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…

A third argument from Scripture shall be this. If the extraordinary ⟨p. 16⟩office bearers in these Primitive times were not chosen, nor put into their functions without the Churches consent, far less ought there now to be any intrusion of ordinary Ministers without the consent of the Church; Judas and Silas were chosen with consent of the whole Church unto an extraordinary embassage, Act. 15. 22. So were Pauls company chosen by the Church, 2 Cor. 8. 19. The Commissioners of the Church of Corinth, were approved by the Church, 1 Cor. 16. 3. Yea Mathias, though an Apostle [Greek or Hebrew], that is, was together chosen by suffrage, namely of the 120 Disciples, Simul suffragiis electus est, as Arias Montanus, rightly turneth the word▪ Act. 1. 23. 26. Bell. de Cler. cap. 7. acknowledgeth, [Greek or Hebrew] est dare suffragium, & [Greek or Hebrew] est ipsum suffragium, Paul and Barnabas were extraordinarily, and immediately called of God, yet when they were to be sent to the Gentiles, God would have the consent and approbation of the Church declared, Act. 13. 3. I conclude this argument from Scripture, with the Magdeburgians cent. 1. Lib. 2. Cap. 6. Neque Apostolos, neque alios ecclesiae ministros sibi solis, sumpsisse protestatem eligendi & ordinandi Presbyteros & Diaconos, sed ecclesiae totius suffragia & consensum adhibuisse; tum ex, 1 Cor. 3 21. 22. Patet, tum exemplis probatur, Act. 1. 23. Act. 6. 6. Act. 14. 23.

A third argument from Scripture shall be this. If the extraordinary