This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
BUt to omit such whose ministery was to endure but for a time, and who we said were called extraordi∣narily, let us speake onely of those which are ordinary and perpetuall. Although we read in the Apostle but of two of these orders given to the Church by Christ,a namely, Pastors, and Teachers; of which
these did onely teach, and those administer the Sacraments also and were encharged with the discipline and government of the Church: Yet we do not blame the Fathers, for that according to the various occa∣sions both of dispensing the word and governing the Church, they did also multiply divers orders of mini∣sters; since it was free for them so to do, as likewise for us; and since it is manifest, that it was done by them for Religious intents, touching or∣der and decency, and at that time to the edification of the Church.
Eph. 4.••••.