THE
PRIEST'S
DVTY
and
Dignity
.
Malac.
2.
7.
For
the
Priests
lips
should
keepe
knowledge
,
and
they
should
seeke
the
Law
at
his
Mouth
:
for
he
is
the
Messenger
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
MY
Argument
,
like
my
Auditory
,
is
compounded
of
Priest
and
People
:
Both
were
now
faulty
,
the
Priest
ignorant
and
lazie
,
the
People
unrulie
and
lawlesse
;
the
unworthinesse
of
the
first
,
and
the
ungodlinesse
of
the
second
,
mutually
producing
and
mutually
pardoning
one
another
;
And
in
the
proverb
of
Isaiah
and
Hoseah
(
Isa.
24.
2.
Hos.
4.
9.
)
Like
People
,
like
Priest
.
Wherfore
this
doctor
angelicus
our
Prophet
Malachi
,
in
this
verse
roundly
takes
up
both
;
intimating
their
defects
,
by
declaring
their
duties
:
For
the
Priests
lips
,
&c.
We
have
here
three
generall
parts
.
-
1.
The
first
,
ad
patres
conscriptos
,
What
is
required
of
the
Priest
;
The
Priests
lips
should
keepe
knowledge
.
-
2.
The
second
,
ad
quirites
,
what
is
commanded
the
People
;
They
should
seeke
the
Law
at
his
mouth
.
-
3.
The
third
,
is
a
reason
of
both
duties
wrapt
up
in
a
briefe
description
of
the
Priest
;
For
he
is
the
Messenger
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
In
the
first
generall
to
examin
the
parcells
,
seeing
every
rayment
of
gold
is
gold
,
and
every
word
of
Gods
Word
is
true
and
waighty
.
1.
The
word
[
Cohen
,
Priest
]
may
include
by
concommitance
the
Levite
,
and
by
correspondence
the
Presbyter
and
Deacon
in
the
new
Testament
;
for
this
duty
of
knowing
and
teaching
respects
the
Clergy
in
generall
,
and
is
as
large
as
both
Covenants
.
2.
By
[
Lips
]
we
gather
that
this
knowledg
must
not
be
buried
in
his
brest
,
but
uttered
by
his
breath
;
for
how
shall
the
Laity
beleeve
without
hearing
?
or
heare
without
speaking
?
and
of
all
expressions
a
live-voice
hath
the
most
advantage
:
Againe
,
we
gather
that
this
Office
is
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
but
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
not
a
sanctifying
grace
,
but
an
edifying
gift
;
this
cole
from
the
Altar
should
warm
his
heart
,
but
it
must
touch
his
Lips.
3.
[
Keeping
]
implies
,
saith
S.
Hierome
,
a
thrifty
imployment
of
this
heavenly
indowment
,
non
dixit
proferent
,
sed
custodient
,
in
due
season
to
lay
it
forth
,
not
to
poure
it
out
;
to
sowe
it
in
the
field
,
not
to
throwe
it
away
,
so
to
hoord
up
this
Aliment
that
the
people
be
not
famished
;
so
to
disburse
this
Talent
,
that
himself
turn
not
bankrupt
.
4.
[
Knowledge
]
Tully
,
the
science
of
all
humane
and
divine
matters
,
or
S.
Paul's
possibility
1.
Cor.
13.
To
speak
with
the
tongue
of
men
and
Angells
,
to
be
a
universall
Linguist
,
then
to
understand
all
Mysteries
and
all
Knowledge
;
to
be
cunning
in
the
seven
liberall
Sciences
and
the
three
Philosophies
;
then
to
have
the
gift
of
Prophecy
;
to
expound
aright
the
holy
Scriptures
:
For
a
Divines
knowledge
,
and
Divinity
,
are
not
termes
of
the
same
extent
.
A
Priest
here
must
have
[
Dahhath
]
and
[
Torah
]
Knowledge
to
expound
the
sense
of
darke
Mysteries
,
and
Law
to
pronounce
Sentence
in
doubtfull
Cases
:
Contemplative
wisdom
to
certifie
the
understanding
,
and
practicall
Prudence
to
satisfie
the
Conscience
.
The
foure
Termes
thus
explicated
are
again
coagulated
into
this
briefe
Doctrine
,
The
Priests
Lips
should
keepe
knowledge
,
or
Clergy-men
should
be
learned
Teachers
.
If
Quintilians
Romane
Orator
,
much
more
the
Divine
Orator
,
should
bee
a
mortall
God
omniscious
:
like
a
Bee
composing
,
or
rather
like
honey
composed
of
the
vigour
and
virtues
of
all
flowers
.
Let
thy
Urim
and
Thummim
bee
with
thy
holy
one
,
as
dying
Moses
prayes
,
Deut.
33.
Then
shall
they
teach
Jacob
thy
judgements
,
and
Israel
thy
law
.
Urim
and
Thummim
,
that
is
,
demonstration
and
truth
,
as
the
Septuagint
;
illumination
and
integrity
,
as
the
moderne
;
learning
and
holinesse
,
as
Paulus
Fagius
;
faith
and
love
,
as
Saint
Paul
seemes
to
render
them
,
1
Thess.
5.
8.
A
golden
bell
and
a
pomegranate
,
a
golden
bell
and
a
pomegranate
round
about
the
hemme
of
his
robe
,
Exod.
28.
that
is
,
eloquence
and
sapience
,
a
sweet
sound
and
a
wholsome
taste
,
a
voyce
to
awake
,
and
a
virtue
to
nourish
and
heale
a
sinner
.
If
the
Priest
lookt
upon
his
[
Hhoshen
,
his
breast-plate
,
]
the
two
mysticall
signes
.
if
he
lookt
upon
his
[
Mehhil
,
his
long
robe
,
]
the
imbroidered
fringes
would
put
him
in
minde
of
this
duty
.
In
the
Tabernacle
,
the
seven
.
lampes
of
a
golden
candlesticke
,
were
a
Typicall
warning
of
his
illightning
the
mindes
;
the
twelve
loaves
of
Shew-bread
,
of
his
feeding
the
soules
of
the
people
.
Nay
the
whole
Universe
,
with
the
seven
planets
,
twelve
signes
,
foure
elements
,
meteors
,
and
their
affections
,
was
lively
deciphered
in
that
mysticall
building
and
Sacerdotall
garments
;
teaching
him
Astronomie
and
naturall
Philosophie
,
in
those
hieroglyphicall
characters
,
as
Flavius
Josephus
wittily
shewes
,
Antiqu.
lib.
3.
cap.
8.
It
was
injoyned
a
Statute
for
ever
to
the
Aaronites
,
soberly
to
put
a
difference
betweene
cleane
and
uncleane
,
,
Levit.
