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…

Except. 3. That [Greek or Hebrew] before cited, in the second part of it pag: 3. 4. sayeth that the sending which the Apostles means of, is not a Ministerial or ecclesiastical sending, for then none could be an instrument to convert another but a Minister or preacher sent. Neither could a man be sure whether he have faith or no, till he be sure his faith was wrought in him by a Minister lawfully called. It remains therefore (saith he) that the Apostle speaks of a providential sending, by giving men gifts, and working with them in their use and exercise. Answ. 1: The giving of gifts and pouring out the spirit of a calling, is plainly distinguished from the mission or sending; yea, in Christ himself who had received the spirit, not by measure, but above measure, yet his having the Spirit of the Lord upon him, was not his Mission, but is plainly distinguished from his Mission and Ordination to his office which ⟨p. 40⟩he had from God, Luke 4. 18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor, he hath sent me, &c. The [Greek or Hebrew] or ability of gifts to the office is one thing: the [Greek or Hebrew] or authority to it, is another thing. 2. His first reason to prove that the Apostle speaks not of a Ministerial sending, because thence it would follow that none could convert another but a Minister, he groundeth thus: for 'its said, none can believe but by hearing a preacher sent. Now this falls as heavy upon his own Interpretation, for still this will follow, that no man can be converted but a Preacher sent providentially with gifts and assistance, when he shall loose the knot for himself, he shall loose it for us too. 3. So likewise for his other reason, if the Apostles scope be (as he glosseth) to take away doubting from men, he doeth by his Interpretation split upon the same rock which he thinks we have run upon, for a man must still doubt whether he hath faith or no, and so whether he shall be saved or no, till he be sure his faith was wrought in him by a Preacher sent providentially with working gifts: now the description which he makes of the providential sending, involveth a man in greater doubting then before, for either it agreeth to false and heretical Teachers the Ministers of Satan, or not.

Except. 3. That 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 before cited, in the second part of it pag: 3. 4. sayeth that the sending which the Apostles means of, is not a Ministeriall or ecclesiasticall sending, for then none could be an instrument to convert another but a Minister or preacher sent. Neither could a man be sure whether he have faith or no, till he be sure his faith was wrought in him by a Minister lawfully called. It remaines therefore (saith he) that the Apostle speaks of a providentiall sending, by giving men gifts, and working with them in their use and exercise. Answ. 1: The giving of gifts and powring out the spirit of a calling, is plainly distinguished from the mission or sending; yea, in Christ himself who had receaved the spirit, not by measure, but above measure, yet his having the Spirit of the Lord upon him, was not his Mission, but is plainly distinguished from his Mission and Ordination to his office which