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…

23. beside the Election by voices, three is a distinct Ordination expressed under the adjuncts thereof, prayer, and fasting.

23. beside the Election by voyces, th re is a distinct Ordination expressed under the adjuncts thereof, prayer, and fasting.

Object: 3. The Apostle saith, 1 Cor: 14. 26. When ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm, hath a Doctrine, hath a Tongue, hath a Revelation, hath an Interpretation, vers 13. ye may all prophesy one by one. Therefore all that preach or proph•sie, need not to be ordained Answ: What those Prophets were, and what is meant by prophesying there, all are not of one opinion. I hold that these Prophets were in mediately and extraordinarily inspired, and I reckon them among these other administrations, which w•re not ordinary, or ever to continue in the Church, Apostles, Evangelists, Workers of miracles. But of this I am to speak distinctly, and by it self afterwards. Mean while, th•y that make the Objection, must prove two things, else they conclude nothing against the necessity of Ordination. 1. That these Prophets were not sent and ordained, but that their gifts and parts, gave them a sufficient calling to interpret in the Church. 2. That although they had no Ministerial sending, or vocation, yet they were not extraordinary Prophets, but that such Prophets are to continue ordinarily in the Church, I believe it will trouble them to prove either.

Object: 3. The Apostle saith, 1 Cor: 14. 26. When yee come together every one of you hath a Psalme, hath a Doctrine, hath a Tongue, hath a Revelation, hath an Interpretation, vers 13. yee may all prophesie one by one. Therefore all that preach or proph•sie, need not to be ordain•d Answ: What those Prophets were, and what is meant by prophesying there, all are not of one opinion. I hold that these Prophets were in mediatly and extraordinarly inspyred, and I reckon them among these other administrations, which wre not ordinary, or ever to continue in the Church, Apostles, Evangelists, Workers of miracles. But of this I am to speak distinctly, and by it selfe afterwards. Mean while, thy that make the Objection, must prove two things, else they conclude nothing against the necessitie of Ordination. 1. That these Prophets were not sent and ordained, but that their gifts and parts, gave them a sufficient calling to interpret in the Church. 2. That although they had no Ministeriall sending, or vocation, yet they were not extraordinary Prophets, but that such Prophets are to continue ordinarly in the Church, I beleeve it will trouble them to prove either.