10.
which
referd
to
the
peoples
person
,
required
skill
in
the
infinite
cases
of
defilement
and
positive
lawes
:
or
referd
to
their
leprosie
,
required
some
skill
in
diseases
and
medicines
:
or
referd
to
their
diet
,
required
some
skill
in
the
nature
of
beasts
,
fishes
,
and
foules
:
and
this
one
part
of
judging
between
cleane
and
uncleane
fills
up
many
Tracts
in
their
Talmud
.
In
a
word
,
They
were
not
onely
to
the
people
,
Doctors
,
and
Masters
of
ceremony
,
but
also
Physicians
,
Counsellers
,
Lawyers
,
Judges
in
peace
,
Heraulds
in
warre
:
and
above
all
,
ready
Scribes
in
the
Law
and
Prophets
.
For
the
new
Testament
,
reade
the
Canons
of
Saint
Paul
to
Timothie
and
Titus
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Not
to
teach
perversly
,
not
to
wrangle
verbally
,
not
to
speake
emptily
:
three
rules
which
will
much
contract
us
and
direct
us
to
a
solid
preaching
.
Holi
▪
fast
a
forme
of
sound
Words
and
publique
Prayers
,
give
attendance
to
reading
and
doctrine
,
bee
able
by
sound
Doctrine
to
exhort
and
to
convince
,
to
fill
the
mouth
of
the
hungry
,
and
to
stop
the
mouth
of
gaine-sayers
;
to
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
which
in
Greece
would
signifie
,
Able
and
ready
to
teach
;
and
confirmes
Master
Calvins
,
Omnes
Sacerdotes
sunt
Doctores
.
Thus
a
heavenly
Scribe
,
like
a
good
housholder
,
bringeth
forth
out
of
his
treasure
,
the
two
Testaments
,
Things
New
and
Old
,
sayes
our
Saviour
,
Matth.
13.
52.
Thus
is
hee
well
furnished
from
the
two
great
Marts
of
the
world
,
Athens
and
Jerusalem
,
first
dipt
in
all
secular
science
,
as
the
ground-colour
;
then
dyed
in
graine
of
true
Theologie
,
before
he
puts
on
[
Shani
]
the
twice-dipt
purple
.
of
the
Priesthood
.
Thus
his
lips
like
lillies
drop
sweet-smelling
myrrhe
:
they
are
the
garners
of
Joseph
,
the
armory
of
David
,
the
wine-cellar
of
the
Spouse
:
they
are
a
precious
casket
,
which
once
opened
,
a
sweet
perfume
fills
all
the
Church
,
and
a
glistering
jewell
ravishes
the
eyes
:
Nay
,
they
are
the
very
Arke
shadowed
by
Cherubims
,
in
which
was
nothing
but
Manna
for
consolation
,
a
Rod
for
correction
,
and
the
Tables
of
the
Law
for
spirituall
instruction
.
The
Priests
lips
should
keepe
knowledge
.
This
truth
is
crost
by
some
in
faction
,
Sacerdotes
,
proper
Priests
.
But
seeing
our
word
,
Priest
,
is
not
derived
from
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
but
from
the
Apostles
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
or
Justine
Martyrs
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
there
is
lesse
reason
we
should
leave
a
rationall
etymologie
,
for
a
reason-lesse
fancie
,
or
be
ashamed
of
the
Title
,
when
we
must
discharge
the
Office
.
Secondly
,
The
Scripturist
will
Basis
,
the
predominant
element
,
the
principall
ingredient
in
all
teaching
:
the
divine
Scripture
must
bee
the
bracelet
and
frontlet
of
a
Priest
,
in
his
hand
and
in
his
head
,
this
must
close
his
eyes
at
night
,
&
awake
his
thoughts
in
the
morning
;
that
hee
may
be
eloquent
and
mighty
in
the
Scriptures
,
like
Apollos
,
Act.
18.
24.
And
repeat
as
much
verbatim
,
if
possible
,
as
blinde
John
the
Aegyptian
could
in
Eusebius
History
,
lib.
8.
cap.
22.
Yet
to
spoile
the
Aegyptians
of
their
ornaments
,
and
dresse
up
the
Tabernacle
:
to
shave
and
pare
the
captive
woman
,
and
then
espouse
her
:
to
brandish
Goliah's
sword
against
the
Giant
himselfe
,
was
alwayes
thought
lawfull
and
laudable
.
Thirdly
,
The
Romanist
will
impropriate
Bellarmine
,
For
now
Gods
providence
attends
that
hee
shall
not
be
rash
or
deceiving
.
A
bold
Fancy
,
to
arrogate
more
to
their
Pope
,
Then
Moses
in
his
Chaire
,
or
any
Prophet
,
Then
Saint
Peter
his
predecessor
,
or
Christ
himself
upon
the
earth
did
ever
challenge
,
namely
,
To
be
believed
upon
his
bare
word
:
And
a
great
Fondnesse
,
To
transubstantiate
A
common
Admonition
into
a
particular
prophecie
;
A
Priest
in
generall
into
their
Romane
Prelate
;
and
a
Manifest
precept
,
as
Ribera
confesses
,
into
a
promise
of
infallible
knowledge
,
wheras
this
Injunction
is
too
often
,
and
easily
broken
,
as
the
next
Verse
shews
.
But
just
as
the
Iewish
Synagogue
vaunted
,
The
Law
shall
not
perish
from
the
Priest
,
Ier.
18.
18.
when
they
resolved
in
the
same
Verse
,
Not
to
give
heed
to
any
of
Gods
words
:
So
the
flattering
Canonists
and
Parasites
then
cried
up
most
the
Popes
unerring
judgement
,
when
they
did
least
search
the
Scriptures
,
and
most
abuse
the
Christian
World
with
new-coin'd
Articles
.
Fourthly
,
But
my
doctrine
suffers
Lament
.
4.
4.
And
a
curse
to
their
own
labours
;
Toyling
all
night
,
in
ignorance
;
and
taking
nothing
,
as
it
was
,
Luk.
5.
5.
Nothing
indeed
,
unlesse
the
wages
of
Balaam
,
of
whom
the
Iews
speak
in
a
By-word
The
Camell
coveting
Hornes
,
lost
his
Eares
;
And
Balaam
loving
Hire
,
of
an
Open-eyed
Seer
,
Num.
24.
3.
becomes
a
false
South-sayer
,
Ios.
13.
22.
So
these
Mercenary
Levites
(
for
commonly
slothfull
ignorance
is
joyned
with
busie
worldlinesse
)
seeking
themselves
most
and
outward
ornaments
,
doe
most
lose
themselves
and
their
native
indowments
.
In
this
case
,
you
may
heare
the
Lord
complayning
;
My
people
are
destroyed
for
lack
of
knowledge
;
And
then
see
the
Priest
degraded
,
when
the
people
was
not
instructed
,
As
Crates
struck
the
Master
for
the
Schoole-boyes
errour
:
Because
thou
hast
rejected
knowledge
,
I
will
also
reject
thee
,
that
thou
shalt
be
no
Priest
to
me
,
Hos.
