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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65358	The saints guide, or, Christ the rule, and ruler of saints manifested by way of positions, consectaries, and queries : wherein is contayned the efficacy of acquired knowledge, the rule of Christians, the mission and maintenance of ministers, and the power of magistrates in spiritual things / by Iohn Webster ...	Webster, John, 1610-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1213; ESTC R17627	36,008	50

Beleivers as they were such Which is undeniably manifest For when Philip came to Samaria and had preached the Gospel many there beleived add were baptized both men and women And Peter and Iohn were sent down unto them who prayed for them that they might 〈◊〉 the Holy Ghost for as yet he was fallen upon 〈◊〉 of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Iesus Thou layd they their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost and these were both men and women and not all Ministers unless every Believer be one And again when Paul came to Ephesus he found there certain Disciples that had been baptized with the Baptism of Iohn but had not heard whether there were any Holy Ghost or not and these he baptized again in the Name of the Lord lesus And when he had layd his hands upon them the Holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied And all these were about twelve But it is not apparent that this was done for Ordaining them for the Ministry but as they were believers unless where the Scripture is silent we must give it a tongue to speak out what we fansie and suppose And therefore Timotheus stirring up the gift that he received by Pauls hands and the hands of the Eldership was but that gift of the Holy Gost which he received as a Conve●t not as a Minister unless as I sayd all Believer● be 〈◊〉 as in some degree they are in truth and verity For God hath not given his the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound minde And indeed there are two things concer●ing this very observable 1. That the Holy Ghost often ●ell upon those that were converted while the Word was in speaking somtimes before they were baptized with water and somtimes before praying with them or laying on of hands and yet these they usually baptized with water afterwards as is manifest that at Pentecost they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance And while Peter yet spake these word● the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the 〈◊〉 ● Those upon whom the Holy Ghost was thus faln we ●in●e that they did baptize them but not lay t●eir hand on them but those that had been bap●●zed and no received this gift upon such they put their hand● that they might receive it By which it is clearly manifest that imposition of hands was used to many that were baptized who had not received the gift and so was common to Believers as Believers as Peter 〈◊〉 saying As I began to speak the Holy Ghost fell on them as on us at the beginning Then remembred I the word of the Lord how that he sayd Iohn indeed baptized with water But ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost For asmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us who believed on the Lord Iesus Christ What was I that I could withstand God So that heer it is clear that this gift and so the Type or Ordinance of Imposition of hands ●id belong to as many as believed on the Lord Iesus Christ and so was not peculiar to the Ministry onely And as to that Scripture Acts 13. where it is ayd and when they had ●a●ted and prayed and layd their hands on them they sent them away viz. and so urge that this Imposition of hands was then used for the setting of Barnabas and Saul apart for the Ministry and so was their Calling or Ordination there unto 〈◊〉 is manifest that these men were called before and did exercise the Ministry before and therefore in the same place they are called Prophets and Teachers {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which they could not truly have been sayd to be unless they had been before called and ordained of God 2. When the Holy Ghost desired to have them separated they were there to 〈…〉 unto the Lord and fasting so that they were 〈◊〉 to and exercised in the work before this their 〈◊〉 for Pan● preached presently after his Conversion at Damascus and a●so at Terusalem and it was three years after his Conversion before he came thither so that this laying on of hands was not a is commonly alleadged his Calling or setting apart to the Ministry 3. This separating or sending forth of Saul and Barnabas was for the accomplishing of that work whereunto he had already called them and so to imploy them in several places or Countreys And when they were to take this journey the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 did 〈◊〉 and pray with them and layd their hands on them that the Lord might strengthen them and prosper them