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A88695	The persecuted minister, in defence of the ministerie, the great ordinance of Jesus Christ. Setting forth the severall names of Apostles, prophets, &c. [brace] 1. That there is a ministerial office. 2. That the sacrament of baptisme by a lay-person is invalid. 3. That necessity is no plea. 4. That the long omission of the Lords Supper is unwarrantable. With many other things, plainly and methodically handled / by William Langley late of S. Maryes in the city of Lichfield, minister ...	Langley, William, b. 1609 or 10.	1656 (1656)	Wing L408; Thomason E860_4; ESTC R202682	143,990	208

as Salvianus writes Errant sed bono animo errant impii sunt sed hoc putant veram esse pietatem They think errour soundnesse and wickednesse godlinesse You stumble at the very threshold for every Christian should observe a right disposition in his course that is be sure to begin well to set out in the right and direct passage Otherwise if we run in wry-waies by-waies the more his labour the greater is his losse Luther postil in 1 Cor. 9.24 We must take heed lest Meta be transposita Such as will obtain Gods prize must walk in Gods path turning neither to the right hand nor to the left Deut. 5.32 33. for there is danger Com. in Gal. verse 6. and as Luther observes Often the greatest peril is on the right hand We are not to goe upon thought in the positive worship of God but to have our judgments rightly informed and throughly grounded in the truth had you consulted the Orthodox you would have had other thoughts touching this action of Mr. Butlers you must know the first thing in the order of every building is to lay the foundation sure God grant your Religion be more than thought I fear it This Age is strangely transported with an humorous appetite to novelties and rather affecteth variety of toyes than a constancy of plain and sober truth We see many Ixions that embrace clouds instead of Juno I wish he doth not preach by thought aswell as baptize and pick out crochets paradoxes and conclusions of his own imagination which commonly is very forcible and may in time bring forth Cattell ring-strak'd speckled and spotted These kinde of thoughts are but dreams that proceed from abundance of sumes which flie into the head Take it as a good observation That God judgeth of our words and works by our thoughts Men of our thoughts by our words and works Every thought of evil is not evil only those thoughts to which men joyn either consent of will or at least delight of affection Prov. 12.5 The thoughts of the Righteous are right Thought it necessary Object For the necessity of it I cannot believe that a man of Mr. Butlers understanding reading and ingenuity as he is given out to be could think it necessary the children were not weak and ready to die and if so yet no necessity for a private person to doe it There were many Ministers about and neer the City that would not have denied such a Christian act therefore no necessity Salvation may be without the Sacraments God is a free Agent Sometimes the baptisme of Water is without the baptism of the Spirit sometimes the baptisme of the Spirit goeth before sometimes accompanieth and sometimes followeth after God is not tied to the Sacrament or outward signe so that grace cannot be without it I speak not this that any should neglect the Ordinances of Christ but that none without Commission should dare to perform them Hel. for Zanc conf Boh. Belg. Ans Wirt It hath been fully proved that the Sacraments ought to be administred onely by a lawful Minister ordained and set apart to the work of the Ministery as is cleared by the Confession of the Reformed Churches Assem of Div. chap. 274. and all the Orthodox see ch 3. of the Church of England by the late Assembly of Divines the judgment of all the Orthodox Gerardus Bucanus Zanchy Beza Viril Amesius Aretius Trelcatius Piscator Calvin and others That necessity is no plea for Baptisme by Lay-persons you may see by Calvin Zanchy Piscator Beza Bucanus Trelcatius See the 7 chap. who saw with as clear eyes as Mr. Butler can doe and yet could not finde necessity a sufficient plea. Do they tell you there is no necssity to violate the Orders prescribed of God and will you affirm a necessity Fye fye Let shame cover your face Make not Necessity a stalking-horse to your private ends which many see you strive to promote But he would not have done it but upon the advice of other Reverend Divines who thought it lawful Object When God doth directly affirm a thing Answ 1 we must simply believe him but when Men speak we must not without all judgment and enquiry believe