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OF THE
LEARNED AND REVEREND
JOHN SCOTT, D. D.
SOMETIME RECTOR OF ST. GILES'S IN the fieldS.
A NEW EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
OXFORD,
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
MDCCCXXVI.
CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.
PART II. CONTINUED.
CHAP. VI.
SECT. X.
Concerning the ministers of the kingdom of Christ.
WHICH are of a fourfold rank and order: first, the su-
preme minister of it is the Holy Ghost, 1. secondly, next to
him are the whole world of angels, both good and bad; and
as for the good, they are subjected to Christ by the order
and appointment of God the Father, ibid. That the good
angels were not subject to him as Mediator, till his ascension
into heaven; but had their distinct regencies over the seve-
ral Gentile nations, 2. but upon Christ's ascension these their
distinct regencies were all dissolved, and they subjected to
Christ's mediatorial sceptre, 6. and as for the bad angels,
they were subjected to him by just and lawful conquest, 8.
that this conquest he obtained while he was upon earth, but
especially in his last agony, 9. Seven particular instances of
the ministry of good angels under Christ: first, they declare
upon occasion his mind and will to his church and people,
17. secondly, they guard and defend his subjects against
outward dangers, 18. thirdly, they support and comfort them
upon difficult undertakings, and under great and pressing
calamities, 20. fourthly, they protect them against the rage
and fury of evil spirits, 22. fifthly, they further and assist
them in their religious offices, 25. sixthly, they conduct
their separated spirits to the mansions of glory, 28. seventhly,
they are hereafter to attend and minister to him at the
neral judgment, 30. The ministry of evil angels to Christ in
ge-
four particulars: first, they try and exercise the virtues of
his subjects, 32. secondly, they chasten and correct their
faults and miscarriages, 35. thirdly, they harden and con-
firm incorrigible sinners, 39. fourthly, they execute the ven-
geance of Christ on them in another world, 42. The third
sort of the ministers of Christ's kingdom are the kings and
governors of the world, 45. by their subjection to Christ
they are not deprived of any natural right of their sove-
reignty, 47. but in the first place have the same command-
ing power over all indifferent things, and that in ecclesias-
tical causes as well as civil, that they had under the law of
nature, 48. and secondly, are as unaccountable and irresist-
ible as they were before, 56. What those ministries are
which kings are obliged to render our Saviour, shewn in
neral from Isa. xlix. 23. p. 60. particularly, first, they are to
protect and defend his church in the profession and exercise
of the true religion, 61. secondly, they are to fence and cul-
tivate its peace and good order, 62. they are to chasten and
correct the irregular, 63. they are to provide for the decency
of its worship, and for the convenient maintenance of its of-
ficers and ministers, 65. The fourth sort of ministers of
Christ's kingdom are the spiritual or ecclesiastical governors,
67. That Christ hath erected a spiritual government in his
church, ibid. That this government is episcopal, proved from
four arguments: first, from the institution of our Saviour,
71. secondly, from the practice of the apostles upon it, 76.
thirdly, from the universal conformity of the primitive church
to the apostolic practice, 86. fourthly, from our Saviour's
declared allowance and approbation of both, 103. Of the mi-
nistries of this spiritual government, which are either such
as are common to the bishops together with the inferior offi-
cers of the church; as first, to teach the gospel, 109. se-
condly, to administer the evangelical sacraments, 110. thirdly,
to offer up the public prayers and intercessions of Christian
assemblies, 112. Or such as are particular to the bishops;
as first, to make laws for the peace and good order of the
church, 114. secondly, to ordain to ecclesiastical offices, 117.
thirdly, to exercise that spiritual jurisdiction which Christ