The Presbyterians deny not but Private men may Preach in some cases. None that fear God do desire any to bury their Talent, nor would hinder men from doing the Work of God. But they would have bona been, God's Work done in God's Order. On these Conditions we allow Private men to Preach. 1. If they do it but ex Charitate, and pretend not to the Ministerial Office. 2. And if they do it occasionally, and not as men separated to that work as their Calling (for then they become Ministers indeed while they disclaim it in Name. 3. If they do it not needlessly, to a proud ostentation of their parts; but only when Abler Men, or Ministers are not to be had, or else on some urgent weighty cause. 4. If they make not themselves the Judges of their own fitness, but expect the Approbation of the judicious, faithful, concordant Ministers that know them. 5. If they undertake no more than they can perform, and suppose not themselves fitter than they are, and so run not beyond their Knowledge, nor dishonour not the Work of God. 6. If they thrust not themselves into any Church to Preach without a Call, nor ordinarily without the Pastors consent. 7. If they do it not unseasonably when by offending they are likely to do more hurt than good. 8. If in the manner, season and continuance they submit to the Guidance of the Pastors of the Church (if it be more than ordinary Teaching, and not such as every able. Master of a Family may there do). With these Cautions we grant that Private men may Preach Many Episcopal Divines grant it: And the Presbyterians ordinarily permit it in their Expectants that are trained up for the Ministry. A Maid begun the Conversion of the Iberians by Conference; And interlocutory Preaching is truly Preaching. Edesius and Frumentius converted the Indians. Alexander Bishop of Jerusalem, and Theoctistus of Caesarea, maintained Origene's Teaching while he was a Private man: ⟨p. 39⟩and that in the Church before the Bishops. And when Demetrius of Alexandria reprehended them, affirming it to be an unknown case, that a Layman should preach in the presence of a Bishop, they gainsay him, and produce the Examples of Neon a Bishop that required Evelpius to teach, and of Celsus that set Paulinus to preach at Iconium, and of A••icus that set Theodorus to teach at Synnadorum. And, saith Dr.
The Presbyterians deny not but Private men may Preach in some cases. None that fear God do desire any to bury their Talent, nor would hinder men from doing the Work of God. But they would have bona bene, God's Work done in God's Order. On these Conditions we allow Private men to Preach. 1. If they do it but ex Charitate, and pretend not to the Ministerial Office. 2. And if they do it occasionally, and not as men separated to that work as their Calling (for then they become Ministers indeed while they disclaim it in Name. 3. If they do it not needlesly, to a proud ostentation of their parts; but only when Abler Men, or Ministers are not to be had, or else on some urgent weighty cause. 4. If they make not themselves the Judges of their own fitness, but expect the Approbation of the judicious, faithful, concordant Ministers that know them. 5. If they undertake no more than they can perform, and suppose not themselves fitter than they are, and so run not beyond their Knowledge, nor dishonour not the Work of God. 6. If they thrust not themselves into any Church to Preach without a Call, nor ordinarily without the Pastors consent. 7. If they do it not unseasonably when by offending they are likely to do more hurt than good. 8. If in the manner, season and continuance they submit to the Guidance of the Pastors of the Church (if it be more than ordinary Teaching, and not such as every able. Master of a Family may there do). With these Cautions we grant that Private men may Preach Many Episcopal Divines grant it: And the Presbyterians ordinarily permit it in their Expectants that are trained up for the Ministery. A Maid begun the Conversion of the Iberians by Conference; And interlocutory Preaching is truly Preaching. Edesius and Frumentius converted the Indians. Alexander Bishop of Ierusalem, and Theoctistus of Caesaria, maintained Origene's Teaching while he was a Private man: ⟨p. 39⟩and that in the Church before the Bishops. And when Demetrius of Alexandria reprehended them, affirming it to be an unknown case, that a Layman should preach in the presence of a Bishop, they gainsay him, and produce the Examples of Neon a Bishop that required Evelpius to teach, and of Celsus that set Paulinus to preach at Iconium, and of A••icus that set Theodorus to teach at Synnadorum. And, saith Dr.