4.
6.
In
this
case
,
The
Prophets
turn
Satyrists
,
Isai.
29.
56.
Ier.
23.
Ezech.
13.
Hos.
9.
Mich.
3.
Zech.
11.
Mal.
2.
calling
them
,
Blinde
Seers
,
Drow
sie
Watchmen
;
Dumbe
Dogges
,
of
no
use
to
warne
the
Flocke
,
or
fright
the
Wolfe
;
Cloudes
without
rain
,
hiding
the
Sun-beams
and
distilling
no
showres
;
Cisterns
without
water
,
deceiving
the
thirsty
passenger
;
Not
starres
leading
unto
Christ
,
but
wandring
Comets
and
Ignes
Fatui
;
Blinde
Leaders
of
the
Blinde
;
loving
Saint
Peters
,
Kill
and
eat
,
But
not
Saint
Peters
,
Feed
my
Flock
;
Aurei
calices
,
Lignei
Sacerdotes
,
as
Bishop
Boniface
complain'd
,
De
Consecrat
.
dist.
1.
c.
44.
Woodden
Priests
&
Church-Idols
:
To
whom
the
Vision
is
a
Booke
sealed
,
and
must
shamefully
confesse
,
Isai.
29.
12.
I
am
not
learned
;
Or
Zech.
13.
5.
I
am
no
Prophet
,
I
am
an
Husbandman
;
Or
Amos
7.
14.
I
was
no
Prophet
,
nor
Prophets
sonne
,
but
an
Herdman
:
So
presuming
to
sit
in
Moses
chaire
,
before
they
sit
at
Gamaliels
feet
,
they
make
up
a
dangerous
contradiction
in
adjecto
,
Doctor
indoctus
,
An
untaught
Teacher
.
But
som
will
say
we
live
in
knowing
Pygmaei
in
turribus
eorum
,
as
the
vulgar
reads
it
,
Eze.
27
11.
)
though
we
are
Pygmies
in
study
and
industry
,
yet
exalted
upon
the
antient
Towres
of
Learning
,
by
their
helpe
,
we
see
farther
then
all
fore-going
ages
;
and
we
laugh
at
the
dunsery
of
old
Monks
and
Friers
:
Graecum
est
,
non
potest
legi
,
bonus
Grammaticus
,
malus
Haereticus
;
when
bene
con
.
bene
can
.
bene
le
.
and
the
Latin
of
a
neck-verse
was
sufficient
for
a
Clearke
.
Indeede
to
Noctambulones
,
sleep-walkers
,
who
did
move
and
goe
without
sense
and
feeling
;
we
are
Apoplecticks
,
who
have
witt
and
memorie
without
action
and
motion
,
and
have
more
need
of
Devotion
then
Instruction
,
of
practice
then
precepts
,
of
Discipline
then
Doctrine
.
Aut
si
quicquid
in
buccam
venerit
effutire
,
bullatis
nugis
intumescere
,
facetiis
aut
mutuis
convitiis
plebem
oblectare
,
longis
ambagibus
&
magno
conatu
nihil
dicere-aut
docere
;
adeò
ut
stultitia
praedicationis
,
1.
Cor.
1.
jam
transeat
instultitiam
Praedicantium
;
If
this
be
that
type
of
doctrine
,
Rom.
6.
17.
and
that
Necessity
of
preaching
,
1.
Cor.
9.
16.
2.
Tim.
4.
2.
so
urged
by
Saint
Paul
:
Then
,
I
confesse
,
many
may
passe
for
great
Teachers
,
and
boast
themselves
against
all
antiquity
.
But
if
by
the
least
homogeneous
parcell
I
may
guesse
at
the
whole
bulke
of
good
literature
,
&
judge
of
others
wants
by
my
own
:
while
wee
consider
either
the
great
difficulties
of
a
direct
and
solid
expounding
the
Canon
against
Atheist
,
Iew
,
Hereticke
,
and
Libertine
:
or
consider
the
many
present
dissentions
and
controversies
among
Christians
,
which
must
needs
be
fathered
upon
Errour
,
and
Errour
upon
Ignorance
:
Or
looke
up
upon
the
two
famous
patternes
of
Iewish
and
Christian
Divines
,
viz.
Moses
learned
in
all
the
wisdome
of
the
Aegyptians
,
and
Saint
Paul
wise
in
all
the
learning
of
the
Grecians
:
a
great
Linguist
,
and
a
good
Artist
:
Or
looke
downe
upon
the
voluminous
books
▪
of
the
Iesuites
Societie
,
and
the
double
harvest
of
Dutch
Writers
:
Or
regard
the
direction
of
our
late
Sovereigne
sent
to
the
University
;
and
both
the
counsell
and
exemplar
of
our
learned
Prelates
,
for
studying
of
Ecclesiasticall
Histories
,
Councels
,
Fathers
,
Canon-law
,
Schoolmen
,
and
publick
Liturgies
:
we
may
I
feare
,
almost
turn
Scepticks
,
and
say
wee
▪
know
nothing
,
or
only
know
this
,
that
we
know
nothing
,
or
fall
into
Saint
Pauls
out-cry
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
And
who
is
suffieient
for
these
things
?
For
shall
the
benefit
of
Printing
be
revealed
,
and
shall
the
growth
of
Learning
be
decayed
?
Shall
Colledges
and
Libraries
increase
,
and
shall
Knowledge
decrease
?
Shall
our
studious
Knighthood
and
Gentry
flourish
and
fructifie
in
all
kind
of
Science
,
and
shall
Aarons
Bod
only
wither
?
Shall
wee
have
so
many
incouragements
from
our
Prince
and
Bishops
,
and
shall
wee
confiscate
all
by
an
affected
ignorance
in
teaching
?
So
I
passe
from
his
Concio
ad
Clerum
,
to
his
Homily
ad
populum
:
when
the
Priest
is
throughly
qualified
,
hee
may
be
safely
consulted
;
And
they
should
seeke
the
Law
at
his
mouth
.
The
peoples
generall
duty
is
comprized
How
?
They
should
seeke
.
Secondly
,
What
?
The
Law
.
Thirdly
,
Where
?
At
the
Priests
mouth
.
First
,
they
should
seeke
it
;
not
lazy
in
their
house
,
not
drowsie
in
Gods
house
;
but
with
earnest
desire
and
outward
diligence
they
should
search
it
and
pursue
after
it
.
They
must
not
only
learn
the
principall
precepts
of
the
Law
,
for
the
Israelite
was
also
bound
to
catechize
his
Family
at
home
:
nor
only
come
to
the
publick
lection
of
it
in
their
solemne
Assemblies
;
for
(
as
some
think
)
Synagogues
began
to
be
erected
before
the
second
Temple
:
But
they
must
continually
inquire
of
it
in
all
doubtfull
cases
of
private
actions
with
customary
carefulnesse
&
pious
alacrity
.
