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A45336 The pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publike preaching, and expounding the Scriptures without a call ... : occasioned by a dispute at Henly in Arden in Warwick-shire, Aug. 20, 1650 ... : in the close are added six arguments, to prove our ministers free from antichristianism / composed and compiled by a friend to truth and peace. Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665. 1651 (1651) Wing H437; ESTC R11676 84,387 104

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angry with Vzzah and smote him dead for medling with the Arke which none might touch but the Priests Numb. 4. 15. Vzzah's intention was good viz. to stay the Arke from falling for the Oxen stumbled and shook it Vzzah layes hold on it for feare it should have fallen He had better have ventured the Falling then the Fingering of the Arke For this the Lord strikes him dead in the place A notable example of Gods displeasure against those that transgresse the bounds of their Callings As our Saviour saith to Apostates Remember Lots Wife so I say to all usurpers and intruders into the Ministers Office Remember Oh remember Vzzah His rashnesse was his ruine and and his presumption though 't is conceived he might be a good man and did not intend any ill yet in usurping the Priefts office 't was his death for to make an action Morally good these Circumstances must be observed Rectus Recta Rectè 1 The person must be Rectus truly Godly 2 He must doe Recta such acts as be agreeable to the Rule 3 He must doe them Rectè in a right manner and here Vzzah with our Gifted Brethren fail That of the Schoolmen holds here Quod intrinsiè ex natura su● malum est nunquam bene fieri potest etiamsi fit ob bonum finem ut furari mentiri Requia circumstantie extrin●icae accidentales non mutant intrinsicam rei naturam essentiam The Lord smote Vzziah the King with a Leprosie for presuming to burne Incense in the Temple which belonged to the Priests and was their Office 3. But most remarkable is Gods hand on Korah Dathan and Abiram Numb. 16. 3. to 39. who thrust themselves into the Priests Office and would offer Incense themselves and that upon this ground because all the Congregation was holy ver. 3. Yee take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation are holy every one of them c. and therefore they may approach unto God and offer their sacrifices themselves and just like many amongst us that cry up the Saints The people are holy and the Lord is amongst them and therefore why may not they preach as wel as these black-coats c. But remember the end of these men who thought to Level both Magistracy and Ministery v. 10. 13. and cryed down Moses and Aaron the Lord shewed a dreadful Judgement on them and their consorts Why ver. 40. To be a memorial to the Children of Israel that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come neer to offer incense before the Lord that be be not as Korah and his company 'T is dangerous for men to preach without a Call and 't is dangerous for people to heare such by so doing you give a tacite and interpretive approbation of their exorbitancies and so make your selves accessary to their sin Not onley Korah but his companions perish with him the earth it selfe as not able or not willing to beare so great an evil as this rent division and separation was cleaves a sunder one division punished with another and swallowes up some of the authours of it fire from Heaven consuming the residue Never such a Judgement doe we read of in all the Scriptures executed upon any sinne as this 'T is the observation of a Pious and judicious Divine of our age in an excellent Tract against Separation That private persons may become accessary not only by yeelding Maintenance or Countenance but even by affording their presence in an ordinary and constant way at such meetings where by the open profession and practise of Separation there is a flag of defiance held forth to the rest of the Churches I come now to the Answer which the Gifted Brethren as they call themselves gave to this Argument First I called for the Naylor a publike preacher with whom I had an open Challenge before a ful Congregation to dispute and defend what I had delivered against private Persons publike Preaching I mention this the rather that the world way see I take no pleasure in disputes of this Nature but was constrained to defend the truth I taught But not a word of answer could I get from the Naylor with all my Hammering hic nec {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} nec {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} quidem ad rem he was even as dumbe and deafe as a door nayle So we left him to his Anvile as being fitter for that then the Pulpit But they had gained an Achilles T. P. and he as soon as ever he heard of a Syllogism cries out No Syllogisms we no Logick I Replyed that Logick was nothing but Reason brought into Method and Form and therefore he could not with Reason deny it At last after a many dark speeches and m cloudy words little or nothing to the purpose as the man that was shearing his Hoggs complained there was a great Cry but a little Wool he granted this First Argument and acknowledged its truth Then I proceed to a Second The second Argument If none may preach but such as are sent then every Gifted Brother may not preach But none may preach but such as are sent Ergo every Gifted Brother may not preach The Minor was denyed Men might preach though they were not sent I proved the contrary from Rom. 10. 15. How shall they preach except they be sent The Interrogation is a strong Negation q. d. They cannot preach authoritatively without a Mission and Commission from God Well they may preach as Usurpers but not as God's Ambassadours Hence the Lord so often reproves them for Impostors and False Prophets that preach without authority and sending Ier. 14. 14. and 23. 21. and 27. 15. I have not sent these Prophets yet they run I have not spoken to them yet they prophesied So that he is not onely a False Prophet that teacheth Lyes but he also that teacheth without a Commission or Calling as a judicious Divine wel observes sive vera praedicet sive falsa whether he preach true or false The Question is not in what he teacheth but by what warrant it 's no asking what they teach since they have no Calling to teach Faith commeth by hearing a sent Preacher and not an Intruder and therefore Isaiah Chap. 6. 8. wil not stirre til God give him a Commission and bid him Goe Paul doth not preach til Christ bid him Arise and Goe Act. 9. The Father thrusts forth Labourers Matth. 9. 38. The Son gives Pastors and Teachers Eph. 4 11. and the Holy Ghost makes them Over-seers Act. 13. 3 4. and 20. 28. Great is the presumption of those who are self-called and make themselves preachers those are bolder then o the Priests and Prophets in the Old Testament or Christ and his Apostles in the New Testament who never preached til they were sent This Mission implies three things 1. Election by the Church 2. Probation and Examination by the