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V
E
R. II.
Ephefian.r,
Chap.
4..
they
objeét the
place
in r
Pet.z.g.
We
area
Kingly
Priefthood.
For anfwer ;
Wee
are Priefts
in
regard
of
the commgn
oyntment
of
Chriftians
,
not the
particular calling
of
publike teaching. As
Priefls,
all
Chriftians
are
to
offer
up themfelves:
Rom.
r
a.r,
to
teach
themfelves and
others
in
private, to
offer up fpirituall facrifice ,
yet
fo as
that
remaineth
;
are
a,Y
Prophets
?
areit/Teachers
?
Wee
mutt
marke
that
fome have
the
gift oncly given, againft
filch
confufion.
3.
It
is
to be
marked,
how
many
Chrift
bath given
:
which doth
teach
us,
ThatChrifl
bath
not
one
gift,
but
divers,
which
himfelfv
hath, and
doth
fantlifle
for
the
good
of
his
Church
:
Thus
here are
A-
poftles with their gifts,
Prophets,
Evangelifts, yea
divers
ordinary
gifts.
Rom.
r
z. one bath
a
wordof
knowledge, another
a
word
of
exhor_
ration :
for
as
in
the
building
of
a
houfe, divers handy-crafts are
ofufe,
artificers
that
are not
all
of
one nature:
So
in
the building
of
the
faithful!
who
are
the houfe
of
God
:
And therefore
in
the old
Church
of
the Jewsthere were their
retrd'áçxxrot
,
men that
had skill
in
inter-
preting
the text
read, and others
that had
a
gift
in
exhortation,
as
may
be
gathered,
Ails
/3.15.
and
1
g.
z
r.
Compared together.
Which
Confideration
of
diverfity
of
gifts
doth
reprove
thofe
that
will take
miflike at this
or that
kind , becaufe it
is
not
as
they
would
have.
If
one fpeak
treatably
and
folly
,
though he
lay
downe
thetruth foundly,
if
he
apply not forcibly,
he
is
no body,
asif
every
one fhould be
an
Eliab,
or
a
Sonne
of
thunder.
If
others on
fome,
plaine
ground belabour
the
confciende, tufh, he
is
not for
them
, hee
doth
not goe
to
the depth
of
his
text;
they could themfelves at the
firft
fight obferve
as
much;
as
if
every
Bark
that
fayled did
draw
a
like
depth
,
yet
all
forts carry their pafkngers
fafe
to their haven.
So
in
Minifters
,
everyone
bath
not
a
like
infight into
dot
Trine ,
yet
all
be Gods
inftrunients to
thy
falvation.
This
is a
malepert itching
humour,
which
if
you
will bee
Chriftians
in deed
,
you mutt lay
afide.
It
mull teach
us
to
love
and reverence
all forts
of
gifts,
feing
it
plea-
Yfe
a
î
fed
God
to
deale them in
filch
diverfity,
and
all
for our
good;if
we
be
All forts
of
fpiritually
hungry, the
courfeft things will
be
fweet,
the
leaft
giftwill
gifts
are
to
be
reverenced.
be precious.
Laltly , it
is
to bee marked
,
that Chrift
is
faid
to
give
the
ordi-
nary
Pallor,
as
well
as
the
extraordinary Apoftles
;
which
doth
teach
us
,
That
the
c.Minif
ers
we
have
with
ue
are
no
leffefent
by
Chrtfl,
Do17.
then
thofe
a
other extraordinary
were
which
new
art
tea
f
ed.
Our
ordinary
Minifers
are
God
doth acknowledgethe
one
fet
over
us
by him
and,
hisinftru-
of
Chrift
as
ments,
to
worke ourfalvation,as well as the
other.'
t
ldYO
20.
a
B.The
wen
as
extra
-
Minifters called
by the Church
, are
Paid
ro
be
fet
over their people
ordinary.
by the
Holy Ghoft.
Take
heed onto your
[elves
and
to
all
the
flocks,
whereof
the
Holy Ghofl
bath
made
you
overfeers. So
the
Apoftle,
r
Cor.3. What
is
Paul
?
an
Apoftic.
What
is
.sdpollos
?
an
ordina-
ry
Mini1
er
:
are they not
both
the
Minifters
of
Chrift
e
yet
both
one
after
a
fort, the
one
hath no more in
him
of
that
faving
power
then
V
v
a
the
Do/b.
Chrift giveih
divers
gifts
for
the good
of
his
Church.
Rom.tz.
Yfe
It
reproveth
fiftidious
fighters
of
men
not
gifted
to
theft mind.