Madan on Article XXIII: Of Ministering in the Congregation

Martin Madan, 1772

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Article XXIII. Of Ministering in the Congregation
It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of publick preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same.
And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have publick authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)

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Jer. xxiii. 21. I have not sent these Prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

» As xiIi. 2. As they minister’d to the Lord, and fasted, the holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the Work whereunto I have called them. And (Ver. 3.) when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their Hands on them, they sent them away. 1 Tim. iv. 14. Neglect not the Gift that is in thee, which was given thee by Prophecy, with the laying on of the«Hands of the Presbytery. 2 Tit. ii. 2. The Things that thou hast heard of me among many Witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful Men, who shall be able to teach others also. Tm. i. 5. For this Pur- pose I left Thee in Crete, that thou shouldit fet in Order the Things that are wanting, and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed thee.

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Of speaking in the Congregation in fuch a Tongue as the People undertandeth,

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