CAI.4. Jlevelation'óftheApocalypfe. by the wings With eyes. From which first is perceivedhow neceffary thefe Officesare in the Church. For they are the mingr ofthe Mini- fiery. What is a bird without wings ? Yet this lack is moredam- mageable, becaufe a bird being dellítuteofwings, perifheth her felfe alone : the Paftours being voide of them, the whole flocks are fet in danger ofdearuftion. For they are wings o fhelping , as wehave Laid, whereby aide isminifired, not fo much to theMmtfiers them- [elves, as to the people. And feeing the Apoj?lei had need of Dea- cons, that a more neceffaeyworkmight not be left ofthem : could they by themfelves obferve every ones life , without the hindcrance of the adminiftrationofthe word ? Thereforethey took to themfelvs thewings full ofeyes, which the Reafts have before theThrone,and have taught by their ownexample , how maimed andlame thePa= ors are, to whom thefe wings arewanting. Againe, we learnt that thefe Officesare advantages and addditi- tions, as parts hanging to the Pa(tors, joyned to them as neceffari ly, as wings to the body, from whence they draw life, and by whole benefit they are moved and upholders. And that therefore a divorfe is not rightly made betweene them,: as in the Common- wealth of the Scaphmfians, where none of the .Miniflers are pre- fent in the ConflLory, but learnedmen out ofthe Senate ; and for the molt part form Doflor oftheLawes ischofen among the Judges of the Confillory. See for this, 3(izr Sirnitra s in his Treatifeof the Common-wcalthof theHelYetjiäns. Neither are thole excufes of any moment, whereby it is preten- ded , that another manner ofgoverning not belle profitable is ufed in and ofElders and Deacons, as it is done in E NçL AND. is it not,, fay they, provided(inaípeeiallmánner, for the poore, by the Statutes of this Kingdorrme? AneWidottheChurch-Wardens ; prefent wicked men .tnato the Coinmiffal-i s ? What need is there of other Elders and Deacons, elpecially inieed, feeing all that way is wholly fevered from all ovcrfeeing; of the Panora,,- tó whom(: alone thefe wings,ought to be fatlened, andnot .o etherbegiyi, of Commiffafima<,G o ;, giVe thdvbe tkings tattlae Ii$. eaßr, that his`people,fmay be hol ì ,ally wiicre holinefie alinoa is loft, becaufe the Paftors being, dell ute of -their ; wings full, of eyes , there is,none, that .with; an .earneft : and tryrgIffeFlion ofminde, will;lpoke into thé;ditititAxnd ickrtrflïesi ands f fpeedily for to hale them ; Laitly, on>;i athac,r;i.áre tQbe;trt q ,,that -they wilt fpe.ak more modet ly oftheordinance ofOod,left giving therfelves to A
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