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?
Author
Lucy, William, 1594-1677.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Man ...,
1670.
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Subject terms
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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SECT. VII. What is Labouring in the Word.

AND certainly, this phrase yields no matter for an Argu∣ment against the unity of this Office; for he nor they cannot deny, but that both these are joyned in one, that the same man who is a Labourer in the Word, is a Ruler; but let us ob∣serve, that this word Labour signifies an industrious and pain∣full

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doing that he labours for; so that it is more than an ordina∣ry prosecuting his undertaking: Now both these phrases being affirmed of that one word Elder, they cannot signifie diverse Officers, but diverse performances in that Office; that one man is more carefull in Ruling, another in Teaching; the one rules well, the other labours well.

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