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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

and Apostate Ministers insomuch that they are called Devills Iohn 6. 70 71. the worst name in the world Such do not onely invite but even compell by their example The examples of Minnisters are cogent Gal. 2. 14. Christ therefore threatens these unsavoury salts with sad Iudgment Luke 14. 34. 35. which judgment that we may the better understand let us consider it in these following particulars 1. Vnsavoury salt hath this inconvenience that its lost nature cannot be repayred There is no further salt wherewith this unsavoury salt can be seasoned The unhappinesse of it is therefore very unhappy The best things in their corruption become the worst The best nourishment becomes the worst excrement the best wine is corrupted into the sharpest vinegar Degenerate Ministers are hardly cured for what remains with which they may be restored and seasoned If the people be unsavory God hath given Ministers to ●eason them But if themselves be corrupt and unsavory what cure shall we find for them These vines if they be fruitfull are the best trees in Gods garden and the worst if barren Ezech. 15. 2. Unsavoury salt is unprofitable It is not fit for the earth for it will not suffer it to be fruitfull not for the dunghill for it will not suffer it to ●ructify So unprofitable are unsavoury Ministers who are therefore deposed from their Ministry and discarded by the Churches censure other things in their corrupt state are good for something as degenerate wine generates vinegar and the excrement of nourishment nourishes land But infatuated salt is so unprofitable as that it is also hurtfull so hurtfull as that it makes the very dunghills themselves unprofitable Such vile unprofitable hurtfull creatures are Apostate Ministers and corrupt to whom God therefore threatneth rejection deposition and contempt Hos. 4. 6. Mall 2. 8 9 Ezr. 2. 62. 3. Vnsavoury salt is troden under foot of men which is the height of ignominy and shame So Ecebolius the apostate cryed out tread upon me unsavory salt The just judgment of God causes their Ministry to be contemned whose lives are contaminated Thus the sacrifices of the Lord were abhorred because of the vilenes●e of the sacrificers 1. Sam. 2. 17. Nay as though the treadings under feet of men were not enough miserable the proverb hath layd prophaned Ministers lawer then the earth which sayth that Hell is paved with the helmets of princes and the shavings of priests Woe be to that Pastor that is not true but treacherous not lively and diligent but dull and sloathfull who is rather the counterfe●t of a Pastor than indeed such who seeds not his people but his purse and his paunch wo to these idol shepheards the sword shall be upon their arme and upon their right eye their arm shall be clean dryed up and their right eye utterly darkned Zach. 11. 17. God will weaken their strength and infatuate their judgments Such are the punishments of these wicked unsavou●y unprofitable Ministers 2. Another sort of unsavory salt and gifted Brethren as they call themselves though how barren of 〈◊〉 good gift all may see These like the Pa●●rioges Chickens run with the shells upon their heads T●us the little ducklings fall a swimming as soon as they are well hatcht and the Lyons whelps teare their own passage into the world But such hasty burths are lightly blind There is an incurable itch of teaching which possesses many wild heads in these days who think they know that which indeed they are ignorant of nay are ignorant of their ignorance In all other arts and sciences men use first to learn and after to teach But in divinity we have many that teach what they never learn'd and become the Masters of fools before they have been the Schollars of wise men And hence it is that this waxen divinity of theirs receives any impression and they themselves are metamorphosed into many shapes These do not season souls but poyson them not edifye but destroy them not communicate instruction but convey infection These are plants without sap wells without water starrs without light bubbles broken with a blast and waves of the sea soming out their own shame quorum prophetia non est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these prophets are fools these spirituall men are mad This liberty of prophesying this root of mani●old heresyes is to be rooted out as that which hath eaten as a Gangrene and infected many Oh that some Hercules will oppose himself to this many headed Monster many complain of this evill but few put to their hand for the reforming of it So that it may justly be feared that whilst the infectors are spared more will be infected The true shepheards are an abomination to these Egyptians Egyptians Nay they are worse then Egyptians For the Egyptians tempered their clay with straw to make bricke of But these have neither straw nor stubble neither wit nor learning nor any other materialls to build with but dawbe with untempered mortar These like Iereboam one of the worst men in the world make priests of the meanest of the people Nay as Caligula made his horse Consul so these make their asses preachers who if they can do nothing else yet like Balaams asse can reprove the madnesse of the prophets These are the men that give mouldy bread instead of Ambrosia vinegar instead of Nectar and poysons instead of preservatives they mixe tares with their wheat and dregs with their wine preach without pains and are heard without profit They dream dreams and then tell them they cause the people to erre by their lyes and by their lightnesse when God sent them not nor commanded them therefore they doe not profit the people at all Ier. 23. 