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Veit.
I.
phefians,
Chap.z.
The
calling
of
Miniftery
is
not
like
a
degree
in
Schoolcs ,
which
I
giveth honourand teflifieth qualification, but injoyneth
no
labour
,
s
a
Do
&or
of
Phyfick hath
a
degree
put upon him
,
though
it
cotnpell
him not to have
Patients
whereon
to
praótife: But
the Miniftery
is a
14-
447,
boar
in
Word
and
Doc
-trine
,
and
therefore there mull
bee rhofe
with
whom
this
labour
muff
be
imployed.
This then doth
ferve
to
confute
thole
illimited
ordinations
,
which*
Ili
,,
doe call
to
Miniftery,
without allotting
any
particular people
toward
Again1 ìuìnú-
whomthis
grace
fhould
bedifpenfed, which doth tend
to
nothing but
serf
ordì
"'
°-
to
breed
a
vagrant Miniftery,
(like
that
of
lonathan the
Levite) which
might profer their
fervice
where they might
find
entertainment
,
a
thing
moft
ill
befeeming
the
dignity
of
fo facred
a
calling
as
this
is.
It
ferveth to
infttud
both
Miniftcrs and people,Miniffers
in
this,that
vpe
z,
they
are
to know that God hath
given
them
as
a
calling,
fo
gifts
of
cal.
ling,
report to
thefe gifts principally
toward them who
are their
charge
and people
:
which
if
it
were feticd
in
the
hearts
of
men,it would
re-
forme
a
three-fold
want:
For often there
is
in
mer
an affectation
of
the
Confluence
of
([rangers
,
when our
hearts
doe not fo fervently
im-
Agatntt
the
2f
-
brace our
owne,
as
they doe
delight
in
Peeing
a
concourfe
of
thofe
feetationof
who doe not
fo
directly
belongto
us.
If
any come
to
our congrega.
concourfc
of
dons
as
wanting,
(for
hunger breakcth the
ffone wall)
then
it
is
good
fi""
for
a
Minifter
to
be like a young
woman,
fo
full
breafled
that
Thee
can
both
feed her
owne fat,
and lend
a
draughtto her neighbourschild
in
cafe
of
abfence.
But
to let
an
itch
of
vaine
-glory
carry
us fo
farre
as
to
andmuah
pre,
affect
this
that commeth fromwithout
and
be cold
at
home, this
is
to
ching abroad.
forget where our grace principallylyeth. Let this be
marked
of
fuch
who out oflightneffe and
vaine-
glory, or by
infrigation
of
fuch friends
as
Chrift
had,
whowould
have him make himfelfe knowne at
lerufa-
lem, are lavifh
of
labour among thofe who
depend
not on them; nurfe
abroad,
and
let their
owne cry
at
home.
Which
I
fpeake
not to put
a
fword
in a
mad. mans
hand, or to
wipe
Chriftian labours foberly
affor-
ded,
for there
is a
place
to
water abroad
as
well
as
to
plant at
hotne;but
to
cut downe
too too
laviflì
labours from our owne, which
if
we
would
take
(hotter we fhould
fee
them more
eff'eéìuall
when they were
affor-
ded: and
if
wee did thinke
that
grace were given chiefly to our
owne
people, many words would bee
needlefle
to this purpofe. You
are
ftarres, and the
bell
Thine
is in
your owne
fpeare.
Yet
this mutt notbe
With whatczu-
tion
a
MìniRet
conceived
as
if
it were
not
lawfull
in
fome
cafes
to lend
our labour
maydifpenfe
elfewhere; for (due circamftances confidered) we may fay,
Came helpe
the word
to
a
tee
in Macedonia, as
Paul,
wee may water where others
have
planted: péá
;,
°unh
°S
And
it
hath
alwayes been
the
cuftome from Primitive times,
as
de-
charge.
mew
teflifieth
lib.
a.
conflit.
cap.
48.
that
if
any
Presbyter or
Bifhop
ARS
doe
came to another,
they
(hall
be intreated
to preach, the former gi.
ving
a reafon5
it
falling out
as
Chrift
faith,
that
a
Prophet is not without
Mat.
13, 57;
honour,
but
in
his owne
ceuntrey.
This
fhould make Miniulers
mote
wary in tranflating themfelves
3
from
thofe
to whom God
bath once given
them:
If
a man
were per-
ft
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