Numb. 11. APP END' X. 33 (tors ordinarily: z. Providence anfwereth that Objeetion for me : Ir is e±ceeding bard to find half enough that are competent: God hath not given his Church more thanchey need ; but contrarily, there is need of many more than he bath given. - It is therefore all Mens Duties, that have Ability and Opportunity, to be Preachers, if theybe not taken up with Etpployments of greater ufe to the Church, (as Secular Rulers often. are) but they malt- leek an orderly admiflion, :where it is pofsble, and not be their own Judges of their fitness, where there are other Judges of appointment: Chrift bids us to pray the Lordofthe Harvest, io fend forth Labourers into the Harvest, because the Harveft is great,. and the.Labótr rers few:' It is vifibly true, in a great meafure, to this day ;what we muft.p}ay for, that we mull endeavour, that the Labourers may in Number. be proportioned to the- Work ; and we are like to haveufe for that Prayer ftill. 3. It issiot,el- ways that there are too many fo apparently fit :, And therefore at leaf: when it is not fo, the determinationof the Individual Perfon is Bare.. 4. As theBilhnps De- termination of one among many is valid, fa is the,Determination of others in cafe of Nece(lity. The Lawof Nature, and well ordered.Common-wealths cloth require, -that every Ignorant Man that thinks himselfSkilful, should not play -the Phyfician, lean he kill Men ; nor theSchool-mafter, leali he delude and.corrupt them: And therefore, that there Ihould. be fome able Men appointed to try and judgewho are fit, before they are admitted. .Lthink.God'sLawof Nature ret;ui- reth thisas evidently, as the written Law requireth, that nonebe Mininera without Ecclehiaficai Ordination, or Approbation ; and in cafethere be many of .equal fit - nefs, all mpn beadmitted, except they be, toomany (which isnotfeen there neither, for Natúre_ multiplieth not the molt nobleParts, as it doth the the Fingers, or the Hairs, ire.) And if therebe too many, theJudges mull Determine who (hall be the. Man.. Yet the fame Law of God in nature cloth as evidently reach, that neither the Tryers andJudges bean dead or gone,, or enviously refölve to approve of none, . but fuch as are Ignorant or . Wicked, that would'Poyfonand Killthe People, it is Lawful and the indifpenfible Duty of. fach as are able; to offer themselves for .Prá&ife niche People without the JudgesContent, rather then the Penilençe.fhould fweep -them away for want of a Remedy. And there bathfcarce yet been found (itch anEntinly to. Mankind, that would forbid fuch Men ro lave Mens Lives, for -want Of Approbation Or if there were many at -once in an Iufefted City that were.thus able, they would rather let all Praetile that have opportunity, or let the People go to whom they pleafe, then toforbid all, under pretence of the difficul- ty of difcerning the fittest. As fcarce any thing is more Inhumane againft Nature, then to prefer a CommiIlion or other Formality, or point of 'Or- der, before Mens Lives and Common Good ; (which is finis Reipublice) fo if is yet more Inhumane, as well as Unchrinian, and againn the evidentLawof Nature, and the main fcope of Chrin's Merciful DOârine and Example, (who often neg- leeted Formalities to fave Mens Lives and Souls, though to the Difpleafure of tire. Pharifes) fora Man to prefer a Formality or-point of-Order, before the Savingof Mens Souls, and the publicly Good andSafety of the Church, but of this before. ç. If in cafe of the want of a lawful Maginrate, or of fuch as they may law- fully ufe for Judgments, the People maydetermineofan individual Person, whom God Rail Authorize, though Scripture Name no Individual of this Age, then they may do fo alto in regard of the Mininry. But the former is true. Ergo, I. Elfe we should have no. Maginrates in the Worldfcarce, but by violentintrufion, which. is worfe than popular Elation. 2. r Car. 6. r, 2, 3, 4, 5. Paul would have the Corinthians to choofe tome of the Churchof the Saints, to judge between man andman concerning the things of this Life; whereabout they were wont tg"go to Law before Heathen Judges. This is plainly to the Officeof a Maginrate, at lean, quasipartem jsedicialern, tho not quasi violentam executisnem. They were to choose a wife Man, that should be able to judge between his Brethren, verfe ç. The con- fequence is grounded on this, that theScripture meddles nomore with the Indivi- duals for Magiftracy, then for Mininry; nor gives ordinarily the power of ehoofing Soveraigns cethe People in theCommon wealth, thenthe PowerofOrdaining Mini. hers to thePeople of aparticular Church, and the People. may determineof one as well (though not fòeafily) as of theother ; but I (poke tomewhat of this altobefore" to another Point. I have tranfgreffed the limits of the part of a Refpondent on this point, a. Becaufe I know it is Light, and nqt Formality of Proceeding that you exileet . (though it be formality before Light andSafety that you. plead fors) a. Becaufe I know that thewhole nrefsof your Caule lyeth ön this Point ; and I doubt not tofay that if I anfweryou'weli in this oneArgument( Which you make E your
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