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to place, poor S. Paul was now ready to be offered, and the time of
bis departure was at band; nor to conftitute new Churches, as his
Vicar; but confidering what a black Cloud of perfecution hung
over the Apostles head, to be fedulous, diligent, ftrong and
conftant in preaching the Gofpel, what form foever is poured
down upon him, his words are, 2 Tim, 4, 5. But watch thou in all
things, endure affliction, do the work of an Evangelift, make full proof
of thy miniftry Indeed Miniftry is a general term, comprehen-
five of all Ecclefiaftical Services, when it hath not bounds put
unto it: But a fhort review of the Chapter will foon inform
us, what the Apostle meant by this Miniftry, and why he would
have Timothy fo careful to fulfill it, by watching in all things,
and doing the works of an Evangelift: what? verf. 2. Preach the
word, be inftant in season, out of feason, reprove, rebuke, exhort,
with all long Juffering and Doctrine why? verf. 3, 4. For the
time will come, when they will not endure found Doctrine, but after
their own lusts shall heap unto themfelves teachers, having itching
ears;
and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall
be turned unto fables. In all this there is nothing like the works
mentioned in the Presbyterian Definitions, nothing but what is
common with a work of Philips, namely to preach the Gospel in
despite of all oppofition; Philip did fo at Samaria, and so muft
every Evangelift do, where-ever he cometh, becaufe mén feldom
entertain a new Religion, till they have ftrugled hard to retain
the old one; and nothing, which is not now required of every
Church-officer at this day. For was Timothy a temporary Evan-
gelift because he preached the Gospel, was inftant in feafon and out
of feafon, watched in all things, endured affliction, did the work of
an Evangelift, and made full proof of his miniftry in times of perfecu
tion, and heretical Apoftacy. Then cowardly Deferters of their
Flocks in fuch hours of temptation, may alledge in their own
defence, that it cannot be expected at their hand to fet up a
Standard against thofe over-flowing wickedneffes, leaft they
fhould ufurp upon the ceafed work of the temporary Evange-
lift.

4. Whatever Junior Presbyters think of this phrafe, [Do the minent Pres work of an Evangelift] their Seniors are not fo refolute for its byters either formal and ftrict acceptation. Calvin is doubtful, he faith, But doubt or deny

the formal acceptation of the word Evangelift in this place.

Caterum an Evangelifta nomine generaliter fignificet Paulus quofvis Evangelii miniftros, an vero fpeciale fuerat aliquid munus in certum eft. Calv. ad loc.

Eam non tam Timochei quam aliorum caufa fcriptam fuisse, facile judicabunt, qui dili

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genter omnia expenderent. Malta enim continet, que fupervacaneum effet feribere fi Paulus cum folo Timotheo negotium baluiffet. Juvenis erat, nondum ea authoritate inftruétus, que fufficeres ad cohibendos bomines protervos, qui contra infurgerent. Calv.proem. in 1 Tim.

whether S. Paul fignifie by the name Evangelift any Gofpel Minifter,
or a fpecial Office, is uncertain. Doth Calvin here doubt how to
fenfe it? Elsewhere he refolves it to me, (and I think to himself
and to all other men who will abide by his reafons) that he never
thought Timothy to be fuch an Evangelift as he and his Partizans
define, to wit,having a Vicar-Apostleship over all or many Chur
ches; for to establish his Presbytery, as well over the Evange
lifts then,as over the Bishops now, he faith, Whoever shall diligently
weigh the whole contents of the Epistle, will eafily judge, that it was
not writ fo much for Timothy's fake, as for the fake of other men:
for it contains many things needlefs to have been written, if S. Paul's
bufineß bad onely been with Timothy, who was a young man, not
furnished with fufficient authority to reftrain ftubborn rebels. But
herein as Calvin took no notice of S. Paul's particular directing
of the Epiftle unto Timothy, and fingle falutation of him, with-
out the leaft mention of his Presbytery, 1 Tim. 1. 1, 2, 3, &c.
Paul an Apostle of Jefus Chrift, &c. Unto Timothy my own fon in
the Faith, Grace, mercie and peace from God our Father, and Jefus
Christ our Lord. As I befought thee to abide ftill at Ephefus, when
I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge fome, that they
teach no other Doctrine. Compare alfo, 1 Tim. 1. 18. 1 Tim. 3.
14, 15. 1 Tim. 4. 6, 16. 1 Tim. 5. 1, 7, 9, 11, 19, 21. 1 Tim.
6. 11, 12, 13, 20. fo neither did this great Expofitor heed the
injunction, 1 Tim. 4. 12. Let no man defpife thy youth; or feared
not to be found in the number of thofe Defpifers. Bullinger In loc.
expounds the word Evangelift by a Gospel-preacher, fo alfo doth
Zanchy, as may be feen in his fore-quoted Definition. The lat-

