C Y39 ) The particular ends I (hall not further fpeakof,as havingbeen Longer already then I intendedon the Definition. Se&. 23 . But theprincipal thing that I would delire you to obferve, in order to the decifion of our controverfie, hence, 's that the Miniftry is firft confiderable as a workandService, and that the Power isbut a Tower to be a fervent to all, and to do the work . And therefore that the firft Queftion is, Whether thegreat burden and labour of v`llinifierialfervice maybe Mid on any man without Ordination by fachas our Englifh Prelates Or whether all men are difcharged from this labour and fervice on whom fuch Prelates do not Impofe it ? If Magiftrates, Presby- ters and People confpire to call an able man to the work and ferviceof the Lord,whether he be jaftified for refuting it, what ever the Church fuffer by it, meerly becaufe the Prelates called bim not ? Se&. 24: Though the forementioned works doall belong to the Office of the Miniftry, yet theremuft be Opportunity and a particular Call to theexercifeof them, before aman is actually obliged to perform the feveral aas. And therefore it was not without fence and reafon that in Ordination the Bifhop Paid to the Ordained,[Takf thou authority to Reador to preach the word of god, when thou Jhalt be threunto lawfully called] Not that ano- ther call of Authority is necefiary tof$aee them in the office, or tooblige them to the Duty in General : But we muft in the in- vitation of people,or their content to hear us, or other fuch advantagious accidents, prudentlydifcernwhen and where we have a Call to fpeak and exercife anyall ofour Miniftry. Even as a Licenfed Phyfitian muft have a particular Call by his Patients before he exercife his skill. This call toaparticular a&,is nothing elfe but an intimation or fignificationof the will of God, that hic d- Wont we Ihould perform fuch a work which is done by Providence caufing a concurrence of fuch inviting Cir-, cumftances that may perfwade a prudent man that it is feafo- nable. Se&. 25. Aman that is in general thus obliged by his office to do all the formentioned worksof theMiniftry, ( that is,vthen he bath aparticular call to each) may yet in particular never be obliged to tome of thefe works, but may be calledto l'pend his T2 life
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