in the work Which thing ought to be done and is usually practised by Saints when God sends forth any Minister to other places or Regions to preach his Word And also as to that Scripture alleadged in Acts 14. v. 23. Where the words are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Quu●que ipsis per suffragia creassent Presbyteros and when they had ordained them Elders Where say some is understood Ordinacion and se●ting apart to the Ministry Others the choosing of Ministers for particular places by consent of the people i● extending the hand 1. The Apostles no where mencion any power or skill that they had to call or make men able Ministers of the New Testament but do witness that it is God that makes them and others so and he only sends them into his Vineyard and not men and therefore the Apostles practise cannot be understood to contradict their evidence in teaching and therefore this cannot be understood of Ordaining and Calling men to the Ministry but of appoynting men to particular places for order and conveniency sake that were already called and ordained of God 2. Paul oftentimes gives out his witnesse and commendacion of particular men testifying that God had gifted called and made them faithful for that work of the Ministry and so sends them to divers places to abide as Ministers So he do●h of Timothy Titus and many others Now if Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh the work of the Lord as I also do Whether any do enquire of Titus he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you or our Brethren they are the Messengers of the Churches and the glory of Christ And so he gives his witness of Tychicus that he is a beloved Brother and a faithfull Minister in the Lord and he testifies that he sent Timotheus to the Thessalonians as a Minister of God and a fellow labourer in the Gospel to establish them and comfort them concerning their faith So that what was done of the Apostles Presbyteries or Churches was but only a giving forth of their witness in behalf of such as God had called that by their testimony

your eys and give you spiri●s to discern in what Principle ye stand Was ever the Spirit of Christ in his Saints in any Age a spirit of persecution Or were the Saints accusers of their Brethren by casting upon them any odious Titles Or did they complain of others to any secular Power or labored to punish or imprison any that followed not them and their way Nay doth not Christ teach them not to forbid such And is it not the Rule that Saints should not speak evil one of another for in so doing they judg the Law and fulfill it not And did not God so lead out their spirits that being reviled they did bless being persecuted they did suffer and being defamed they did intreat Nay is it fitting to bring a railing accusation against the Devil No but to refer it to the Lord that he may rebuke him Now whether it be so with you or not let your Consciences and carriage speak Did ever the Spirit of Christ teach you that any actions dutyes performances or any holy exercises of yours were well-pleasing unto God that were not the fruits and effects of his Spirit inhabiting and working in you No although you should give your bodyes to be bu●ned and your goods to feed the poor without the Principle of Divine Love which is Christ working the same in you it would profit you nothing Where is your Charity Where is your Love Doth all that you act in the way of his worship flow from this Spirit Try your selves Examine your selves know you not that Christ Jesus is in you except you be reprobates Must not every Plant which the heavenly Father hath not planted be rooted out And if your Religion and way of worship were of God it would stand without any assistance of man or worldly power that the Gates of Hell could not prevail against it for his Kingdom being not of this world is not upholden by the power or principles of this world but by the Almighty Word of his spiritual power But doth the house of your holiness stand founded upon this Rock of Ages or upon the sandy foundation of mans power and self-righteousness and therefore when the rain descendeth the windes blow ●nd the flouds beat it falleth and the fall of it is great And you that call your selves the Ministers of the Nation did ever the Spirit of Christ teach you to derive your Calling and Mission from man or the power of men Is it not the Lord of the Harvest onely and none but he by his own will and spirit that sendeth forth Laborers into his Vineyard Had you your Mission from him or from Rome from his spirit or from the vain and fruitless imposition of the hands of Bishops or Presbyters who apishly imitated the Apostles action without their spirit gifts or power Is not the calling of a Minister as was Pauls from God immediatly and neither of man hor by man Consider into what Places you have thrust your selves even whither the Lord hath not put nor placed you Nay have you not run when he never