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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45328	An apologie for the ministry and its maintenance wherein is set forth the necessity, dignity and efficacy of a gospel-ministry against the Socinians, Swenckfieldians, Weigelians, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, Libertines and the rest of that rout ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing H425A; ESTC R28055	88,780	120

proud severity or a supercilious gravity but by mildeness and a sweet composure of manners and b●haviours strive to win them engage them to us and make them our own so shall we be able to have an Influence upon them prevail with them and live profitably and comfortably amongst them Love me said ●ustine and say what you will and do what you will As an Oratour should not onely be qualif●●d with prudence but with benevolence also so a Preacher For as the Philosopher observes it con●●ibutes much to the creditableness of the Orator if the Auditours be perswaded that he stands well affected to them The gravity of a Minister should not be such as may affright men from coming before him but such as compose them to reverence that do come Let us feed the Flock of Christ not imperiously as Lords much less rigidly as Tyrants but gravely and mildely as Fathers with a fatherly benevolence and affection desiring rather to be loved then feared To this purpose speaks La●renti●● upon 1 Pet. 5. 3. Let every Pastor govern the Church providently and prudently not straining his power to its utmost rigour but exercising a spirit of Lenity not alwayes in all things towards all using his utmost power and au●hority but sometimes denying something of his own right as Paul often did 1 Cor. 9. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 2. 2 Thes. 3. 9. In a word let us imitate Basil who for patience and constancy was an Adamant for meekness a Loadstone 6. Let a Pastour feed his flock zealously not carelesly and coldly Let us cry aloud and lift up our voyce like a Trumpet because we speak to dead men and stones Let us pray the father of Light to touch our tongues with a coal from the Altar that our lips may breath out nothing but what is pure and heavenly that we may be Lamps burning in zeal faith and Love and shining in words and works that we may be coals to our selves and lamps to our people such was Iohn Ioh. 5. 35. Wherefore Christ gave not fleshly but fiery tongues to the Primitive Preachers that they might preach zealously with them and enflame the hearts of their hearers Act. 2. 3. Excellent is that commendation of Luther VVhatever Luther speaks or writes pi●●ces into the ●earts and leaves a wonderfull sting in the cons●●ences of the hearers Let us look unto our Saviou● whom Zeal for Gods glory eat up Let us imitate Elijah qui zelando zelavit who was very zealous for the Lord all ●i●e for God whom God therefore sent for in a Fiery Chariot Let us imita●● Elisha Isaiah Ier●miah Ier. 20. 9. Iohn Baptist Paul Gal 2. 11. Who all being enflamed with the fire of Love did burne the cold hearts of their hearers with zealous Discourses Let our hearts our tongues our hands be all of a fire that we may bring men from sin unto God Even immoderate z●al is better than coldness in Gods cause for it is an error of love and not a love of error Let us neglect nothing through idleness or cowardi●● which may conduce to the Salvation of the soules of our people In a word let us imitate the holy Seraphims who have their name from fire who burning in zeal are alwayes in readiness to execute every command of God having with them six wings with which we may speedily move upward downward forward backward on this hand on that hand as God calls So zealous was the Angel who had the everlasting Gospel to preach who did not creep nor walk nor run but fly with a swift wing through the midst of Heaven Rev. 14. 16. See VVard's Coal from the Altar p. 390. 7. The word of God is to be dispensed purely without any sophisticall or superstitious comments Let nothing be said of God without Gods authority In all doubts we must have recourse to the Law and the Testimony Isa. 8. 20. Moses returning from the Mount brought commands not his own but Gods Exod. 19. 7 8. The Apostles Commission runns not for them to teach humane Traditions private Fancies but to teach all things that Christ Iesus had commanded them Mat. 28. 20. that is either by himself or by his Prophets Therefore the Apostles themselves father their Doctrines upon Christ 1 Cor. 11. 