• ------~----------~~h~--~---------------------- 0 34 Of t eWorjhipping eighthrverfe) is bee: or that qui miferewr, is latine for aWidow,or fuch like. But, if jointly they find them 'not: let us fee howfeverally they war; rant their Offices. 1 Of Elders? fon:e both preac!J andgo'l>erne: fome gol!enze onely : ~nd ~he~e they tmagme they have fou?d their Lay-elder t•JTim. 5: 17. by tmphcatwn, that there are Presbyten, that labottr not in preaclJing. HeareS. Chryfoftomeon 1 Cor. 1. 17. You fball find afarre other fen!e : E-vangeil;zare (fatth hee) perpi!ttcorum eft ; bapti;zareautem cu. juflibet, modo fungatur Sacerdotio. And a little after SiquiJem Pmbyterir quidem, .q111 Jimpliciores ftmt,hocmtmtu tradimus, ut bapti;zent ;<'VtrbJimau– temut ~~ceat~t,non_nift Sapientioribuo :Me(apientia_efl & lab.or.. ~amobrem & altbtlnqttlt:!2f!_t bene pr4unt Presbytm, dupltc~ bonore dtgnt Junt maxim~ qui laborant.in rverbo. Whereby it is plaine, that inS. Chryjofto~e's time it was not reckoned meete, that every one that miniftr~d the Sacraments' {hould alf? preach. That the meaner fort dealt with the 'Bapti;zing, and t_hey onely·that were ofthe more zvifefort, with the Wor.d. And toprove it fhould·thus be, he citeth this their Scripture, as if in the ApoHle·s daies' the like had been thought TJ>ifedome. But as fur lay-elders, He nor anytha~ \vriteth on it, can finde in this verfe; nor any fu,h in allamiquiryever undedtood by the nameofPresbyter. ; " TheElders 'Preachers, they divide intoPaftors and1M1ors: and thcfe they fever in function ; limiting the one to his exhortatiouonely, the o. ther to point of doEtrine onely. An imagination, which none ot theFa– thers would ever acknowledge,fearch their writings.S.("ryfoflomeupon this Verfe, Eph. 4.11. takech them both for one andmaketh no difference. .So, S. Hierome, in both his Commentaries upon thatEpifHe: Omnirenim !Paftor 'DoCtor eft. But,S. .Augufiiuemay ferve for all, toiliew,how un– knowne .this devi(e was.then. Who being purpofely written to,byPau– l.imu, coaflignea diffatence betweene them, thus anfwercth : PAsT o•. R E santem& D oc ToR E s,quos maxime ut dijcerneremml!oluifti,eo(dem prlto ejfe,jidet & tibi.rvifom eft,ut non alios PAsToR E s,alios DoeTO RES intelligeremm,&c. Hos eni1nficut unum aliquod duobm nominibuo complexte& eft, Aug•.Ep. 5-9· ad Paulinum. · , . ~, LafHy; (or'their 'Deacons too: that they fhould be men ofoccupatiOn and trade, ro, deale with the Church-fl:ocke and care ofthe poore ondy, .is.alfo (I doubt not) ao imagination :[ceing all Anriguity bath ever rccko– .lle_d of that Calling) a:; Of a fl:ep or degree to the Miniflcry,out oft Tim. ~'t3. ~Nd, that.theChill:ches practife hath beene alwaies.eoemploy them j~o.ther parts and functions befides nhat;is plainc by'luf!tne.M.~r.tyr (who dtv.e._d ia ther:.AJ!orlles daies) Apol. :r.,·ad Antonium, namely;· to dtflnbute the ,(omtr;:_u.nion·@y..'Jmulliaf!' (de IJJap.)\.to bapti~t ·~'byCyp:ian·~Ser. 6.de lapfs) .:t1lti ClivefL~thers. Sp. that, to cp_ncludc, thefe are tmagl]lattons touch;ng 'l.heApoflle~ fel{iJ.wJbj/l.,hP1Nfoever, a•gr~:at nllmbe.Dof deceived people boTP ,.dq~n~~~ r.A~fan~~ll'irfoif. ~~e!!!~~ . . · ,, ~~ : •rl"l' ~ugin~~io~~
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