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A49508 An apologie for our publick ministerie and infant-baptism written som years ago for private satisfaction of som dissenting brethren and upon request enlarged and published for the same ends / by William Lyford. Lyford, William, 1598-1653. 1652 (1652) Wing L3544; ESTC R24102 42,825 54

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holy Ghost from all other Callings as can bee written with ink and paper Now that which Christ hath set up who shall dare to pull down Those which Christ hath distinguished no may confound Pastor and People Bishops and Flock Guides and guided are relatives and stand in such direct opposition one to the other that in respect of the same subject the one cannot bee the other the Father is not the Son nor the Son the Father the Master is not the Servant nor the Servant the Master the King is not a subject nor a subject the King And therefore regularly the one cannot do the duties of the other A Guifted man as such is not a Bishop nor a Presbyter nor a Pastor for these are distinguished from other men that have Gifts but not Office Secondly This first Conclusion is proved from the special Charge given to Ministers over and above what is incumbent on private persons as for example Col. 4.17 Take heed to the Ministerie which thou hast received of the Lord that thou fulfil it and to all the Flock over which the holy Ghost hath made you over-seers Act. 20.28 with 1 Tim. 4.16 Take heed to thy self and to the Doctrine meditate upon these things Give thy self wholly to them i.e. to Reading Exhortation and Doctrine vers 13.15 The work to which thou wast ordained vers 14. And as God hath given a Charge to Ministers so hee doth require an exact account of their doings in this Concl. 1 kinde 2 Tim. 4.1 3. I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ Ezek. 3.18 Ezek. 34.2 4 10. Zech. 11.17 who shall judg the quick and the dead at his appearing preach the Word bee instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and Doctrine This is the Ministers Charge Now all do not lie under this weightie Charge and account Hath every Gifted man a Flock to feed a Ministerie to fulfil or are they bound to give themselvs wholly to that work forsaking all other Callings No but they are persons singled out and designed to this Office and Work upon whom this Charge doth lie 3. Our third proof is from the honor and maintenance appointed for them that preach the Gospel the Lord hath ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.13 14. And that the Presbyters which labor in the Word and Doctrine should bee counted worthie double honor 1 Tim. 5.17 And can Lay-preachers challenge this honor and maintenance The sum of all is this Ministers and none but Ministers are Bishops Pastors or Elders They and none but they are bound to give themselvs wholly to that work They and none but they are under that heavie Charge and account They and none but they can by divine Autoritie of Christ's ordinance 1 Cor. 9.14 challenge to live of the Gospel They and none but they to whom these Characters do belong are the men whom God hath made Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God 1 Cor. 4.1 Oject 1 Two Objections com to bee answered For som do say Wee preach not as men in Office but in another capacitie as gifted men Answ Answer See the folly of this Objection it is as if you would say there bee two sorts of Preachers som that are appointed and sent and som that are not and yet do it Som preach in a preaching capacitie and som not in a preaching capacitie Som are Called sent and Autorized by Christ to preach som are not so Autorized and yet they preach It is a contradiction to preach in a non-preaching capacitie becaus to preach in the Name and by the Autoritie of Jesus Christ doth imply a publike mission and Autorizing If an ordinarie Souldier should usurp the office of a Colonel or a Colonel the office of the General or a private man the office of a Constable would this bee a good answer to say I do it not in the capacitie of a Constable or Colonel or General but in another capacitie as a man Gifted for such actions I believ such an under-taker would bee severely punished in the capacitie of an Vsurper of a busie-disturber of publike Order His being Gifted Conclus 1 cannot excuse his arrogancie becaus those offices cannot bee duly performed by any other capacitie then of their Office and Patent Object 2 But the better to overthrow our Office and make no Calling of it som say let them work as others do for their living Cannot they preach without studie and books it is a sign they preach not by the Spirit c. Answ 1 See the honestie of this objection It is all one as if a laborer should work all the week in plowing or threshing to provide you food or to make you a suit of clothes against the Sabbath were it justice to say to him at the weeks end Go work for your living when hee ha's been all the while about your work Such another piece of Justice and Honestie it is to say Let Ministers work for their living when as they have spent their time and spirits and Talents to do you service to prepare food and raiment for your souls Christ count's preaching to bee a labor els hee would not have said the laborer is worthie of his hire yea and hard labor too els hee would not have compared Ministers to souldiers to shepherds to husbandmen to the labor of the ox that treadeth out the corn Besides 1 Cor 9.13 14 Christ hath ordained that ministers should live by their preaching as by a Calling as the Priests under the Law did As they that ministred about holy things did live of the things of the Temple even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel These men oft Call for Gospel Ordinances Lo here is a Gospel-Ordinance and yet they cannot stoop to it for say they let ministers work But let such men remember that Complaint of Paul who though hee did not regard monie yet hee write's it up among his wrongs and suffrings that hee was fain to labor for his living working with his own hands 1 Cor. 4.11 12. to this hour wee both hunger and thirst and labor working with our own hands Therefore forbear to use this objection unless yee mean to bee Persecutors Answ 2 To the second part of the objection do but observ how directly opposite it is to God's word Paul bid's Timothie give attendance to Reading and to Doctrine 1 Tim. 4.13 But you say Can they not preach without studie Paul saie's vers 15. Give thy self wholly to these things that thy profiting may bee known A man so rarely gifred as Timothie was of whom there went certain prophecies what a rare man hee would bee in the Church educated from his infancie Conclus 1 in the Scripture yet hee must give attendance to studie and reading and that whollie all is little enough and must not wee much more follow