We have first ( Matt. 10:6⁠–⁠7), 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 10:2) 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 (verses 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 ( Matt. 20:28) 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 (