to drove, fle SA I N .T s. let in, andtbfethat have amiedeto goe to heaven, now they may fee the way thither , fo thaftn this fenft too, Mi- niffers are (limes. Thirdly, Becaufe (litres have influence upon thefe infe- riour bodies, as God layes of the Pleiades and O which are a company oflflarres in the heavenly Orbe. CanJl than binde the Peet influences of the Pleiades, or loofe the bands of Orion? J ob 38 3 a: the flames have influences into things here below. The Pleiades open the earth,they make herbs and flowers grow, the fpring is when they arife once,Trees begin to I.prout, and the plants do wax green; Orion, it pro- ! duces cold, the Winter comes when that (hewes it feltfe ; the flarres have a great influence into fublunary bodies,, fo it is with Miniflers. Bad Minilters are like the tlarees of Orlon, they ferve tocoole peoples hearts, and dead them to all goodnelte. Bot good MiniCters are as the (tames of Pleinder, no foule can have any minde in him to that which is good; but they doe exceedingly helpe -and further, they quic- ken the heart , they warme and fructifie the feules of Gods Elect. Againe, the flarres doe hang high; fo the Mini(lers of Chrilt are let high ; they hang high,that all the people niay have the benefit of their glifterir,g. Zachary cals them the Prophets of the moll High, And thou childe (halt he called the Prophet of the moil. High,Luke 1.76. But I have hand- led this point in effe.&, when I fpa`fw of Miniflers being An gels, and therefore I will omit it now. Thus yee fee the Mi- nifters are flames. Now hee calls them leven, becaufe hee fpeakes of fevers Congregations > Ephefue, Smyrna, Per - gainos, 7hyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. 'Seven Cherches, (even Congregations , and every one. had their fevecallflats. Whence we fee that every Pariíh (hould have a particular faithful' Minifter. Paul appointed Titan, to ordain Elders in every City, Tit. 1. j. The A- po/lles ordained Paffors, and Elders in every Church, AEts :4.23. So it was in the time of the Law , as the the Text fay;s, Mofes of old time hat in every City theta that 3 Preach, 9
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