_Monster_; A Letter-Knowledge _Heathenized.] The third and main
Part of their Literature is _School Divinity_, a _Monster_, made
up of some _Scriptural Notions_ of _Truth_, and the _Heathenish
Terms_ and _Maxims_; being, as it were, the _Heathenish Philosophy
Christianized_, or rather, the _literal external Knowledge of Christ
Heathenized_. It is Man in his first, fallen, natural State, with
his devilish Wisdom, pleasing himself with some Notions of Truth,
and adorning them with his own sensual and carnal Wisdom, because he
thinks the Simplicity of the Truth too low and mean a Thing for him;
and so despiseth that Simplicity, wheresoever it is found, that he may
set up and exalt himself, puffed up with this his monstrous Birth.
It is the Devil, darkening, obscuring, and veiling the Knowledge of
God, with his serpentine and worldly Wisdom; that so he may the more
securely deceive the Hearts of the Simple, and make the Truth, as
it is in itself, despicable and hard to be known and understood, by
multiplying a thousand difficult and needless Questions, and endless
Contentions and Debates. All which, he who perfectly knoweth, is not
a Whit less the Servant of Sin than he was; but ten Times more so, in
that he is exalted, and proud of Iniquity, and so much the farther
from receiving, understanding, or learning the Truth, as it is in
its own naked Simplicity; because he is full, learned, rich, and
wise in his own Conceit: And so those that are most skilled in it,
wear out their Day, and spend their precious Time about the infinite
and innumerable Questions they have feigned and invented concerning
it. A certain learned Man called it, _A twofold Discipline, like the
Race of the Centaurs, partly proceeding from divine Sayings, partly
from philosophical Reasons_. [Sidenote: _Its needless Questions and
endless Janglings._] A thousand of their Questions they confess
themselves to be no-ways necessary to Salvation; and yet many more
of them they could never agree upon, but are, and still will be, in
endless Janglings about them. The Volumes that have been written
about it, a Man in his whole Age could scarce read, though he lived
to be very old; and when he has read them all, he has but wrought
himself a great deal more Vexation and Trouble of Spirit than he had
before. These certainly are the _Words multiplied without Knowledge;
by which Counsel hath been darkened_, Job xxxviii. 2. They make the
Scripture the Text of all this Mass; and it is concerning the Sense of
it that their voluminous Debates arise. But a Man of a good upright
Heart may learn more in half an Hour, and be more certain of it, by
waiting upon _God_, and his _Spirit in the Heart_, than by reading
a thousand of their Volumes; which by filling his Head with many
needless Imaginations, may well stagger his Faith, but never confirm
it: And indeed those that give themselves most to it, are most capable
to fall into Error, as appeareth by the Example of _Origen_, who, by
his Learning, was one of the first, that falling into this Way of
interpreting the Scriptures, wrote so many Volumes, and in them so many
Errors, as very much troubled the Church. [Sidenote: _Whereby _Arius_
fell into Error and Schism._] Also _Arius_, led by this Curiosity and
human Scrutiny, despising the Simplicity of the Gospel, fell into his
_Error_, which was the Cause of that horrible Heresy which so much
troubled the Church. Methinks the Simplicity, Plainness, and Brevity of
the Scriptures themselves, should be a sufficient Reproof for such a
Science; and the Apostles, being honest, plain, illiterate Men, may be
better understood by such Kind of Men now, than with all that Mass of
scholastick Stuff, which neither _Peter_, nor _Paul_, nor _John_, ever
thought of.
§. XXII. [Sidenote: _The _Apostasy_, and its dangerous _Consequence.]
But this Invention of Satan, wherewith he began the _Apostasy_, hath
been of dangerous Consequence; for thereby he at first spoiled the
Simplicity of Truth, by keeping up the _Heathenish Learning_, which
occasioned such Uncertainty, even among those called _Fathers_, and
such Debate, that there are few of them to be found, who, by Reason
of this Mixture, do not only frequently contradict one another,
but themselves also. [Sidenote: _Many of the _Fathers_ do not only
contradict each other, but themselves also, and why?_] And therefore
when the _Apostasy_ grew greater, he, as it were, buried the Truth with
this Veil of Darkness, wholly shutting out People from true Knowledge,
and making the Learned (so accounted) busy themselves with idle and
needless Questions; while the weighty Truths of God were neglected, and
went, as it were, into Disuse.
