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…

Object: 2. The Church doeth [Greek or Hebrew], by their voices in Election, make, create, constitute or ordain Elders, Acts 14. 23. therefore Elders need no other Ordination, but are sufficiently ordained or made by the Church, if elected, and receive their power from the people See this Objection prosecuted in the [Greek or Hebrew] pag: 9. 10. 11. And in the Queries touching Ordination, pag: 33. tom: 37. Answ: 1. There is no cogent reason brought by these men, why [Greek or Hebrew], if rendered thus as they would have it, when they had by voices ordained, must be therefore understood of Ordination by the people, and not by Paul: and Barnabas, for as I have before noted out of Calvin: Instit. lib: 4. cap: 3. §. 15. The sense may be this, Paul and Barnabas did make and ordain Elders according to the voices of the Churches themselves, that is, they ordained such as the Church desired. If so, they are double losers by this their Objection. 2. If [Greek or Hebrew] be meant of the Churches Act, then it is not ordaining, but choosing by voices. The [Greek or Hebrew] ought not to hinder the [Greek or Hebrew]. Election with the Churches consent, and Ordination are both of them necessary, not inconsistent. In Athens it self, although the people did [Greek or Hebrew] choose by voices their Magistrates or Rulers, yet the persons so elected were not ordained, and solemnly set apart, appointed and authorized by the people, but by the Judges called [Greek or Hebrew] of whom Demosthenes orat. advers: Timour: tells us that they did [Greek or Hebrew], for the [Greek or Hebrew], took an oath to be faithful in their constituting or ordaining of Mag strates. 3. In Scripture we find Election and Ordination frequently distinguished, not only as distinct acts, but oft times in distinct hands, Deut. 1. 13. Moses said unto all Israel, Take ye wise men and understanding, and known among your Tribes, and I will make them Rulers over you. The people choose them who shall be Rulers, but Moses makes ⟨p. 58⟩them Rulers, Acts 6. 3. Wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. The people choose, the Apostles appoint the Deacons.