Prophesy, if you will, is a Gift sometimes as well as an Office, every Office is a Gift, but not every Gift an Office; but whether Prophesy be taken for a Gift, or an Office; it is not a Ge∣nus to the other two, but the other are rather Integral parts or qualifications belonging to it: and therefore I wonder at these men, that they expound this Text to such an impossible Sense. Hooker gives this reason, because, saith he, if these (Prophesie he means, & Ministry) were several functions, then there should be seven: what if there were seventeen? If there be so many, what is that to the purpose? this he speaks, Chap. 1. of his second Book, p. 10. Well, but what saith the Apostle? He saith not this is a distinct Office, as the Eye in the body, but drives at the main, that we are one anothers members; that this man must not think too highly, but follow his businesse; let him prophesy accor∣ding to the proportion of Faith: what that is, I will not exa∣mine, it is something for the good of others, who are his fellow Members.
A treatise of the nature of a minister in all its offices to which is annexed an answer to Doctor Forbes concerning the necessity of bishops to ordain, which is an answer to a question, proposed in these late unhappy times, to the author, What is a minister?
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- A treatise of the nature of a minister in all its offices to which is annexed an answer to Doctor Forbes concerning the necessity of bishops to ordain, which is an answer to a question, proposed in these late unhappy times, to the author, What is a minister?
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- Lucy, William, 1594-1677.
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- Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647. -- Survey of the summe of church-discipline.
- Forbes, John, 1593-1648. -- Irenicum.
- Church of England -- Clergy.
- Clergy -- Office.
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"A treatise of the nature of a minister in all its offices to which is annexed an answer to Doctor Forbes concerning the necessity of bishops to ordain, which is an answer to a question, proposed in these late unhappy times, to the author, What is a minister?." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Concerning Prophesy.