Order to be in the Church of God. [ 1320]
AS there is an Order in God himself,* 1.1 even in the blessed Trinity, where, though the Persons be co-eternal and co-equall, and the Essence it self of the Deity indivisible, yet there is the first, second, and third Person; And as in God, so in the whole Creation, Angels have their Orders, Thrones and Dominions, Principalities and Powers, and an Arch-angel, that at the last shall blow the Trumpet. So it is amongst the Saints,* 1.2 the Souls of Just men perfected,* 1.3 all of them have enough,* 1.4 none of them want; yet there's a difference in the mea∣sure of their glory,* 1.5 because every one hath his own Reward according to his la∣bour.* 1.6 Stars are not all of one Magnitude,* 1.7 one differs from another in glory. As for things below, some have onely a being; some, being and life; others, being, life, and sense; and others besides all these have Reason and Understand∣ing: All Arts and Sciences, before they can be learned, must be reduced into Order and Method; A Camp well disciplined is a perfect pattern of good Order; Nay,* 1.8 there is a kind of Order even in Hell it self,* 1.9 a place of disorder and con∣fusion. And shall then God and Belial, Angels and Men, Saints and Devils, Heaven and Earth, be all in Order; and the Church, out? It cannot be, The Church is to be as an army with banners, to consist of Governors and governed,* 1.10 some to teach,* 1.11 and some to hear, Ordine quis{que} suo, all in decency and in Order.