The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.

DOCT. VIII. That some ministers are ordinary and perpetuall; others extraordinary, and called onely for a time.

MOreover of Ecclesiasticall mini∣sters, especially of those which are to preach the word, and under∣take the care of the whole Church, we understand there are two princi∣pall kinds: One of those which the Lord Iesus doth ordinarily adjoine fellow-labourers with himself, in the gathering, teaching, and ruling of his Church; and consequently as his will is, should be perpetuall in that charge, who are wont to be called ordinary ministers; such were the High Priests and Levites in the Church under the Old Testament, and in the new the Teachers and Pa∣stors: The other, those whom the Lord raiseth up extraordinarily, calling and sending them into the Church; that when the ordinary ne∣glect their duty, and destroy the Church, they may both reduce them to good order, and reforme the Church to it's pristine estate and pre∣serve

it; such were the Prophets in the Old Testament, raised out of other tribes besides that of Levi; and in the new, the Apostles, Prophets and Evangelists, which the Lord pe∣culiarly chose to himself, that, when all was destroy'd in every place, aswell amongst the Israelites as Gentiles, he might gather, teach, and preserve Churches to himself in all places by their ministry. In the number of these extraordinarily called, we cannot but place many and heroicall and couragious men, and true servants of God in our times; who, when all was destroy'd, were excited by the Spirit of Christ to oppose themselves against the Catholike Apostacie, and to restore anew the ancient doctrine, worship, & discipline in the Church; and that notwithstanding the vain resistance and rage of the ordinary Bishops, Kings, and most powerfull Princes, and all the world.