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A67180 The jus divinum of presbyterie. Or, A treatise evidently proving by Scripture; all true ministers or embassadours of the Gospell to be rightly called divines or, Jure divino. Writer, Clement, fl. 1627-1658. 1646 (1646) Wing W3724; ESTC R220188 18,132 42

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as Johns baptisme was by him formerly proposed and administred Mark 1. 4. Luk. 3. 3. compared with Acts 19. 4 5. 4 It is not the baptisme with water which was here meant because the Disciples were unable to perform the ministry of the baptisme which was here meant untill they were indued with power from on High by the comming down of the Holy Ghost upon them and therefore they were commanded to stay at Jerusalem untill it came and when they were baptized with the Holy Ghost themselves Acts 2. Then and not till then they were able to baptize others with the Holy Ghost also and so were made able Ministers of the Spirit to others by their laying their hands upon them But they were made able Ministers and did perform the Ministery of the Baptisme with water long before this command of Christ John 4. 2. This may further be confirmed from Mark 16. Where the same Baptisme with the Holy Ghost is implyed and meant the words with the sense thereof being as followeth Vers 15. Go ye into all the world and preach publish or declare the Gospell which I have taught to you and which doth belong to every creature under heaven 16 He that believeth this Gospell and is baptized with the Holy Ghost shall be saved He that believeth not this Gospell so declared to him by my Messengers as I have commanded shall be damned 17 And these signes shall follow them that believe and are so baptized This I take to be the true sense and meaning of the palce For 1 If it be thus taken to wit That these signes shall follow them that meerly believe in this sence it is untrue For there were many that believed who had not any signes following upon their believing 2 If it be thus taken to wit That these signes shall follow them that believe and are baptized with water in this sence it is untrue likewise for there were many that believed and were baptized with water who yet had not these signes following upon their believing and being so baptized but as soon as they were baptized with the Holy Ghost signes and gifts of the Holy Ghost did immediately follow thereupon Whence I thus conclude this Point If this place in Mark 16. 17. be to be taken in neither of the two latter sences then it is to be taken in the first sence onely there being no fourth sence in reason to be given But it is to be taken in neither of the two latter sences for the reasons before mentioned Therefore it is to be taken in the first sence onely Objection 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost Therefore the gifts of the Holy Ghost are now given forth though not with any visible manifestation Answer Vers 7. The manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit was given to every one to profit withall as well as the gifts themselves 2 The meaning of the place cannot be that no man can barely say that Jesus is the Lord but by the gift of the Holy Ghost for many might and some did say so before the powring forth of these gifts of the Spirit whereof onely that place treateth and many thousand deboist wretches at this day can say it yea and a Parret may be taught to say the same without any such gift Wherefore I conceive the meaning of the place in other expressions more propably may be No man can so say or so testifie that Jesus is the Lord as thereby to give another sufficient ground to build his faith upon that his testimony without God also bear witnesse thereto by some signes and gifts of the Holy Ghost Like as 1 Cor. 2. 4 5. seems to import Objection St. Paul Rom. 8. 9. Writes if any one have not the spirit of Christ the same is none of his Wherefore either the spirit is now given to some or else none are Christs Answer St. Paul here writes to such who were of the true Church or body of ChrisT which being a spirituall state none were capable of true Membership therein but by being united thereto by having some gift or gifts of the spirit to profit the body withall and whereof every Member of that Body was partaker As these Texts do manifest 1 Corinth 12. 7. 12. 13. Ephes 2. 11. 22. and 4. 15 16. Wherefore none of his must be understood as I conceive no member of that his body For many were Christs in other respects before those gifts of the spirit were powred forth As in Joh. 7. 39. Acts 1. 5. 15. And many afterward also were Christs who yet had not received the spirit As Acts 8 12. 16 17. and 19. 1 2. 6. but we finde none were members of this his body without some gift or gifts of the spirit for they were all baptized in that one body not by one faith nor by one water but by one spirit 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. The Premises considered I Quere 1 Whether there are now extant amongst us any right Divines or Jurae Divino or true Ministers or Embassadours of the Gospell If yea then let them accordingly demonstrate themselves to be such and by such undoubted distinctions whereby we may evidently know them from all pretenders of all sorts whatsoever as we finde the true Ministers of the Gospell did And seeing Faith comes by such preaching as none can perform but such as are sent Rom. 10. 14 15. In the second place I Quere 2 Whether the undoubted and saving knowledge of the Gospell of Christ be attainable by any other ordinary meanes then by a true Ministry or Embassie Objection It seems you know the Gospell of your self having in the first and second collection declared it Answer 1 The first Collection declareth onely that the Gospell was that mystery which was hid but doth not declare what that mystery is which was hid 2 The second Collection declareth that the Gospell which CHRIST commanded his Disciples to publish in all the world appertained to all the world viz. to every creature in Heaven and in earth or under heaven which are the very words of the Text. But neither Collection nor these or any other Text declareth what that Gospell is in its fulnesse parts dimentions limitations and extentions Nor doth any Text or person from Text or otherwise declare any thing with any such demonstration as the true Ministers and Embassadors of the Gospel did and ought to declare the Gospell 3 Whatsoever is here declared is proposed probably onely to be considered and not infallibly to be believed upon pain of damnation as the true Ministers of the Gospell did and ought to declare and propose the Gospell 4 None therefore are at all bound in respect of any thing here said but are free and at liberty so that what they finde here probably true they may accordingly receive and what otherwise they may reject even as they see good For so and no otherwise will I receive any thing of
