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Those who are called, Heb. 5.4. Separated, Acts 13.2. Rom. 1.1. Sent, John 20.21; with Isa. 6.8. Made, Acts 20.28. Thrust out, Matt. 9.38. (Gr.) etc. Hooker admirably observes—‘They are therefore Ministers of God, not only by way of subordination, as princes and civil magistrates (whose execution of judgment and justice the supreme hand of Divine Providence upholds); but as Ministers of God, from whom their authority is derived, and not from men. For in being Christ’s ambassadors and his labourers, who will give them their commission, except Him whose most inward affairs they manage?’ Book v. c. 77. 1, 2.