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WHereas those whom Christ him∣self calleth, he declareth to be sent by himself by rendring them all fit for that charge, he doth it more especially in them whom he calls and sends immediately by himself and by
his Spirit extraordinarilie. For he is wont to endue them largely with pe∣culiar and excellent gifts, and chiefly with the holy Ghost in abundant measure, with ardent zeal of the glo∣ry of God, singular knowledge of the word of God which they bring, a profitable and perspicuous manner of teaching, and consequently with happy successe of their labours: whereby they are inabled with more speed and efficacie to reduce the Churches to the ancient, that is, the Apostolike frame; and their lawfull and divine calling is more easily and certainly made known to the Churches.a 1.1 Because all that Christ gives to the Churches as ministers, he gives them to the edification thereof: from whence the conclusion is easily consequent, that by whose meanes we observe the Churches to be edified, they are such as are cal∣led by Christ, and their ministry is divine and lawfull.
Eph. 4.12.