The fifteenth Argument.
If Christ at his Ascention gave onely [some] to be Pastors and Teachers, then all gifted men may not be Teachers.
The pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publike preaching, and expounding the Scriptures without a call ... : occasioned by a dispute at Henly in Arden in Warwick-shire, Aug. 20, 1650 ... : in the close are added six arguments, to prove our ministers free from antichristianism / composed and compiled by a friend to truth and peace.
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- The pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publike preaching, and expounding the Scriptures without a call ... : occasioned by a dispute at Henly in Arden in Warwick-shire, Aug. 20, 1650 ... : in the close are added six arguments, to prove our ministers free from antichristianism / composed and compiled by a friend to truth and peace.
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- Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.
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- London :: Printed by J. Cottrel, for E. Blackmore ...,
- 1651.
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- Lay preaching -- Early works to 1800.
- Clergy -- Appointment, call, and election.
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"The pulpit guarded with XVII arguments proving the unlawfulness, sinfulness and danger of suffering private persons to take upon them publike preaching, and expounding the Scriptures without a call ... : occasioned by a dispute at Henly in Arden in Warwick-shire, Aug. 20, 1650 ... : in the close are added six arguments, to prove our ministers free from antichristianism / composed and compiled by a friend to truth and peace." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45336.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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B••t Christ at his Ascension gave onely [some] to be Pastors and Teachers, Eph. 4 11. And 1 Cor. 22. 28, 29. He hath set [some] in the Church, &c. Are all Apostles? &c This would confound Pastors and People, Teachers and Hearers; when Christ himself distin∣guisheth between a righteous man (though gifted) and a Prophet in Office, Mat. 10. 42. So that the Calling of a Minister is not common to all, but only to some (id est) such as Christ sends: for as all the bo∣dy is not eye, so all the body of Christ is not a Minister, whose Office is to be in the mystical body, as the eye is in the natural.
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Vine Berna••d against Separat, p. 92, 93.