollo watered but God gave the increase Now these things cannot be conceived as tralatitious for it is said they were Ministers by whom they believed and as the Lord gave to every man and that he planted and Apollos watered but God gave the increase Now these things are true of Paul himselfe and Apollos himselfe as we reade Acts 18. not of any false Apostles 5. To which I adde that I find nothing of the false Apostles or of disswading from hearkning to them in this Epistle but in the second VII The objection to the contrary answered AS for the objection from 1 Cor. 4. 6. it is grounded upon an interpretation that is not congruous to the words of the Apostle For 1. the Apostle is supposed to have put his and Apollo's name instead of the false Apostles to avoid offence of them or conceit of their unworthinesse but the Apostle sayes he had transferred those things to himselfe and Apollo's for the Corinthians sake not for the false Apostles 2. He saith he did it to teach them modesty Now how the Apostles taking on him their arrogance might teach them modesty it is hard to conceive What modesty is it to transferre anothers crime on himselfe But what then are the things transferred on himselfe and Apollos and how did he transferre them Pareus conceives they were that which he had said chap. 3. 7. That he which planteth is nothing and he which watereth is nothing I adde those things which he had said chap. 4 1. That they were Ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God These things saith he {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is as they conceive translated by a figure of Rhetoricke but in that sense I find it not used anywhere in the Apostle I find it used 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. signifying the counterfeiting of an habit like a Stage player in which sence the Noune {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is used 1 Cor. 7. 31. and the derivative {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1 Cor 14. 30. Rom. 13. 13. is translated from the habit of apparell to the fashion of manners And {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is used Phil. 3. 25. for Christs transmutation of our bodies I conceive that in this place the Apostle useth by a Catachresis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and that he meanes no more but an application or fashioning of those things he had said without any change or translation from any other to himselfe that in them they might learne not to think of Teachers above that which is written to wit Mat. 23. 11 12. and that no one be puffed in arrogance for one that is for the extolling of one against another that is to the despising of another VIII What glorying in true Teachers is here forbidden declared negatively BUt what then is the glorying in the true Teachers here forbidden To this I answer 1. Negatively 2. Affirmatively Negatively I say 1. That it is not the magnifying of the Apostles above other Ministers by ascribing to them an eminent and extraordinary authority in assuring us of the will of God and in establishing the Churches For as they had doubtlesse singular power in working miracles and in giving the holy Ghost so had they infallible guidance of the Spirit of Christ in what they taught according to our Saviours promise Joh. 16. 13. Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speake of himselfe but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake and he will shew you things to come 2. That it is not the giving of that regard to the true Teachers which is due to them as Ministers of Christ For the Elders that rule well are to be accounted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 1 Tim. 5. 17. 3. That it is not the proper love to esteeme of and rejoycing in some as our fathers in Christ as the Apostle calls himselfe 1 Cor. 4. 15. for which cause 't is likely Paul told Philemon that he did owe himselfe unto him Philem. v. 19. 4. That it is not the desire of having or rejoycing that we have men of best gifts For if it be lawfull to covet earnestly the best gifts 1 Cor. 12. 31. it is lawfull to desire those that have the best gifts IX And affirmatively AFfirmatively I say here is forbidden inordinate glorying in men