every thing but rather try all things and examine them according to the analogie of faith Rom. 12.6 and keep that which is good now good and true are all one The spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets 1 Cor. 14.32 Your practise is quite cross to the Word of God Rom. 10.15 Tit. 1.5 1 Tim. 4.14 And therefore these Orthodox Divines so termed may well be suspected We are taught not to believe every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world 1 Joh. 4.1 Here is a story most improbable contrary to the judgment of all Episcopal and Presbyterial Divines to advise such an act What a strange Riddle is here that those that are Orthodox should allow and approve of what is Heterodox But that is not the title Reverend they must be a good word but foully abused It was S. Augustines wish that he might have seen three things especially Rome in her glory Paul in the Pulpit And Christ in the Flesh My wish is to see Christ advanced England restored to its glory And all Schismatical and Heretical Ministers discountenanced The Romish Church it is observed have canonized many for Saints who were no better than Devils Styles of Reverend and Orthodox is not sufficient that they were such we must take Mr. B. and his friends words for it Yea I am confident they never heard any Reverend Divines advise him so Facile credunt quod volunt He had put out his own eyes and now the blinde leads the blinde Other Reverend Divines implies Mr. Butler one such surely as he was when he came to Lichfield There is a sort of people whose Entia be transcendentia in all things absolute Superlatives Their Sots are Solomons their Black-birds Swans Like the vain Philosophers in old time Popularis aurae mancipia vaenalia Certain creatures bred of the peoples breath hoc ipso placere cupiunt quòd placere contemnunt Hicron Ep. ad Eustoc They reak not to be contemned of the Learned for Ignorant so they may be commended of the Ignorant for Learned Seeing love believeth all things it is exceeding necessary that our love should abound in knowledge whereby we may discern between good and bad between Heretick and Catholick It is no new thing to have Errour fathered on Reverend and Orthodox Divines witnesse the Apologies of Athenagoras Tertullian and others It will amaze us to see what blasphemous seditions horrible and odious impieties were fathered upon the antient Christian Divines Many under the name of Church overthrow the Church Ecclesiae nomine armant contra Ecclesiam dimicant Celsus and Antiphon writing against the truth entituled their Treatise The Book of Truth Lib. de carne

doctrine is Placentia and thus by their flattery they puffe men up with an opinion that they are more than indeed they are I leave these to answer for their cowardise when they appear before the Lyon of the tribe of Judah Fourthly some will not they are like Issachar who was a strong Asse couching down under two burthens and saying Rest is good Such an one was Alexander the sixt who was more fit to keep the Castle of Saint Angelo against Charles the eighth King of France than to lead the flock of God against the invasions of Sathan Christ will not take Peters love to be sincere unless he feed his Lambs he will not have the sheep of his fold to wander in a wildernesse without a guide Fiftly some though they discharge their duty and preach zeale and knowledge yet it is to no purpose they give good Oracles out of Moses Chair they say but doe not their practise overthrows all which makes the people thinke of some great mysterie of Atheisme never yet imparted to them S. John Baprist should be their pattern who was a shining and burning Light shining with knowledge and burning with zeal Sixtly some minister medicines not to ease a burthened heart but to put lightnesse into the brains scarring Religion out of her wits Seventhly some minister in this place in that place in every place in no place imitating the Apostles they say ringing the changes of opinions and run a Serpentine course abjuring now what yesterday they embraced and warranted winding from errour to errour as Dolphins in the water turning like Fannes on the house-top with every new blast of Doctrine Reeds shaken with every Gust contrary to the testimony of S. John Baptist these are madding Physitians But what necessity is there of Learning Object it was not so with the Apostles Christ did not choose the disputants of the world whose wit was great nor the Pharisees whose credit was great nor the Priests whose authority was great but he called ignorant poor Fishers of little worth and lesse Learning First Christs extraordinary call is no rule to us Answ 