23. I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you so 1 Thes. 4. 2. Ye know what Commandements we gave you by the Lord Iesus● As much as if he had said The Commandements which I gave you are not mine but Christs he is the Law-giver I am onely his Messenger So also 1 Pet. 4 11. if any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God Let him be a Teacher well instructed in the Word of God and produce Oracles as it were out of Gods mouth God cannot abide unlawfull Mix●ures that men should play the huxters with his Word or plow with the oxe of his Word and the Asse of humane traditions together God will not have men set their thresholds by his and their posts by his posts Ezek. 43. 8. VVhat is the cha●●e to the wheat What are false Prophecies to the truth of God Ier. 23. 28. Mens inventions are like light and empty cha●●e that has no substance in it nor give any spirituall nourishment but Gods Word is nu●ritive like the purest wheat We are called to be dispencers of the Ministries of God not broachers of out own groundless conceptions prop●gators of the old way and Doctrine not coiners of a new If an Angel from heaven should preach any other Gospell let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. Reject therfore all new and feigned worships and worship God after a way that is Gods 8. The word of God is to be dispensed plainly He is the best Preacher not who s●●atcheth the ears but who pricketh and pierceth the heart Therefore does Paul profess that he had rather speak 〈◊〉 words in a known and intelligible Language than five thousand in a strange and unknown tongue 1 Cor 14 19. Let us preach a crucified Christ in a crucified stile not with the perswasive words of mans wisdome but in the demo●station of the spirit and power not Rhetorically but Apostolic●lly not so much fi●ely as soundly not so curiously as carefully not so ●dmirably as intelligibly Let our speech be simple witho●● figures plain without mysteries pure without mixtu●e not curious painted affected unnecessarily adorned and so shall they be as fiery darts piercing the inmost conscience and strong hammers bre●king the hardest rock 9. The Word of God is to be dispensed fully For so runns the Dispensers Commission Mat. 28. 20. all things whatsoever c. The least particle of Gods Word is not fraudulently to be detained but the whole counsel of God without addition or diminution is to be declared Act. 20. 27. And then if any soul dye it shall fall by its own hand and not by ours and its blood charged upon its won head not ours when we shall faithfully

and herbs and in hot Countrey● occasions barr●nnesse For in cold Countieys it is inste●d of 〈◊〉 Thus the Gospell hardens the hearts that will not be seasoned by it Is. 6 9 10. and is the savor of death unto death 2. Cor. 2. 16. as to the godly it is a savor of life unto life And no wonder for it is very usuall in humane things that the sa●e thing being in it self good and profitable proves good to some and hurtfull to others and upon many has an operation besides its nature The Sun it self by its beams helps some to see and blinds the sight of others And as salt so the word of God according to the diversity of the subject becomes either usefull or hurtfull 16. Salt is a Symbol of discretion and prudence If it be moderately mixed with meats it presents the palate with a pleasant rellish but to much of it renders it unsavoury Thus let the Ministers of the Gospell do all things with discretion and judgment lest by too much and indiscreet affectation of bitter and harsh expressions and applications and representing the graces like furyes they disaffect the auditors against the truth of the doctrine and render it nauseous and odious to them Let them use such a moderate and convenient mixture of Law and Gospel whereby the sharpnesse of the one may be lenifyed and the l●nity o● the other may be sharpned and both together may be edifying and usefull that the Gospel may not let men altogether sit still nor the Law make them run out of their vits For it is our design to season men not to destroy them to salt them not to subvert them The proverb is well known we must buy salt and oyle Oyle signi●yes leni●y salt acrimony Therefore the sons of the Physitians mix oyle with salt that it may not be too corrosive It may well become the Sons of the prophets to imitate these men and to poure the oyle of gladnesse into the wounds which smart with the salt terrors of the Law Let them so divide the word of truth that weak consciences be not swallowed up of sadnesse by the