ད་ 4. Calvin and many other e to place, poor S. Paul was now ready to be offered, and the time of 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 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, I Helvet.Confef. 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 do At Paulus Ephefi, & in Creta ali quando docue '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. ut gubernatores. Id quod etiam epiftole ad utrumq; fcripta evincunt. In his enim non ecclefia colligenda, que erat evangeliftarum, fed collecte gubernande que eft epifcoporum rationem illis prafcribit funt que præcepra omnia ita confirmata, ut non fpeciatim ad Timotheum vel Titum, fed generatim ad omnes-Epifcopos referantur. Idebque ad temporariam Evangeliftarum poteftatem Thinime quadrent. Scultet Com.in Tit.pag.10. wids Quomodo Lap 2. Du Moulin faith, However, thou shalt call Timothy, Titus, or pellaveris Mark, whether Bishops, or Evangelifts, it appeareth that they bad BiTirum de Mar-hops for their Succeffors of their pre-eminency. Timotheum" •cum, feu-Epif Copos frue Evangeliftas. Conftat eos habuiffe Successores Epifcopos,bæredes illius pre-eminenDu Moulin. Epift. 3. ad Epifc. Winton. These are the Sentences of those two learned Divines, and although I promised to mention no mo e, nor fhall infert any more of their Judgement, yet because of its near relation to this fubject 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. wherein their aid 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. thy may prove Ianfwer, I am in a manner affured, there is no text where the his evangeliverb or participle is ufed in that fenfe of Timothy, having made Anfwered nefome fearch after it, and cannot finde it, neither have any whofe gatively. Ff writings 2. Presbyteri grant 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. 1. In his office which hath 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& by them Generally from his tra vails. 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. 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 difcharged |