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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	life_n	power_n	spirit_n	3,145	5	5.0345	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44839	The difference of that call of God to the ministry which is by the power of his own gift and measure of life, revealed, and of that, which is received of man, and taught by man, as is manifest by these two severall calls, herein declared, with several principals relating to this second call, answered / by Richard Hubberthorn.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3223; ESTC R21988	11,470	18

THE DIFFERENCE Of that call of God to the MINISTRY VVhich is by the power of his own gift and measure of life revealed And of that which is received of man and taught by man As is manifest by these two several calls herein declared with several Principals relating to this second call Answered By RICHARD HUBBERTHORN LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. TO THE READER IT being of the Lord so ordered that a publick dispute was appointed betwixt Thomas Dance Priest in Sandwich in Kent and those called Quakers which was upon the twelfth and thirteenth daies of the second moneth in which many weighty things concerning Religion was discoursed of in which it was first proved by us according to the Scripture that Christ Jesus the true light hath enlightened every one that commeth into the World John 1. 9. and John 12. and another weighty matter concerning Religion discoursed upon was the righteousnesse by which man is justified before God which by us was witnessed and proved to be onely by the righteousness that was in Christ Jesus being also made manifest in us the everlasting righteousness being brought in according to Dan. 9. 24. again upon the tenth day the discourse was whether the Scriptures were the word of God the Answer was that the Scriptures were writings and the writings was not the word but the thing written of was the word of God unto which the Priests also consented Another thing was concerning the call to the Ministry whether theirs or ours was according to the Apostles and according to the Scriptures the heads of both which calls is declared as followeth that all people may judge according to their measure of the gift of Christ whether of them is according to Scripture Testimony A Call to the Minstery according to the Scriptures held forth in these few words following Contrary to that Call which is of man and by man THat by which the Apostles were called into the work of the Ministry having gifts differing according to the measure of the manifestation of Christ by the same am I called which is also according to the Scriptures as Eph. 4. Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gifts of Christ by which gift according to the measure of it were they made Some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers c. And this was by the Power Vertue and Operation of the gift of Christ in them and as then so now for there is not another way to be called into the Ministery by neither doth any profit the people at all but they who minister from the power moving of that gift which they have received from the Father by Jesus Christ by which gift was I called out of the World and separated for the work of the Gospel by which gift I saw that which had corrupted the earth by it was moved to minister against it which gift is that which hath the power in it both to convince convert unto God according as the Apostle Peter who was unlearned in the Letter wa● made a Minister by the gift of the Spirit of Christ and saith 1 Pet. 4 10. As every one hath received the gift even so let him minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold Grace of God And If any man speak let him speak as the Oracle of God and if any man Minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified So that that Ministery by which God is glorified and people converted is that which proceeds from the operation and power of his own gifts in them which is that Ministery which perfecteth the Saints edifies the body of Christ Brings into the unity of the Faith unto the knowledge of the Son of God and unto a perfect man and unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ But they which gather Scriptures together in their earthly wisdom and from that which they have gathered minister unto others this ministery doth not perfect the Saints nor edifie the body of Christ nor bring to the unity of the Faith but into strife and divisions not to the knowledge of the Son of God but leads from his knowledge not unto a perfect man but pleads against perfection not into the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ no not unto the measure of the least Saint so that Ministery is to be ceased from which proceeds not from the measure of the Fathers gift that onely continued unto the end of the World which his gift calleth into and carrieth on in So I by the measure of his free Spirit being called and made a Minister of it unto others ●ot of the Letter but of the Spirit in which in all ages the true Ministery stood having not received it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation and manifestation of the life of Christ in me Which Spirit in me according to its measure is as true and as infallible as it was in them which by it were made Apostles Evangelists Prophets and Teachers formerly being the same in power vertue and operation as it was as able to reveal and make manifest to teach edifie and perfect as it was and to beget people out of the World into the Covenant of Light and Life and all who are Ministers of Christ for the gathering of his seed from the ends of the earth into the Kingdom of his dear Son must from the same Spirit witness their Call and separation to that work and all other calls are false and their ministery profits not which doth not singly proceed from the measure of that gift but all who do abide in the measure of his gift and from it minister by it they are manifest to be of God and in that Ministery they commend themselves unto every mans Conscience in the sight of God and this is the calling and Ministery in which as every one abide they glorifie God And this is the Ministery of reconciliation which was committed unto the Apostles and is unto his Ministers now by the power of which the Devils works comes to be destroyed and then all things reconciled in one things in heaven and things in earth but that ministery which is received from man and taught by man never reconciles any thing unto God but doth separate from God and beget into enemy but that which proceeds from the measure of the gift of God brings every one to know the truth in their own particular which truth as they abide in it sets them free from sin and this Ministery hath the power in it in all them that have received it to save them that preach it and them that hear it and obey it and no other Ministery doth profit the people at all but that which from the gift of God is ministred so that this Call and