A02178:2366
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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4 Fourthly, what danger it is not to do them well.
4 Fourthly, what danger it is not to doe them well.
We must first speak of the duties of Ministers. But before we enter into it, it is very necessary, that we consider whether it be requisite to have a Minister or no, and also to what1 use and end we should have him. For if it were not needful to have a Pastor, it were in vain to speak of the duty of a Minister. Whereas the holy Ghost saith. Obey them that have the oversight over you &c. It is meant of the Pastors of the Church, of the dispensers of the holy word of God. For there were placed over the Church of God, both Pastors, Doctors2 and Elders, which were certain grave wise men appointed to look to the manners of the children of God, and not to be alders and helpers of the Ministers of God in the furtherance of his office: and whereas they saw any disorder among the children of God, they were to admonish them of it; which if it would not serve, together with the whole congregation would use admonitions: but if they would not be obedient thereunto, such was the authority of the Church, that they might excommunicate them, & so rend them off from the Saints fellowship, and deliver them to the devil, that thereby they might be driven to true repentance for their sins, and have their souls saved. To these overseers doth the Apostle will them to be obedient, and doth not mean generally all kind of superiors and civil Magistrates, as in divers other places of the Scripture. In Rom. 13. 1. 2. 3. ⟨p. 340⟩and Titus 3. 1. also 1. Pet. 2. 13