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ter Helvetick Confeffion is of the fame Judgement, it faith, Evan- Evangelista gelifts were Gospel-preachers, thus Paul bids Timothy de the work of precones Evani gelii, quomodo an Evangelift. To these may be added Zuinglius, Aretius, and & Paulus TiPifcator upon the place. Our Affembly being fomewhat over- motheum juber preffed by the Diffenters arguments for Timothy's Ordination by opus implere the Apoftle, not by the Presbytery,burft out into this paffionate Evangelifta demand, Our Brethren must prove, that Timothy was ordained an E- Bofter. Genev. vangelift; wherein as they harp upon the former harth ftring, that 1581 an Evangelift, or other Officer,may be conftituted without ordi- Anfw. to Diff. nation, for there is the fame reafon for one as for another, and pag.s. for any as for one, fo they teftifie their diffidence of Timothy's Evangelizate at Ephefin, fince his defignment and ordination to

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'do what he did there, is most plainly proved by 1 Tim. 1. 3. 2 Tim. 1. 6.

We fhall hem in this piece with fome further Teftimonies of Presbyterians both in judgement and practice, who (whither out of fear of receiving out-ragious dealing from the more rigid of their Faction, or for other Reasons which whoever elfe can more exactly aflign them, may do it) taking it as it were for granted, that according to the principles of others of their Brethren, Tim thy and Titus might elsewhere be called Evangelifts, or do fuch Evangelical works as are affigned by the Definers, do notwithstanding deny that they were called Evangelifts, or did their works at Ephefus, or Creet, in vertue of S. Paul's Epiftles directed to them. Many might be regiftred in this Catalogue, we fhall onely point at two of the brightest Stars in the firmament of the Churches of Germany or France. They are,

1. Scultetus (according to the tranfcript of his opinion by the Author of the Confellions and proofs of Proteftant Divines concerning Epifcopacie) faith, But Paul taught for fome time both in Epbejus and Creet, therefore he commands Timothy and Titus to abide there, not as Evangelists, but as Church-Governours; which alf the Epiftles written to them both do evince. For in those places rat, ideo Ti Churches were not to be gathered, which was the work of Evangelists, motheum but gathered Churches were to be governed, which was the work of BiTitum ilidem fhops. And all his precepts are fo confirmed, as they do not specialjubet manere ly belong to Tim thy or Titus, but are to be referred generally to all non utique Bishops: And therefore thy Square not at all to the temporary Evangeliftas, fed ut ecclefia works of Evangelists.

