Se&.23.Hence it alto appeareth thatGods firft command(parts 'y in Nature and partly in the Gofpel ) is that [ The work fhall be done,the Gofpelfball be prea,hed, Churches gathered and ga.. verned,Sacraments adminiflred: ] and that the Precept deordine is but fecundary and fubfer-vent to this And ifat any time,alterati- ons fhould make Ordination impofiible, it will not follow that the duty Ordered ceafeth to be duty, or the precept to oblige. Sec`c. 24. The Scriptures namenot the man that fhall be a Pa- flor, yet when it bathdefcribed him it commandeth the Defcri- bed perfon duely to leek admittance, and commandeth the Peo- ple, ordainers and Magifirates to [ Choofe andAppoint thefemen to the Miniflerial work, ] Now there Precepts contain in each of them twodiflín& determinations of Chrift. The fir[} is [that fach men be Miniflers. j The fecond is [ that they offer them. ` [elves to the office, and that they be Accepted andOrdained. j For the firft is implyed in the latter. If the Soveraign Power rmakea Law,that there fhall be Phyficians licenfed by a Colledge of Phyfitiansto Praclice in thisCommon -wealth ] and defcribe the perfons that [ball be licenfed ; This plainly firfi concludeth that fuch perfons thall be Phyfitians, and but fecondarily deer- aine that thus they fhall be licenfed : fo that if the Colledge fhouldLicenfe a company ofutterly infuficient men ,and murde- rers that leek mens death,or fhould refufé toLicenfe the perfons qualified according toLaw,theymay themfelves be puñifhed,and the qua!ified perfons may ac`% as Authorized by that Law,which bindeth gum! materiam, and is by the Colledge and not not by them )` frufirate qusad ordinea), So is it in this cafe in band. Sec& 2s. Hence it appeareth that [ Ordination is one means conjunct% with divers others, for theDefignation of right Qualified perfons,defcribed in the Lawof Chrifi) for the re- ceprion and exercifeof theMinif}erial office. And that the ends .. ofitare a. To take care that theoffice fail not c and therefore to call out fit men toaccept it, ifmodefly or impediments hin- der them from offering them;eb es, or the people from nomina- ting them. 2. To judge in all ordinary cafes of the fitnels of perlons to the office, and whether they are fuch as Scrip - turedefcríbeth and calls out. 3. And to folemnize their Ad-. mittance* by fechan invefliture,. as whenPo eflionofaHoule
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