As
Ahab
&
Obadiah
parted
the
Land
,
to
search
for
grasse
and
water
in
the
great
drought
,
1.
King
.
18.
As
Ismael
lay
gasping
for
drinke
,
Gen.
21.
As
the
yong
children
cry
for
bread
,
Lament
.
4.
4.
So
they
should
seeke
it
with
the
Samaritan
woman
,
Sir
,
Give
us
this
water
,
Iohn
4.
15.
And
with
the
Iewish
people
,
Lord
,
evermore
,
give
us
this
bread
,
Ioh.
6.
34.
Rejoycing
in
themselves
;
I
was
glad
when
they
said
unto
me
,
Let
us
go
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
Psal.
122.
exciting
others
;
Come
and
let
us
go
up
to
the
Mountain
of
the
Lord
,
Isai.
2.
Lest
for
their
negligence
and
curiositie
,
hunting
more
after
the
Man
,
then
the
Law
;
God
send
not
a
famine
of
bread
,
nor
a
thirst
for
water
,
but
of
hearing
the
Word
of
the
Lord
,
and
they
wander
from
Sea
to
Sea
,
and
take
up
voluntary
pilgrimages
to
seeke
the
Word
,
and
shall
not
find
it
,
Am.
8.
For
as
Pope
Gregory
wrote
to
our
King
Ethelbert
,
How
shall
God
heare
the
Priest
praying
to
him
for
you
,
if
yee
will
not
heare
him
speaking
from
God
to
you
?
Secondly
,
They
should
seeke
the
Law
.
By
the
Law
is
directly
understood
,
The
Codex
of
all
Mosaic
all
Ordinances
contained
in
the
Pentateuch
;
but
largely
taken
,
the
whole
Word
of
God
,
as
the
rule
of
well
and
happy
living
,
or
all
divine
Truth
necessary
for
mans
salvation
.
The
Priest
must
have
universall
knowledge
,
but
the
people
must
seeke
substantiall
law
:
the
Orbe
of
his
comprehension
may
be
larger
then
the
Spheare
of
their
capacitie
.
The
Law
:
not
Cobweb
subtleties
,
not
pleasing
super
fluities
,
not
scrupulous
fancies
;
but
the
necessary
rules
of
holinesse
and
righteousnes
:
And
that
awfull
Doctrine
,
which
was
once
proclaimed
to
the
World
from
the
top
of
Sinai
with
blacknesse
and
tempest
,
and
the
sound
of
a
trumpet
,
and
thunders
and
lightnings
of
Him
,
—
Cujus
excussum
manu
Utraeque
Phoebi
sentiunt
fulmen
domus
.
That
Law
,
which
should
make
both
their
eares
,
not
itch
,
but
tingle
;
and
pierce
between
the
joynts
and
marrow
;
while
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
in
the
mouth
of
the
Priest
,
sacrifices
the
soule
,
and
executes
judgement
upon
the
conscience
by
a
secret
freeingor
condemning
them
,
in
a
modell
of
Gods
owne
Tribunall
,
and
the
last
Assises
.
Again
,
the
Law
,
which
he
speaks
,
not
which
hee
makes
,
of
which
hee
is
the
Lawyer
,
not
the
Law-giver
.
One
is
our
Rabbi
and
Master
.
Math.
23
And
there
is
but
one
Law-giver
,
who
is
able
to
save
,
and
to
destroy
,
Iam.
4.
12.
It
is
a
Depositum
,
intrusted
to
thee
,
not
invented
by
thee
:
which
thou
hast
received
,
not
conceived
:
a
matter
not
of
wit
,
but
doctrine
:
in
which
thou
art
not
the
auhour
but
the
keeper
;
as
Vincentius
Lirinensis
runs
upon
it
in
descant
.
Again
,
the
Law
;
here
admire
the
order
and
wisdome
of
divine
Oeconomy
,
God
made
his
will
manifest
by
Apparitions
and
inspired
Prophets
untill
the
Law
was
given
:
Then
as
the
written
Word
increased
,
Miracles
and
Visions
decreased
,
and
at
the
Captivity
Urim
and
Thummim
ceased
:
and
now
our
Malachi
being
to
close
up
the
Prophets
also
,
there
remained
only
this
sole
office
of
the
Priest
to
teach
the
Law
:
Here
then
hee
tels
the
people
what
they
must
trust
to
▪
as
it
is
,
Isai
.
8.
To
the
Law
and
to
the
testimony
;
and
plainly
warnes
them
,
Chap.
4.
4.
Remember
the
Law
of
Moses
:
For
ye
must
looke
for
no
more
Angels
,
Prophets
,
Dreames
,
or
Visions
;
till
that
great
Prophet
come
,
ushered
by
another
Malachie
,
Iohn
Baptist.
Thirdly
,
They
should
seeke
the
Law
at
his
mouth
:
not
at
a
Counsellours
mouth
to
undoe
their
neighbours
by
litigious
suites
;
but
at
a
Priests
mouth
to
save
their
owne
soules
by
religious
duties
.
To
consult
the
Divine
before
the
Atturney
,
would
end
many
unchristian
controversies
;
at
least
it
would
make
us
know
orderly
,
what
case
and
cause
that
is
which
cannot
be
regulated
by
Scripture
.
It
is
no
praise
for
the
people
,
to
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
;
self-taught
,
as
Saint
Austine
reports
of
Antony
the
Monke
,
lest
they
truly
use
Saint
Ieromes
word
,
Nullum
praevium
sequens
pessimum
magistrum
memetipsum
habeo
,
having
no
leading
Instructor
,
I
was
to
my selfe
the
worst
Schoolmaster
:
But
he
must
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
taught
of
God
,
inwardly
by
his
Spirit
,
outwardly
by
his
Priest
.
The
Priests
mouth
is
the
Lords
oracle
,
and
the
peoples
speaking
Law
:
Os
justi
,
fons
vitae
.
Prov.
10.
In
publicke
and
private
matters
their
conscience
must
be
directed
by
his
sentence
▪
and
though
Plutarch
so
much
discommend
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
mouth
without
a
locke
or
a
doore
,
to
let
out
words
,
and
keep
in
secrets
;
yet
this
mouth
is
best
,
when
it
stands
wide
open
to
all
the
Parish
.
But
these
three
Rivelets
fall
into
one
channell
,
and
generall
doctrine
;
viz.
Lay
persons
with
all
readinesse
should
be
ruled
by
the
Priest
in
matters
of
Religion
.
They
must
not
expect
visions
and
heavenly
voices
,
broach
Dreames
and
fained
Prophecies
;
dreame
of
new
Inspirations
and
Enthusiasmes
;
or
challenge
the
propheticall
spirit
of
interpretation
.