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fubject, and becaufe it may not pafs without a ferious remark, of audeant in fome Readers, I fhall clofe with the Judgement of Holy Luthers Repoturiones who not onely proves that in every City there ought to be Bishops by fuper propofiteDivine Right, according to that of S. Paul to Titus, For this cause onerLyfe p left thee In Creet; But maintains, That this was the Refolution putar, concluf. suc of his Predeceffors, S. Hierom and S. Auguftine. 9 do 13. Der perum. Tom. I. We hope what hath been faid fufficiently proveth, that this fol. 36.91 Text, 2 Tim. 4. 5. doth not treat of Evangelift in a strict fenfe. And whoever is to perfwaded may collect enough out of Presby terian Authors, to confirm him in that opinion, and withal give t him fad and juft caufe of complaint against the want of honefty, ingenuity and prudence in late Presbyters, who wilfully and fpitefully threw an Officer out of the Church, becaufe his and Timothy's work of ordination and cenfures were one and the fame, when they had little of any thing elfe, but this ambiguous phrafe of S. Paul's bidding Timothy do the work of an Evangelift, to put a colour upon their Attempt: wherein their unbridled paffions, not the teachings of Gods Spirit, or the concurrence of their prime Leaders opinions, drave them so furioufly, as they never heeded either that they were truckling Divine Inflitutions under their yesterday Inventions, or that God was gone out against them, and had taken off the Chariot Wheels of their Reafons, fo that they drave heavily, and phinged Themselves and Caufe in a Red Sea of bloody Abfurdities, and Unnaturalhefs; moft whereof are obvious to our laft twenty years experience, and the reft are piled up in great heaps in the papers paling between the diffenting Brethren, and the Afembly. Or finally, that the Eraftians and Socinians, at divers Breaches (all of the Presbyters making) took advantage to bring in the Abomination of Defolation into the Holy Place. Presbyters in the mean time crying, Reformation, Reformation, to their new-invented Discipline, as justly as the Tyraelites faid to the Calf which Aaron made, Thefe Be thy Gods, O Ifrael, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, Exod. 32. 4. And as wifely dancing naked in the midst of their Enemies.

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Object. If Timothy's Evangelizate be not proved by the Noune objed. The Verb or Parti. Evangelift, 2 Tim. 4. 5. that's no bar why it may not be proved 4.5. ciple elsewhere the Verb or Participle, evangelize, e elsewhere u-ufed of Timofed of him.

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writings I have feen in this controverfie alledged it. But an Arguments ing it have escaped both their and mine obfervation, yet fuch for Timothies text will prove little, unless

evangelizate. 1. It fpeaks of Timothy in a diftin&t fenfe,because those words or that he was are used of feveral perfons of divers Orders, as hath been be temporary. fore obferved.

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2. It must have relation to him, doing thofe works at Ephefus been already which are required of him by the firit Epiftle. Which if it answered and have, then Philip was strictly no Evangelift; and the Office will is referred to be attended with all the Abfurdities mentioned in the former that place. 2. in His tempo- exceptions, against the Presbyterian Definitions. We deny rary exercife therefore, till fuch new Text is alledged, and fuch fenfe juftifiaof his Office at bly affixed to it, that Timothy was formally an Evangelift, or Ephelus. This is urged works of that Officer. that the works he did at Ephefus, were the proper and diftin&

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This fhall fuffice in refutation of the first fort of Presbyterian proofs of Timothy's evangelizate at Ephesus.

But we have not yet done, for as they endeavor to prove it by the aforefaid Scripture, fo by their own fuppofitions, that he

was temporary, 3.

By this temporariness, they understand two things:

1. His Office; or that it was limited to that time. This we truft will need no further refutation, to a Reader and Confiderer of our feventh exception against the Presbyterian Definitions.

2. His exercife of his Office; or that he was temporarily, or for a time engaged as a Evangelift at Ephefus; our business is with this latter, whereupon lies the main weight of their cause, many words they ufe to evince it, but upon what grounds, and with what Reasons, we will enquire, and let the Reader judge.

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The Womb which conceives, bears and brings forth the rest of their imaginary Arguments, is, Timothy travailed from place to place, without any fettled refidence. The Wight Divines tel! King Charles the Bleffed, that Timothy's Evangelizate bears with fore ftrefs upon this foundation. We will feel how it doth fuftain it, Band hope to difcover it was fet thereunder, as the pillars under Sano di Dalilah's houfe, for the ruine of their caule..

Generally and Before we transcribe their particular reasons to prove this af fwered by asl sight ftating fertion, or prepare to examine them: We premife this necessaof the question ry conceffion: Timothy went with, and without St. Paul to divers Churches. But this is not our question: But whether after St. Paul befought him to abide at Ephefus, he removed thence

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