A second admonition to the parliament

A right ministry *^g of the word and sacraments / and a right ^h* government of the church / which two things are by our saviour commended to his church / before there were any churches gathered. And in the Apostles time / when they had gathered several churches or congregations / they not only teach what should be / but they establish orders accordingly. In the ministry therefore / after rehearsal made of those rare and extraordinary functions of Apostles / Prophets / and Evangelists / there is declared in the last place those ordinary functions of *ⁱ shepherds and teachers / which endure in every well ordered §30church / till we all meet together into the unity of faith and knowledge of the son of God. There are then in the ministry only two sorts of ministers / namely pastors & teachers / which do not differ in dignity / but in distinction of office / and exercise of their gifts / and yet in many things their office is so like / that they are confounded in the name of Elders / as also the governors are with the ministers in the same name confounded. But these two offices differ in ⟨p. 16⟩this / y• the pastor or pastors / are they y• have y• oversight & charge of the whole parish / to instruct to admonish / to exhort / & to correct by doctrine all and every one in the assemblies or in the private houses of the same parish / and to minister the sacraments in the same parish. The teacher (save that in the consistory of the same parish / and in all conferences of ministers / he is to be joined with the ministers) shall in such places as provision is §10made for him / & being lawfully called as afore / only intend lectors / and expositions of the scriptures / to the end that there may be set forth / and kept a soundness of doctrine / a right & natural sense of the scriptures / and plain and manifest proves of the articles of the Christian religion / so that he ought to be an exquisite and mighty man in the scriptures. The use of such an one