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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 treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. III.
Whether Ordination be essential to the calling of a Minister.
Whether Ordination be essentiall to the calling of a Minister.
This question hath been thus stated in a little book entitled [Greek or Hebrew] wherein the judgement of the reformed Churches and Protestant Divines is showed; concerning Ordination, &c. The negative part is there mentioned, also in the Queries touching the ordination of Ministers, written in opposition to the learned and much approved book entitled. Jus divinum regiminis Ecclesiastici, the same controversy is touched upon frequently with more railing then reason ⟨p. 33⟩by that furious Erastian who composed the Gralloe against Apollonius and cries out that the world is abused with an empty notion of a pretended sacred Ministerial calling, which may be exercised by none but such as are thereunto called solemnly set a part, and ordained. This is the same thing which hath been formerly debated by Protestant divines against the Anabaptists and Socinians. See P. Martyr. loc: come: class: 4. cap. 1. Aretius probl: theol: loc: 63. The professors of Leiden, Synops: purr: theol: disp: 42. Walrus in loc: come: tom: 1. pag: 472. 473. Festus Hommius Specim, controv: Belgic. artic: 31. of the Lutherans, Gerhard in loc: come: tom: 6. cap: 3. lib: 1. Balduin de institutione ministrorum, cap: 8. & lib: 4. de cas: consc: cap: 6. Brochmand synt: theol: artic. de minister, Eccles. cap: 2. quaest: 3. Stegmannus in sphotinianismo disp: 53. The Socinian tenet against the necessity of Ordination, see in Socin: tract: de Eccles: Nicol: and tract: de Eccles. & mission ministi. Yet the Socinians acknowledge it is fit for order, and decency to retain Ordination in the Church. Peradventure many of the Sectaries of this time will hardly acknowledge this much: I shall first of all premise some distinctions and considerations for the better opening of the true state and nature of this controversy. Next I shall bring the positive arguments, and lastly, Answer the contrary objections.