A Pamphlet Concerning the Reformation of the Church (7-9)

7. Why the church in an earlier time had no need of its own regulations, but has this need now. 7. Why the church in an earlier time had no need of its own regulations, but has this need now. Under the dispensation of shadows there was an ordained ministry for the priesthood, but not for the Word. Now, on the other hand, there is no longer an ordained ministry for the priesthood, but there is a regulation for the ministry of the Word. Both these ordinations are not of the same kind. During...