The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

2. THERE is a plain distinction between the Offices of a Pastor and a Teacher, Ephes. 4.11. Some Pastors and Teachers. This is one of the instances wherein Men try their Wits, in putting in exceptions unto plain Scripture Testimonies, as some or other do in all other cases; which if it may be allowed, we shall have nothing left us certain in the whole Book of God. The Apostle enumerates distinctly all the Teaching Officers of the Church, both extraordinary and ordinary. It is granted, that there is a difference between Apostles, Prophets and Evangelists, but there is none, say some, between Pastors and Teachers; which are also named distinctly. Why so? Because there is an interposition of the Article [Greek or Hebrew] between ⟨p. 122⟩those of the former sort, and not between Pastors and Teachers; a very weak consideration to control the evidence of the design of the Apostle in the Words. We are not to prescribe unto him how he shall express himself. But this I know, that the discretive and copulative conjunction [Greek or Hebrew], and, between Pastors and Teachers, doth no less distinguish them the one from the other, than the [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] before made use of. And this I shall confirm from the words themselves.

2. THERE is a plain distinction between the Offices of a Pastor and a Teacher, Ephes. 4.11. Some Pastors and Teachers. This is one of the instances wherein Men try their Wits, in putting in exceptions unto plain Scripture Testimonies, as some or other do in all other cases; which if it may be allowed, we shall have nothing left us certain in the whole Book of God. The Apostle enumerates distinctly all the Teaching Officers of the Church, both extraordinary and ordinary. It is granted, that there is a difference between Apostles, Prophets and Evangelists, but there is none, say some, between Pastors and Teachers; which are also named distinctly. Why so? Because there is an interposition of the Article 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 between ⟨p. 122⟩those of the former sort, and not between Pastors and Teachers; a very weak consideration to controul the evidence of the design of the Apostle in the Words. We are not to prescribe unto him how he shall express himself. But this I know, that the discretive and copulative conjunction , and, between Pastors and Teachers, doth no less distinguish them the one from the other, than the and before made use of. And this I shall confirm from the words themselves.