An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Lastly, There are those, who have neither Call from God, or men; that are ¹Preachers neither by the will of God, or of men, but their own self-will. These are intruders, that approve themselves, that judge themselves fit without the advice of others, These run and are not sent.

1. 14. Others have their call neither from God nor men.

In the next place, Let us consider how comprehensive this is, when Paul saith, An Apostle by the will of God, and it is not useless: for every Minister ought to say so, I am a Minister of the Gospel by the will of God; and the people ought to say, Such an one is our Pastor by the will of God. It is God that had a special hand that he should be our Pastor, and we his flock. And

In the next place, Let us consider how comprehensive this is, when Paul saith, An Apostle by the will of God, and it is not useless: for every Minister ought to say so, I am a Minister of the Gospel by the will of God; and the people ought to say, Such an one is our Pastour by the will of God. It is God that had a special hand that he should be our Pastor, and we his flock. And

1. It is more than a mere bare will of permission. Paul did not mean Gods mere permitting and suffering of him to be so, for thus all the false Apostles, all ¹the false and corrupt Teachers that are, they are by the will of God. It was by Gods will that any unworthy and corrupt Teachers have ever crept into the Church of God,