Also he that is not sent to preach this fundamental article, but taketh it upon him of his private authority, though he be a witness, and consequently a martyr, either primary of Christ, or secondary of his apostles, disciples, or their successors; yet is he not obliged to suffer death for that cause; because being not called thereto, it is not required at his hands; nor ought he to complain, if he loseth the reward he expecteth from those that never set him on work. None therefore can be a martyr, neither of the first nor second degree, that have not a warrant to preach Christ come in the flesh; that is to say, none, but such as are sent to the conversion of infidels. For no man is a witness to him that already believeth, and therefore needs no witness; but to them that deny, or doubt, or have not heard it. Christ sent his apostles, and his seventy disciples, with authority to preach; he sent not all that believed. And he sent them to unbelievers; _I send you_, saith he, (_Matth._ x. 16) _as sheep amongst wolves_; not as sheep to other sheep. [Sidenote: Argument from the points of their commission.] Lastly, the points of their commission, as they are expressly set down in the gospel, contain, none of them, any authority over the congregation. [Sidenote: To preach;] We have first (_Matth._ x. 6, 7), that the twelve apostles were sent _to the lost sheep of the house of Israel_, and commanded to preach _that the kingdom of God was at hand_. Now preaching, in the original, is that act, which a crier, herald, or other officer useth to do publicly in proclaiming of a king. But a crier hath not right to command any man. And (_Luke_ x. 2) the seventy disciples are sent out as _Labourers, not as Lords of the harvest_; and are bidden (verse 9) to say, _The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you_; and by kingdom here is meant, not the kingdom of grace, but the kingdom of glory; for they are bidden (verse 11, 12) to denounce it to those cities which shall not receive them, as a threatening _that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for such a city_. And (_Matth._ xx. 28) our Saviour telleth his disciples, that sought priority of place, their office was to minister, _even as the son of man came, not to be ministered unto, but to minister_. Preachers therefore have not magisterial, but ministerial power: _Be not called masters_, saith our Saviour, (_Matth._ xxiii. 10) _for one is your master, even Christ_. [Sidenote: And teach;]