A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Although the Apostle give instance only in the high Priesthood, yet by analogy of reason, the Axiom will hold in reference to the Ministry of the new Testament, upon which God hath put so much honour, that it is called a worthy work, 1 Tim: 3. 1. and worthy of double honour. 1 Tim: 5. 17. and to be esteemed very highly, 1 Thess: 5. 17. The Ministers of the Gospel are the Ambassadors of Christ, 2 Cor: 5. 20. and the Angels of the Churches, the stars in Christs right hand, Revel: 1. 20. & 2, 1. &c. yea, the glory of Christ, 2 Cor: 8. 23. And if (comparing state with state) the least in the kingdom of God, be greater then John Baptist, and John Baptist greater then any either Priest or Prophet in the old Testament. Then 'its not only as great, but a greater usurpation, for a man to take this honour of the Evangelical Ministry to himself, then it had been of old, for a man to take that honour of the legal high Priest-hood to himself.

Although the Apostle give instance only in the high Priesthood, yet by analogie of reason, the Axiome will hold in reference to the Ministery of the new Testament, upon which God hath put so much honour, that it is called a worthie work, 1 Tim: 3. 1. and worthie of double honour. 1 Tim: 5. 17. and to be esteemed very highly, 1 Thess: 5. 17. The Ministers of the Gospell are the Embassadours of Christ, 2 Cor: 5. 20. and the Angels of the Churches, the starres in Christs right hand, Revel: 1. 20. & 2, 1. &c. yea, the glory of Christ, 2 Cor: 8. 23. And if (comparing state with state) the least in the kingdome of God, be greater then Iohn Baptist, and Iohn Baptist greater then any either Priest or Prophet in the old Testament. Then 'its not onely as great, but a greater usurpation, for a man to take this honour of the Evangelicall Ministery to himself, then it had been of old, for a man to take that honour of the legall high Priest-hood to himself.

The fifth argument I draw from Heb: 6. 1. 2. Where we have an enumeration of the general Catechetical heads, which was necessarily required in Catechumens, before they were baptized and received as Church Members, and where there was yet no Church planted, these heads were taught, learned, and professed, before there could be a visible political Ministerial Church erected, that the Apostles speaks to the Hebrews as visible Ministerial Churches is manifest, both from the particulars here enumerat, and frm Chap. 5. 12. 13. & 13. 7. 17. Now he exhorteth them to go on unto perfection, and not to be ever about the laying of foundations, or about the learning of these Catechetical principles, the knowledge and profession, whereof did first give them an entrance, state, and standing in the visible Church of Christ, viz.