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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49508	An apologie for our publick ministerie and infant-baptism written som years ago for private satisfaction of som dissenting brethren and upon request enlarged and published for the same ends / by William Lyford.	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing L3544; ESTC R24102	42,825	54

the Circumcision these were Preachers of the Gospel with Paul Col. 4.10 11. And they beeing Priests were Autorized by their former Calling to preach Therefore when the Text saies Act. 8.1 They were all scattered abroad except the Apostles this cannot bee meant of all the Church for there remained many housholds of them vers 3. but of them who did preach Christ at Jerusalem as Stephen had don these were especially aimed at in the persecution and they seeing how it fared with Stephen betook themselvs to preach abroad the Apostles that remained behinde were persecuted James was killed with the sword and Peter imprisoned Act. 12.2 4. Circumstance evidencing this Truth is that of Act. 11.20 where it is said that som of them were men of Cyrene and Cyprus who when they were com to Antioch spake unto the Grecians preaching the Lord Jesus By these wee may judg what the rest of them that preached were when 't is said som of them were men of Cyrene the rest were of the same rank though not of the same Cities But these men of Cyrene and Cyprus were they lawfully Called and sent forth to preach Quest Had they any special Calling I conceiv they had for these reasons Conclus 3 Reason 1 First Becaus they were the first that converted the people of Antioch unto the Faith Act. 11.21 22 24. And God gave testimonie to their word by signs and wonders vers 21. the hand of the Lord was with them viz. to heal the sick c. as was usual in the first planting of Churches If they had not an ordinarie Calling yet surely they had an extraordinarie one becaus their Doctrine was confirmed with signs following Heb. 2.4 Reason 2 Secondly These wonder-working Preachers continued at Antioch Act. 11.22 till Barnabas was sent thither unto them from Jerusalem to confirm the people in the Faith these men continuing at Antioch are expresly called Prophets and Teachers Act. 13 1. Now there were in the Church that was at Antioch certain Prophets and Teachers as Barnabas and Simon called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and these ministred unto the Lord vers 2. Reason 3 Thirdly They that are called Prophets and Teachers Act. 13.1 are the verie same that fled and came first to Antioch and converted that people Act. 11.19 For 't is said vers 20. that they were men of Cyprus and Cyrene that came first to Antioch and preached and one of them Act. 13.1 is Lucius of Cyrene Lucius therefore of Cyrene called a Prophet Act. 13.1 was one of them that fled from Jerusalem upon that Persecution Act. 11.20 Hence I gather that seeing they that preached at Antioch and converted them were Prophets and Teachers And they that converted the Antiochians were the same that fled from Jerusalem upon that persecution therefore they that fled and preached were not men meerly Gifted but duly Called These Textual circumstances give sufficient ground to affirm that those which preached upon that scattering had som spiritual Calling thereunto far better grounds then can bee alleged to the contrarie Put altogether thus They all i. e. they which had kept companie with the Apostles and were of the seventie or of the converted Priests They are they that preached abroad 1. Becaus they onely are named 2. Becaus the seventie were appointed to preach in those places where they that were scattered did preach 3. Becaus they were men approved by signs and wonders 4. Becaus som of them are expresly Called Prophets and Teachers beeing the very same men that came to Antioch and fled from Jerusalem Let the same bee said of you and then preach in God's name els such a pattern will not justifie you nor bee a fit parallel for for your actions Conclus 3 Object 2 Answ Apollos was no ordained Minister See Church-members set in joint by Filo dexter Transylvanus against chillenden p. 17. yet hee preached Act. 18.24 Hee was an Autorized publick Preacher in the Church of Corinth for who is Paul or Apollos but Ministers by whom yee believ 1 Cor. 3.5 Paul speak's of him as his fellow-laborer and steward of the mysteries of God 1 Cor. 4 1 6. Yea it seem's that Apollos did Baptize as well as preach for the Corinthians were divided into Sects according to the Names and Number of them that taught and baptized them 1 Cor. 1.12 as Paul's misliking of them doe's import vers 13. were yee baptized into the Name of Paul And seeing som did call themselvs by the name of Apollo it follow 's that hee did also Baptize from which time they would call themselvs by the name of Apollo as others did of Paul ' Its true indeed Apollos preached at Ephesus before hee came to Corinth Act. 18.24 27. But seeing wee read that hee was a Minister and yet read of no new Ordination received after his coming to Corinth wee must conclude that hee was an autorized Preacher when hee preached at Ephesus Object But hee knew onely the baptism of John i. e. the Doctrine of John hee had been baptized onely with water in the name of Christ Sol. What of that Yet hee might bee as true a Minister of the New Testament as John Baptist himself for John taught the people that they must repent and believ on Jesus Christ and so hee baptized them Act. 19.4 The same Doctrine did Apollos preach Act. 18.25 28. Hee taught diligently the things of the Lord and mightily convinced the Jews that Jesus was Christ The Baptism of John and of Christ distinguished Act. 19.4 5. are not two Baptisms of water but onely one with water which is called John's Baptism Act. 19.3 and the Lord's Baptism Act. 8.16 But Christ's Baptism in distinction from John's Act. 10.44 46. was the pouring forth of the holy Ghost upon the Apostles and others in those daies as S. Peter doe's expound it Act. 11.15 16. saying That as I began to speak the holy Ghost fell on them as on us at the beginning then remembred I the words of the Lord how hee said John indeed baptized with water but yee shall bee baptized with the holy Ghost compare Act. 8.15 16. when Peter and John were com to Samaria they praied for them that they might receiv the holy Ghost for as yet hee was fallen upon none of them onely they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Conclus 3 This Baptism of the holy Ghost shed on them was usually don by the laying on not of water but of hands Act. 8.17 Act. 19.6 Object 3 Paul saie's 1 Cor. 14.31 yee may all prophecie one by one that all may learn for the ministration of the Spirit is given to every one to profit withal Chap. 12.7 therefore all that bee able may preach Answ Paul's purpose there is to give directions concerning the use of spiritual gifts specially that of Tongues and Prophecie And becaus some used their gifts for ostentation not for edification therefore hee telleth them that in what kind soëver