Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I am having trouble making sense of what David Dickson is saying in the below extract. Have you any ideas?
As in the body natural, that there may be an agreement, those members which are more infirm are most honoured, and necessary, by the appointment of God: so ought it to be in Ecclesiastical functions: Therefore in the choosing of Deacons rather than Pastors, care must be had, that other things being alike, men of the fairest fortunes, may be elected for the adorning of this inferior office.
David Dickson, An exposition of all St. Paul’s epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude: wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened (London: Francis Eglesfield, 1659), p. 61.
As in the body natural, that there may be an agreement, those members which are more infirm are most honoured, and necessary, by the appointment of God: so ought it to be in Ecclesiastical functions: Therefore in the choosing of Deacons rather than Pastors, care must be had, that other things being alike, men of the fairest fortunes, may be elected for the adorning of this inferior office.
David Dickson, An exposition of all St. Paul’s epistles together with an explanation of those other epistles of the apostles St. James, Peter, John & Jude: wherein the sense of every chapter and verse is analytically unfolded and the text enlightened (London: Francis Eglesfield, 1659), p. 61.