They
may
repeat
and
ruminate
,
examine
and
apply
;
but
not
expound
the
text
,
much
lesse
adde
any
new
doctrine
in
their
Conclave
or
Consistory
.
Interrogate
Sacerdotes
legem
,
as
the
Lord
himselfe
gives
example
,
Hag.
2.
11.
In
a
point
of
law
put
the
case
to
the
Priest
:
else
they
keep
but
a
conventicle
without
either
Ephod
or
Levite
,
and
in
stead
of
obeying
the
Lord
in
his
Officer
at
the
doore
of
the
Tabernacle
,
they
worship
a
private
god
Lar
in
their
Halls
and
Parlours
.
Again
,
as
the
Laity
is
here
bound
to
depend
on
the
Priest
for
the
Law
,
so
the
Priest
is
limited
to
answere
by
the
Law
;
which
strictly
taken
as
the
Law
of
Moses
,
was
nationall
and
temporary
;
but
as
it
involved
the
Law
of
God
,
expounded
amply
by
the
Prophets
,
finished
compleatly
by
Christ
,
it
is
a
rule
eternall
and
universall
;
no
wisdome
of
Senators
,
no
tradition
of
Romanists
,
no
inspiration
of
Anabaptists
,
no
invention
of
men
or
Angels
,
being
able
to
adde
any
point
necessary
to
mans
salvation
.
For
it
were
presumption
,
to
coine
a
new
doctrine
since
the
Sonne
of
his
bosome
in
these
last
times
hath
revealed
the
whole
will
of
his
Father
;
to
looke
for
better
counsaile
,
since
the
wisdome
of
God
hath
directed
;
to
speak
a
new
speech
since
the
Word
it selfe
hath
declared
;
to
talke
of
late
revelations
,
since
the
Messias
hath
sealed
up
Vision
and
Prophecie
:
or
to
adde
one
word
afrer
Him
,
who
is
Amen
;
or
one
letter
after
him
,
who
is
Omega
.
It
remaines
then
,
that
the
Priest
with
solid
knowledge
immediately
teach
the
divine
Law
;
and
that
the
people
with
humble
piety
immediatly
consult
the
Divine
Officer
,
who
is
sequester
dei
&
hominum
,
sayes
Saint
Ierome
,
their
mouth
to
God
,
and
Gods
mouth
to
them
:
that
so
the
sacred
Scripture
may
be
cleerly
expounded
,
Uniformity
maintained
,
Schisme
and
Heresie
banished
,
Devotion
increased
,
Discipline
restored
,
the
people
edified
,
the
Priest
honoured
,
Gods
Law
magnified
,
and
God
himselfe
glorified
.
Here
I
am
to
passe
like
Ionathan
,
Bozez
,
and
Seneh
,
rightly
to
bound
out
,
the
Priests
authority
and
the
peoples
spirituall
obedience
:
for
there
hath
been
ebbng
&
flowing
,
&
a
mutuall
incrochment
.
First
,
the
Romanist
will
yeeld
to
his
Prelate
absolute
submission
of
conscience
,
without
examination
or
appeale
.
Secondly
,
the
Anti-romanist
will
obey
his
Pastor
no
further
then
he
speaks
apparent
Word
of
God
.
Thus
too
servile
or
too
sawcie
,
they
will
be
either
his
fellow
or
his
slave
:
betweene
these
two
extremes
,
Truth
is
the
meane
proportionall
.
For
it
were
senselesse
to
conceive
,
that
by
this
Ecclesiasticall
Ordinance
,
either
God
should
depart
from
any
originall
Authority
,
or
his
Word
should
lose
any
Canonicall
dignity
;
or
that
a
prime
power
authenticall
were
setled
in
the
Prelate
:
For
(
to
omit
usuall
Reasons
)
this
were
to
accuse
God
of
unsufficient
revelation
,
to
make
the
Canon
variable
and
subordinate
,
to
exalt
a
man
above
divine
Law
to
the
danger
of
an
Oecumenicall
defection
.
Againe
,
it
were
as
senslesse
and
more
contradicting
my
text
to
maintaine
that
the
people
may
disobey
the
Prelate
in
spirituall
matters
,
except
they
plainly
know
them
to
bee
true
;
since
their
knowledge
is
derived
by
the
Priesthood
,
as
the
only
ordinary
meanes
;
to
which
they
are
bound
,
except
they
plainly
know
the
contrary
;
And
the
Priest
contradict
himselfe
or
the
fundamentall
points
of
the
Law
.
If
himselfe
might
directly
binde
the
Conscience
by
his
rules
,
why
is
knowledge
and
Gods
Law
here
mentioned
to
direct
him
?
If
they
may
expound
and
judge
of
the
Law
,
why
are
they
sent
to
his
Mouth
,
and
not
to
the
Booke
it selfe
;
and
so
by
a
more
compendious
and
infallible
way
,
they
might
have
wanted
a
Priesthood
?
If
the
Priest
shall
be
obeyed
onely
upon
expresse
warrant
of
Law
already
knowne
,
hee
is
not
their
Teacher
but
Remembrancer
,
they
obey
not
the
person
but
the
Law
or
their
own
judgement
;
wheras
this
Prophet
binds
them
to
commend
the
whole
regiment
of
their
souls
in
publick
and
private
,
to
their
living
law
and
Gods
lawfull
Deputy
.
For
that
the
same
intensive
and
conscionable
obedience
is
not
due
to
the
Ecclesiasticall
as
well
as
to
the
Civill
Magistrate
;
and
to
the
Evangelicall
as
well
as
to
the
Leviticall
Priest
seemes
very
improbable
:
Let
every
Soule
be
subject
unto
the
higher
powers
.
Rom.
13.
1.
And
Obey
them
that
have
the
rule
over
you
,
and
submit
your selves
,
for
they
watch
for
your
Soules
.
Hebr.
13.
17.
They
have
not
rejected
thee
,
but
they
have
rejected
me
,
1.
Sam.
8.
7.
He
that
heareth
you
,
heareth
me
;
and
hee
that
despiseth
you
,
despiseth
me
,
Luk.
10.
16.
The
man
that
will
do
presumptuously
,
and
will
not
hearken
unto
the
Priest
or
unto
the
Iudge
,
even
that
man
shall
die
,
Deut.
17.
12.
And
every
soule
which
will
not
heare
that
Prophet
,
shall
be
destroyed
from
among
the
people
,
Acts
3.
23.