32. Away ye unsavory crew of senselesse saplesse saltlesse dunees Anabaptists Collyers Saltmarshes Haggards c. In all this tribe this crew what will you call 't There is not to be found one corn of salt This brood of vipers have come forth in a numerous multitude in this decrepit old age of the world doting upon opinions and under the pretext of piety going about to overthrow Scriptures Sacraments universityes all order and ordinances to confound heaven and hell with more than a Gigantick confidence and whorish impudence Let the heavens tremble and the earth be amazed and both be ashamed that this our Brittain should bring forth and bring up such monsters Are these the returns of so many incomes from above Are these the fruits of so much patience and love Do we thus require the Lord a people foolish and unwise There hath been a famous Church and a renowned Ministry in these parts of the world Nay and there is still a Church and a Ministry although it appear to be clouded or rather can not appear because it is clouded But let us lift up our hearts and eyes to Christ Iesus whose Ministry it is for although it be clouded yet he will at length cause those clouds to vanish

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. Here you have many Texts of Scripture explained all the Cavils of the Adversaries of any weight refelled the Equity of Tythes by many Arguments evinced and the Iniquity of such as seek sacrilegiously to remove them is demonstrated and the most material Cavils against them are succinctly yet fully answered By Tho. Hall B. D. and Pastor of Kingsnorton Jer. 3. 15. I will bring you to Sion and I will give you Pastors according to my heart which shall feed you with Knowledge and Understanding 1 Cor. 9. 7. Who goeth a Warfare at any time at his own Charges Who planteth a Vineyard and eateth not of the fruit of it Or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock LONDON Printed by A. W. for Joseph Cranford at the Castle and Lyon in St. Paul's Church-yard 1660. To the Right Worshipfull and his much honoured Cousin the Lady LUCY GRANTHAM of Ratcliffe upon Soare in the County of Nottingham Grace and Peace Madame BEnefits we say are binders and every Favour received makes the Receiver a Debtor If this be so I must needs acknowledge my self deeply indebted to You for those many reall Favours which from time to time You have shewed to me and to my Sonns that have been Your Chaplains And that I may not wholly dye ungratefully I have sent you a Scho●ars Gift a Paper-present as a Testimony of my best Respects unto Your Ladyship who have been so eminent a Friend and Patroness to us of the Ministry and that in a time when so many hate us rob us revile us without a cause You have been more like a Nursing mother than a Friend to many of your neighbou●ing Ministers especially where their means is low Your Ladyships readiness to contribute to the augmenting of the Maintenance of Ministers and setting up of Preaching where there is none Your respectfull Entertainment of the Min●sters of Christ weekly at Your house Your bounty in parting with considerable Summes towards the breeding of ingenuous and hopefull Children for the work of the Ministry Your tender respect especially to the Orphans of Ministers Your late disbursing of a considerable Summ at a bare motion of mine towards the breeding of a very hopefull childe the son of a pious and painfull Minister whose father is now with God your great care for their family in Spirituals as well as Temporals your constant Morning and Evening Sacrifice there and your care to see that your Family l●ve Prayers and live their Sermons and live up to their D●ties and if any be found to be Drunkards Fornicatours Lascivious Sabbath-prophaners c. You quickly make them know that those who will not be servants to God shall be no servants to you your Religious care in a timely providing of a p●ous and ingenuous Instructor for the fatherless and motherless Little On● which now lies solely upon your hands as he is a Samuel by name so you endeavour to make him a Samuel indeed by instructing him betimes in the wayes of God that so he may have a heart to improve that great Estate which providence hath cast upon him to the glory of that God that gave it your carefull Observation of the Lords-day not onely in the publick but in the Intervalls of Divine Worship to keep your Family from straying you have not onely Repetitions but also Reading of some practical Divinity constantly on the Lords day to your Family These things justly praise you in the gates and though no tongue should praise you yet your works themselves will do it Vertuous actions are the best Oratours and they speak best who do best And though your Ladyship had rather do good than hear of it yet that others in these last and worst times when the love of so many waxeth cold may be incited to follow your Ladyships Pious and Charitable Example I could not but publish those things to Gods glory and your further encouragement in the work of the Lord. 