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Answ. All Teachers are to be tried Three ways. By Their Call. Their Doctrine. Their Fruits, or Liv••.

Answ. All Teachers are to be tryed Three waies. By Their Call. Their Doctrine. Their Fruits, or Liv••.

First: As for a mans Call to Preach: Whoever is called to preach, is either called ad opus, to a particular Work: or he is called ad Munus, to an Office. If he be called to a Work only, then his preaching is called Prophecy: And so some are called to Preach; for else how should we know whether men be sit for Office, if they may not preach before they be in Office? Now if men be so called to preach, then they must, 1. Preach according to the proportion, and Analogy of Faith, Rom. 12.6. 2. If they be so called to preach, they must have a gift to profit others publicly; for all Prophecy is for Exhortation, Edification, and Comfort, 1 Cor. 14.3. 3. And if they be so called to preach, they must submit what they speak to the Judgment of others: The Officer speaks with Authority; but another speaks with Submission, and let the rest judg, 1 Cor. 14.29. So that, if any man will take upon him to preach and teach as a gifted man, if he have not a Gift to profit others in public; a Gift be •ond a Family Gift; and if he do not speak according to the proportion of Faith, and do not submit what he speaketh to the Judgment of others, he is a False Prophet, and no true Teacher in this kind.

First: As for a mans Call to Preach: Whoever is called to preach, is either called ad opus, to a particular Work: or he is called ad Munus, to an Office. If he be called to a Work only, then his preaching is called Prophesie: And so some are called to Preach; for else how should we know whether men be sit for Office, if they may not preach before they be in Office? Now if men be so called to preach, then they must, 1. Preach according to the proportion, and Analogy of Faith,