A PastorA PASTOR is the
         
         Deputy of ChriſtChrist
          for
         the reducing
          of Man
         to the O-
          bedienceObedience of
         God.
          This definitiondefinitiondefiniti-
         on is
          evident, and con-
taines
contains the direct ſtepssteps of PaſtorallPaſtoral

     B     Duty,

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2  Of a Paſtor.

Duty and Auctority. For firſt,first, Man
fell from God by diſobedience.disobedience.
Se-
condly, ChriſtChrist is the glorious in-
ſtrumentinstrumentinſtru-
ment of God for the revoking
of
Man. Thirdly, ChriſtChrist being not
to
continue on earth, but after heehe
had
fulfilledfulfilled the work of Reconcili-
ation,Reconciliation,
to be received up into heaven,
he
conſtitutedconstituted Deputies in his place,
and

     B     theſe

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2  Of a Paſtor.

theſethese are Prieſts.Priests. And there-
foretherefore St.
Paul in the beginning of his
Epiſtles,Epistles,
profeſſethprofesseth this: and in the
firſtfirst to the
ColoſsiansColossiansColoſſians plainly avouch-
eth,avoucheth, that he
fils up that which is be-
hindebehinde of the afflictionsafflictionsaffli-
ctions of ChriſtChrist in
his fleſh,flesh, for his Bodie’sBo-
die’s ſake,sake, which
is the Church. Where-
in is contained
the compleatcomplete definitiondefinitiondefiniti-
on of a Mini-
ſter.Minister.Miniſter. Out of this ChartreChar-
ter of the
PrieſthoodPriesthood may be plainly
gathered garhered
both the Dignity thereof,
and the
Duty: The Dignity, in that
a PrieſtPriest
may do that which ChriſtChrist
did, and
by his auctorityauthority, and as his
Vice-
gerentVicegerent. The Duty, in that a PrieſtPriest

            is

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   Their Diverſities.Diversities.     3

is to do that which ChriſtChrist did, and
after his manner, both for DoctrineDoctrin
and Life.