The diatribē proved to be paradiatribē. Or, A vindication of the judgement of the reformed churches, and Protestant divines, from misrepresentations concerning ordination, and laying on of hands.: Together with a brief answer to the pretences of Edmond Chillenden, for the lawfulnesse of preaching without ordination. / By Lazarus Seaman.
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The diatribē proved to be paradiatribē. Or, A vindication of the judgement of the reformed churches, and Protestant divines, from misrepresentations concerning ordination, and laying on of hands.: Together with a brief answer to the pretences of Edmond Chillenden, for the lawfulnesse of preaching without ordination. / By Lazarus Seaman.
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Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.
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London :: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell, at the Sun and Fountain in Pauls church-yard,
1647.
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Subject terms
Lay preaching -- Great Britain
Imposition of hands
Chillenden, Edmund, -- fl. 1656. -- Preaching without ordination.
Simpson, Sidrach, -- 1600?-1655. -- Diatribē.
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"The diatribē proved to be paradiatribē. Or, A vindication of the judgement of the reformed churches, and Protestant divines, from misrepresentations concerning ordination, and laying on of hands.: Together with a brief answer to the pretences of Edmond Chillenden, for the lawfulnesse of preaching without ordination. / By Lazarus Seaman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92774.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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PROPOS. I.
THE Office of Ministers is alwayes necessary in the Church of GOD, as an ordinary meanes of His in∣stitution to effect the salvation of the Elect.
The judgement of the Reformed Churches touching this
The latter Confession of HELVETIA, ch. 18.
God hath alwayes used his Ministers for the gathering anderecting up of a Church unto himself, and for the governing
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and preservation of the same; and alwayes will use them so long as the Church remaineth on Earth. Therefore the first beginning, institution, and office of the Ministers, is a most antient Ordinance of God himself, not a new device appointed by men. Ministers are to be considered, not as Ministers by themselves alone, but as Ministers of God, even such as by whose means God doth work the salvation of Mankinde.] Harmony in Engl. printed in 4. Anno 1643. pag. 233.
The FRENCH Confess.
Seeing that we are not made partakers of Christ, but by the Gospel: We believe that that good Order which by the authority of that Gospel is confirmed, ought to be kept sacred and inviolable. And that therefore Pastors are necessarily required in the Church, upon whose shoulders the burden of teaching the Word, and administring the Sacraments, doth lie.—Therefore we detest all those fanaticall spirits, who, as much as in them lieth, desire that both this sacred Ministery, or Preaching of the Word, and the Administration of the Sacraments, were utterly abolished.] Harm. Eng. p. 253.
Notes
Deus ad colligendam vel constitu∣endam sibi ec∣clesiam, ean∣dem{que} guber∣nandā ac con∣servandam, semper usus est Ministris, ils{que} utitur adhuc, & utetur porrò quoad ecclesia in terris fuerit. Ergo Ministrorum origo, institutio & functio vetustissima & ipsius Dei, non nova aut hominum est ordinatio.—Proinde spectandi sunt Ministri, non ut Ministri dun∣taxat per se, sed sicut Ministri Dei, utpote per quos Deus salutem hominum operatur. Corpus Conf. par. 1. p. 56.
Credimus, quoniam non nisi per Evan∣gelium simus Christi com∣potes, oportere sacram & invi∣olabilé 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ejus autho∣ritate in Eccle∣sia sancitā con∣servari: ac pro∣inde requiri in ecclesia Pasto∣res, quibus onus docendi Verbi, & administrandi Sacramentorum incumbat.—Ita{que} fanaticos illos omnes detest••••••ur, qui qu••••rum in se est, sacrum Ministerium, sive praedicationern Verbi, & administrationem Sacramentorum, abolita cupiunt. Corp. Conf. par. 1. pag. 107.