To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Lastly, it is a senceles affirmation you make, that a man sent to win people is a minister to the hidden number, not yet called out, which* 1.1 are also his flock potentially though not actually.* 1.2
The “ 1.3 scriptures, and you accordingly in another place, make it a property of a good Minister to call his own sheep by name, that is, as
you expound it, to take notice of his people & of their growth in religion &c. & now here, you wil haue a minister of the hidden number where∣of he can take no notice at all: nor can tell whether or no, he shall find one sheep amongst them. Besides you cōmit a Logicall errour in raysing an actuall Minister from the relation he hath vn∣to a flock potentially: you may as truely affirm, that a single man towards mariage is an housband, and a father, bycause he may have wife, and children. Any man, that vpon a just calling, or oc∣casion, opens▪ and makes known the Gospel of salvation vnto a company of Turks, or Pagans, may in that generall sense be called the Lords Minister sent vnto them: but a Church Officer, of whō our quaestion is, till he have by his Ministery called, and separated them vnto the Lord, and be by their election, called, and separa∣ted to his office, can he neyther be, nor be called.
Mr B.
Answ.
Ioh. 10. 3 pag. 302.