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B15167	A plaine exposition vpon the whole thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sense giuen, and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applied for the benefit of Gods children. Performed with much varietie, and conuenient breuitie, by Elnathan Parr Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods word. To which is prefixed an alphabeticall table, containing the chiefe points and doctrines handled in the booke.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 19321; ESTC S114077	263,450	369

that Paul by his Ministery might offer them vp to God through faith of the Gospell Sanctified by the Holy Ghost not a spirituall conuersation but noting the third Person in the Trinity the Author of Sanctification As S. Pauls Apostleship is here described so proportionably the ministery of the word to be continued to the end Paul is a Priest the Gentiles the sacrifice the preaching of the Gospell the sacrificing knife Ministers must by preaching offer vp the people an acceptable sacrifice to God Esay 66.20 Doctr. They shall bring your brethren as an offering to the Lord out of all Nations Eph. 4.12 Act. 26.18 Rom. 1.16 Ministers by their office are sacred persons they must therefore adorne their function with a holy life and their calling should so farre be from being a disgrace vnto them that euen in this regard they should bee had in singular estimation If the Ministery of the Law were glorious more the ministery of the Gospell The office of the Ministery is sacred Vse 2 by themselues therefore to bee reuerently performed and carefully by the people reuerently to be attended vnto Ministers are priests Vse 3 not properly but by allusion not Masse priests of the order of Rome to offer vp their Maker as a propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead we abhor such blasphemy Nor Leuiticall priests of the order of Aaron they offered beasts wee men in sacrifice killing their lusts that they may be an offering sanctified and acceptable As wee are Priests so all Christians are priests or else wee haue no part in the blood of Christ Reuel 1.5 6. and we are a holy 1 Pet. 2.5.9 and a Royall priesthood saith Saint Peter alluding to Exod. 19.6 where God saith that the Israelites shall bee to him a kingdome of priests for though the Rituall priesthood were conferred vpon the tribe of Leui and appropriated to it Rom. 12.1 Phil. 2.17 Psal 51.17 Psa 50.14 Heb. 13.16 Psal 4.5 yet the Royall priesthood belonged to the whole kingdome You are all Priests your sacrifices are your selues your faith your repentance your prayers and prayses your workes of mercy offer then the sacrifices of righteousnesse and put your trust in the Lord. As Ministers are priests Vse 4 so the people are sacrifices which terme puts them in mind of their sinfulnesse deseruing death for sacrifices must be killed vnder the law there was confession of sinne by the parties bringing the sacrifice it was they which deserued to dye not the guiltles beast Also they must learne that they must be pure the sacrifices were washed and they must be sanctified or not acceptable There might be no blemish or imperfection in them Leu. 22. If we be wicked and profane we are fit for the Diuell but no sacrifices for God And if we our selues be sacrifices then our bodies soules with all the members and faculties of both must be dedicated to God We must deny our selues and liue onely to God The end of preaching and hearing is Vse 5 that wee may bee sacrificed when then thou comest to the word suffer the sacrificing knife to cut the throat of thy lusts It is painfull to be launced but if thou part not with them thou must be damned with them and canst be no sacrifice acceptable to God When thou comest therefore to a Sermon remember thou comest to be sacrificed struggle not yeeld thy selfe be not angry when thy sinnes are toucht lye as still as Isaack did when he should be made a sacrifice if thou desirest to be saued As Isaack said to his Father Here is the knife and the wood but where is the Lamb so I feare me a man may aske at our ser mons Here is the Priest and the knife but where is the sacrifice many come to the Altar but they break away and will not bee sacrificed going from the Sermon with more sinfulnesse and condemnation then they brought with them Great is the happinesse of such which are sacrificed to God Vse 6 for they are acceptable They which are not are reiected and a very abomination reserued for the shambles but if thou be conuerted thou art for the holy Altar in heauen He seemes to be depriued of the sense of piety which hearing that the conuersion of a sinner is an acceptable sacrifice reioyceth nor for it If thou hast once beene sacrificed to God thou art for euer to bee separated and set apart from common vse see then that thou take not thy body and soule being dedicated to God to prostitute before the Diuels altar by abominable sinning VERSE 17. I haue therefore whereof I may glory through Iesus Christ in those things which pertaine to God 18. For I will not dare to speake of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by mee to make the Gentiles obedient IN these words and so to the end of the 21. verse he commendeth his Apostleship from the efficacy of it which was such that he might iustly glory in it There are two parts First an assertion I haue whereof I may glory Secondly a declaration of certaine bounds whereby his boasting is limited which bounds are set downe in the 17. verse and expounded in the 18. Those bounds are either in regard of the efficient or of the matter of his boasting The efficient Iesus Christ The matter Things pertaining to God Not in my selfe but in and through Iesus Christ In things pertaining to God All things pertaine to God Good things as to the Author and Rewarder of them Euill things as the Iudge and auenger of them But here Paul hath another meaning In the 16. verse hee described his Apostleship in termes borrowed from the Leuiticall priest-hood calling it a Leyturgye and Hierourgye and here continuing the same Metaphor hee calleth the execution of his function Hes 5.2 a performing of things pertaining to God So in the Hebrewes A high priest is ordained in things pertaining to God that is to declare the will of God to the people and to offer the sacrifices of the people to God These two are expounded in the 18. verse The first I dare not speake of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me that is I acknowledge that what good soeuer hath come to men by my labours it is wrought by Christ whose instrument onely I haue bin It is not effected by my vertue but by his goodnes Let the glory bee to him I haue planted and watred but the encrease is of him Paul Apolles are but vnderworking causes Ministers by whom the Gentiles beleeued euen as the Lord gaue to euery man 1. Cor. 3.5 not according to their will and appointing This is amplified by Pauls modestie I dare not Augustine Melior est in malis factis humilis confessio quam in bonis superba gloriatio An humble confession of the euill we haue done is better then a proud bragging of the good we haue done therefore Paul dareth not glory in himselfe