sent you Those that are his Disciples chuse not him but he chuseth them and ordaineth them to bring forth fruit But do you not pretend to chuse him to make a Trade of his service when you go and are sent to Academyes to be fitted for that end and to Bishops Presbyters gathered Churches or the power of the Magistrat to borrow authority and thereby to procure a fat Porsonage or Augmentation and then you set up shop to sell and vend your wares as though now you had served a sufficient apprentiship and were Masters of the Craft or Trade when yet God hat●● neither chosen fitted nor sent you forth in the power and demonstration of his Spirit And this appears by the fruits of your pretended Ministry being empty dull dead liveless and onely like teaching of the Scribes and Pharises for indeed men do not gather Grapes of Thorns nor Figs of Thistles and so by the fruits of their Doctrine the tru Ministers are known from the false and so are you Dare you presume to ●ver that you are Christs Ambassadors and know not the Message that you should deliver but have it to frame and hammer out by your study cogitations devices and the working of your carnal wit and corrupted Reason or to scrape and gather up out of this and that Author Father Schoolmen Modern Writers this and that Expositor Commentator and the like Is this to be made able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit Those that Christ sends forth have that Unction that teacheth them all things that they need not to ask or inquire of vain Idols that have eys and see not ears and hear not mouths and speak not neither have any spirit of understanding in them at all but they are all taught of God and have received in some measure of that spirit which leads into all truth and need not take thought what they shall answer for it shall be given them in that hour for it is not they that speak but the Spirit of the Father in them and out of their bellies do flow fountains of living waters While in the mean time your broken Cisterns of wit learning and carnal wisdom can contain no water Can you be his souldiers when y●u have no weapons but what are carnal and not those spiritual ones of Christ that are mighty in him to the pulling down of strong holds and the laying low of every imagination that stands up against him and his power The Lord in mercy open your eyes to see your own emptiness and want of furniture to fight conquer and stand in this spiritual and great warfare otherwise none are sufficient of themselves to think any thing of themselves but every Ministers sufficiency is of God Did ever Christ teach you to preach for hire or to make Contracts how much you must have for exercising that Ministry the necessity of which is laid upon you if you be called of God even to preach in season and out of season and woe be unto them that do it not And yet it is your cry No publike maintenance no Ministry Oh hypocrites how can ye escape the damnation of hell Or hath he taught you to remove from place to place where you may have more mony or a greater benefit This is only to preach for hire not for the love of the truth nor out of your sensibleness of the necessity incumbent upon you With what faces can or dare you exact Tythes or pay from poor Labourers by the compulsory power of a worldly Law who perhaps never received any benefit from your Ministry or cry out for a publike maintenance to be established by the Magistrate Is there any other maintenance for a Gospel-Ministry but what those freely give that feel and

Spirit his Rule and Guide and no Law besides whatsoever which is evident from these grounds Because if he be Christs he is led by the Spirit of Christ and if a man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his and it is this 〈◊〉 that teacheth a Believer all things and leads him into ●ll truth 〈…〉 for he is taught of God And this is that Spirit that 〈◊〉 all things yea even the deep things of God which every Beleiver receiveth in some measure and 〈◊〉 the Spirit of the world that he may know the things that are freely gi●●n to him of God So that this Spirit both searcheth out and teacheth those deep things that no Law could ever discover or finde out And it is as clear that the Gospel is his Rule wherein his way is perfectly painted out The 〈◊〉 shall liv● by Faith and without faith it i● impossible to please God and whatso●ver is not of Faith is ●in and the life that a Believer now lives is ●y t●e faith of the Son of God who loved him and gave himself for him Th●refore faith being the way ●e should walk in and the Rule he should go by it is mani●est the Law is not his Rule because not of Faith That which teacheth a Believer to de●y all ung●dly 〈◊〉 and not to be conformable to this present evil world but to be perfect as his heavenly Father is perfect and holy as he is holy and to serve him in holiness and righteousness without fear all the days of his life that same is his Rule and his Guide but it 