immoderate austerity of the law nor licentious hearts encouraged by the over-wide and unlimited charter of the Gospell Thus we have seen the propertyes of salt and a proofe of the doctrine by those propertyes Let us now look into the titles which the sacred Scripture hath given to the Ministers of Christ that in them also their Necessity Dignity Vtility and E●●icacy may further appear CHAP. II. The titles of Dignity Vtility Necessity and Efficacy which are gi●●n to the Mi●●sters of Christ. THe Holy Ghost hath set upon the heads of the Ministers of Christ many glorious inscriptions and given them the attributes of many worthy names and hath thought good to call them The salt of the earth the sun and light of the world Men of God prophets of God c. as may appear in the following discovery 1. They are called the salt of the earth which expression we have already insisted upon 2. They are called the light of the world Mat. 5. 14. Now what is either more profitable or more pleasant than light Without it we cannot discern between things that dif●er goe about our employments or decline pits and precipices This calls for clearnesse of doctrine cleannesse of life exactly expresseth the soveraigne excellency of the Gospel-Ministry this light of the world far excells the light of this world For the sun only profits them that see but this light of the Gospel-Ministry enlightens them that see not 2. The sun is oft obscured curtain'd under clouds But in the very midst of night and amidst the thickest clowds and afflictions there is clear day-light in the Church 3. The sun of this world oft sets and leaves us in the dark but this light of a Gospell-Minist●y shall never cease till that sun shall cease to be light and that world cease to be It is such a light that if it were taken away the whole world would be wholy over-spread with the grossnesse of darknesse the darknesse of sin and sinfull errors Hence it is that God himself opposes darknesse to divination Mic. 3. 6. It 's true Christ Iesus the light of the world and the sun of righteousnesse properly essentially originally perfectly intensively and extensively But his Ministers are imperfect lights as they partake and communicate of him and depend upon him They are the lights enlightned and enlightning the world with the light of the Gospell Ioh. 5. 35. Act. 26. 18. Rom. 2. 19. Although indeed all Christians are also lights in their measure and ought to shine as lights in the world as Children of the light Phil 2. 15. Yet this title is by way of Eminence due to the Ministers of Christ because they ought in an especiall manner to shine in life and doctrine and also because God doth by their Ministry kindle the 〈◊〉 d●light and illuminate the soul. How great then is the 〈◊〉 of and how great a contradiction is it in the libertines of our age who labour to ex●●inguish the Ministry of the word and in the mean time p●e●end and a●●ow a new light 3. They are called Men of God i. e. Men of God's own and especiall sending This title is frequently given to the prophets as to Moses Deut. 33. 1. to Samuell 1. Sam 9. 6. as also to others 1. Sam. 2. 27. 1. King 13 1. and indeed to all others 2. Pet. 1. 21. Afterwards to the Ministers of the Gospell 1. Tim. 6. 11. 2. Tim. 3. 17. Neither doth Paul call Ti●othy only a man of God but also every Minister of Christ by way of Eminence For it is an Hebraisme and signifyes holy men or men familiar with God And it is an emphaticall paraphrase For as a man of Belial signifyes a very wicked man and a man of blood a very cruell and bloody man So a man of God signifyes a Godly and a godlike man 4. They are called Prophets of God which title is not only attributed to them t●at can ●oretell things to come but also to any that are any way interpreters of the will of God Mat. 10. 41. Where to receive a prophet is to receive a Minister or preacher of the Gospell For these discharge that sacred employment which the prophets under the old Testament discharged and do also interpret the writings of those prophets 1. Cor. 14. 3. 1. Thes. 5. 20. 5. They are called priests of God Which name although it properly belong to the Levites yet is improperly applyed to spirituall priests offering up spi●ituall sacrifices to God In which sense all the faithfull are said to be pre●sts to God Rev. 1. 6. and a royall priesthood 1. Pet. 2. 9. And the Ministers of the Gospell are priests in that by the preaching of the word they subject men to God Paul was such a priest offering up the Gentiles Rom. 15. 16. and such are all other preachers