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<P>A Winding-Sheet for the PRESBYTERIAN.</P>
<P>Or a Mite touching the Ordination of MINISTERS.</P>
<P>By ARISE EVANS.</P>
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<HEAD>A Mite touching the Ordination of Mini&s;ters;</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous <HI>READERS</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>examine diligently the proofs of Scripture in this little Work, for it tends to the Salvation of your &s;ouls, bodyes and e&s;tate.</P>
<P>_MEn and Brethren let me tell you in love: that if your Mini&s;ters were not ordained to the mi|ni&s;tery by Bi&s;hops, they have not the &s;pirit of truth, and ye ought not to hear them, they are not &s;ent of God, their ordination is nothing, and it will come to nothing, for I &s;hall briefly &s;hew you by Scripture that your Presbytery (fal&s;ly &s;o called) have no power from God to ordain Mini&s;ters: neither doe they under|&s;tand the word Presbytery, on which they ground their power, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. which word is Prophets, or Elder Elders, or Elder&s;hip; for &s;o the Greek word <GAP DESC="foreign"> &s;ignifyeth, which word ye have no where el&s;e in Scri|pture, but only in 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. ye have <GAP DESC="foreign">, or <GAP DESC="foreign">, or <GAP DESC="foreign">: but not <GAP DESC="foreign"> no where el&s;e &s;ave only 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. and it means Prophets, as the words going before doth &s;ufficiently manife&s;t it: for &s;aith he
<PB N="4" REF="3">1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. <HI>neglect not the gift that is in thee: which was given thee by Prophe&s;y, with the laying on of the hands of the Prophets:</HI> and St. <HI>Paul</HI> renders it <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>or in Eng|lish</HI> Elder Elders or Elder&s;hip, becau&s;e the Prophets were of a more ancient order then the Apo&s;tles, for <HI>Enoch</HI> was a Prophet <HI>Iude</HI> 14.15. yet they were now un|der the Apo&s;tles or Bi&s;hops, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.28. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4.11. and an Apo&s;tle and a Bi&s;hop is all one, for Chri&s;t is called an Apo&s;tle <HI>Heb.</HI> 3.1. and a Bi&s;hop 1 <HI>Peter</HI> 2.25. and <HI>Iudas</HI> before he fell was a Bi&s;hop <HI>Act.</HI> 1.20. an Apo&s;tle &s;igni|fies a planter, and a Bi&s;hop &s;ignifies a Steward or over&s;eer, he that planteth a Church and looks well to it, is an A|po&s;tle and a Bi&s;hop, but to wave that di&s;cour&s;e and come forward: there was in the Apo&s;tles time abundance of Prophets, and they were not ordained of any man, nei|ther did they ordain any, for God rai&s;ed them in a mira|culous way, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.11.12. they had no power to or|dain Mini&s;ters, that was the work of the Apo&s;tles and Bi&s;hops; but the Prophets did incourage the Mini&s;ters to go forth and preach, and told them their be&s;t way, and what Countryes and Cities was dangerous for them to goe into; and them Prophets alwayes &s;pake in the name of the holy Gho&s;t; &s;aying <HI>thus &s;aith the holy Ghost Act.</HI> 13.1, 2. <HI>Act.</HI> 16.6, 7. <HI>Act.</HI> 20.23. <HI>Act.</HI> 21.4.10, 11. and St. <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Barnabas</HI> was &s;ent forth to preach by the holy Gho&s;t, and the Prophets laid their hand upon them <HI>Act.</HI> 13.1, 2, 3, 4. but it was done above 17. years after St. <HI>Pauls</HI> conver&s;ion <HI>Act.</HI> 9.6. <HI>Galat.</HI> 1.17.18. <HI>Galat.</HI> 2.1. <HI>Act.</HI> 9.26.27, 28, 29, 30. <HI>Act.</HI> 11. from ver&s;e 22. to the end of the Chapter, <HI>Act.</HI> 12.25. and if you compare the&s;e Scri|ptures above cited one with another, for that is the way to find out the truth 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.13. you &s;hall find it to be above 17. years after St. <HI>Paul</HI> began to preach at Da|ma&s;cus
<PB N="5" REF="3"><HI>Act.</HI> 9.20, 21, 22. and &s;urely St. <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Barnabas</HI> having been &s;o often with the Apo&s;tles &s;ent forth to preach, and received into fellow&s;hip by them <HI>Galat.</HI> 2.7, 8, 9. were ordained Mini&s;ters long before that time they came to Antioch <HI>Act.</HI> 13.1, 2, 3, 4. and that which the Prophets did to them then: It is not &s;aid that they or|dained them, but it is &s;aid that they <HI>Recommended them to the grace of God, Act.</HI> 13.1, 2, 3, 4. <HI>Act.</HI> 14.26. and if ye would have that to be their ordination then Mini&s;ters mu&s;t be often ordained; for St. <HI>Paul</HI> was <HI>Recommended</HI> again <HI>to the grace of God,</HI> by the &s;ame Prophets that abode at Antioch <HI>Act.</HI> 15.30.40. <HI>Act.</HI> 13.1, 2, 3, 4. and if you compare <HI>Act.