Chap. 2. the fourth Diuision.
I dooe not vse to maintayn the places, which are quoted, although they be truely alleadged, for the (*) 1.1 causes, which I haue before mentioned, but yet I can not but speake of this place of saint Luke, for feare of the daunger that may ensue. For if this be a good reason, ye the place of S. Luke may not be vsed to proue that preaching is perpetually annexed to the ministerie, bicause in yt same place is made mention of curing of diseases, which is but a temporall thing, & followed the mini∣sterie, but for a time, then the comandement of S. Iames, *that the elders of the Church should* 1.2 pray for those that are sick, is now no commaūdement, bicause putting on of hands, and anoynting of them, that they might recouer their health, hath no place, and by this meanes you wyll pull from vs as many places of the newe testament, as you did before of the olde.
You would no doubt maintey〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 all their places, if you could: for the quotations be the substance of that booke, & the thing that most persuaded the Reader, which credited al things there written without examination, & thought it must of necessitie be true, be∣ing so confirmed by the scriptures. And surely you could not haue greatlier condem∣ned the authors of that Admonitiō, than in suffring so many quotations of theirs to passe without defense. For what wickednesse can there be greater, than to abuse the Scriptures in maynteyning of sects and errours.
The place of Luke is not answered: the words of the texte be these: and he sent* 1.3 them to preache the kingdome of God, and to cure the sicke. &c. No man liuing can cōclude of this place, the one more, than he can do the other, & your words be but your owne: There be other places a number that be more generall than this, to proue preaching by: this was peculiar and proper to the disciples, as the whole circum∣stances of the place declare, for they are also commaunded to take nothing with them in their iorney, neither staues. &c. To preach is perpetuall, but it can not be gathered of this place, that none ought to be admitted into the ministerie but such as can preach, bicause it was peculiarly spoken to the Apostles, as the other circumstāces do proue. The commaundement of Saincte Iames is generall, for he telleth what all sicke men ought to doe, and the ministers lykewyse that resorte to the sicke, and therfore though the anoynting wyth oyle, whiche was a signe of the gift of healing, bée ta∣ken away bicause the gift is ceased, yet doth praying remayne still, and is perpetu∣all, and not onely proper to some ministers of the Churche, but common to all. Wherfore the places be not lyke: the one béeing spoken peculiarly to the disciples, the other generally to all ministers.