The true nature of a Gospel church and its government

2. HE who is peculiarly called to be a Teacher, with reference unto a distinction from a Pastor, may yet at the same time be called to be an Elder also, that is to be a Teaching Elder. And where there is in any Officer a concurrence of both these, a Right unto Rule as an Elder, and power to Teach, or Preach the Gospel, there is the same Office and Office-Power, for the substance of it, as there is in the Pastor.

3. ON the foregoing supposition there yet remains a distinction between the Office of a Pastor and Teacher; which, as far as light may be taken from their Names and distinct Ascriptions unto them, consists materially in the different Gifts which those to be called unto Office have received, which the Church in their call ought to have respect unto; and formally in the peculiar exercise of those Gifts in the discharge of their Office, according unto the Assignation of their especial Work unto them, which themselves are to attend unto.

3. ON the foregoing supposition there yet remains a distinction between the Office of a Pastor and Teacher; which, as far as light may be taken from their Names and distinct Asscriptions unto them, consists materially in the different Gifts which those to be called unto Office have received, which the Church in their call ought to have respect unto; and formally in the peculiar exercise of those Gifts in the discharge of their Office, according unto the Assignation of their especial Work unto them, which themselves are to attend unto.

UPON what hath been before discoursed concerning the Office of Pastors and Teachers, it may be enquired, Whether there may be many of them in a particular Church, or whether there ought only to be one of each sort: And I say,