Theory of the Eldership [pp. 702-759]

Pastors and Teachers.
Progress of Christ., pp. 145, 146.) This was also the opinion
of Bishop Jewel, Whitaker, and other Episcopalians, and of
Bishop White, who, on this ground, urged and secured the
popular lay representation in the Episcopal Conventions in this
country. Wordsworth (Greek Test. in loco,) says, we have
in this Council the model of all succeeding ones, and for the
presence "of the laity assisting at the deliberations, and giving force to the decree of the council." (lb. v. 2.) Many of
our own writers take this view of the council, such as Professor
Jamieson, Blondel, Bucer.* In v. 22, these brethren are
called leading men, that is, leaders, governors, or rulers, and in
v. 7, &c. "the whole church or multitude, because," as Dr.
Wordsworth says, "the presence of all is continually assumed
in cases where the assembly is open to and representative of
all."
Pastors and Teachers. Eph. iv.- What?
a Let us then pass on to the consideration of another passage,
in which these theorists endeavour to find support for the
common application of the same names to ruling and teaching
presbyters, by dividing the "pastors and teachers," in Eph.
iv. 8-11, so as to correspond with the ruling and teaching
elders it seeks in 1 Tim. v. 17. These two words, however,
have been given to Christ's under shepherds ever since he had
a flock to tend, or wandering sheep to be sought for amid the
mountain wastes of sin and sorrow. But according to this
theory, "pastor" means ruling elder, and "teacher"-what does
it mean? According to this theory it only sometimes refers to
the minister, but not less officially, as both Dr. Killen and
Dr. Adger teach, to the ruling elder, whose function it is to
teach, and to be apt to teach, and from house to house. The
"pastors and teachers" given by the ascended Saviour have,
however, been generally regarded as denoting the very form of
metaphor under which Christ commissioned and designated his
first ministers, who call themselves and their successors presbyters; under which Paul gave his final charge to the presbyters at Miletus; under which Peter charges these same and all
other presbyters; and under which Christ, the great exemplar
* Jamieson's Cyprianus Isotemus, 542, 13. Blondel in do. 542.
1860.]
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