Blake - Houston-Packer Collection BT155 .B53 1653

Chap.44 of the if ine of Beleever:. nient ufé) for advancement of pubhck worfhip, to alienate live- ly -hood which is in order to it, is to devour that which is holy, reductively holy; not by Gods particular infhtution, with limit to that thing or place, but by his warranty and appro- bation. E Separation of perfons for God is of another fort; they that 4 are thus feparate, God ownes ; not only as reclU dively , but re latively holy : This is either peculiarly in fome way of fpeciáll calling to do fuch work as is holy , of which there were feverall forts in the time of the Law , Priefts, Levites, Nazarites, Singers, Porters, which will not be denied, and in a. parallel way Minifters of the Gofpel as we have teen , i Cor, 9. 14, A is a 3.2. The Holy ghoß faid, Separate me Saul and Barnabas for the Work where - unto l have called them. Here me thinks I thould have Matter Tombes his of %rt, who in bisProctirfor, pag. 82. fayes, Pafiorsandreacher,, orPref byters to teach, and governe the Church of god; I am a f fured'are a divine inflitution , and aver), merciful gift of Chrift, Ephef. 4. i I, I2, 13. J Cori 12.28. MIS 14-. 23. i Tim, 3. I. Tit. 2,5. to whom people f ould yield obedience, Heb. 13,7. and yield maintenance li- berally, r Cor. 9. 14. Gal. 6.6. i Tim. 5.17, Is, If any go a,. bout to extirpate them, let him be occurred as an enemy to ChrifIand his Church, This the evidence of truth forces him to confeffe, though in the fame Setlion (as well before thefe words quoted here, as after) he takes again all that from them,which he had un- der fuch an Anathema yielded them. He that gives to every Free- man of London, in cafe competently qualified, the whole power and authority of the Lord Major , to every free Subject of Eng- land, the whole power of the Lord Chief Juftice ,. goes a deftru- aive way for extirpation of thofe places. This I think all will grant , when each man may do their work, they (hall loon have little honour in the naked title. Now Mr. Trmbes gives the work of Preaching promifcuoufly to all. 1Totwithflanding ghat Mafter Thomas Hall in his Pulpit Guarded , or my Q.iondami Scholar, and worthy friend !Wafter Giles Workman, in his better tempered hook Private men, no Pulpit men, have faid; l fill conceive that not only for triall of expetants, but alto upon other occafow, perfons not ordained, may be permitted, yea defired to preach in the Pulpits If all that they have faid cannot withíland. this conceit , me thinkes his. 4©7

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