3 i 8 The Covenant of Work! Chap. 7. Sacrament of the Lords Supper, i C'or. i r . 26. ßs oft a you eate of thra bread, and drink of this cup, you fbeW forth the Lords death till be come. Secondly, It appears in the promife of Chrift Jefus annext by way of encouragement in this work, verf, 2o. Lo, I am with you alwayes,ezven unto the end of the World. This is we fee to the ut- termoft extent of time,alwayes,even all dayes, to the worlds end. And howfoever fame quarrel' may be raifed about the phrafe s ct, ve-, Sxculi,being taken in fo various an acceptation in the holy Scriptures; yet the fubjec± matter whereon it is fpoken, is a work of more lafting (as hash been obferved) then one age, to- gether with the phrafè annext, the confummation or fanif3rng,plain= ly fignifies that this promife is for perpetuity till Chrifts coming at the end of ages,That which puts a period to the Lords Supper, mull alone put a period to this work; and for a man to make a promife to a dying man , ready to yield up the ghoft, for help for many years, who is but to live few years, were a firange pro - mife ; And to fettle a function of the Minifterywith a promife of afTiftance through all ages when it muff be extinct in that age, were as ftrange a promife. A promife to a Non- entity, or meere Chimera. Minifters then are in the Church as Starres , not as Meteors ; they grow as Plants , not as Mufhromes their du- ration is not for a year , for an age, but through all ages. Thirdly, This appeares by the Apoftles care for a fucceffion; being not fuffered to continue by reafon of death, they took care for others to fill up their places in the Churches which they had planted. Therefore Paul (called not by man, but by a vifion and voice from heaven) gives order for a Miniflerial call by Ordina- tion, giving charge to Titt'u, Tit. r. 5. to ordaine Elders in every City , and this by laying on of the hands of the PreJbytery , t Tim. 4. t 4. to whom the care of Church -infpe &ion was by him com- mitted, A. 20. r7. compared with verf. z8. And Taut and Barnaba4 in their journal, As 14.23. Ordained elders in every Church, and recommended them to God With prajer and failing of which more afterwards. Fourthly, This appears in the fetled Paftors,which were found in conftitutedd, efiablifhed Churches. Epaphroditus in Philippi, Philip. 2. 25. Archipptu in Colo(j'os, Col. 4, 17. Thofe of Ephe- lal,
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