~~5-8--------------~0~lf~t~h-e~P~o-w-e~-------------~, . vouchfafe it by others that are not futh, they bein that c~. ' neccftitatu, non Officii: in care of necefsiry, Minifiers; but by Offic;' not fo. · ' o[GodsfoNow, as by committing this power, GoD doth not deprive or he. ~;j;7§."''0"~ reave Himfelfe ofit :For there is a fJVmitttmtur llill, and tharchiefe;fove. raigne, and abfolute: fo on the other fide, where Go o proceedethby the ChurcbesaEl, f-S o_rdin~ri~y/le. doth, it being His owne ordinance; ·• rhere, whofoeverwill be parta'ker oftheChurc~e~act, mull he partaker of1t by the Apoftles meanes ; there, doth !JVmiJentu concurre in his order and place,and there runneth fl:ill a correfpondence.hetweene both. There Zecb. '3-7· dorh GoD alfociatc: His Minifiers, and' maketh them Workers together 1 Cor. 3-7• )vith Him. There, have ·they their parrs in this worke, and cannot be excluded : no more in this, thotn in the other acts and parts of their fun. crion. And to exclude them, is (after a fort) to wring the keyes out of their hands, to yvhom CHRIST bath given them; is, to cancell and make void this claufe of1\,emijerltir; as ifit were no part ofthe fentence. To account ofall this folemnefending, and infpiring, as ifit were an ipl~ and fi·uitleffe ceremony : which if it may not be admitted, then fure it is, they have their part and concurrence in this worke, as in the reit of the miniftery of reconciliation. The acr' of . . Neither is this ;t new or fl:range thing; from the beginning it was fo: rh;. Church Vnder the law of Nature (faithEliiJU in Job, lipeaking of.one for his linnes -~ ~ . lob •J·•5. in G o 1> s prifon,) ~ tlm·e be "!llitb !Jim an Embajfador, Commifsioner, or In. terpreter (not any whofoever, but) one among at!Joufand, tofhew tmtoHim bu righteottjlleffi, Thenfhal/ God ba)lemercy upon!Jim andfay, Let himgo,for, 1 h>~)le recei)led apropitiation, ~1-_z.s; Vnder Mofes, it is cerrairie, the Covenant bflife and peace was made ·•evtr.t-5, 6 · with Le)li, and at the facrifices for fimze, hewas ever apartie. Vnder the Propbets. It pleafed G o D to ule this concurrence towards Da'\lid himfelfe: NatiJan the Prop/Jet faying unto him,' Tranftulit :Domimu peccatum tllum. The nmf!ie1 Which cotirfe fo ell:abliil1ed by G b o, till C HR 1 s T iliould ofrhe'i'ri•ft wme; (for neither covenant nor Priefl:-hood wastoendure any long., therem. er.) was by CH R1sT re-efiablifbed anew in the Church, i,n t!Jatcal. li1~; to \vhom He hath committed the Word of reconciliation. Neither are we (the ordinance of Go o,thus flanding) to rend off one part of the fentence. There are here exprelfed tbru perfons: 1 The p_er· fon ofthe firmer, in quorum; • of God, in !J_(emitttmtttr; ~of the PmJE in fl\.emifer1tir. Three are exprelfed; and where three are exprelfed, three are required; and where three are required, two a.re not en~ug~· Homll. 49· r. 11 11 .o. hs de so. It is Saint .Auguftine thatthus fpeaketh of this Eccle11antca a-." tn 1• time : Nemo fibi dicat, occulte '{gO prenltentiam, apud Deum ago. Nowt Deus qui mihi ignifcit, quia in corde ago. Ergo fine caufa diElum eft, qu£jol. )leritu in terra,/olttta erunt in [relo, Ergofine caujd., Claws dat.e font Eccle. . . . . ' - fi~
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