</HI> 13.1, 2, 3, 4. with 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. you &s;hall find that the Prophets prophe&s;ied good things concerning <HI>Timothy,</HI> that he &s;hould be a good Mini&s;ter and do great matters in converting the world, laying their hands upon him as they &s;pake, that was all, and to this agreeth St. <HI>Pauls</HI> charge to him to warfare according to the prophe&s;ies, which went before on him, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.18. but <HI>Timothy</HI> was ordained a Mini&s;ter by St. <HI>Pauls</HI> own hands 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.6. therefore St. <HI>Paul</HI> cals <HI>his own Son,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.2. <HI>his dear beloved Son,</HI> 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.2. becau&s;e none other Mini&s;ter had a hand in the begetting or the ordaining of him to the Mini&s;tery, but of St. <HI>Paul</HI> him&s;elf, which ordained <HI>Timo|thy</HI> as he ordained them twelve, <HI>Act.</HI> 19.6, 7. who were them Mini&s;ters of <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;ent for to <HI>Miletus Act.</HI> 20.17. and if ye compare 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. with 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.6. you &s;hall find much difference between the one Text and the other, for &s;aith he 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.6. <HI>Stir up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands;</HI> but &s;aith he 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. <HI>Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by Prophe&s;y with the laying on of the hands of the Prophets,</HI> or Elder Elders or Elder&s;hip: Mark the
<PB N="6" REF="4">fir&s;t, he calls the gift of God, and bids Timothy to &s;tir it up in him, the &s;econd he calls a gift, he doth not call it the gift of God, nor doth he bid <HI>Timothy</HI> &s;tir it up in him|&s;elf; but &s;aith he neglect not the gift, or <HI>de&s;pi&s;e not prophe|&s;yings,</HI> 1 <HI>The&s;&s;al.</HI> 5.20. &s;ee here St. <HI>Paul</HI> pre&s;&s;eth upon <HI>Ti|mothy</HI> the gift of God in his ordaining of him to the mi|ni&s;tery of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, but for the &s;ayings of the Pro|phets, he bids him not neglect them or <HI>de&s;pi&s;e prophe|&s;yings,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14.1. 1 <HI>The&s;&s;al.</HI> 5.20.21. but to fulfill them, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.18. as St. <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Barnabas</HI> had done, <HI>Act.</HI> 13.1, 2, 3, 4. <HI>Act.</HI> 14.26. <HI>and thence they &s;ailed to An|tioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God, for the work which they fulfilled:</HI> and again you may &s;ee by the Scripture that to commend and to ordain are two &s;everal things, <HI>Act.</HI> 14.23. <HI>and when they had or|dained them Elders in every Church and had prayed with fa&s;ting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed:</HI> and the&s;e Elders ordination was thus, St. <HI>Paul</HI> laid his hands on &s;ome, and <HI>Barnabas</HI> on the others, as ye &s;ee, <HI>Act.</HI> 19, 6, 7. for ordination of Mini&s;ters is a &s;imilitude of the procreation of Prie&s;ts under the Law, and as tho&s;e prie&s;ts were ba&s;tards and &s;ons of whores, that had three or four prie&s;ts to beget them; &s;o &s;piritually are tho&s;e Mini|&s;ters ba&s;tards &amp; &s;ons of whores who had many mini&s;ters hands on them in their ordination, <HI>therefore according to the Scripture as ye have it in the Book of Ordination of Mi|ni&s;ters,</HI> the Lord Bi&s;hop him&s;elf alone layeth his hands upon the Deacons head at his fir&s;t ordination to the mi|ni&s;tery, and then he receives the gift of God, and is be|gotten 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1, 2. 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.2.6. <HI>Philem.</HI> 10. <HI>Titus</HI> 1.4. and that which in after times is done to him are but Ceremonies that mu&s;t be u&s;ed by the Lord Bi&s;hop and o|thers, to prefer him into higher degrees in the mini&s;tery,
<PB N="7" REF="4">as there was Ceremonies u&s;ed to the &s;ons of <HI>Aaron</HI> by the old Law, <HI>Exod.</HI> 40.12, 13, 14, 15. and as a Prie&s;t by the old Law mu&s;t needs be the &s;eed of <HI>Aaron,</HI> el&s;e no Cere|mony could make him a Prie&s;t after the old Law; &s;o I &s;ay now, if a Mini&s;ter as above&s;aid, have not his being on|ly from a Lord Bi&s;hop at fir&s;t, he cannot be a Mini&s;ter of God, by no means el&s;e; now you &s;ee brethren that your Presbytery ordination is a fal&s;e thing, having not the lea&s;t &s;hadow of truth in it, for your Presbytery deny any Pro|phets to be in our dayes: Therefore they have no right at all to &s;helter them&s;elves under their &s;hadows; if there were any hopes that way as they would per&s;wade you, from 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.14. but you may &s;ee by what I have &s;poken, how they deceive them&s;elves and you, and as their fal&s;e Presbytery ordination came to have an u&s;urp|ing vi&s;ible power, and being for a time by the &s;trength of <HI>Apollyons</HI> Rebellious bloody &s;word of war: &s;o it &s;hall be utterly null'd and made void by the righteous &s;word of the Prince of peace, and he that will favour their way &s;hall be de&s;troyed for ever.</P>
<BYLINE>By <HI>ARISE EVANS.</HI></BYLINE>
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