Argument 3. Either these Pastors of the Reformed Churches, are the true Ministers of Christ, or else there are none such visible in the world: But there are such visibly and certainly in the world, as was proved: Else there is no Church, no Ordinances, no Christianity, no Christ: For he can be no King without Subjects and Laws: no Master without a School and Scholars: no Physician without Patients: no Husband without his Spouse: no Head without a Body: no Intercessor without a Church to intercede for. And to Believe the holy Catholic Church, and the Communion of Saints, is part of our Belief and ⟨p. 12⟩therefore the Christian faith is gone if these be gone. And that either we, or None are Christs true Ministers, I prove thus: 1. We challenge the adversary to name us the true Church and Ministry; if these be none of them, where be they, and who are they? speak out, or give up your wicked cause. If you know not who they be or where, then how know you that there are any such? True Ministers are like a Light that shineth to all the house, even the lights of the world, and like a City on a hill that cannot be hid, Matth. 5.14, 15, 16. 2. But let us try the particulars: 1. The Seekers have no Church or Ministry. 2. The Quakers have no Ordination, that we know of, and are every way so unworthy, and had no being in the world till a few years ago, that he is either no Christian, or of a crazed brain, that thinks Christ hath no Church or Ministry but them. 3. The Anabaptists, Socinians, Schwenkfeldians, Familists, Paracelsians, Weigelians, and such like, have no more to show for their Ministry and Churches then we, but their errors; and are so few and so lately sprung up, that of them also I may say, that he that takes them for the only Church, or Ministers, is either out of the faith, or much out of his wits. 4. The Eastern and Southern Churches have no more to show for their Ministry and Churches then we: but are incomparably more ignorant., and erroneous: few of them doing more then Read their Liturgies and Homilies, and so administer the Sacraments. 5. All the controversy therefore lieth between us and the Papists. Either they are true Ministers and a Church, or not. If not, then its left to us. If they are, then we are so much more. For we have much more unquestionable evidence of our Title. 1.
Argument 3. Either these Pastors of the Reformed Churches, are the true Ministers of Christ, or else there are none such visible in the world: But there are such visibly and certainly in the world, as was proved: Else there is no Church, no Ordinances, no Christianity, no Christ: For he can be no King without Subjects and Laws: no Master without a School and Scholars: no Physitian without Patients: no Husband without his Spouse: no Head without a Body: no Intercessor without a Church to intercede for. And to Believe the holy Catholick Church, and the Communion of Saints, is part of our Belief and ⟨p. 12⟩therefore the Christian faith is gone if these be gone. And that either we, or None are Christs true Ministers, I prove thus: 1. We challenge the adversary to name us the true Church and Ministry; if these be none of them, where be they, and who are they? speak out, or give up your wicked cause. If you know not who they be or where, then how know you that there are any such? True Ministers are like a Light that shineth to all the house, even the lights of the world, and like a City on a hill that cannot be hid, Matth. 5.14, 15, 16. 2. But let us try the particulars: 1. The Seekers have no Church or Ministry. 2. The Quakers have no Ordination, that we know of, and are every way so unworthy, and had no being in the world till a few years ago, that he is either no Christian, or of a crazed brain, that thinks Christ hath no Church or Ministry but them. 3. The Anabaptists, Socinians, Swenkfeldians, Familists, Paracelsians, Weigelians, and such like, have no more to shew for their Ministry and Churches then we, but their errors; and are so few and so lately sprung up, that of them also I may say, that he that takes them for the only Church, or Ministers, is either out of the faith, or much out of his wits. 4. The Eastern and Southern Churches have no more to shew for their Ministry and Churches then we: but are incomparably more ignorant., and erroneous: few of them doing more then Read their Liturgies and Homilies, and so administer the Sacraments. 5. All the controversie therefore lyeth between us and the Papists. Either they are true Ministers and a Church, or not. If not, then its left to us. If they are, then we are so much more. For we have much more unquestionable evidence of our Title. 1.
