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…

5. Christ gives a commission to the Apostles, to Teach, and Baptize, and extends the same commission to all Teaching Ministers, to the end of the world, Mat: 28. 19. 20. from which place 'tis plain; 1. That Jesus Christ would have the distinction of Teachers and Taught: Baptizers and Baptized to have place in the Church alway, even unto the end. 2. That the commission to Teach and Baptize, was not given to all who believe in Jesus Christ, but to some only. 3. That these some who received this commission, are not only the Apostles, but ordinary Ministers, as is manifested by the explaining of the commission, and promise to the end of the world.

5. Christ gives a commission to the Apostles, to Teach, and Baptize, and extends the same commission to all Teaching Ministers, to the end of the world, Mat: 28. 19. 20. from which place 'tis plaine; 1. That Jesus Christ would have the distinction of Teachers and Taught: Baptizers and Baptized to have place in the Church alway, even unto the end. 2. That the commission to Teach and Baptize, was not given to all who beleeve in Jesus Christ, but to some onely. 3. That these some who receaved this commission, are not only the Apostles, but ordinary Ministers, as is manifested by the explaining of the commission, and promise to the end of the world.

6. Christ hath distinguished between Magistracy and Ministry, between civil and sacred vocations, Mat: 22. 21. Mat: 16. 19. &c. 18. 18, &c: 28. 19. Joh: 20. 23. Rom: 13. 1. 7. 1 Tim: 2. 2. 1 Pet: 2. 13, 14. compared with Rom: 12. 6, 7, 8. 1 Cor: 12. 28. Eph: 4. 11. 1 Thes: 5. 12. Heb: 13. 7, 17. So that as Ministers may not assume civil dignities and administrations, nor exercise secular power, Luke 12. 14. &c. 22. 25. 26. Joh: 18. 36. 2 Cor: 10. 4. 2 Tim: 2. 4. It is no less contrary to the ordinance of Christ, that Magistrates (or any other civil persons) stretch themselves beyond their line, and ⟨p. 90⟩get (with Pompey) into the holy of holies, or with Uzziah to the burning of incense, in both which examples, such intrusion was exemplarily punished. As it may be said to a secularized Minister, who made thee a Judge, or a civil Magistrate? so it may be said, to a Ministerialized civil person, who made thee a dispenser of the Word and Sacraments?