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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34020	Gospel order revived being an answer to a book lately set forth by ... Increase Mather ... entituled, The order of the gospel, &c ... / by sundry ministers of the gospel in New England.	Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.; Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717.; Woodbridge, Timothy, 1656-1732.; Bradstreet, Simon, 1671-1741.	1700 (1700)	Wing C5399; ESTC W13238	38,537	52

Argument here is a Supposition of Shipwrack upon some desolate Island and we easily grant that one of the Company being elected may become a Minster of God unto them but it is more from the Providence and Call of God than their Election It s God must furnish 〈…〉 It● God must incline him to undertake it Its God that ●●i●s up the People to receive and entertain him as a Minister God gives success to his Ministry c. But besides this it is to be considered that God does not tye himself to those means which he has tyed us unto in ordinary cases according to that usual saying Jus divinum p●s●tivum cedit juri divino Natural● The case is who●●y extraordinary and God that makes the Necessity wi●● also dispence with our unavoidable Complyance Were our Author in the right the sinful Will of Man whereon the Election does depend might frustrate the whole Ministry that Christ has instituted But alas whether men will hear o● whether they will for bear our Lord will send his Ministers and whether Men will call them or no they shall beforced to confess Verily we had Prophets among us Ezek. 33 33. We wonder also that they ●●o insist upon it That it is Christs peculiar Prerogative to state his own Worship should s●oil him of another part of it to make his own Officers If the People may do one why not the other And it increases our Wonder that the Reverend Author should revive this Assertion at this ti 〈…〉 of day Forty six years after it has been so learnedly and so fully refu●ed in Jus Divinum Ministerij Eva g●li●i published by the Provincial Assembly of London chap. 9. without taking Notice of their Answers and Arguments 2dly We shall p●ss by several things in these Chapters which in a severe Disquisition we might justly except against Our second Charge is That he makes imposition of hands a little unnecessary Ceremony Though we can distinguish between Ordination and I ●position of Hands and approve what the afore-mentioned Assembly says pag. 157. We must distinguish between the Substance Essence and formal Act of Ordination and the Rite used therein The Essential Act of Ordination is the constit●ting or appointing a man to be a Minister or the sending him with Power and Authority to preach the Gospel The Rit● is Imposition of hands Yet we can see no reason why this Rit● being of divine Institution 1 T●m 5. 22. used by the Apostles the primitive Church and generally since the Reformation should now be run down as so triffling a Ceremony We know the Reyerend Author could have quoted a whole L●af of famous Authors who speak highly for it If the Provincial Assembly at London displease him the New-England Plat-form may satisfie him That Church Officers are not only to be ●●o●●n by the Church but ab●● ordained by Imposition of hands and Prayer or the Answer to the 32 Questions that says expresly Ordination is necessary by divine Institution But i● the Author indeed disquieted it the imposition of hands because but a Ceremony It is out looking back to pag 80 and we shall see he as much magnifies and contends for as meer a Rite to be sure s●●l the right hand of fellowship The Reverend Author not only speaks meanly of the laying on of hands of the Presbytery but ●● too ●●ch countenances the Imposition of hands by Brethren or Persons out of Office His Text of Scripture Numb 8 9 10. respecting the Children of Israel s putting their hands on the Levites is so fully and punctually answered by the Provincial Assembly of London pag. 188. that we remit the Reader thither for ●● love ●ot to transeribe In the New Testament he owns there is no instance of Persons out of Office imposing hands And notwithstanding all his instances the Apostles assertion stands good Heb. 7. 7. and without all contradiction the less is blessed of the greater The Authors next Essay is to remove the weighty Objection That none can give what himself hath not And this he does by some Simili●udes To touch upon one pag. 99. A Woman saith he by giving her ●el● in Marriage causeth the Man to ●●o●● she giveth her self ●● have the power of a Husband but no man will be so absurd ●● to say that a Woman has formally the power of an ●●●sh●●d A poor Return ind●●d to so weighty an Objection An unmarri●d Woman has power over her self to rule and govern her self and her Actions as fully as the Husband has when she is married though a particular Church without any Officer has not power to ●eed teach govern themselves and ad 〈…〉 Ordinances Here ●● a plain Disparity Moreover it is gro●● ●●●u●d to affirm that the Wife gives the Power to the Husband Indeed she gives her self but it is the Institution and Command of God that gives the Power and could we suppose that to be laid aside they would be equal To be sure it Women once get this Notion by the end that they give the Power to their Husbands we should soon have them indenting limiting and reserving in part to themselves by a Marriage Contract as well their Power and Authority as their Estates 4ly The Author asserts That no man ought to be ordained a Pastor except unto a particular Church pag. 101. Which kind of Doctrine doth indeed startle us because it manifests the Reverend 〈◊〉 to be very u●stable in his Judgment It is credibly reported That at a general Convention of Ministers at Boston May 26. 1698. and there are enough yet living who knew the truth of ●t to whom we appeal this Question was discussed Whether a Minister might be ordained though he had as yet no particular Church in order to 〈◊〉 Administration of Baptism and the gathering settling a Church This as we are told had a more peculiar reference to Mr. Clap's Nation at Rhode Island and it was voted and carried in the Affirmative and what is yet stranger was lead on and put to the Vote by the Author himself he being the Moderator of the Assembly Upon this conclusion Mr. Williams was ordained in the Colledge Hall in order to his Voyage to Barbadoes Now it is wonderful to us how the contrary to that which was a truth two years ago should obtain now Possibly the Reverend Author'● modesty won't suffer him to think the Ballance equal or we would put the late Vote of May 98 in the Scale against the Council of Calcedon p 105. 5ly We crave the Readers patience and will offer but one Remark upon these two Chapters In pag. 102 its said Pastar and Flock are Relates and therefore one cannot be without the other It is contrary to the Rules of Reason as Logicians know that the Relate should be without its Correlate To say that a wandering Levite who has no Flock is a Pastor is as good sence as to say to the who has no Children is a Father and the Man who has