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…

7. They are [Greek or Hebrew], Preachers, Heralds, 1 Tim: 2. 7. and 2 Tim: 1. 11. Will a Herald go and proclaim the Kings Edicts, or the ordinances of Parliament, if he be not thereunto appointed? ⟨p. 52⟩In both these Texts last cited, the Apostle speaking of the Gospel, sayeth, Whereunto I am ordained a Preacher, and an Apostle, and a Teacher of the Gentiles. Mark, he is ordained not an Apostle, but a Preacher, as he could not be an Apostle without Ordination, so he could not be so much as [Greek or Hebrew] a Preacher without Ordination. Now ordinary Pastors are [Greek or Hebrew] as well as the Apostles which hath been before showed.

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An eight argument I collect from 2 Tim: 2. 2. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Which is a most considerable place against the Socinians, Anabaptists, &c. For it Teacheth us these five particulars. 1: That the Apostles would not have a teaching or preaching Ministry to end with that time, but was careful to have Pastors or Teachers provided for the succeeding generation also. 2. Thes: Teachers of others who were to labour in the word and doctrine, were to teach no new doctrine, but the very same things which they received from Timothy, and Timothy from Paul, and which Paul received from the LORD. It was in sense no new doctrine, when it is taught by Paul, much less when taught by Timothy, and least of all when taught by these who received it from Timothy. So that the Socinian distinction of the necessity of a special calling to the Ministry when the doctrine is new, not so when the doctrine is not new, cannot here help them. 3. Thes: Teachers are distinguished from those who are taught: Every man may not be a Teacher. It is a peculiar and particular calling, and it is no part of the general calling of Christians: Therefore both here, and Gal: 6. 6. there is such a distinction n the Church, some are Teachers, some are taught in the Word. 4. Fitness and abilities; yea, both grace and gifts together, cannot warrant a mn to assume to himself the function of Teaching or Preaching to