〈◊〉 clear that the Gospel and Grace of God ●eacheth 〈◊〉 things and there●ore they are his Rule and Guide for the Scripture sayth Let every 〈◊〉 that nameth the Name of Christ depart from iniquity for the grace of God that bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared teaching us to deny ungodly lus●s and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world and therefore is the grace of G●d in he Gospel that teacheth these things the Rule and Guide of a Christian That which discovereth to a Believer the fruits of the flesh and likewise of the Spirit is his Rule and Guide but the Gospel 〈◊〉 this clearly and not the Law as sayth the Apostle now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery ●ornication uncleanness lasciviousness 〈◊〉 witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions he●●sies ●●vyings murders drunkenness and such like But the fruits of the Spirit are love joy peace long●suffering gentlenes● goodn●ss fa●●h meekness temperance against such there is no Law That which discovereth that to be sin and sinfull which the Law did nor is the Rule and Guide of a Believer but the Gospel teacheth that infidelity is sin and that he which beluveth 〈◊〉 is condemned already and this the Law neither did not could do and therefore the Gospel not the Law is the Believers Rule and Guide And ●urther that which 〈◊〉 those things which the Law did and others higher and deeper is the Rule of a Believer and this is the Gospel not the ●aw for it sayth Ye have board that it was sayd by them of old time thou shalt not commit adultery but I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her h●●h committed adul 〈…〉 Whether ●ught the Gospel to be preached as 〈◊〉 ghest and chiefest Light for discovering the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 or not seeing we now live under a 〈…〉 Whether are all holy and godly actions of Sain● dutye or privi●edges and do flow from an inward 〈◊〉 of Divin● love rather than from an external prec●pt of ●ear o● rewa●d or not Whether Faith Repentance and all other Grace● mentioned in the Gospel though in form of speaking layd down as requisite du●yes be not free gifts and gracious mercyes And if they be free gifts and graces why do men press them legally and not hold them out freely and Evangelically Whether do men that press Faith and Repentance as conditions or qualifications build upon the principles of Calv●● or Armini●● Of the calling and enabling of 〈◊〉 That Christ by his Spirit mani●esteth the mystery of the Gospel unto such as in his own purpose and decree he hath separated for the Ministry and sends them ●orth in the power and evidence of the same Spirit and all that men have done in appoin●ing and se●●ing up of a Mi●istry is of man and not of God one●y those that have had experi●nce of the same truth have somtime used to give their evi●ence or wi●nels to the truth in others which was not their calling but a testimony from others that such were already called And no humane power hath any legal right to forbid or hind●r that such may not speak what God hath revealed in them and unto them It ●s plain that God chuseth Instruments and they not him 〈…〉 vea● his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen immediat●y I conferred not with fl●sh and blou● Neither went I up to Ierusalem to them that were Apostles before me No he was an Apostle not of man nor by man but by Iesus Christ neither was he taught it but by the revelation of his Spirit and so are all those that are truly called of God for there is nothing but Christ by his Spirit onely that maketh men able Ministers of the New 〈◊〉 not of the Letter but of the Spirit for men as men are not sufficient to think any thing of themselves but their sufficiency is of God For though there be diversityes of gif●s yet it is the same spirit that gives them and though there be differences of administrations yet it is but the same Lord that doth administer in them all and though there be 〈◊〉 of operations yet it is the same 〈◊〉 that worketh all in all and one Spirit that giveth out all these as it pleaseth And as he calleth them enableth them and setteth them apart so he onely sendeth them forth and the authority they have is only from him not from man For in the same manner that he was sent which was in the power of the Father and not in nor from the power of man so sent he them and therefore sayth pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth Labourers into his Vineyard It was not to pray Princes nor Magistrats Bishops nor Presbyters 〈◊〉 nor Congregated Churches to send forth Labourers but the Lord of the Harvest onely Unless we should a fly imagine that the Lord of the Harvest that hath ordained the Wheat to be gathered into his own Barn and is that dear loving and provident Father that taketh care for all his nay though a mother may forget her childe yet will he not forget his should take no care of besowing planting watering