Now, though the grossest of these Abuses be swept away by
_Protestants_; yet the evil Root still remains, and is nourished and
upheld; and the Science kept up, as being deemed necessary for a
Minister: For, while the pure Learning of the _Spirit_ of _Truth_ is
despised and neglected, and made ineffectual, Man’s fallen earthly
Wisdom is upheld; and so in that he labours and works with the
_Scriptures_, being out of the _Life_ and _Spirit_ which those that
wrote them were in, by which only they are rightly understood, and
made Use of. [Sidenote: _Merchandizing with the Scriptures: What it
is. See also_ 2 Pet. 2. 3.] And so he that is to be a Minister, must
learn this _Art_ or _Trade_ of _Merchandizing_ with the _Scriptures_,
and be that which the Apostle would not be, to wit, a _Trader with
them_, 2 Cor. ii. 17. That he may acquire a Knack from a Verse of
Scripture, by adding his own barren Notions and Conceptions to it,
and his uncertain Conjectures, and what he hath stolen out of Books;
for which End he must have of Necessity a good many by him, and may
each _Sabbath-day_, as they call it, or oftener, make a Discourse for
an Hour long; [Sidenote: _And this they call the _Preaching_ of the
_Word.] and this is called the _Preaching of the Word_: Whereas the
Gift, Grace, and Spirit of God, to teach, open, and instruct, and to
preach a Word in Season, is neglected, and so Man’s Arts and _Parts_,
and _Knowledge_, and _Wisdom_, which is _from below_, are set up and
established in the Temple of God, yea, and above the little _Seed_;
which in Effect is _Antichrist_, working in the Mystery. [Sidenote:
_Thus _Antichrist_ is established above the Seed of the Kingdom._]
And so the Devil may be as good and able a Minister as the best of
them; [Sidenote: _How the Devil may be a _Minister_ of the Priests
Gospel._] for he has better Skill in _Languages_, and more _Logick_,
_Philosophy_ and _School Divinity_, than any of them; and knows the
Truth in the Notion better than they all, and can talk more eloquently
than all those Preachers. But what availeth all this; Is it not all but
as Death, as a painted Sepulchre, and dead Carcase, without the Power,
Life and Spirit of Christianity, which is the Marrow and Substance of
a _Christian Ministry_? And he that hath this, and can speak from it,
though he be a poor Shepherd, or a Fisherman, and ignorant of all that
Learning, and of all those Questions and Notions; yet speaking from the
Spirit, his Ministry will have more Influence towards the converting a
Sinner unto God, than all of them who are learned after the Flesh; as
in that Example of the old Man at the _Council_ of _Nice_ did appear.
§. XXIII. [Sidenote: _The _Power_ of _God_ by weak Instruments
restoring the _Simplicity_ of _Truth.] And if in any Age, since
the Apostles Days, God hath purposed to shew his Power by _weak
Instruments_, for the battering down of that _Carnal_ and _Heathenish
Wisdom_, and restoring again the _ancient Simplicity_ of _Truth_,
this is it. For in our Day, God hath raised up Witnesses for himself,
as he did Fishermen of old; many, yea, most of whom, are labouring
and mechanick Men, who, altogether without that Learning, have, by
the Power and Spirit of God, struck at the very Root and Ground of
_Babylon_; and in the Strength and Might of this Power, have gathered
Thousands, by reaching their Consciences, into the same Power and
Life, who, as to the outward Part, have been far more knowing than
they, yet not able to resist the Virtue that proceeded from them. Of
which I myself am a true Witness; [Sidenote: _The Powerful Ministry
of illiterate Men._] and can declare from certain Experience, because
my Heart hath been often greatly broken and tendered by that virtuous
Life that proceeded from the powerful Ministry of those illiterate Men:
So that by their very Countenance, as well as Words, I have felt the
Evil in me often chained down, and the Good reached to and raised. What
shall I then say to you, who are Lovers of Learning, and Admirers of
Knowledge? Was not I also a Lover and Admirer of it, who also sought
after it, according to my Age and Capacity? But it pleased God, in his
unutterable Love, early to withstand my vain Endeavours, while I was
yet but eighteen Years of Age; [Sidenote: _The _Time_ of the _Author_’s
first Convincement._] and made me seriously to consider (which I wish
also may befall others,) [93]That without _Holiness and Regeneration,
no Man can see God_; and that _the Fear of the Lord is the Beginning
of Wisdom, and to depart from Iniquity, a good Understanding_; and
how much _Knowledge puffeth up_, and leadeth away from that _inward
Quietness_, _Stillness_, and _Humility of Mind_, where the Lord
appears, and his Heavenly Wisdom is revealed. If ye consider these
Things, then will ye say with me, That all this Learning, Wisdom and
Knowledge, gathered in this fallen Nature, is but as _Dross_ and
_Dung_, in _Comparison of the Cross of Christ_; especially being
destitute of that Power, Life and Virtue, which I perceived these
excellent (though despised, because illiterate) Witnesses of God to be
filled with: And therefore seeing, that in and among them, I, with many
others, have found the _Heavenly Food_ that gives _Contentment_, let my
Soul seek after this _Learning_, and wait for it for ever.
