The humble answer of the Divines attending the Honourable Commissioners of Parliament, at the…The humble answer of the Divines attending the Honorable Commissioners of Parliament, at the…

2. To that which Your Majesty secondly saith, That we cannot make it appear by any Text of Scripture that the Office of Evangelist is such as we have described, his work seeming, 2 Tim. 2. 4, 5. to be nothing else but diligence in preaching the word, notwithstanding all impediments and oppositions, We humbly Answer, That exact definitions of these or other Church Officers are hard to be found in any Text of Scripture, ⟨p. 16⟩[…] ⟨p. 17⟩[…] ⟨p. 18⟩but by comparing one place of Scripture with another, it may be proved aswell that they were, as what the Apostles and Presbyters were, the description by us given being a Character made up by collation of Scriptures, from which Mr. Hooker doth not much vary, saying that Evangelists were Presbyters of Principal sufficiency whom ¹the Apostles sent abroad & used as Agents in Ecclesiastical Affairs, wheresoever they saw need. And that Pastors & Teachers, were settled in some certain charge and thereby differed from Evangelists, whose work that it should be nothing but diligence in preaching, &c, which is common to Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers, and so not distinctive of this particular Office, argueth to us, that as the Apostles Office was divided into Episcopal and Apostolical, so this also is to be divided in Episcopal and Evangelistical, Ordination and Censures belonging to Timothy as a Bishop, and diligence in Preaching only being left to the Evangelists, which division (as we humbly conceive) is not warranted by the Scripture.

2. To that which Your Majesty secondly saith, That we cannot make it appeare by any Text of Scripture that the Office of Evangelist is such as we have discribed, his worke seeming, 2 Tim. 2. 4, 5. to be nothing else but diligence in preaching the word, notwithstanding all impediments and oppositions, We humbly Answer, That exact definitions of these or other Church Officers are hard to bee found in any Text of Scripture,