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Show hap. a. fo wte bein m~rry are om body ill Chri.ftt alld r:very _one me_mbers one of another b~ing (!Jm (faiLh he,ver:6.) different f)fti ( gtfts com pre• hending both offices and -grace) wlf:t~er Prophe'!J', let.'" prophecy_ae_cording to the proportion offaith, or mmijlery, let Uf waue on our mtmjlery, whether be thi>t teachetb oil teaching, ot he that exh':"tetk Oil tO<hurtation. And looke then, as in the natur.:Jl body, It bemg the afrion of the tongue'to fpeJke,itis his fimcbon and office t? fpea~, and not to fee: and it being the a&ion.o~ t~e eye to fee, It IS h1s fimB:ion to [ee, and not to heare; So It IS Ill the members o~ the body ofChrifi,it being the at:l:ion ofther:ache~ to te~ch,~e1s to attend unto teacbing, not unto exhortatiOn ; and It bemg the aftion of· the Pallor or Exhortor to exhort, he is to attend on exhortation, not on teaching. R•. .f . 3· Ift he Apo!He lpeake here ?n~y offtverall at:l:ions or exercifes of feverall gifts, but both co-mc1dent to the fame perfon and officer in ·the Church ; why then doth he command the Teacher to waite OH teachina ?,1nd the E'Xhorter to waite on exhortation ? for he that peif.;'vmcth an afrion according_ to c?js gift,, whkh is not peculiar to his office, but co~m?n t_D hi~ With men1 of~therdlices, is never commanded, nor IS 'It h1s dune to anend· or waite on .fiJch an a!l:ion. As if a man have a gift oflove,om-rel'. cy, or liberalitie, and according to that gift be fit to perfom1e an all:ion of giving Almes, yet he. is no~ co~1manded to a~te1!d or waite upon Almefgiving, unleffe It be·lus offiwas well as h •s gift ?• Objell. Attending,orwaiting, is not cxpreffedin the Originall, but in the tran!lation onely. ' Anfw. Though it be not exprelfed in the 'Originall, it is neceffarlly intended, for either ii1ch a word as exprelfeth waiting, . or at leaf\ the verbe fubflamive i~u, muflneeds be underllood,which holdeth forth the fame fenCe ;'He tb:it te.:cbeth,let bim be tea.:hillg; he that exhatteth, let him be in exhattAtion; which is all one, as let him attend to it, let him make it his proper andconflant worke. So a like example in I 7'im. 4· I 5. i, 7•.:'/m· la81, which is the fame phrafe,andwhich isfitlytranflated,Givethy Jelft who/Jy tiJ them; the fame with i..-'X' v<cw1~· vet. 16. Continue or dweU in them. • And indeed experience !heweth , that teachinp; and exho~ng ue fo far different one from another, and flow from fuch different gifts, that they are fe!dome found, at Ieaft in any eminency, both Sea:. :. both of therrrin one and the ' fame perlon ; and 'therefore require fcverall officers for the difpenfing of them: you have many·men of eminent dexterity for clearc opening of a Text, for jt1dicious g.tthering and•handling found Do!l:rine from it; and alfo acme and ftrongforcoAvitl:ion of a coilcraryerror ~nd hl:!rclie, whb yet are VOC'IJ cold in CKho~tion ; and on 'the other fide, you have fome very fervent in exhortation, who are very confufed and generaU and common in teaching. · But be'Gdes this,the need of the Church,and the weight of both, the works of teaching and cxhortinii.., calleth for feverall officers to attend to both, the explication of Scripture, and of the Principles and Do&rine of Religion folidly and di!lint:l:ly, with the difcuffion of controverfies, which are included in ( J'•d'tr4x·~JJ"• '"'i'X") Do[trine and Reproof ( 2 7'im. 3· 16.) well attended too, will take up the whole time and talents of a moll judicious Divine ; and on theothet· fide, the direB:ion and inllruB:ion of the people in matters of prat:l:ice,the rdormati<ll'l of their manners,both in their private carriage, and in theiE families ; as alfo in the Church and Commonwe.tlth ; and the fMrring up of men thereto, with thereproof of all diforders and abr!fcs in life and converf.~tion,which are in'oluded in .... p~r muJ'tl~• ?olr i.J''""""""~ inllmt:l:ion andcorreB:ion, 2 'Tim. 3. 1 6. thefe well a ttendcd to, will take up the vigour and llrength of die mofi P"Ident and vigilant Pallor of any Congregation. All which things con!idercd, we have thought it needfull to make ufe of the bounty of the Lord Jefus, to fini01 our Churches,(as wee'b1cffe his Name, moll ofthem be) with both thefe forts of pre~ching Elders, Pallors and Teachers'; ne'verthe· lcffe, hee that-is ·gifted for both thele in any good meafut·e, let him ufe both; yet attend principally on that, to which he is rnofl eminently gifi:cd and callep. S l! C To II. AS for ruling Elders, the fame Text ofScirpture (&m.12. 8.) fpeaketh as exprelly for their di!lint:l: office alfo;forthere fpeaking of the feverall members of the body of Chrift (which is his Church ).he directing them to attend to their proper work : as the Teacher to teaching, the Pallor to exhortadon,the Deacon to give witb |