[93] Job. 28. 28.
§. XXIV. [Sidenote: Quest. 3.] [Sidenote: _The Work of a Minister._]
Having thus spoken of the _Call_ and _Qualifications_ of a
_Gospel-Minister_, that which comes next to be considered, is, _What
his proper Work is, how, and by what Rule, he is to be ordered_? Our
Adversaries do all along go upon _Externals_, and therefore have
certain prescribed Rules and Methods, contrived according to their
human and earthly Wisdom: We, on the Contrary, walk still upon the
same _Foundation_, and lean always upon the immediate Assistance and
Influence of that _Holy Spirit_, which God hath given his _Children_,
to teach them all Things, and lead them in all Things: [Sidenote: _The
Holy Spirit, a Spirit of Order, and not of Confusion._] Which _Spirit_,
being the _Spirit of Order_, and not of _Confusion_, leads us, and as
many as follow it, into such a _comely_ and _decent Order_ as becometh
the Church of God. But our Adversaries, having shut themselves out
from this immediate Counsel and Influence of the Spirit, have run
themselves into many Confusions and Disorders, seeking to establish
an Order in this Matter. [Sidenote: _Popish Orders and Offices_,
&c.] For some will have _First_ a _chief Bishop_, or _Pope_, to rule
and be a Prince over all; and under him, by Degrees, _Cardinals_,
_Patriarchs_, _Archbishops_, _Priests_, _Deacons_, _Sub-deacons_; and
besides these, _Acoluthi_, _Tonsorati_, _Ostiarii_, &c. And in their
_Theology_ (as they call it) _Professors_, _Bachelors_, _Doctors_, &c.
And others would have every Nation _independent_ of another, having
its own _Metropolitan_ or _Patriarch_; and the rest in Order subject
to him, as before. Others again are against all _Precedency_ among
_Pastors_, and constitute their _Subordination_ not of Persons, but of
Powers: As first the _Consistory_, or _Session_; then the _Class_, or
_Presbytery_; then the _Provincial_; and then the _National Synod_ or
_Assembly_. Thus they _tear one another_, and contend among themselves
concerning the Ordering, Distinguishing, and making their several
Orders and Offices; [Sidenote: _Wars and Bloodshed about _Church
Government.] concerning which there hath been no less Contest, not
only by Way of verbal Dispute, but even by Fighting, Tumults, Wars,
Devastations, and Bloodshed, than about the Conquering, Overturning,
and Establishing of Kingdoms. And the _Histories_ of late Times are as
full of the various _Tragedies_, acted on Account of this _Spiritual_
and _Ecclesiastical Monarchy_ and _Commonwealth_, as the _Histories_
of old Times are of the Wars and Contests that fell out both in the
_Assyrian_, _Persian_, _Greek_ and _Roman_ Empires: These last upon
this Account, though among those that are called _Christians_, have
been no less bloody and cruel than the former among _Heathens_,
concerning their outward Empires and Governments. [Sidenote: _The
Ground and Cause thereof_.] Now all this, both among _Papists_ and
_Protestants_, proceedeth, in that they seek in Imitation to uphold
a Form and Shadow of Things, though they want the Power, Virtue and
Substance; while for many of their Orders and Forms they have not
so much as the Name in the Scripture. But in Opposition to all this
Mass of Formality, and Heap of Orders, Rules and Governments, we say,
_The Substance is chiefly to be sought after, and the Power, Virtue
and Spirit, is to be known and waited for, which is one_ in all the
different Names and Offices the Scripture makes Use of; as appears by
1 _Cor._ xii. 4. (often before-mentioned) _There are Diversities of
Gifts, but the same Spirit_. And after the Apostle, throughout the
whole Chapter, hath shewn how one and the self-same Spirit worketh in
and quickeneth each Member; then in _Ver._ 28. he sheweth how thereby
God hath set in the Church, First _Apostles_, Secondly _Prophets_,
_Teachers_, &c. And likewise to the same Purpose, _Ephes._ iv. 11;
he sheweth, how by these Gifts _he hath given some Apostles_, _some
Prophets_, _some Evangelists_, _some Pastors_, _some Teachers_, &c.