Wheras
now
proud
Libertines
have
turned
Ghostly
Father
into
Fellowspeaker
;
and
the
bodie
of
ancient
Discipline
is
changed
like
Sibyll
,
or
echo
into
a
meer
voice
;
&
the
profane
vulgar
,
if
a
shoo
leak
,
or
a
wall
crack
,
or
an
Ague
shake
,
know
what
trade
to
resort
unto
:
but
let
the
conscience
shake
with
doubt
before
the
fact
,
and
quake
for
feare
after
the
fact
;
let
the
soule
be
mortally
sick
for
want
of
evacuation
;
let
a
sinful
leprosie
require
daily
direction
,
and
our
Saviour
to
maintain
Sacerdotall
authority
bid
them
,
Go
shew
your
selvs
to
the
Priests
,
Luk.
17.
14.
Yet
they
will
venter
their
lives
,
their
eternall
lives
,
and
die
in
their
sinnes
;
and
we
may
burn
all
the
Casuists
,
as
having
no
use
of
that
soveraigne
Divinity
.
Dearely
beloved
,
wee
are
falne
into
happy
times
,
when
nothing
doth
trouble
the
conscience
of
men
,
or
men
make
conscience
of
nothing
,
which
is
most
to
be
feared
.
Thus
having
vilified
the
power
of
Priesthood
and
Christs
Episcopall
Crosier
(
as
his
regal
Scepter
)
in
the
laws
Divine
&
Ecclesiasticall
,
in
the
Sacraments
and
Sacramentals
,
as
Confirmation
,
Confession
,
Penance
,
Orders
,
Extreme
Visitation
,
and
particular
Absolution
:
We
then
fondly
wonder
at
the
profanenesse
of
the
times
,
and
marvell
that
preaching
does
no
more
good
;
as
if
the
Flock
could
be
fed
,
cured
,
and
governed
only
by
the
Shepheards
Whistle
.
The
hearer
can
easily
contemne
the
power
of
the
Pulpit
,
and
divert
what
is
thrown
at
that
distance
:
For
if
we
teach
with
authority
,
it
is
proud
and
stately
:
if
reprehend
sharply
,
it
is
spleen
and
malice
:
if
instruct
meekly
,
it
is
not
powerfull
:
if
admonish
lovingly
,
why
not
others
?
If
they
like
the
man
indeed
,
they
give
him
leave
to
say
what
hee
list
,
and
take
leave
to
doe
what
they
list
;
but
if
they
like
not
the
man
,
what
they
understand
they
despise
;
what
they
understand
not
,
they
censure
;
And
with
the
Donatists
in
Saint
Austine
,
quod
volumus
,
sanctum
est
;
It
is
not
holy
doctrine
till
they
approve
it
.
The
two
Duties
thus
severally
considered
,
are
againe
naturally
concorporated
,
and
so
affoord
us
many
points
and
questions
incident
to
the
Times
,
and
pertinent
to
my
Text.
As
,
whether
the
Priest
or
Clergy
may
erre
in
doctrine
,
&
how
this
may
be
avoided
?
Whether
Prelates
according
to
the
Law
may
make
Orders
binding
the
Conscience
?
Whether
Clergie-men
may
not
meddle
in
Civill
Iustice
,
if
the
Law
heere
containes
the
Judiciall
part
,
as
well
as
the
Ceremoniall
?
Whether
reading
of
the
Law
bee
not
preaching
;
and
whether
preaching
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
be
not
a
publicke
declaring
of
Gods
will
by
persons
authorized
in
due
time
and
place
,
either
verbatim
,
or
paraphrastically
,
or
at
the
most
by
way
of
explication
and
application
directly
?
Not
but
that
other
discourses
of
Scripture
may
serve
for
the
stall
,
or
the
deske
,
on
some
extraordinary
Assemblies
.
What
is
that
eternall
Law
,
without
knowledge
of
which
none
can
be
saved
?
Whether
the
Law
of
Moses
is
abolished
,
or
established
,
or
partly
altered
,
and
how
farre
by
Christ
?
Whether
Christ
hath
not
delegated
as
much
spirituall
authority
to
the
Evangelicall
,
as
Moses
did
to
the
Aaronicall
Priesthood
?
Then
by
deduction
,
whether
the
English
Church
by
her
Constitutions
hath
not
sufficiently
provided
for
the
salvation
of
every
Parish
,
and
consequently
of
every
person
in
the
Parish
?
That
so
the
envy
of
preeminence
in
Priest
and
Parishioner
;
The
curiosity
and
partiality
of
hearing
the
Word
;
The
fancie
of
wanting
the
meanes
of
Grace
;
The
disturbance
of
setled
Christians
;
The
giddinesse
of
unsetled
Sectaries
;
The
discouraging
conceit
of
an
impossibility
in
common
people
,
ofever
fully
knowing
the
truth
and
their
duties
,
may
be
taken
away
:
and
obedient
livers
onely
counted
religious
professours
.
But
I
dare
not
looke
upon
these
Controversies
:
I
onely
observe
,
there
must
bee
in
GODS
Church
,
an
order
of
Priest
and
people
,
of
Clergy
and
Laitie
,
of
teaching
and
hearing
,
for
the
perpetuating
of
Religion
,
for
the
congregating
of
the
Saints
,
and
finishing
the
Kingdome
of
Grace
:
but
this
point
also
I
dare
not
prosecute
,
for
the
time
would
faile
mee
;
though
a
doctrine
most
excellent
,
both
in
the
story
and
the
uses
.
So
I
passe
from
the
two
Duties
,
to
his
perswasive
Reason
,
wrapt
up
in
a
short
description
of
the
Priest
,
For
hee
is
the
Messenger
of
the
LORD
of
Hosts
.
I
but
,
Hee
is
the
Angell
,
rather
Hebrew
;
and
so
say
,
the
ancient
Greek
and
Latine
,
R.
Salomon
,
Junius
,
Luther
,
and
the
Spanish
,
and
hee
alludes
to
his
own
name
,
Malachy
,
as
Saint
Hierome
thinkes
:
At
least
,
he
is
the
Ambassadour
,
as
some
modern
Translations
:
But
our
English
runs
low
and
flat
.
For
though
the
word
,
Malâc
,
may
largely
signifie
all
,
yet
to
speake
fitly
,
a
private
man
sends
Messengers
,
a
Prince
Ambassadours
,
the
Messias
Apostles
,
and
the
Lord
of
Heaven
Angels
.
Gods
Nuntioes
are
Angels
,
either
celestiall
,
as
Gabriel
,
Luk.
1.
26.
Or
terrestriall
,
and
then
either
extraordinary
Prophets
,
as
Iohn
Baptist
,
Mal.
3.
1.
Or
usually
and
ordinary
,
as
the
Priest
here
.
Neither
is
this
testimony
denied
him
in
either
Testament
:
An
Angell
came
up
from
Gilgal
,
Judg.
2.
1.
that
is
,
Phineas
the
Priest
,
say
the
Iews
:
say
not
before
the
Angell
,
Eccles.
5.
6.
that
is
,
the
judging
High
Priest
,
say
Expositors
:
A
woman
must
be
covered
in
the
Church
1.
Cor.
11.
10.
