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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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1. Of our Saviour Christ himself, who did not only pose the Doctors when he was but twelve years old, Luke 2. 46. but also afterwards preached in the Synagogue of Nazareth, Luke 4. 18. ⟨p. 39⟩being neither Doctor, nor Scribe, nor Levite, but of the Tribe of Judah (concerning which Tribe it is evident that Moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood.)
1. Of our Saviour Christ himselfe, who did not only pose the Doctors when he was but twelve years old, Luke 2. 46. but also afterwards preached in the Synagogue of Nazareth, Luke 4. 18. ⟨p. 39⟩being neither Doctor, nor Scribe, nor Levite, but of the Tribe of Juda (concerning which Tribe it is evident that Moses spake nothing concerning the priesthood.)
2. Again, in the eight of the Acts, great persecution arising against the Church, after the death of Stephen, they were all scattered abroad from Jerusalem, ver. 1. that is, all the faithful members of the Church, who being thus dispersed, went every where, preaching the word, ver. 4. and to this their publishing of the Gospel (having no warrant, but the general engagement of all Christians, to further the propagation of Christs Kingdom) occasioned by their own persecution, the Lord gave such a blessing, that they were thereby the first planters of a settled Congregation among the Gentiles, they, and their converts being the first that were honoured by the name of Christians, Acts 11. 21. and 26. Neither 3. is the example of Saint Paul altogether impertinent, who with his companions repaired into the Synagogues of the Jews, taught them publicly, yea, upon their own request,