Now it never was Christ’s Purpose, nor the Apostles, that _Christians_
should, without this Spirit and Heavenly Gift, set up a Shadow and
Form of these Orders, and so make several Ranks and Degrees, to
establish a _carnal Ministry_ of Men’s making, without the Life, Power
and Spirit of Christ: [Sidenote: _The Work of Antichrist and Mystery
of Iniquity._] This is that _Work_ of _Antichrist_, and _Mystery_ of
_Iniquity_, that hath got up in the dark Night of Apostasy. But in a
true _Church of Christ_, gathered together by God, not only into the
Belief of the _Principles of Truth_, but also into the Power, Life
and Spirit of _Christ_, the Spirit of God is the Orderer, Ruler and
Governor; as in each Particular, so in the General. [Sidenote: _Such as
the Spirit sets apart to the _Ministry_, their Brethren hear them._]
And when they assemble together to wait upon God, and to worship and
adore him; then such as the Spirit sets apart for the _Ministry_, by
its divine Power and Influence opening their Mouths, and giving them
to exhort, reprove, and instruct with Virtue and Power; these are thus
ordained of God and admitted into the _Ministry_, and their Brethren
cannot but hear them, receive them, and also _honour them for their
Work’s Sake_. [Sidenote: _The Clergy and Laicks._] And so this is not
_monopolized_ by a certain Kind of Men, as the _Clergy_ (who are to
that Purpose educated and brought up as other carnal _Artists_) and
the rest to be despised as _Laicks_; but it is left to the _free Gift
of God_ to choose any whom he seeth meet thereunto, whether Rich or
Poor, Servant or Master, Young or Old, yea, Male or Female. [Sidenote:
_Women may preach._] And such as have this Call, verify the Gospel,
by _preaching not in Speech only, but also in Power, and in the Holy
Ghost, and in much Fulness_, 1 Thess. i. 5. and cannot but be received
and heard by the _Sheep of Christ_.
§. XXV. [Sidenote: Object.] But if it be objected here, _That I seem
hereby to make no Distinction at all betwixt Ministers and others;
which is contrary to the Apostle’s Saying_, 1 Cor. xii. 29. _Are all
Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all Teachers?_ &c. From thence they
insinuate, _That I also contradict his Comparison in that Chapter, of
the Church of Christ with a human Body_; as where he saith, Ver. 17.
_If the whole Body were an Eye, where were the Hearing? If the Whole
were Hearing, where were the Smelling?_ &c. _Also the Apostle not only
distinguisheth the Ministers of the Church in general from the rest of
the Members, but also from themselves; as naming them distinctly and
separately, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers_, &c.
[Sidenote: _Answ. 1. Diversity of Names makes no distinct Offices; but
which may coincide, or be together in one Person._] As to the last
Part of this Objection, to which I shall first answer; it is apparent,
that this Diversity of Names is not to distinguish separate Offices,
but to denote the different and various Operations of the Spirit; a
Manner of Speech frequent with the Apostle _Paul_, wherein he sometimes
expatiates to the Illustrating of the Glory and Praise of God’s Grace:
As in Particular, _Rom._ xii. 6. _Having then Gifts differing according
to the Grace that is given us, whether Prophecy, let us prophesy
according to the Proportion of Faith; or Ministry, let us wait on our
Ministring; or he that teacheth, on Teaching; or he that exhorteth,
on Exhortation._ Now none will say from all this, that these are
_distinct Offices_, or do not, or may not coincide in one Person, as
may all those other Things mentioned by him in the subsequent Verses,
viz. _Of Loving_, _being kindly Affectionated_, _Fervency of Spirit_,
_Hospitality_, _Diligence_, _Blessing_, _Rejoicing_, &c. which he yet
numbers forth as different Gifts of the Spirit, and according to this
Objection might be placed as distinct and separate Offices, which were
most absurd.