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that commeth after me is mightier then I whose shooe I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire Joh. 1. 33. He that sent me to baptize with water the same said unto me upon whom thou shall sec the spirit descending and remaining the same is he that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost Acts 1. 5. John indeed baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many dayes hence Acts 11. 15. As I began to speak the Holy Ghost fell on them as on us at the beginning 16 Then remembred I the Word of the Lord how that he said John indeed baptized with water but yee shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 12. 13. By one spirit are we all baptized into one body Matth. 21. 25. The baptisme of John whence was it from heaven or of men Acts 1. 22. Beginning from the baptisme of John Acts 18. 25. Acts 19. 3. Mark 1. 4. John did baptize in the wildernesse and preached the baptisme of Repentance for remission of sinnes Luk. 3. 3. And he came into all the Country about Jordan preaching the baptisme of Repentance for the remission of sinnes Acts 13. 24. Acts 2. 38. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sinnes And ye shall receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost For the promise is to as many as shall be called Acts 8. 14. 15 16 17. They sent unto them Peter and John who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost for as yet he was faln upon none of them onely they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus then laid they their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost Acts 19. 5 6. When they heard this they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus And when Paul laid his hands upon them the Holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied Ephes 1. 13. After ye believed ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance 2 Cor. 1. 22. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest of the spirit in our hearts Matth. 28. 18 19. All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Mark 16. 17. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved And these signes shall follow them that believe c. 13 Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected That there were two severall baptismes appertaining to the true Ministery of the Gospell plainly distinguished in these four particulars 1 In their Authors the one JOHN the other CHRIST 2 In their matter the one Water the other the Holy Ghost 3 In their form the one In the Name of the Lord JESVS by dipping the subject into water The other In the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost by laying their hands upon the subject 4 In their ends the one the Baptisme of Repentance for the remission of sinnes the other the baptisme or seal of the Spirit for an earnest of the everlasting inheritance Scripture Hebr. 6. 1 2 3 4. Therefore leaving the principles of the Doctrine of Christ Let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God of the Doctrine of Baptismes and of laying on of hands and of resurrection from the dead and of eternall judgement and this will we do if God permit For it is impossible for those who were once inlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made pertakers of the Holy Ghost c. if they shall fall away c. 14. Quer. Whether from these Scriptures may not be collected 1 That the Doctrine of the aforementioned Baptismes and of laying on of hands is part of the principles of the Doctrine of CHRIST 2 That the doctrine of these Baptismes and of laying on of hands was laid by the true Ministers of the Gospell as a part of the foundation upon which only the faith of all true Believers of the Gospell and Christian visible Churches were and ought to be built Objection All the learned and able of all sorts do agree in expounding Matth. 28. 19. To be the institution of the baptisme with water or at least that the baptisme with water is there only meant Whose authority you crosse in expounding it to be meant of the baptisme with the Holy Ghost As is intimated in the different formes of baptisme in your 13th Quere and 3d. Distinction Answer Authorities in this case ought not be measured by numbers or votes of men though never so learned and able but by Scripture and weight of sound reason And now that by this Text is meant the baptism with the Holy Ghost and not of that with water I shall prove by these following Arguments 1 From the institution it self Christ after his resurrection when he had declared to his Disciples that all power in heaven and in earth was given unto him commanded them saying Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Hence I argue That this being an institution of a Baptisme it is either the institution of the Baptisme with Water or of the Baptisme with the Holy Ghost but it is not of that with water because the baptisme with water was instituted and administred long before that time by John the Baptist who had authority from God so to do Joh. 1. 33. Christ himself Mark 1. 9. The Discip'es and many hundreds more being baptized by John with the Baptisme with water long before this institution of Christ or any administration thereupon And for one and the self same Baptisme to have two institutions and these severall and different and yet true is most unreasonable to imagine 2 It is not the institution of the Baptisme with water nor was the baptisme with water here meant because the baptisme with water would then have been tearmed Christs Baptisme as well as Johns But the baptisme with water was never tearmed Christs baptisme but alwayes tearmed Johns both before and after this institution of Christ Whereas on the other side the baptisme with the Holy Ghost was in like manner alwayes tearmed Christs 3 It is not the baptisme with water which was there meant because then the Disciples afterward would have so proposed and administred it to wit In the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost according to the command but they did not afterward so propose nor so administer it but clean otherwise to wit In the Name of the Lord Jesus and for remission of sinnes Acts 2. 38. and 8. 16. Even