Five disputations of church-government and worship

Sect. 24. The Scriptures name not the man that shall be a Pastor, yet when it hath described him it commandeth the Described person duly to seek admittance, and commandeth the People, ordainers and Magistrates to [Choose and Appoint these men to the Ministerial work.] Now these Precepts contain in each of them two distinct determinations of Christ. The first is [that such men be Ministers.] The second is [that they offer themselves to the office, and that they be Accepted and Ordained.] For the first is implied in the latter. If the Sovereign Power make a Law, that there shall be Physicians licensed by a College of Physicians to Practice in this Common-wealth] and describe the persons that shall be licensed; This plainly first concludeth that such persons shall be Physicians, and but secondarily de ordine that thus they shall be licensed: so that if the College should License a company of utterly insufficient men, and murderers that seek mens death, or should refuse to License the persons qualified according to Law, they may themselves be punished, and the qualified persons may act as Authorized by that Law, which •indeth quoad materiam, and is by the College (and not not by them) frustrate quoad ordi•em. So is it in this case in hand.

Sect. 24. The Scriptures name not the man that shall be a Pastor, yet when it hath described him it commandeth the Described person duely to seek admittance, and commandeth the People, ordainers and Magistrates to [Choose and Appoint these men to the Ministerial work.] Now these Precepts contain in each of them two distinct determinations of Christ. The first is [that such men be Ministers.] The second is [that they offer themselves to the office, and that they be Accepted and Ordained.] For the first is implyed in the latter. If the Soveraign Power make a Law, that there shall be Physicians licensed by a Colledge of Physitians to Practice in this Common-wealth] and describe the persons that shall be licensed; This plainly first concludeth that such persons shall be Physitians, and but secondarily de ordine that thus they shall be licensed: so that if the Colledge should License a company of utterly insufficient men, and murderers that seek mens death, or should refuse to License the persons qualified according to Law, they may themselves be punished, and the qualified persons may act as Authorized by that Law, which •indeth quoad materiam, and is by the Colledge (and not not by them) frustrate quoad ordi•em. So is it in this case in hand.