Numb. JOo .ATreatife ofCal!ings. II. Point. Where choice is once made, we A ,beforehand: forthe faying is true; hee that mult then confider, how a good entrance isto butes_the fcate, mult fell ioltice: and whereiu· be made into the calliog which we hauecholhcets fold, theP'?oreisopprdfed, and al goes feo. Touching entrance, many points are to towracke. Thehke tsto be faidofthe fale of be fcanned. The firll is,in what fort& manner Ecclefialticallliuings, towhich,cure offoules an entrance mull bee made. And the right tsannexed : yea of the difpenfing and giuing manner is this; Euery man mu£Hoenter, that the~haod .ouer head. Indeede, to buy or fell bee may truely il'l confcience fay; God bath the humgsofthe Church, is not properly the placed me in thiscalling, be itneuedo bafe a finneof S1111on, who fought.11ogct the gifts of calling.Tlms P4ul faitll in this chapt.v.17• .As the ~oly Ghoft Wtth mony; yetisthis baying Godbath caUed eueryman,fo let himWAlk(. And agncuous fin, flat agamft the order that God ChrifrourSauiour neuer tookevpon iim O· hathfct down touching cntranceintoanycall penly, theofficeofaMediatour, tillhee was bog. Theveryhcathen themfeloes hauecombaptizcd, and therein called vnroit, by the plained ofthischopping andchangingofplal voice of his fatherfromheaues,faying; Thit it ces..asofthe ruines offiates, and (;ommonmybeloNcdfonne, in whom Iam weB p/Mftd. But B w~olth~.(•).Alexander SeMrm the Empcrour immediately aft<r bee beganne to teach and fatth,•tn mcejfarieth•thewhichhNJ•h,mujlftll. preach,and tolhew himfclfe rhc true Mefsias, 1 ~woll notfoffer(b) buyerundftllersifoffices: if 1 \ in performing the duties of aKing,Prieft, and uujfer them, itit ber••ft. 1rmmet rondetmtefoch. Prophet. There is no calling vpon earth, For 1arufhamedtop•nijb h•rnthiltbuies gndftls. I fince the fall of.Adam, but bath cro£fes and ea· Seneca (c) fatth;thubll)tng u theJP.,IingifProlamitil:s atte·nding on it, butthey are delayed, "'"':s:andthat he whi<b buies,mNjlnudsftO. ruby comffl>rt fuffident, when our coofcience lhman (d) e<>mplaines, that hisDomini0t1s are I can tell vs, wee wereplaced in our callings by robbtdandpiOed, becaoft men t•kt. g.tdforoffices, God himfelfe; and when oar confcience can •nJheflr•tt!Jforbidsit. cot fay thus much,thc comfort is gone. Thus much of entrance in genera\1, Now Now, that cuery man may cerrenly know follow cerraine qudHons thereof. Ifthis bee himfelfe to bee called of God to this or that •.• I bane faid, that fuchas enterinto anycal. calling, bee muft haue two things: Gifts for hngfpedally publike, muft lirJl: bee enabled the calling from God , and Allowance from with gifts from God,and alfo fet ap4rtbymen men. Porthefirft,whomGodcalleth,tothem a~tcr~ue triall and examin~tion: here a que~ he giceth competent and conueniect gifts vr C !hon IS to be skanncd , whtch the Papilts vfe knowledge,vnderftanding,dextcrity to this or ro propound; namely What calling the firft rhat, and fuch like; and thereby makes them Preachers ofthe Gofpel, and planters ofour able for the performance ofthe duties ofrheir Church had ? The anfwr.r to this queftion is Gallings. Contrariwifc,tbey that enter into aneedfull: for ifthey had no calling , neither ny calling, beeing vtterly vaable to performe haue we thatarc the fllllowers. And I anfwer the duties thereof, were ncuer called of God. two things. firft,th:~t they had'their callings, Forthe fecod, men areto be fetapattto their by verrue whereof they rcftoredthe Gofpell particular callings by the appointmencofmen, ofChrift, from the Romilh Church it felfe: whom God hath left on earth as his inllrufortheywcreeithcrPriclts, orSchoole-Doments , for the ordering and difpofingof~gaors,as inEngla•d,Wi<~iff,inGcrmanie,Lucations. For God bath his deputies ro allot ther,in Bohemia,lohnHuffi,&?mme.j'Prage, men their offices in cuery fociety, as parents at BaGI,Oecol•mp•d;,.;in Italy,'PeterMar!Jr, and mafters to difpofe of perfons in priuate and others. And therefore thefe, with many families: for ccdefialticall callings, the Go. others,were ordained,either in l'opi!h Chur- ••rnoursofthe Church ; for ciuill, the Magiches,Gr infc:hoolcs, and there byoath folemnfrrate, and men 'ofauthority in the Common• D ly bound to do the duties oftheircallings wirh wealth. And he that would truely fay , God good confcience, by coafuting oferroar, and bath placed him in any particular calling, maintaining the auncient Apoftolike faith. mull alfo haue the outward calling of men. Whereforcifthistheircalling,bccofanymoAnd here it is to be remembrcd, that rriall of ment to ftoppetheir mouthes,wcfily,the firlt gifts & free eledion, without partiality !hold rellorerso£ the Gofpel in our times, had their be in the dcfigncmentof all, fpecially ofpubfirft callingsof them. Ifit befaid; that thefe like callings. Thus in the Primitiue Church, men wereall periured, for preaching againll not fo much as Deacons were admitted withthe Church of Rome, to whofe alleagcancc outiultandfufficienttriall, 1.Tim·3·IO. And they were bound by oath: I anfwer, that by here fundry abufe• areto be reprooued:as firlt verrue of their oathcs at their ordination, of all, the buying and fclling, the chopping they were bound onely to the Catholike and and changing ofciuill offices; for where the Apo!tolike Church, and not ;to the prcfent c.lling is fet to fale, there little or no triall , Church of'Rome: for the words [theCa· little or no elcaion takes place. And he that tholike and Apoltolike Church of Rome ] buics his office, muft·rather fay, his money which now tun in the tenour ottheoath, were · called him then God • wherefore, fuch as lay not fo ftrialy vfed in former rimes, but are vp mony to buy offices , had belt take heede more vrgcd now of late. Secondly I anfwer; that aLam~ pridi:u;in vit:r.Seulk bMcrca tOll'CS potdlatU cDebeGC: 6c.T.I.,c., (J)Nouel la Stin przfn.
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