_Secondly_, In these very Places mentioned it is clear that it is no
real Distinction of separate Offices; because all acknowledge, that
_Pastors_ and _Teachers_, (which the Apostle there no less separateth
and distinguisheth, than _Pastors_ and _Prophets_, or _Apostles_) are
one and the same, and coincide in the same _Office_ and _Person_;
and therefore may be said so of the rest. [Sidenote: Prophecy _and_
Prophesying_, its twofold Signification._] For [_Prophecy_] as it
signifies the _Foretelling of Things to come_, is indeed a distinct
Gift, but no distinct Office; and therefore our Adversaries do not
place it among their several Orders: Neither will they deny, but that
it both may be and hath been given of God to some, that not only have
been _Pastors_ and _Teachers_, and that there it hath coincided in one
Person with these other Offices, but also to some of the _Laicks_: And
so it hath been found, according to their own Confession, without the
Limits of their _Clergy_. [Sidenote: _To_ prophesy, _a Privilege of_
Teachers, _and of all the_ Saints.] _Prophecy_ in the other Sense, to
wit, as it signifies a _Speaking from the Spirit of Truth_, is not
only peculiar to _Pastors_ and _Teachers_, who ought so to _prophesy_;
but even a common Privilege to the _Saints_. For though to instruct,
teach and exhort, be proper to such as are more particularly called to
the Work of the _Ministry_; yet it is not so proper to them, as not
to be (when the Saints are met together, as any of them are moved by
the Spirit) common to others: For some Acts belong to all in such a
Relation; but not only to those within that Relation: _Competunt omni,
sed non soli_. Thus to _see_ and _hear_ are proper Acts of a Man;
seeing it may be properly predicated of him, that he _heareth_ and
_seeth_: Yet are they common to other Creatures also. So to _prophesy_
in this Sense, is indeed proper to _Ministers_ and _Teachers_; yet not
so, but that it is common and lawful to other _Saints_, when moved
thereunto, though it be not proper to them by Way of Relation: Because,
notwithstanding that Motion, they are not particularly called to the
Work of the _Ministry_, as appears by 1 _Cor._ xiv. where the Apostle
at large declaring the Order and ordinary Method of the Church, saith,
Ver. 30, 31. _But if_ any Thing _be revealed to another that sitteth
by, let the first hold his Peace; for ye may all prophesy one by one,
that all may learn, and all be comforted_: Which sheweth that none is
here excluded. But yet that there is a _Subordination_, according to
the various Measures of the Gift received, the next Verse sheweth: _And
the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets: For God is not
the Author of Confusion, but of Peace_. Now that _Prophesying_, in this
Sense, may be _common to all Saints_, appears by Ver. 39. of the same
Chapter, where speaking to [_all_] in general, he saith, _Wherefore,
Brethren, covet to prophesy_; and Ver. 1. he exhorts them, saying,
_Desire spiritual Gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy_.
[Sidenote: _Who are _Evangelists_, and whether any may term themselves
so now-a-day._] _Secondly_, As to _Evangelists_ the same may be said;
for whoever preacheth the _Gospel_ is really an _Evangelist_, and
so consequently every true _Minister_ of the _Gospel_ is one; else
what proper Office can they assign to it, unless they should be so
foolish as to affirm that none were _Evangelists_ but _Matthew_,
_Mark_, _Luke_, and _John_, who wrote the Account of Christ’s Life
and Sufferings? And then it were neither a particular Office, seeing
_John_ and _Matthew_ were Apostles, _Mark_ and _Luke_ Pastors and
Teachers, so that there they coincided in one. And indeed it is absurd
to think, that upon that particular Account the Apostle used the Word
[_Evangelist_.] _Calvin_ acknowledgeth, that _such as preach the
Gospel in Purity, after some Time of Apostasy, may be truly called_
Evangelists, and therefore saith, that _There were Apostles in his
Time_; and hence the _Protestants_, at their first coming forth, termed
themselves _Evangelici_, or _Evangelicks_.