Because
of
the
Angels
,
that
is
,
the
teaching
Ministers
say
Beza
and
Drusius
:
And
the
Angels
of
the
seven
Churches
,
Revel.
1.
20.
are
Bishops
,
say
we
:
or
Pastors
and
Superintendents
,
say
they
,
who
cannot
pronounce
that
Shibbóleth
.
Dionysius
de
coelesti
Hierarchia
,
cap.
12.
will
give
a
Reason
of
this
promiscuous
naming
:
An
Angell
being
the
lowest
order
of
the
Nine
in
the
Church
triumphant
,
and
a
Priest
being
the
highest
order
of
the
seven
in
the
Church
militant
;
They
symbolize
in
nature
,
and
have
their
names
counterchanged
:
To
shew
the
unity
of
one
totall
Church
in
Heaven
and
Earth
under
Christ
:
He
is
called
a
ministring
spirit
,
this
a
spirituall
Minister
:
Hee
a
celestiall
Priest
,
this
a
terrestriall
Angell
:
By
a
like
Metathesis
,
as
John
Baptist
is
called
Malachi
,
Chap.
3.
17.
To
shew
the
harmonious
transition
and
connexion
of
both
Testaments
.
They
are
those
Angels
upon
Iacobs
Ladder
,
ascending
by
prayer
,
descending
by
doctrine
:
And
as
in
old
time
,
so
still
,
the
glory
of
the
Lord
appeares
from
between
the
Cherubims
in
the
likenesse
of
winged
Angels
.
Or
if
they
be
Ambassadours
and
Messengers
,
they
are
sent
from
heaven
by
the
LORD
of
Hosts
,
about
a
peace
betweene
God
the
Father
and
sinfull
Mankind
;
and
then
concerning
a
Marriage
betweene
his
Sonne
Christ
,
and
the
Church
of
Saints
:
Now
then
we
are
Ambassadors
for
Christ
,
as
though
God
did
beseech
you
by
us
;
we
pray
yes
in
Christs
stead
,
beye
reconciled
to
God
,
2.
Cor.
5.
20.
For
we
are
jealous
over
you
with
godly
jealousie
,
For
wee
have
espoused
you
to
one
Husband
,
that
we
may
present
you
a
glorious
Church
,
not
having
spot
or
wrinkle
,
as
a
chast
Virgin
to
Christ
,
2.
Cor.
11.
2.
Ephes.
5.
27.
But
I
come
to
the
use
of
this
Description
,
for
it
reflects
upon
the
duty
of
both
parties
.
First
,
it
teaches
the
Priest
humble
Moses
,
I
am
slow
of
speech
,
or
Ieremy
,
I
am
a
child
,
I
cannot
speake
:
Then
forward
Ahimaaz
,
Let
me
run
I
pray
.
To
such
hastie
Novices
,
Iohn
Pecham
sometime
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
,
applyes
that
of
David
,
2.
Sam.
10.
5.
Manete
in
Jericho
donec
crescat
barba
vestra
:
And
others
most
fitly
that
of
our
Saviour
,
Luke
24.
49.
Sedete
in
Ierusalem
,
quoadusque
induamini
virtute
ex
alto
.
For
what
purity
?
what
gravity
?
what
science
?
what
prudence
?
what
composed
and
prepared
elocution
may
be
justly
expected
of
an
Angell
?
And
how
shall
they
preach
,
except
they
be
sent
?
Rom.
10.
sent
,
first
by
God
secretly
exciting
them
,
then
by
the
Church
lawfully
ordaining
them
,
then
by
their
conscience
plainly
assuring
them
.
Secondly
,
it
teaches
him
carefull
Sive
;
and
wee
know
Him
,
whose
Fan
is
in
his
hand
,
to
be
the
great
Sheepheard
and
Bishop
of
soules
:
both
are
separating
instruments
,
and
denote
that
spirituall
discretion
,
which
is
the
soule
of
all
judgement
.
That
hee
neither
trust
to
his
owne
wit
or
invention
too
boldly
,
nor
rely
upon
his
memory
,
or
nimble
tongue
too
sodainly
,
nor
vent
himselfe
too
hastily
;
lest
hee
speake
his
own
rude
words
,
and
not
the
Lords
message
.
Here
the
word
at
my
mouth
,
and
then
give
them
warning
from
me
.
Is
the
tenour
of
Gods
Commission
,
Ezech.
3.
17.
That
hee
neither
augment
,
nor
diminish
,
nor
corrupt
,
nor
confound
,
nor
misplace
,
the
substantiall
parts
of
divine
Revelation
:
But
can
truly
say
with
the
Prophets
,
Heare
yee
the
Word
of
the
Lord
;
&
with
S.
Paul
,
I
received
of
the
Lord
,
what
I
delivered
unto
you
.
For
the
Angels
are
thought
to
speak
no
more
on
earth
,
then
what
they
heard
in
Heaven
:
and
the
same
is
well
expressed
by
Homer
,
when
he
makes
the
Angels
dispatched
from
his
Gods
,
to
receive
and
to
declare
the
same
things
by
the
same
lines
:
Nor
is
this
a
needlesse
Tautologie
,
but
a
most
observant
veracitie
.
Thirdly
,
it
teaches
him
bold
Receive
the
Holy
Ghost
;
remember
,
thou
art
elevated
above
this
wicked
world
,
and
indued
with
a
heavenly
power
.
When
thou
heardest
,
Whose
sinnes
thou
dost
forgive
,
they
are
forgiven
;
O
then
remember
,
Thou
retain
not
thy
own
sins
,
who
art
to
loose
the
sins
of
others
.
When
thou
tookest
the
Bible
,
with
authoritie
to
preach
the
Word
,
and
to
minister
the
holy
Sacraments
;
remember
thy
Commission
was
sealed
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
,
and
thou
dispatched
a
messenger
from
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
Be
not
then
flattered
or
terrified
to
please
the
sinfull
multitude
,
and
to
abuse
thy
Masters
trust
.
Keepe
thy
Angelicall
state
,
retaine
the
habit
and
language
of
thy
heavenly
Citie
,
conforme
not
thy selfe
to
their
base
vices
,
and
vicious
customes
.
—
Mitte
ostia
,
Caesar
,
Mitte
,
sed
in
magnâ
legatum
quaere
popinâ
:
If
they
hate
thee
for
this
Non-conformity
and
strangenesse
,
know
they
hated
God
and
Christ
first
:
If
yee
were
of
the
World
,
the
World
would
love
his
owne
,
as
our
Saviour
pronounces
upon
his
own
experience
:
But
now
yee
are
not
of
this
World
,
but
yee
descend
like
Angels
and
heavenly
Legates
into
this
lower
World
;
and
returning
home
,
yee
must
expect
a
reward
of
your
Master
sending
,
not
of
those
forreine
and
mundane
Nations
to
whom
yee
are
sent
:
For
yee
are
the
messengers
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
Lastly
,
this
description
looks
also
back
upon
the
people
,
as
our
Saviour
did
upon
Peter
:
And
teaches
them
,
First
spirituall
obedience
.
