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Epbeflans,Chap.3.
V
e
R.
t.!
Doff,z.
z. That God
is
fsid
to
difpenfe
grace, it
doth
give
us
to
confider:
°bu
e`
it
That
the Lord
doth
diftribute
callings
for
the good
o
f
his
hau
f
which
is
his
tinge for the
Church:
the force
of
this word
L.owio
noteth
fo
much:for to
difpenfe
is
good of
Ills
to
giveout this
or that
one
bath
in
common,
by number, weight,
mea-
Church.
Cure,
as
fitteth the family. He
is a
wife
houfliolder
whole
dealing
mini-
aerial! gifts,and difpenfing
of
them,is
full
of wifdom,as an
his
works
in
Pfal4o4.
54;
genera&
are
done
inunderftanding:
Thus the lavesfought
a
frgne,God gave
';
them
Peter,great
in
fignes
and
wonders,
fuch
whofc words
were
won-
ders, feeing they knew
them not to
have beetle matriculated
in
any
Schoolesoflearning:
fo
the Gentiles
full
ofwifdome
,
the Lord
gave
to them
S. Paul,
full
of
learning,
able
to encounter
their deepeft
Philo-
fophers
in
difputarion.
pp.
Which
mull
make
us
,
where wee know
God
bath
given
a
calling,
to
fubfcribe
to
it
as
molt behoovefull
for
the
Church;
fo
the
gifts
ofe-
I
very faithfull Minifter,
to
know
that they
are
moll
wifely divided,
the
¡
difpenfation
of
God himfelfe concurring hereunto.
i
The
Taft
thing to bee marked
in
the
verfe
is
this
:
that
Paul faith:
Deft.
Which
is
given
to you.
obf. hence. That
as
the
Lord
doth
give
a
As
God
giveth
calling
andgrace,
fa
a people
towards
whom
it
is
of
ecially
ble/fedwith
Gods
Miring
their
calling
andgrace,
there are
a
people
defigned towards
whom
it
is
a¡
ecian
1
calling,Co
alto
J
y
their people
bleffed.
It
is
true the Apoftle had
a
more
large flock,
the
care ofall
Chip..
towards whom
ches
was upon
hint; but wherefoever God giveth
a
calling,
there
he
gi-
be
vain blurs.
veth
a
people
of
the
Minifter may
fa
toward you
grace
is
gi-
their lal,ours.
P P
Y
ye
s
Corr:.
s.
ven me
of
God.
A17s
2
o.
28.
Take heed
to
your Delves,
and
to all the
flock,
Ads :o.
as.
over whichthe
Holy Ghoft
bath
madeyou
overt
ers.
i
Pet. c. z.
,Feed
the
'
The
flock
of
GodWhich
is
amongyou.
God bath
aftigned
every ordinary
Mi-
differ<na
ofApoftles, E-
miler
a
portion
of
his
people: for this
is
the
difference
betwixt
extraor-
orrs
and
ordinadinsry
a-
dinary,
as
the Apoftles, Evangelifts, the
yo
Difciples
,
and
our or-
P
fiours,
dinary
Paftors. The
Apoflles had
a
univerfall
Cornmi(hon,
and the
Evangelifts were delegates
of the Apottles
durante
beneplacito:
the
70.
if
not Evangelifts
(which
fome
of
the
Ancients incline
to) yet
they
were illimited helpers and
fellow
-
labourers
in
the worke
of
the Lord.
But
ordinary
Ministers,
the Lord commanded to
fatten
them to err
-
Tie.
s. 5.
raine places.
Tit.
t.
S.
ordain
Elders
city
by
city.
And
in
the
councell
Mo.Pu,c
XE/Pm-
TOVEt19N
Ism-
of
Chalcedon
the
6.
chapter,
it
is
decreed, Let
none
he
ordained at
large,
atn°µ
vo,
left he
prove
a Wandring
Jonathan.
Every Minifter
tuna
be
Ne
dìcatur,
Mendieat in
I.
Separated.
ralzura
infz-
h
a. Authorifed.
lia Ciervos.
3. Have
allotted to
him
a
certain
portion
of
people which
may
Gratschoaf}.
be inftrui`icd
by him, which
the diminutive
wo,Mdoe
not
vroiorismay
teem
to infinuate.
Now
as
God
Both
give every
Pallor
his feverall
flock,
fohe will
that
we travaile
in
leading
of them.
We
mull not
,b,wreuwu-
eeursv,bc
B
B. in
other
mens Dioceffes , left
God
fay,
Who
required
this at
your
hands.:
When
the Lord lighteth candles,
flee
doth
find
candlefticks on
which to
fet
them,
and
when
hee
giveth
a
calling,
hee
giveth
a
people among ft
whom
this
funêìion fhould be
exercifed,
in
whole
confcienceshe
doth
give his Mininfter
a
fpeciall
report.
The