'T was the Commendation of Dorcas that she made c●ates for the poor whilest she lived Acts 9. 39. she did not as most do put it off till death and then make good wills after all their evill deeds but your Ladyship in your life-time hath expressed your bounty long since to the Town of Nottingham in giving them Two Hundred Pounds as a Stock to be carefully improved for the best advantage of their poor besides the dayly occasional gifts to such as are reall Objects of pitty and compassion You have been Eyes to the Blinde Feet to the Lame a Father to the Fatherlesse a Mother to the Motherlesse These you take into your Family and when you have hatched them up you part with considerable Summs to set them forth Apprentises And which is worthy observing your Ladyship hath been a great gainer by all this God hath blessed your Substance and your Store he hath made your latter end better then your beginning and hath cast riches on you in abundance which you never looked for and above all he hath given you a heart to improve what he hath given you to his praise and to order your affairs with that discretion and good Huswifery that those who have farr greater means yet do not the Tythe of that good which you do and all because they spend that in riotous feasting superfluous building keeping a kennel of Hounds or some other sinfull and exorbitant course which disables them and dispirits them from Works of Piety and Mercy Now the good Lord remember you in mercy for all that you have done for his House for his Ministers and for his people He recompence all your labour of Love seven-fold into your bosome and when You have served your Generation here he receive you unto himself in glory This is and shall be the Prayer of Kings-Norton Novemb. 3. 1659. Your much obliged Kinsman Tho. Hall To the Worshipfull and his honoured Friend RICHARD GREVIS of MOSELEY HALL in the County of WORCESTER Esq. the TRANSLATOR humbly wisheth the Multiplication of Grace and the Continuation of Peace Worthy SIR I have emboldened my self to offer that unto the World under Your Patronage which I believe Your singular Modesty will almost decline and fear Your excellent Ingenuity will be ready to disown when you finde it so unworthy of the benigne influences of your Eyes much more of the Effluences of your Name Virtue and Authority by which You are able to Patronize any thing that makes You its Sanctuary of Refuge Neither Sir have Principles of Policy onely perswaded me to inscribe Your famous Name and entitle Your Worthy Self to this my imperfection but indeed a desire to Express and Testifie the Esteem I have of the One and the Love and Honour which I

22. The Church Triumphant is the Church and the onely Church that needs no ministry ministers or ordinances For God is all this to them Instead of the word of God they read in the God of that Word instead of the representation of Christ in Sacraments they have the enjoyment of him without the help of shadows or types The immediate enjoyment of God in this life without the means is sure then a fancy onely beseeming the heady brains or rather brainless heads of Anabaptists It is the proper Priviledg of the Church Triumphant to serve God immediately without Temple or Ordinances Amongst them it is that Prophes●●s shall fail 1 Cor. 13 8. But in the Church militant they are to be highly esteemed 1 Thes. 5. 20● 7. It appeares by the care of the Apostles for the continuation of their Successors and the perpetuation of a Ministry in the Church Paul commands Titus to ordain Elders and Bishops in 〈◊〉 city describes the persons to be ordained and prescribes rules for the ordaining of them T it 1. 5 6 7 8 c. He command● and cautions Timothy also about the same thing and ●●ds him keep the commands relating to this Ministry till the appearing of the Lord Iesus Christ which Injunction is not onely laid upon Timothy in his own person but upon all the Ministers of Christ that shall be in succession to the end of the world 8. It appeares by that honor reverence and submission which by vertue of the command is due to the Successours of the Apostles 1 Thes. 5. 12 13. Phil. 2. 29. Heb. 13. 17. Which things so long as they are due must needs have and prove Ministers of the Gospel to whom they shall be given And if you take a way them that are over you in the Lord your Messengers them that have the rule over you and that watch for your soules I pray you tell me where will you bestow the high estimation and love the reputation obedience and submission which the great Apostle commands to be given in the fore-quoted Texts 9. It appears by that constant provision that God has made for his Ministers ordering them honourable stipends for their work Gal. 6. 6. 1 Cor. 9. 13 14. 1 Tim. 5. 17 18. which provision is laid up in the store-house of the Gospell not onely for the Apostles sake but all theirs that are Ministers of Christ in succession Now to what purpose should these commands of God remain in the B●ble if there should not be a remainder of Ministers still in the Church God needed not to have provided meat for his Ministers if he had been minded that men should have sewed up their m●uthes Away with the doting crew of Anabaptists then that despising the Word of God and Ministry of that Word and Ministers of that Ministry gape for the downfall of Revelations into their mouths and stare after New Lights Away with them to the Law and the Prophets Why stand ye gazing up into heaven for new discoveries to the Law and to the Testimony If they be not according to this Word it is because your new Lights have no light in them Isa. 8. 