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proper-
ties.
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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.
They
were called immediately by
Chrift,
Gal.
r.t.
Paulan
. Apoflle,
not
of men, but
by
the will
of
God
: 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
into
all
truth;
and
teaching,taught nothing but the
truth:Holy
men
Bakeas
they were
moved
by
the
holy
Chofl.
4. They
by 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
ions
of
things
to come,
as Agabue, Ac?.
ax.
a
o.and
a
fingular gift
of
interpreting propheticalt
Scrip
tures,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
of
Prophefie;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
A
fcenfion,
there
is
no warrant
in
Scripture, nor
pure Anriquitie:
Not
the
writers
of
the
(tory
of
the Gofpell, for two
of
them were Apoftles;
but
o-
ther
Minifters
that
ferved forpublifhing
of
the Gofpell. They
were
of
two 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;
yet
called
by the Apoftles
and
Elders,1
Tim.4.14.Deffif
not
thegift
that
is
in
thee which
was
given
thee
by
Prophecie,
with
the
lay-
ing
on
ofthe
hands
of
the
Elderoa
:
fuch were Titus,
Marke,
Tychichsas,
Sylvanus:
both
thefe forts
mayV
underftood, but the
latter principal-
ly,
as
more frequent; they wereMiniftersgiven
of
Chrift,for
the
hel-
ping
of
the Apoftles,in that they
begun.Now
they
differed,
vit
theft
latter,from
the Apoftles
in
3.
things.
a.
Thefe
were called
by 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.
The
Apoftles founded
Churches,
thefe
did
accomplifh the
worke they begun; the Apoftles planted,
thefe watered,
Tit.
r.
5.
and many
of thofe Apoftles
priviledges were
not to
be found
in
thefe.
Paflors,]
that
is, Minifters
that
laboured
in
the
Word of
Exhor-
tation
.,