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Show MafterJohn Cottons Anfwer witneffi of hi< Tru rh, in thir particular, Mr. Canne; to mak(a large andfJitbfuU Reply to a Bookeprintedirz Mr. Robinfons name, ten• ding to prtnJe fucb a law[uU Liberty. Reply. Mr. Cann is unknowne unto me , and his Booke alfo : which I h1ve not had che Libercy to gee, in thefe remote ends of the world·. I !hall willin~y be~ow che rea~ing of t?em if they come.'~ my han~s, ar.d ~odgt~e opportun~cy, efpectally if I fee the fptrlt of a fauhfull wtme!fe m them, whtch the Exdmioer extolleth. Onely I am apt to thinke, as young men grow in yea res, and !lifts, they wUl alfo grow up to the mellow-mildne!fe, and fofmdfc and moderation ol riper age as Mr. Robinfon in many thin~s did. Now from the name of Engli/h Preachers (which I ufed in my f~eech) .t~e Examiner though he feeme to decline the e11ga~i ng of htmfelfc 111 a comroverlie abouc hearing of them, yet lie ukech oc·· calion to enterinto a threefold difcourCe about them. The ftrjlin (thu chapter) concerning tbu title , Eng!'ilh Prtacherr. Secondly, concerning he3ring them in ch~pter 26: Thirdly concer· ning their calling in chap. 27. The fumme of his difcourfe about the title of thefe Preachers, ftandeth in chefe paniculan. · Firjl, that Mr .. Cotcon ack_norvledg~tl1 ,, the ordinary .ll1iniflerr of the. Golfe!, toP a jim, Teachm, Bi(bopr, Ovtrfeerr Elderr : and that their proper wor~ i<, to feed and gtnJerne, a truly c;nvcrt<d ho!J and god~ p<ople,gathered imo a jlnck..."' Church-Ejlat<. ' ' AndnnJ proper~ l'reacb~r, to convert, beget, mak,.• Difcipler,. which the Apopler, and Evan?_eliftr proper~ were : fo that according to Mr. Coctons confeffionr, .Engltfh Preacherr are nnt PaflorJ, Teacherr, Bijbopr, Eldm, hut Preacherr of glad newa ( Evangeliflr) men font to convert and g•tber Clmrcbe~, ( Apofller,) &c. . Secondly, ye: the Enminer confe!fech, chat at the Pallors fee• dm~ lm jloc.k..., .and<Jt thel'rophetr propbeC)ing in the Church, an un· b.t,,,.~ commg m may becM1Jin"d, &c. but thu ir accidema/1, &c. Th~rdly, the Examiner acknowledgeth that ic plea fed God to wor~e perfm•U Repentance in the he•rtr of thou{andJ in Germany, England, Low-Count~ier, France, Scotland, Ireland, &c. Yea, ~d n:ho k._nowetb but m Icaly , Spaine, and Rome, alfo, &•·· but •0 tbn bath been Hnder ·the nQtion pf Minijlm fieding their jlocfv, nol to Mafter Roger Williams. notef Pre•cherr (en; to convert the unconverted, and.unbeleiving. Reply. 1. Thou~h I acknowledgo che ordinary Miniflersof the Gofpel, to be Paftors and Teachers : yet it is farre from me to thinke( howfoever the Examiner againll my mind reporceth my mind other wife) that they are not properly Preachers; co convert• beget, or make Difciples, &c. . For ficllthough che worke of ordinary Minillers were not to convert, but to feed foules: yet their atl: of feeding is properly cxercifed by preaching the word. Timothy( as a Miniller )is taught of P ,,.1 how to behave himfelfe in the boule of God which is the Church cJ Gud, I.Tim. 3· J S· . And chis he gave him in charge (as one weat part ofhiswo•ke) to preach the word in (eafon and out of (e•for~, 2 Tim. 4· 17 2. Befidesthey were neicher Evangelill!, nor Apollle!, furely (fur chen they could not have been fo mitC•rried) but che ordin«ry Minifters of the Gofpel, ( Pallors; and TeJchers of Chu cch~s ) Qf wbom Paulfpeakech, (Phil. I. IS, 16,) Some preach.Chrill faich ·he, even of en vie, and Hrife, ·and (orne of good will: The one preach Chrill of comention not fincerely : che other of.Love. Againe, Paul faith the Lord ha~h Qrd•ined, that tbey.who preacp etlu 6njfrd jho11ld live of the GofPel.;~~ , Cgr. 9• 14, Sl)eakech he that on• .IY ,of Apc·fll~~, and Evangelifts~ onely, and nor . of ordinar.y ' (i:liurch· Officers·? of aJI.tbubtldfe,.according to Gal. 6. 6· Moreover, what ane l?reaohero but publifhers of che Gofpel , .or gf•d tydinJI,S of che word of God? for fo faith the .'lpotlle, 'preach the word, 2 Tim. 4· 2 .' And what is preaching the word, hut explic<tion and applicuion of it? ' and i1 noc the cxpl 'c)cion and applic•tion of the word, as lit to feed Coules ,. as to converc them? Secondly, when he makes it to be not the proper wo• ke of P ~florJ, aud Teachirl, to preach for convarfion, but~ accident.Jli f!nely, iJn1d cou.vteth a'lll caUetb it a m?Jl prep1ojletom wor~f.r ordirJJ'), kliniflerr to preach for co1lverfinu , 6"'t.'. He mull needs give me leave to diffent from him, my Reafons be 1. from the intlimtion and wo• ke of the Mini fi ery to the worlds end, wtlertof one is, to make Difciple!, M.mh.28. 19, 20. S..y not, that is a peculiar AEtof the Apoftolick Office: for the Lord Jefus fpeaketh of three Afu: maKing Difdples, Bapcizing, Teaching : |