20. God hath ordained and established a publick Ministry and forbids the consulting of Diviners Observers of times Enchanters Charmers Witches Wizards Necromancers Deut. 18. 10 11 12. No nor must mens own Fancies lead them their own inventions be set up to give Oracles But in all doubtfull matters consult the Ministers of God vers 15. Is there no light in the Word of God or whether are your eyes out that ye cannot receive it Is that nothing but a dead letter now which in S. Pauls dayes was so quick and spirituall Heb. 4. 12. Is there no God but in the still voice of your spirituall conceivements and Revelations now adayes Well let 's hear what your spirit has to say against our Christ who has bidden ●o and teach and baptise CHAP. V. The Cavills and Fallacies of the Anabaptists Socinians Swend●eldians and Enthusiasts are blown away Obj. 1. THe first harbour of these Libertines Opinion in this thing is pretended to be in Ierem. 1. 34. They ●hall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from ●he l●ast of them even to the greatest of them saith the Lord Therefore such a thing as the Ministry of the Word is needless under the New Testament Answ. 1. Words are not properly Scripture but the sense neither does the Scripture properly consist in the leaves of words but in the root of reason the Word of God is not to be taken formally as it is described by words and syllables but materially as it declares to us the minde and counsell of God we must not stick in the bark for that hath involved the ●apist● and Anabaptists in many Errours 2. If we must needs have so much regard to the letter of the Text it rather takes away Private Instruction then Publick Preaching for God does not say there shall be no publick Preachers but They shall no more t●ach every man his neighbour and every man his brother But neither can we dis●ard private Instructions under the Gospell if S● Paul be a Gospell-man who presseth this duty Coloss. 3. 16. 1 Thes. 5. 11. 3. The Text is a Promise Now Promises must not shoulder out nor overthrow Precepts neither must the means be taken away because the primary cause is laid down and asserted God feeds all it does not follow therefore that tillag● is unnecessary or bread needless ●or by these means God ●eeds us No more does it follow that because God teacheth therefore the ministry of his word is unnecessary for God teacheth by the ministry of his Word 4. The genuine scope of the Text is to shew us that God teacheth his Elect not onely externally by the ministry of his Word but internally by the ministry of his Holy Spi●it Neither does the Prophet speak absolutely simply and inclusively but comparatively as the Holy Ghost frequently speaks Things spoken negatively in Scripture are oft times to be understood comparatively and are not to be expounded so much by not as by not so much which is plain in Hos. 6. 6. Psal. 50. 8. Psal. 51. 16. Iohn 6. 38. Iohn 7. 16. and many other places So that the sum of the Prophets words will easi●y be There shall be a ●uller and clearer knowledg of God in the times of the New Testament then there was in the times of the Old 1. Because under the Old Testame●t Christ was obscurely shadowed out in Types but under the New he is plainly preach'd and shewn openly insomuch that a very boy w●ll ca●echised and instructed doth understand the Gospell concerning Christ beter then many of the Priests of the Law did which is the accomplishment of that Promise Isa. 11. 9. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. 2. Because there are farre more that are

such is the tenderness and softness of the most that they had rather rot in their sinnes than to be sharply reproved although that be for salvation But this is an infallible Argument of a wicked man and a heart full of putrifying fores not to be able to abide the salt of sound Reproof witness Ahab 1 Kings 18. ●4 Amaziah Amos 7. 10. and Faelix Acts 24. 25. No wonder then if they have filthy hearts and stinking lives who studiously put away from them this salt withdraw themselves from this Ministry As for us Brethren in the ministry let us not faint but go on with chear and courage thanking God that we are worthy to be hated of the world for it is a good proof of our sincerity to be so entreated And if this be to be vile to season the corrupt world with the savoury Word of God Oh that we might be yet more vile let us love study preach sound doctrin which although it be sharp yet its savoury although it wound the conscience yet it will heal although it be bitter in the mouth yet in the Conclusion will prove sweeter than the honey and the honey-comb Although the Ploughshare of the Gospell touch upon our very soules yet let it be welcome if by this means our spirituall weeds and thistles may be rooted out Christs Spouse is a Dove Cant. 5. 