114 The `Preachers 7k . ' Paul was a executing that office benot altogetherfoallowable. The Scribes andPhatifes, Phadice, and whowere the Doftors ofthe Iewes, manyofthem wereofotherTribes, then y ,of_tif'L of the Tribe ofLem , and crept in by corruptionand bribery into thofe places, iam;n,Phd. and wereof vnfound judgement inmany things, as may eafily bee gathered by 3.5. andfó the fioryof the Gofpell;yet ourSaviour willed hisD;feiples to heare them,be_ washis father caufe they fate in Moleschaire'. Their entrance was naught,yet their Miniflery too,Aa. a ;.6. was to beeftcemed,folong as theyfailednot in the fubfiancethereof. And this Genebrard as 1 thinke)ma refolue you for that matter. Chronogra.l.( alaith,tha[ Nymph. will roll f atra%edwiththisaxf w° r , till/ all f nde either by mine cone the Scrihcs primatemeditation, or by conferenceioith others(bettor skl/edin thcfemetirbe), f)what were lightly farther to reply. Idefire to beareyor yetfarther in thismatter , teaching theneceftyof ofthe tribeofpreaching ineMinrffor. . Epaph. I amvery veining toproceed,onel I would baneyou to remember 6 ,g. what tfald atmy heft entranceinto thismatter: namely, chatIwould ítaudon- ly vponproofesofScrippture. Saint e4rognJlitto faith, that that lawthe aacieat or. der ofhfpwring, to haaetbe Evokesofholy Scriptare by, aadtoffaadto the triallthereof. Thceelle e.n And therefore it was anexcellent and memorable course of Coafantiao the &mperour, who commanded the Fathers met together in the Councell of Nice, to reitere that great controuerle then its hand, touching the God- head of Chriff, to the decifion of the Scripture. Andit isGodsowne voice alfait un, that we fhoaldto the law,aadte the refimoxy'. W herefore weltingyou to looke for no proofes from me, but inch as are fetched out of theScripture, I fetthis dower as my third reafon That whereas the Lord madevery good prouifa: on for the maintenance of thofe who were tominifter about holy things,I find not either in the old or new Teftament, that any wereprouided for by fuchal_ lowance,but onely filch as were able toinfiruft the people by openingand ex- poundingthe law. The officeofthe Leuites in the oldlaw, flood vpon two things,one was topatinceefebefere the Lordsface, andthebast offering opox bisaL. tar : therein they were thepeoples mouthvino God: the other was to teach la- xDeue;;.ro. cob Gods lodgement,and //radhis Law' : inthat they were Gods mouthvnto the people:for thiscaufe it was the ordinanceofGod(according as Inoted toyou the place in the beginningof this conference,) that the PrieJb lipsJitea/dpreferae knowledge, wadthey fhenldfeekethe Lan at hismouth : for (faith the text) heis the yMalac.aq. me/feager oftheLord ofhopn: that is,oneappointed to be theopener anddecla- rer of the will ofGod among the people. And left any man fhould thinke, that the Lawwhich thepeople were tolecke at the Priefismouth, was nothingbut thebate letter &writtentext ofthelaw,wemay remember firft,that thepeo. q,Dèut.t.1. piehad the free vfeofthe lawin theirprivatehoules., fothattheyhadnofuels need to feeke that at the Priefts hands. Secondly,that it was the vfe ofthe Le- uites when they did read in theBooke ofthe law,ro lime thefeafe elfo,andtocaafe oNrhem.a.a. the people tovaderflandthe reading'. And hence it was, that when our Sauiour Chrifi fleodopto readson theSabbathdap (according tohis office, as fomc thinke Sailor ndi that he waschofenoneofthe ordinarytwoand twentyPriefisof theTemple,) Rione rxeie when hebadclefedthe boo{e, theeves ofallthat wereat the Synagogaewere falleeedon b Luke4.16, him b becaufe it wasthe order, that prefently vpon the reading ofthe law, followed the expoitionrsfthe law. Thence alfowas it that Noland Barnabae beingat Antiochepos a Sabbath day, After theLefbireof the Law and the Pro- phets,the Bale's ofthe Synagegaefenevetothem,to intreatthem, that iftheyhad any r Af .' 4t. wordofexhortation,they would bepleated to deliver it o. This their requeft arofe vpetn the cuflome -ofioyning Gill the opening and interpreting of theLaw, d AA.ry,at. with the pubiike reading thereof, whereto agreeth that Paying of lamtid, that vM_feiwaeofoldtm,eheweryestile, bath :ecleadPreached emerySabbathder. . For a:beie Ionic chinke there is great ffrengrh in that place, to proofe reading to bepreaching, Moles (lay they) waspreached, ix that hewoo reed; yet the true drift
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