1 he chose some notorious sinners for his Apostles that so his grace might be manifested in their persons aswell as preaching he chose them not to be presidents to us but trumpeters of his glory Who out of the mouthes of c. Secondly he chose such to shew that he was no Respecter of persons he could make a Publican an Evangelist a Saul a Paul and yet this no president to us Thirdly observe that though they were at first rude and unlearned yet he furnished them with all sorts of knowledge and variety of Languages he did fit and qualifie them for that high and honourable calling Christ made them Starres in his firmament from him they received light and communicated it to others the extraordinary call of the Apostles is no rule for the ordinary call of Ministers they are to be qualified according to the Canons of the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3.2 They are to be blamed that are imperitorum Magistri Masters of the ignorant before they be Doctorum discipuli Scholars of the Learned they mount into Moses Chair before they sit at Gamaliels feet shallow pits that run so long open mouth till their springs are quite drie And like Lapwings run away with some part of the shell on their heads Like the Persian tree that Theophrastus speaks of which at the same time buds blossomes and bears fruit They will be Conduits to convey water unto others before they be Cisterns holding water in themselves as Hierome notably Qui loqui nesciant tacere non possunt docéntque s●●iptur as quas non intelligunt The Minister is an Interpreter of the Law Luke 11.52 how shall he interpret that understandeth not and wanting the key of knowledge how shall he open to others the kingdome of Christ It is a sin and shame for illiterate men to take upon them the teaching of others that are not taught themselves of whom may be verified that of the Apostle 1 Tim. 1.7 Understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm c. From whence proceed strange contradictions of yea and nay 2 Cor 1.17 So ●arre from skilfulness in dividing the Word of Truth 2 Tim. 2.15 that they run to grosse absurdities and shamelesse assertions and had need that one teach them their Catechisme and first Principles of the Oracles of God Heb. 5.12 To conclude he that knoweth not in some measure the things of God is but a beast amongst men he that knoweth what is simply needfull and no more is a man amongst men but he that knoweth according to the Divine rule is as a God amongst men for such bear the lively image of Gods wisdome whereas grosse ignorance is a true representation of the ugly Fiend of darknesse for it is the Devils policy when he would rob and ransack our souls like a Thief to put out the Candle of Knowledge that so we might neither discern his purposes nor decline his mischiefs he hath bad Instruments in all Ages to darken the light of knowledge It is said of Licinius that he was such an Idiot that he knew not how to set his hand to any writing And of Balbo that he was such an enemy unto Learning that he would neither study good letters himself nor suffer the children of his time to be bred up therein Domitian will turn Philosophers into exile Julian will shut up the School-doors The barbarous Souldiers under Clement the seventh will burn that excellent Vatican Library Habadallus Mahomets scholler forbad all Christian Children in his Dominions from going to school that by Ignorance he might draw them to Superstition To be destitute of Learning and outward helps of knowledge is to dance in the dark for one means of attaining it is the meditating of divine Scriptures and the reading of approved Authours Arts have their use and ought not to be despised so long as like an obedient Haga they serve Sarah with necessary helps When Aristippus was asked what it would profit ones Son if his Father should give him Learning Why saith he if for nothing else yet herein it will advantage him that when he comes to the Theatre he shall not sit like one stone upon another Let the Book of God be the highest in our estimation but let not others be in contempt None but juggling Empricks and sottish Enthusiasts will condemn all Learning for they speake falsly that say it tyes the Holy Ghost to a Pen and Inkhorn it is of use and may be instrumentall to bring us to a higher pitch Empericks indanger not more bodies than Ideotish Priests souls Barbarisme is grosse in an Oratour Ignorance in a Physician Dulnesse in an Advocate Rudenesse in a Minister Christ chose Fisher-men but made them fishers of men gave them a calling and virtues for it The Priests lipe should preserve knowledge it is no lesse a precept to the