q.gz Their proper- ties. z Pct. x:21. z Coq ro.6. z Cot. 1. ult. whoprophets. Who Evange- litts. Their proper- ties. Wh®Pahors. Ephefiatu, Chap, 4. V E R. II, Thefupreame Minifters had 5. properties. a. Theywere called immediately by Chrift, Gal. r.t. Paulan . Apoflle, not of men, but by the will ofGod: to which you may adjoyne that other, they were eye-witneffes of Chrift. a. Their Commiffion wasover all the world; TecI, ail Ntjts. 3. Their affiftance was infallible, fo that they were led intoall truth;and teaching,taught nothing but the truth:Holy men Bakeas they weremovedby the holy Chofl. 4. Theyby impofition of hands, gave the Holy Ghoft. tAcls 59. 6, 5. They had power of avenging difobediencc, where and when it was behovefull for the Church. Generally, 2. Prophets] in the New Teftament are taken or Specially. Generally,for all that interpret the Word to edification : fpecially, for fome that had predif ionsof things to come, as Agabue, Ac?. ax. a o.and a fingular gift ofinterpreting propheticalt Scriptures,Aa.r3.1. not onely by benefit of knowledge, got with ftudy, but by divine revetation;t Cor. r 4.6. o b,o4sr is made thematter ofProphefie;thefe are in the fecond ranke : For Prophefie in the other fenfe is the worke of the Teacher and Paftor. 3. Evangelios,] not the 7o. for thefe were given after Chrifts Af- cenfron, but that Chrift fent them for Evangeliftsafter his Afcenfion, there is no warrant inScripture, nor pure Anriquitie: Notthe writers of the (toryof the Gofpell, for twoof them were Apoftles; but o- therMinifters that ferved forpublifhing of the Gofpell. They were oftwo forts,called immediately as Philip, who was an Evangelift, Alas z t. 8. fet on that worke by the inftind of the Spirit, 'Ails 8. 39, 40. Others as Timothy called by the Apoftle; Doe the worke of an Evangel; yetcalledby the Apoftlesand Elders,1 Tim.4.14.Deffif not thegift that is in thee which wasgiven thee by Prophecie,with the lay- ing on ofthehands of the Elderoa : fuch were Titus, Marke, Tychichsas, Sylvanus: both thefe forts mayVunderftood, but thelatter principal- ly, as more frequent; they wereMiniftersgiven of Chrift,for thehel- pingof the Apoftles,in that theybegun.Now they differed, vit theft latter,from the Apoftles in 3. things. a. Thefewere calledby the Apoftles : the Apoftles without the meane of man, by Chrift himfelfe. a. The Apoftles were over all Churches, thefe overforce, to which the Apoftles did call them. 3. TheApoftles foundedChurches, thefe did accomplifh the worke they begun; the Apoftles planted, thefe watered, Tit. r. 5. and manyof thofe Apoftles priviledges were not tobe found in thefe. Paflors,] that is, Minifters that laboured in the Word of Exhor- tation .,
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