2. Now Doves love salt exceedingly Oh then ye Christians fly to the Congregations where this Salt is to be had as doves to the windows CHAP. VII More Corrolaries issuing from the Doctrine THe Third Use is for Consolation It is clear that Sathan does persecute the sound and sincere Ministers of the Gospell with all might and main knowing them to be the main enemies of his kingdome that seek by all means to destroy it according to what was prophesied of them Luke 10. 18. them therefore he assails with reproaches persecution perdition fire sword banishment hunger thirst and death it self He encourageth his Agents against them as the King of Syria did his Captains 1 Kings 22. 31. Fight neither against great nor small save onely against the King of Israel For the King being conquered the souldiers flie the Shepherd being smitten the sheep are scattered Let not us dream of better usage from him and his than Christ and his disciples found from them The Apostles were counted by the world as the filth of the world the off-scouring of all things 1 Cor. 4. 12. men unworthy of the society of men worthy to be exterminated the world and to be troden under foot Paul is counted a babler Acts 17. 18. a pestilent fellow nay if we translate the word properly the Plague it self Act. 24. 5. a man unfit to live Act. 22. 22. Christ himself was every where entertained with scoffs beaten with whips assaulted with stones and at last put to an ignominious death But let us quietly endure all these Afflictions and patiently undergo all that men or devills can load with in hope of the glory that is to be revealed Let wanto●● mock let malice insult 〈…〉 world whe● it's teeth at us the devill smite his hands at us Christ Iesus holdeth the starrs in his right hand and will certainly maintain and preserve them For he is not only the author but also the Protector of the Ministry and he hath promised safety to the persons and successe to the pains of his Ministers Ier. 15. 20. Luk. 21. 15. This is shadowed out by Christ'● right ●and For the right hand denotes love Hence Iacob call● his yongest sonne Benjamin or the son of his right hand Gen. 35 ●8 Because he was as dear to him as a mans right hand uses to be to him It also denotes and promises protection and the greatest care Ps. 17. 7. The Ministers of Christ are his e●bassadors Now embassadors are inviolable by the law of all Nations and injuryes and indignityes done to them use to find a sharp revenge If David so severely revenged the injury offered to his Embassadors by the Ammonites who shaved their beards and cut their garments by the halfes with how much sorer vengeance shall Christ repay the greater reproaches and indignityes with which wicked men entreat his Ministers VVho ever curseth Father or Mother shall dye the death Lev. 20. 9. Christ's Ministers are spirituall fathers to regenerate men as has been already proved and spirituall Mothers travailing in birth till Christ be formed in their people Gal. 4. 19. Nay it is evident by palpable demonstrations that God hath revenged the quarrell of his violated embassadors He hath broken prelaticall powers and hereticall Councells proclaiming warre against his Ministers He hath reproved Kings for their sakes saying Do my prophets no harm Ps. 105. 14 15. He will smite thorough the loins of all that rise up against them and hate them that they rise not again Dent. 33. 11. Witnesse Gods dealing with Pa●hur who persecuted the prophet Ieremiah Ier. 20 3 4. the Children that mockt the prophet Elisha 2 Kin. 2. 23 24. King Saul who had slain many of the Lord's prophets himself was miserably slain at Mount Gilboa Korah Dathan and Abiram pay'd dearly for their conspiracy against Moses and Aaron Numb 16. Ieroboam's hand which he stretched out against the man of God dryed up 1 Kin. 13. 4. Asa imprisoned Hanani the Lord's seer and he dyes of the gowte notwithstanding all his Physicians 2. Chro. 16. 10 12. Ioa●h commanded his servants to stone Zechariah the son of Ieho●ada the priest and for the blood of the same Zechariah did his servants kill him upon his bed 2. Chro. 24. Elymas withstood Paul and he is struck blind upon it Act 13. We know the sad desolation of Ierusalem that had killed the prophets and stoned God ' s Ministers and what befell the whole b●dy of the Iewish people who killed the Lord of life and evill entreated his Apostles any body can tell It is done unto them according to the sentence which themselves past upon such offenders Mat. 21. 41. Now if God spared not Ierusalem because of the injury done to his Ministers 2. Chron. 36. 15 16. 17. How shall he spare the haters and despisers both of his Ministers and Ministry Shall not the like causes produce the like effect Is not God allwayes like himself And if the man that refused to hearken unto the priest standing to minister before the Lord was sentenced to dye by God's law Deut. 17. 12. what more heavy doome shall they undergoe that scorn contemn reproach the Ministers of Christ When God would expresse a people given up to all wickednesse he says of them that they are like to them that strive with the priest Hos. 4. 4. you may read the greatnesse of the sinne and the proportionablenesse of the judgment Ier. 20. 11. 1 Thes 2. 16. whosoever shall neglect or despise the sacred ministry or the faithfull Ministers thereof let him know that he despises Christ himself who gives both the gift