A30241:2394
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. In respect of the very Essentials: So that he is not a Minister, or put in office at all. These two are greatly to be discerned. Many men may go unlawfully into the Office, fail in many particulars, yet partake of the substance of the office, but others may usurp it so, that they have not the very Office it self; and this is very necessary to observe, For where the Office is null, and no Ministry, there the administration of the Sacraments is according to the received opinion void: As the Papists argue, Because we have no Ministry, we have no Church, no Sacrament. Though in these accusations the Protestants sufficiently defend themselves. But certainly, it may justly be a great shaking to private persons, that if the Ministry they live under be not a true Ministry, thus their Baptism is not a true Baptism, the Church they live in a true Church; for though a Ministry be not necessary to an Essential Church, as in times of persecution, when believers are scattered up and down, yet it is to an Organical Church, according to that definition of Cyprian, Ecclesia esset plebs adornata clero.
2. In respect of the very Essentials: So that he is not a Minister, or put in office at all. These two are greatly to be discerned. Many men may go unlawfully into the Office, fail in many particulars, yet partake of the substance of the office, but others may usurp it so, that they have not the very Office it self; and this is very necessary to observe, For where the Office is null, and no Ministry, there the administration of the Sacraments is according to the received opinion void: As the Papists argue, Because we have no Ministry, we have no Church, no Sacrament. Though in these accusations the Protestants sufficiently defend themselves. But certainly, it may justly be a great shaking to private persons, that if the Ministry they live under be not a true Ministry, thus their Baptisme is not a true Baptisme, the Church they live in a true Church; for though a Ministry be not necessary to an Essential Church, as in times of persecution, when beleevers are scattered up and down, yet it is to an Organical Church, according to that definition of Cyprian, Ecclesia esset plebs adornata clero.