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A76447	The penitent death of a vvoefull sinner. Or, the penitent death of John Atherton executed at Dublin the 5. of December. 1640. With some annotations upon severall passages in it. As also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his buriall. / By Nicholas Barnard Deane of Ardagh in Ireland.	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.; Atherton, John, 1598-1640.	1641 (1641)	Wing B2014; Wing B2017; Thomason E176_3; Thomason E176_4; ESTC R2358	42,210	46

have not so learned Christ and doe not ye fill up the measure of your Fathers And yet how many are there who seeme to reverence Christ but like the Iewes mocke him in his word and servants like cursed Cham deriding their Fathers till the curse rebound upon their own heads If like Ieremiah a Minister deale truely and impartially presently g Ierem. 18.18 devices are laid for him a conspiracie to smite him with the tongue if he endeavour to dispossesse a man of his evill Spirit than like Saul to David a dart is throwne at him nay Speares and Arrowes of reproaches even bitter words If a reproofe then you take too much upon you ye sonnes of Levi. Object We grant the Apostles to be sent of Christ but what is that to such as are ordained in these dayes Answ The difference is onely Vocationis modo Christ cals Paul immediately by himselfe and he cals Timothy per media ordinaria as S. Paul speaking to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus whom himselfe had ordained yet Acts 20.28 he tells them the holy Ghost had made them Overseers as his Epistles may be truely cal'd his writings as being the Pen-man and yet Gods too who was the Inditer and in them guided his hand So the Messengers of the Church are also Christs who in his name ordaines no other then testifie they finde themselves h See the demaunds in the Booke of Ordination to Deacons Priests and Bishops a serious consideration inwardly moved to it by his Spirit See both together in that forenamed 2 Cor. 8.23 Wee are the Messengers of the Churches and the glory of CHRIST as the man is called the glory of God 1 Cor. 11.7 and the woman the glory of the man Because as the Moon from the Sunne they each derive their light and authoritie from them so are these so called here as receiving their dignity and commission from Christ by the Churches hand who in this sense confirmeth the word of his servants and is with them to the end of the world of which there can be no i 1 Corint 9.2 If I am not an Apostle to others yet doubtlesse I am to you for the seale of my Apostleship are you in the Lord. surer Seale than the assistance of Gods Spirit in converting their hearers Hence a twofold instruction for the Preacher and people For the Preacher 1. A necessity of Ordination Marke 3.14 None may k Hebr. 5.4 take this upon him be he as wise as Solomon or Daniell before he be call'd of God as Aaron l Rom. 10.15 How can they preach i. e. de jure unlesse they be sent God complaines of some m Ierem 23.21 I have not sent them yet they ranne I have not spoken to them yet they prophecied The n Matth. 20.7 Labourers though able and willing yet went not in to the Vineyard till they were bidden by the Husbandmen They who clime o John 10.1 into this Office through the window of their owne pride and self-conceit and enter not by this dore are rather Theeves than Shepheards 'T is an observation some have made of p Chemnit de Ecclesiâ De Origine dicūt cum sine vocatione se ingessisse in officium docendi inde factū est quod in tot errores est prolapsus Origen why he fell into such dangers errours though he had an excellent wit because he so long neglected orders 2. A necessity of continuance if their Mission be from Christ none can then give them a Dismisse but Christ Have you yet set your hand to this plough there is no looking back whatever other imployment by man is layd upon you of this you cannot be unloaden There may be indeed some good cause of a removeall from a place even for the same the Colt our Saviour sent for was loosened viz. when the Lord hath elsewhere need of you but I finde no writ of ease in any place to dispense with the office For the people 1. First then give them entertainment the Apostle argues this case largely Cor. 9. What amendment soever hath bin here of late in some places yet still in most the meanes of the Levite is like the garments of Davids Servants by Hanun King of Ammon cut off by the halfes But let such consider the admonition of Moses Deut. 12.19 Take heed to your selves they that thus r Malach. 3.8.9 rob God doe but in conclusion rob themselves as there are in storie diverse such observations Moses prayer for Levi is still effectuall chap. 33.11 Blesse Lord his substance and smite throw the loynes of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not againe That distinction of three sorts of Sacriledge by Peter Lumbard ſ Pet. Lumbard sent libr. 3. is commonly known Sacrum de sacro non sacrum de sacro sacrum de non sacro as that of Thomas t Secunda secundae qu. 99. art 3. Aquinas that it may be committed against three in Personam in Locum in rem The last of each are alike in a robbery upon the Churches possessions where in other Countries it hath beene consented to it is now as much repented of though too late Iustinian u Proximum sacrilegio crimen est quod laesae Majestatis dicitur Leg. 1. digest ad leg Iul. makes it a greater sinne than treason Howsoever thou who worthily x Rom. 2.22 abhorrest Idols doe not thou commit Sacriledge You that stand for Christs word doe not you cast lots for his coat y Matt. 17.27 The fish S. Peter catched it came up with money in the mouth and certainly such as are truely taken by the net of Gods word will not grudge to supply the Minister in Temporals who communicates to him in Spirituals and what ye yeeld let it be willingly not wrung out by Suits such as strive with the Priest are accounted the worst of men by the Prophet Hosea 4 4. How able and active this our Brother was in the recoveries of such dues ¶ ye all know But what a greife now his spending so much time in them was whereby he lost himselfe I know The regaining of the Churches Rights he thought might be done but the gaining of soules the Rights of Christ purchased by his bloud by no meanes should be left undone Often did he apply to himselfe that Speech of a z Card. Woolsey great man at his last Had he been as diligent to have done God service as he had done the King he had kept the Kings favour still So had he been as conversant in the study of the Gospel for the instruction of Men as he had been in the Law for the setling of Lands hee had not by the Law so deservedly lost Lands Body and Estate and all at once We are called Fishers not Hunters Fishers of men not of money we are prest for a Spirituall warfare and such a 2