The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Of these Ministries many things might be spoken, full¹ of great variety, and of deep and difficult questions, concerning their Calling, Election, Ordination, The keys of the Church committed into their hands, Their power of binding and loosing, and the whole Order ⟨p. 367⟩and Government of Gods House: But I will leave them all and hold me only to that of Preaching and Administering of the Sacraments.

Of these Ministeries many things might be spoken, full¹ of great varietie, and of deepe and difficult questions, concerning their Calling, Election, Ordination, The keyes of the Church committed into their hands, Their power of binding and loosing, and the whole Order ⟨p. 367⟩and Gouernment of Gods House: But I will leaue them all and hold me onely to that of Preaching and Administring of the Sacraments.

1. 1Specially for preaching

Preaching therefore is the work of the Ministry, and of those whom God hath lawfully called to execute that public Function in the Church; for ^sHow can they preach, except they be sent? So that the handling of the Word by any other that hath no calling for it, how well soever he handle the same, and how truly soever he expound it, is not that preaching which Christ hath ordained to bring men unto salvation by.

Preaching therefore is the worke of the Ministerie, and of those whom God hath lawfully called to execute that publike Function in the Church; for