[Sidenote: _Who is an _Apostle.] _Lastly_, An _Apostle_, if we look
to the Etymology of the Word, signifies _one that is sent_; and in
Respect _every true Minister is sent of God_, in so far he is an
_Apostle_; though the _Twelve_, because of their being _specially sent
of Christ_, were therefore called _Apostles_ [Greek: kat' exochên: κατ
εξοχην], or _per eminentiam_, i. e. by Way of Excellency. [Sidenote:
_They were not limited to such a Number._] And yet that there was
no Limitation to such a Number, as some foolishly imagine, appears,
because after that Number was filled up, the Apostle _Paul_ was
afterwards so called; therefore we judge that these are no distinct
separate Offices, but only Names used upon Occasion to express the
more eminent Arising and Shining forth of _God’s Grace_. As if any
_Minister_ of _Christ_ should now proselyte and turn a whole Nation to
the _Christian Faith_, though he had no distinct Office, yet I doubt
not but both _Papists_ and _Protestants_ would judge it tolerable to
call such an one an _Apostle_, or an _Evangelist_; [Sidenote: _Whether
any Man be called an _Apostle_ at this Day_.] for on this Account the
_Jesuits_ call some of their Sect _Apostles_ of _India_ and of _Japan_;
and _Calvin_ testifies that there were _Apostles_ and _Evangelists_
in his Time, in respect to the _Reformation_; [Sidenote: _Upon what
Account _John Knox_ was called the _Apostle_ of _Scotland.] upon
which Account also we have known _John Knox_ often called the _Apostle_
of _Scotland_. So that we conclude that _Ministers_, _Pastors_, or
_Teachers_ do comprehend _all_, and that the Office is but _one_, and
therefore in that Respect we judge there ought to be no Precedency
among them: To prove which I shall not here insist, seeing it is
shewn largely, and treated of by such as have denied the _Diocesan
Episcopacy_, as they call it.
§. XXVI. [Sidenote: _Answ. 2._] As to the first Part of the
_Objection_, viz. _That I seem to make no Distinction betwixt the
Minister and People_, I answer, [Sidenote: _Liberty to _prophesy_ all
have, by the Spirit._] If it be understood of a Liberty to _speak_
or _prophesy_ by the _Spirit_, I say all may do that, when moved
thereunto, as above is shewn; but we do believe and affirm that some
are more particularly called to the Work of the _Ministry_, and
therefore are fitted of the Lord for that Purpose; whose Work is more
constantly and particularly to instruct, exhort, admonish, oversee,
and watch over their Brethren; and that as there is something more
incumbent upon them in that Respect than upon every common Believer,
so also, as in that Relation, there is due to them from the Flock such
Obedience and Subjection as is mentioned in these Testimonies of the
Scripture, _Heb._ xiii. 17. 1 _Thess._ v. 12, 13. 1 _Tim._ v. 17. 1
_Pet._ v. 5. Also besides these who are thus particularly called to the
_Ministry_, and constant Labour in the Word and Doctrine, there are
also the _Elders_, who though they be not moved to a frequent Testimony
by Way of Declaration in Words, [Sidenote: _The Elders take Care for
the _Widows_, the _Poor_ and _Fatherless.] yet as such are grown up
in the Experience of the blessed Work of Truth in their Hearts, they
watch over and privately admonish the Young, take Care for the Widows,
the Poor, and Fatherless, and look that nothing be wanting, but that
Peace, Love, Unity, Concord, and Soundness be preserved in the _Church
of Christ_; and this answers to the _Deacons_ mentioned _Acts_ vi.
[Sidenote: _The Distinction of _Clergy_ and _Laity_ not to be found in
Scripture._] That which we oppose, is the Distinction of _Laity_ and
_Clergy_, which in the Scripture is not to be found, whereby none are
admitted unto the Work of the _Ministry_ but such as are educated at
_Schools_ on Purpose, and instructed in _Logick_ and _Philosophy_, &c.
and so are at their Apprenticeship to learn the _Art_ and _Trade_ of
_Preaching_, even as a Man learns any other _Art_, whereby all other
honest _mechanick Men_, who have not got this _Heathenish Art_, are
excluded from having this Privilege. And so he that is a _Scholar_ thus
bred up must not have any honest Trade whereby to get him a Livelihood,
if he once intend for the _Ministry_, but he must see to get him a
Place, and then he hath his _set Hire_ for a _Livelihood_ to him.
[Sidenote: _Their Garb._] He must also be distinguished from the rest
by the Colour of his Clothes; for he must only wear _Black_, and must
be a _Master of Arts_: But more of this hereafter.