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. 4. That Erastian before cited, the Composer of ⟨p. 42⟩the Grallae, expoundeth (as I remember) this text of an extraordinary mission or calling from God, not an ordinary mission from men: denying the Pastors of Churches and Ministers of the Gospel in our days to be sent of God and that although the Apostles might show their Mission and Commission from Christ, yet ordinary Ministers cannot do it: Therefore this sending belongeth not to the ordinary Ministers. Answ. 1 This text doth certainly hold forth the necessity of an ordinary and mediate Mission, when the extraordinary and immediate Mission is ceased, which I prove this: If a preaching Ministry be a perpetual and standing ordinance, then Mission is a perpetual and standing ordinance▪ But a preaching Ministry is a perpetual and standing ordinance, therefore so is Mission. The preposition is manifest, both from the knitting together of the parts of this Text, in which the Apostle screweth up the necessity of Mission as high as the necessity of preaching: As likewise from Matth. 28. 19. 20. Which doeth not only prove a perpetual Ministry in the Church alway even unto the end of the world, but also that this perpetual Ministry is authorized by Mission or Commission from Christ. For reference to this perpetual Ministry, Christ saith, Go, teach and baptize, and lo I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world: So that who ever doeth lawfully exercise the office of teaching and baptising, is certainly sent: he cannot be immediately and extraordinarily in the reformed Churches, therefore it must be in a mediate and ordinary way. The Assumption is before proved.

Except. 4. That Erastian before cited, the Composer of ⟨p. 42⟩the Grallae, expoundeth (as I remember) this text of an extraordinary mission or calling from God, not an ordinary mission from men: denying the Pastors of Churches and Ministers of the Gospel in our dayes to be sent of God and that although the Apostles might shew their Mission and Commission from Christ, yet ordinary Ministers cannot do it: Therefore this sending belongeth not to the ordinary Ministers. Answ. 1 This text doth certainly hold forth the necessity of an ordinary and mediat Mission, when the extraordinary and immediat Mission is ceased, which I prove this: If a preaching Ministery be a perpetuall and standing ordinance, then Mission is a perpetuall and standing ordinance But a preaching Ministery is a perpetuall and standing ordinance, therefore so is Mission. The preposition is manifest, both from the kniting together of the parts of this Text, in which the Apostle screweth up the necessity of Mission as high as the necessity of preaching: As likewise from