A90265:47
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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Thirdly, we are Priests as we are Christians, or partakers of an holy unction, whereby we are anointed to the participation of all Christs glorious Offices; we are not called Christians for nothing; if truly we are so, then have we an unction from the holy one, whereby we know all things, 1 Joh. 2. 20. and thus also were all Gods people under the old Covenant, when God gave that caution concerning them, Touch not my CHRISTIANS, and do my Prophets no harm, Psal. 105. 15. the unction then of the holy spirit, implies a participation of all those endowments which were typified by the anointing with oil, in the old Testament; and invests us with the privileges in a spiritual acceptation, of all the sorts of men, which then were so anointed; to wit, of Kings, Priests and Prophets: so that by being made Christians (every one is not so that bears that name) we are ingrafted into Christ, and do attain to a kind of holy and intimate Communion with him, in all his glorious Offices, & in that regard are called Priests.
Thirdly, we are Priests as we are Christians, or partakers of an holy unction, whereby we are annointed to the participation of all Christs glorious Offices; we are not called Christians for nothing; if truly we are so, then have we an unction from the holy one, whereby we know all things, 1 Ioh. 2. 20. and thus also were all Gods people under the old Covenant, when God gave that caution concerning them, Touch not my CHRISTIANS, and do my Prophets no harm, Psal. 105. 15. the unction then of the holy spirit, implies a participation of all those endowments which were typified by the anointing with oyl, in the old Testament; and invests us with the priviledges in a spirituall acceptation, of all the sorts of men, which then were so anointed; to wit, of Kings, Priests and Prophets: so that by being made Christians (every one is not so that bears that name) we are ingrafted into Christ, and do attain to a kinde of holy and intimate Communion with him, in all his glorious Offices, & in that regard are called Priests.