Obey
them
that
have
the
rule
over
you
,
and
submit
your selves
,
Heb.
13.
If
soveraigne
Magistrates
be
Gods
,
I
have
said
,
yee
are
gods
:
I
am
sure
,
consecrated
Priests
may
be
counted
Angels
:
And
there
is
a
majesticall
and
more
then
humane
splendor
in
both
Offices
,
and
a
dutifull
submission
due
to
the
dictates
of
both
persons
.
Saint
Pauls
proviso
had
a
better
ground
,
then
some
may
at
the
first
imagine
;
to
reject
an
Angell
from
Heaven
preaching
against
his
Gospel
,
Galat.
1.
For
if
they
will
not
beleeve
one
Angel
,
why
should
they
beleeve
another
?
If
not
a
Paul
,
why
a
Gabriel
?
Hast
thou
then
any
matter
of
faith
to
be
resolved
,
any
case
of
conscience
to
be
cleered
,
any
temptation
to
be
disabled
,
any
suite
in
heaven
to
be
ended
,
any
petition
to
Christ
to
be
preferred
,
any
soule-businesse
?
Why
,
Levies
curse
is
become
the
peoples
blessing
,
Divide
them
in
Jacob
,
and
scatter
them
in
Israel
,
Genes.
49.
God
hath
his
Visores
and
Legier-ambassadours
in
every
Parish
:
Repaire
to
thy
lawfull
Pastor
;
what
he
bindes
and
looses
with
the
golden
Zone
of
Christ
,
what
hee
shuts
and
opens
with
the
key
of
David
,
shall
be
ratified
in
Heaven
.
Secondly
,
it
teaches
them
respectfull
Let
the
Presbyters
that
rule
well
be
counted
worthy
of
double
honour
,
1.
Tim.
5.
17.
The
Lord
could
as
easily
have
sent
you
true
Angels
,
but
hee
was
pleased
in
mercy
to
teach
men
by
men
:
Yet
that
his
Ministers
shold
not
lose
any
due
respect
,
the
Angels
themselves
are
joyn'd
in
commission
,
and
attend
upon
our
divine
Liturgie
.
When
Christ
the
Angell
of
the
Covenant
began
to
preach
,
the
Angels
came
and
plaid
the
Deacons
,
Math.
4.
Send
men
to
Ioppa
,
and
call
for
Simon
,
says
an
Angell
to
Cornelius
Acts
10.
As
preferring
Saint
Peter
before
himselfe
in
this
businesse
of
conversion
.
And
the
Angell
confesses
,
that
hee
was
but
a
fellow-servant
with
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
Revelat.
22.
And
indeed
the
word
Evangelist
,
supposes
him
to
be
a
good
Angell
.
Let
then
the
majesty
of
his
Master
,
excuse
the
defects
of
his
person
;
let
the
Law
and
Message
which
hee
brings
,
beare
out
the
blemishes
of
his
nature
:
And
let
both
perswade
thee
,
to
give
him
a
loving
and
heartie
welcome
.
If
Abraham
and
Lot
had
knowne
them
to
be
Angels
in
the
shape
of
men
,
they
wold
(
if
possible
)
have
given
lower
obeysance
,
and
higher
titles
,
Gen.
18.
&
19.
Achilles
was
not
so
proud
and
furious
,
but
he
would
with
curtesie
salute
these
Messengers
in
the
very
style
of
our
Prophet
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Nor
were
the
Galatians
so
rude
&
barbarous
,
though
so
taxed
by
Saint
Ierome
;
but
they
received
the
Apostle
Saint
Paul
,
as
an
Angell
of
God
,
Nay
,
even
as
Christ
Iesus
himselfe
.
Galat.
4.
14.
Thirdly
,
It
teaches
them
liberall
Take
heed
to
thy self
,
that
thou
forsake
not
the
Levite
,
as
long
as
thou
livest
,
Deut.
12.
19.
Much
more
take
heed
,
that
thou
Feare
the
Lord
,
and
honour
the
Priest
,
Ecclus
7.
31.
But
,
O
how
beautifull
upon
the
mountains
are
the
feet
of
Evangelicall
Messengers
,
cryes
the
true
Church
:
If
their
feet
be
so
beautifull
,
how
glorious
are
their
bodies
drest
up
in
Sacerdotall
ornaments
?
Let
then
prophane
Edomites
,
and
Sacrilegious
Hypocrites
scoffe
at
their
name
,
person
,
office
,
and
attire
;
Let
them
send
Gods
Messengers
upon
their
base
errands
,
place
them
below
their
Serving-men
,
esteeme
them
below
their
Parasites
;
nay
,
deride
and
abuse
,
persecute
&
destroy
them
for
their
message
:
But
let
them
know
,
if
the
injury
of
Legates
hath
been
so
deeply
and
bloudily
revenged
;
as
the
law
of
Nations
,
and
the
Records
of
History
do
fully
testifie
:
If
foolish
Hanun
lost
his
Crown
,
and
the
Ammonites
their
lives
for
misusing
Davids
servants
,
2.
Sam.
10.
If
the
King
in
the
Parable
sent
forth
his
Armies
,
&
destroyed
them
,
who
slue
his
Ministers
inviting
to
the
Mariage
of
his
Sonne
,
Matth.
22.
Then
heare
a
tumultuous
noyse
of
the
Kingdomes
of
Nations
gathered
together
:
The
Lord
of
Hosts
mustereth
the
host
of
the
battaile
,
Esa.
13.
And
will
revenge
the
great
indignities
done
to
many
of
his
Messengers
:
Especially
when
they
bring
you
good
tydings
of
great
joy
,
a
Gospell
of
peace
,
a
covenant
of
grace
,
a
promise
of
everlasting
salvation
.
In
one
word
,
let
the
Priest
be
as
an
Angell
of
God
in
knowing
good
and
evill
:
Let
the
people
piously
seeke
the
Law
of
him
,
as
an
Angell
sent
from
God
:
So
shall
both
Priest
and
people
become
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
like
the
Angels
in
purity
of
holinesse
,
in
perfection
of
happinesse
,
in
patheticall
singing
that
Trisagium
,
Holy
,
Holy
,
Holy
,
Lord
God
of
Sabaoth
;
Heaven
and
Earth
are
full
of
the
majesty
of
thy
Glory
;
to
whom
the
Father
,
the
Sonne
,
and
the
Holy
Ghost
,
bee
all
power
and
prayse
Amen
.
I
submit
all
to
the
judgement
of
my
Ecclesiasticall
Superiours
.
Aut
aberrantem
dirige
,
Aut
dirigentem
sequere
.
The
end
.