[ 1572] Ministers to be (as they are called) Spiritual Men.
IT is said of the Angels that they are Spirits,* 1.1 Spiritual Creatures; their Com∣munion, spiritual; their food, spiritual; their delights, spiritual; their affe∣ctions and minds, spiritual; Thus it is, that the Minister (though he be a bo∣dy as well as his People) yet he should be a spiritual Man in an especial man∣ner, he should have animam separatam, a Soul separated and sequestred from bodily things,* 1.2 taken up with spiritual affairs, holding forth the fruits of the spirit; his Sermons should not onely be Moral but spiritual; his carriage, spiritual; his discourse, spiritual; If otherwise, his own phrases will rise up in Judg∣ment against him; Ministers are called the Spiritualty, as though the People were carnal in comparison of them,* 1.3 whereas the truth is, Many are spirituall Mad men, being nothing lesse then what they professe to be, spiritual Men in a mockery, such, as prophane ones call a spiritual Pig, that is, the poorest of all the ten, such a one as hath no substance in it; so no substance, no goodnesse, no holinesse at all in them, whereas they should exceed all others.