Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... For all my pressures, I smiled to hear their Champion for the time; beat the brains out of their cause, with a beam of their own making, or of the Popes; withal I told Sir Henry, that his Antecedent and Consequent were of so deep distance, that all the Learning in the World, could never make them meet. Yet he set a face to prove it, by a connex Proposition;
If Aaron were over the Priests,
Then Bishops should be over Ministers, &c.
I denied the Connexion, and told him that all the learning amongst them could not advance that Argument one foot; nor no more they did; but being at a stand, I told Sir Henry Martin that he could not of all the Quiver, have chosen a deadlier shaft against themselves; as should appear by the retorting of the Argument thus.
For more, Alexander Leighton’s arguments against a prelatical hierarchy.
If Aaron were over the Priests,
Then Bishops should be over Ministers, &c.
I denied the Connexion, and told him that all the learning amongst them could not advance that Argument one foot; nor no more they did; but being at a stand, I told Sir Henry Martin that he could not of all the Quiver, have chosen a deadlier shaft against themselves; as should appear by the retorting of the Argument thus.
- Aaron’s Priest-hood was superior to the rest under the Law.
- Ergo, No Superiority in Ministerial function should have place under the Gospel.
- The sequel I prove thus.
- That which was in form of a Type of Christ under the Law, must have no place under the Gospel, because it is done away.
- But not only the Priest-hood, but also the superiority of Priest-hood, or Ministerial Function, was in form of a Type under the Law.
- Ergo, Superiority in the Ministerial Function, must have no place under the Gospel.
For more, Alexander Leighton’s arguments against a prelatical hierarchy.