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A63260 The pastor's care and dignity, and the people's duty a sermon preach'd at the assembly of ministers at Taunton, 7th September, 1692 / by G.T. Trosse, George, 1631-1713. 1693 (1693) Wing T2304; ESTC R23764 21,711 65

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aside his Crosier Miter and Lawn-sleeves and to invest the Royal Robes and take to himself the Crown the Sword and the Scepter But such an extraordinary Case falls not out in many Ages Wherefore seeing this Stewardship is for Term of Life it is a more excellent one then those that are but for a few Months and Years and at the Bene placitum of an inconstant Lord and Master 4. If we consider the Subject Matter of their Stewardship or the Things they are intrusted with to keep and dispense In the Text they are called the Mysteries of God and these are 1. The Word of God whereof they are the Preservers and Dispensers the Preachers the Expounders and the Appliers So St. Paul in that forementioned place tells us 2 Cor. 9.16 17. that a Dispensation was committed to him which he calls the Preaching of the Gospel and so again he tells us Col. 1.25 That the Dispensation which was given him or his Stewardship was to fulfil the Word of God not to fulfil it in itself for 't is compleat and perfect in itself and so it s own end and design even the Glory of God in our Salvation for whoever truly believes the Doctrines and conscienciously obeys the Commands of our Bible shall certainly be blessed of God on Earth and saved by him in Heaven But the meaning is to fulfil it as a Minister of Christ toward them in a due full plain manner revealing preaching or writing it to them and pressing it upon them and their Commission runs thus Matth. 28.19 20. Go and disciple all nations teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you And so Christ said unto them Mark 16.15 Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature The Dispensation of the whole Word is committed to them Of the Promises to declare their Riches their Certainty and their Condition and suitably to apply them Of the Threats to shew their Dreadfulness their Infallibility and their Terms and suitably to apply them Of the Doctrines to shew their Truth their Harmony their Natures their Tendency to God's Glory and Man's Salvation to expound them and prove and confute all Errors by them Of the Commands to teach their Spirituality their Latitude their Perfection and to press them upon the People for their Obedience and Observance 2. The Ordinances and Sacred Rites of Christ's Institutions I mean the Sacraments which are only two Baptism and the LORD's Supper both which are intrusted to Ministers and as Stewards they only have the Administration of them So is Baptism Go and disciple all nations Matth. 28.19 baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Those same Persons that are authorized to Teach are authorized to Baptize and none other and therefore we say that if the Form and Matter of Baptism be used by any prophane Person that is not a Minister that is Null and 't is no Baptism So is the LORD's Supper and therefore St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 11.23 I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying This cup is the new testament in my blood this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me Where he tells us that he deliver'd to them the Eucharist after the same manner that Christ instituted as he had received Authority from him And whoever has a Right as a Steward of God's Mysteries to Administer one Sacrament has as great a Right and Authority to Administer both 3. The Discipline and Censures of the Church are committed to their Dispensation Suspension Excommunication Re-admission Matth. 16.19 So I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Which is not singularly and personally appropriated to Peter as the Pope would have it and so to himself his pretended Successors but was committed to all the Apostles and in them to all Ministers their Successors in the Ministry and Stewardship of the Gospel John 10.23 Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosoever sins ye retain they are retained From which Passages we may gather that Ministers only have Authority to exclude from and reduce unto discriminating Ordinancers though in particular and well-govern'd Churches the People ought to be consulted with and the Reasonableness of the Minister's Proceedings herein toward any particular Member ought to be evinced and this is according to Scripture and so their Approbation required which seems to be taught us in that Passage of our Saviour's in which our Saviour enjoyns upon the stuborn Impenitency of a Delinquent Matth. 1 15 18. upon a secret Address of the wronged Party to him and upon his taking one or two more with him that then he should tell it to the Church and if he refused to hear the Church and for his Obstinacy be sentenced by the Church that then he should count him as a Heathen and a Publican Which Sentence of the Church seems to be implyed in as antecedent the words following Verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye the Church shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven And that there should be this Harmony between the Ministers and the People and that their Consent be had in the Censures seems to be very expedient yea necessary to the Ends of Censures of Suspension or Excommunication which are the Humbling and Spiritual Profit of the Delinquent the Warning and the Security of the Congregation the Reputation of Religion and the Glory of God by all Now except there be a Concurrence between Pastor and People these will not be produced for if a Minister should deny the Ordinances to a Person and excommunicate him and yet the People own him as a Brother he 'll little regard his Minister's Exclusion of him and be apt to be more proud and headstrong against him the People will be no way secured but be in greater Danger to be infected and by such Divisions and Animosities Religion will be disgraced God dishonour'd and the Devil's Interest exalted The like will be if the People should separate from a Member and the Minister own him the same if not worse Consequences will issue therefrom wherefore St. Paul expresly enjoyns the Concurrence of the whole Church in Excommunication Having greatly blamed and sharply reproved them for owning the Incestuous Person as a Member of their Society he commands them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