Vindiciae Ministerii Evangelici
Subtitle: a Vindication of the great Ordinance of God, viz. a gospel-ministry ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1651
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Lay preaching; Ecclesiastical Vocation
Other titles: Vindication of the great Ordinance of Goz; Sprague collection of Early American religious pamphlets; Thomas F. Torrance Collection.
Notes: Sprague collection. Ser. 1 ; v. 584:6

SCS copy: No. 4 in a group of 5 pamphlets.
Table of contents: title: 1. Whether under the Gospel there be such a function as the Ministry : viz., some particular persons appointed to preach the word, and administer the Sacraments.; title: 2. Whether no more be required for this function, to authorize men ordinarily, to preach, interpret, and apply Scriptures, than that they have gifts, and be desired to exercise them.; title: 3. Whether those that ordinarily preach, open and apply Scriptures, must be set apart by the Presbytery.; title: 4. Whether the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery can be omitted in Scriptural ordination without sin.; title: 5. Whether Christians that made a conscience of hearing the Word of God, can without sin hear such preach, open or apply Scriptures, as are not ordained, but merely gifted.