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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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SECT. VI. His expressions very unhandsome.

I Will examine this Discourse, and see how partial his expressi∣ons are to trouble the Truth. First, he disparageth Titus with, although a true, yet a diminishing Term; He calls him St. Pauls Scholar only; St. Paul, in the 4th verse, calls him his Son, yea, his own Son after the Common Faith; and the Postscript or Direction is, to Titus, ordained the first Bishop of the Cretians. Secondly, He diminisheth likewise that phrase which is of great force to this purpose, that is, the phrase to ordain Elders, he saith, to appoint Elders, Thus when they Cipher Scripture, for the most part Scripture is abused, and the heedlesse Reader swal∣lowes in a Misconstruction, before he is aware: thus having ex∣amined his misrepeating the Story in things of importance, we will sift his Arguments.