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…

The arguments I lean to, are these. 1. God hath appointed the Minister of the word, lawfully called and ordained, and no other to be the stewards and dispensers of the mysteries of Christ, 1 Cor: 4. 1. Let a man so account of us, as of the Ministers of Christ, and Stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required of Stewards, that a man be found faithful. Which the Apostle doeth not only apply to himself and Apollo, vers: 6. (where by the way it may be remembered that Apollo was neither an Apostle, nor Evangelist, but a powerful Minister of the Gospel) and to Sosthenes (as appeareth by comparing the Text new cited with 1 Cor: 1. 1.) but he also applieth the same to every lawful Bishop, or ordinary Minister, Tit. 1. 7. for a Bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, and this steward is ordained, vers: 5. So Luke 12. 42. Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season. 'Tis not Christs will that any one of the household, who is faithful, wise, and discreet, may take upon him the stewards office, to dispense meat to the rest. But there is a steward constituted and appointed for that purpose. There are stewards appointed in the Church, which is the house of the living God, and those to continue till the coming of Christ, ibid: vers: 43. 46. and there is nothing which more properly belongeth to the Ecclesiastical stewards, then the dispensation of the Sacraments.

The arguments I lean to, are these. 1. God hath appointed the Minister of the word, lawfully called and ordained, and no other to bee the stewards and dispensers of the mysteries of Christ, 1 Cor: 4. 1. Let a man so account of us, as of the Ministers of Christ, and Stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required of Stewards, that a man be found faithfull. Which the Apostle doeth not onely apply to himselfe and Apollo, vers: 6. (where by the way it may be remembred that Apollo was neither an Apostle, nor Evangelist, but a powerfull Minister of the Gospell) and to Sosthenes (as appeareth by comparing the Text new cited with 1 Cor: 1. 1.) but he also applyeth the same to every lawfull Bishop, or ordinary Minister, Tit. 1. 7. for a Bishop must be blamelesse as the steward of God, and this steward is ordained, vers: 5. So