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The duty of pastors and people distinguished [sic]. Or A brief discourse, touching the…The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the…
The duty of pastors and people distinguished [sic]. Or A brief discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their performances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid down in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the several ways of extraordinary calling to the office of public teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Owen, M.A. of Q. Col. O.The duty of pastors and people distingushed [sic]. Or A briefe discourse, touching the administration of things commanded in religion. Especially concerning the means to be used by the people of God (distinct from church-officers) for the increasing of divine knowledge in themselves and others. Wherein bounds are prescribed to their peformances, their liberty is enlarged to the utmost extent of the dictates of nature and rules of charity: their duty laid downe in directions, drawn from Scripture-precepts, and the practise of Gods people in all ages. Together with the severall wayes of extraordinary calling to the office of publike teaching, with what assurance such teachers may have of their calling, and what evidence they can give of it, unto others. / By John Ovven, M.A. of Q. Col. O.
London: printed by L. N. for Philemon Stephens, 1644
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CHAP. 3.
Containing a digression concerning the name of Priests, the right of Christians thereunto by their interest in the Priesthood of Christ, with the presumption of any particularly appropriating it to themselves.
And now the transaction of these things, in the Christian Church, presents it self, to our consideration; in handling whereof, I shall not at all discourse, concerning the several Church Officers instituted by Christ and his Apostles, for the edification of his body: nor concerning the difference between them, who were partakers at first of an extraordinary vocation, and those who since have been called to the same work in an ordinary manner, divinely appointed for the direction of the Church: neither yet doth that diversity of the administration of government in the Churches, then when they were under the plenitude of Apostolical power, and now when they follow rules prescribed for their reiglement, come in my way.
ANd now the transaction of these things, in the Christian Church, presents it selfe, to our consideration; in handling whereof, I shall not at all discourse, concerning the severall Church Officers instituted by Christ and his Apostles, for the edification of his body: nor concerning the difference between them, who were partakers at first of an extraordinary vocation, and those who since have been called to the same work in an ordinary manner, divinely appointed for the direction of the Church: neither yet doth that diversity of the administration of government in the Churches, then when they were under the plenitude of Apostolicall power, and now when they follow rules prescribed for their reiglement, come in my way.