( zó9) `Pry , thennoman can know that he is truly a Miniller of Chri(l.. But the Conlequent is falle, and intolerable ; therefore fo is the Antecedent. Se&. 5. The truth of the Minor is apparcnc thus. r. If we .couldnot be lure that we are true Minifters, then no man could with comfort leek the Minflry nor enter into upota it. For who can have encouragementto enter a calling when he knows not whether indeed he enter upon it or not and 'whether he engage not himfelf in a courleof fin , and be not guilty as ZJiza of medling with the Ark unlawfully ? efpecially in fo grc t and tender a .care where God is fo exceeding jealous. Sec`l. 5. And z. who can go on in the Calling of the Mini - flry,and comfortably do the work, and bear theburden,that cannot know through all his life or in any adminiflration, whether he be a D".iniller or a ì_l!urper ? What a damp mull it call upon our fpirits, in Prayer, Praife admini[lration of the Euch_ïrill and all publick worfhip, ( which fhould be perform- ed with the g!eacell alacrity and delight) when we remember that we are uncertain whether God have flint us, or whether we are ufurpers, that mull one day hear , [ Who fine you? Whence had you your Power ? andwho required this atyour hands ? Se& 7. And the Confequence of the Major ( that we are all uncertain of our Call and office, both Papifls and Prote- flants) is moll clear (incafe of the Neceffi ty of fuck fuccefsive Ordination) For a. No man ever did, to this day demorn[irate inch a fuccelTion for the Proof ofhis Miniflry, Nor can all our importunity prevail with Papifls ( Italians or French) to giveus fuch a proof. 2. It is a thing impofiible for any man now alive, to prove the Regular Ordination of all his Prede_ cetfors, to the Apoflles daies yea or any Ordination at D. How canyou tell that he that ordained you, did not counter- feit himfelf to be Ordained? Or at halt that he was not or- dained by an unordained man ? or that his Pieiecef ors were not fo ? It isa meer impoffibility for us to know any fuck thing; we have no Evidence toprove it: Sea. 8. Obje&. But it is probable 'tough not certain: for the Church proccedethby InchRules, and tak'th the matterto be z of
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