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A10925	A sermon preached at the second trienniall visitation of the right honourable and right reuerend father in God, William Lord Bishop of London, holden at Keluedon in Essex: September. 3. 1631. By Nehemiah Rogers, pastor of Messing in Essex	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1632 (1632)	STC 21198; ESTC S116117	22,027	36

is vnciuill and rude Dauid as Bernard obserues could brooke it well enough that Nathan should tell him of his sin but he could not endure Shemei's rebukes though it was for the same offence And he saw God in it too The Reason he renders to be this Nathan did doe it with reuerence and respect vnto the person of the King But Shemei behaued himselfe vnreuerently and fell to downe right railing Thirdly the Paper we write vpon must be laid as nigh the breast as may be Those we Admonish Reproue Instruct c. must be neare our hearts All we doe must bee done in Loue. Thus Saint Paul with the same breath calleth the Galatians foolish and yet Brethren Gal. 4. and little children giuing signes of the greatest loue vnto them that could bee the like was his manner of dealing with the Corinthians 1 Cor. 3.2 A good conceit of the Physitian wee say is halfe the cure When our people are perswaded of our Affection towards them then it is likely our paines will be auaileable I perceiue I must hasten I come now to those Rules which concerne the worke it selfe And here three things are obserued by good Pen-men Ratio Modus Species the former doth concerne the Speculatiue part And the two later the Practique parts of Writing The Reason must bee found out and rendered why the letter is made thus not thus and being made this way is more gracefull then being made that way or that And so for the Coniunction knitting and ioyning together of them without the vnderstanding whereof hardly shall a man euer write well Thus must Gods Scribes bee able to shew Grounds for what they doe and teach 1. Ratio I do not meane that a Minister should be strictly tyed to render the Reason of euery Doctrine he doth deliuer A Course though Profitable and Vsefull yet not euer Necessary True it is there is Reason for all Gods Commandements if we could see it but we cannot alwaies conceiue that Reason And if wee should beleeue no more then we can giue Reason for wee shall not beleeue halfe that which a Christian is bound to beleeue to his soules saluation The Councell that Saint Austin giues to his Scholler Licentius concerning those things he heard of him would be remembred Nolo te causas rationesque rimari quae etiamsi reddi possint fidej tamen qua mihi credis non eas debeo If thus concerning those things he taught him then much more concerning those things which God teacheth vs. The Reasons and Grounds of them though they might be giuen which yet as I say concerning diuers Articles of our Faith cannot yet it suits not well with that credit and trust which we owe vnto God too curiously to search into or call into question But my meaning is we should be Grounded and Iudicious Textmen And be able to say as Iohn 3.11 we speake that we know And with Saint Paul 1 Thes 1.5 Our Gospell comes vnto you not in word onely but in power and in much assurance We are first exactly to know the truth and then deliuer it vnto Gods people The Sermons of the Prophet Nahum are called Nah. 1.1 Prooem in Nahū the booke of Visions the Reason Hierome giues and me thinkes it is a passing good one because saith he he well vnderstood and saw whatsoeuer he said Hence it is that Saint Paul cries Shame on them who desire to bee Teachers of the Law vnderstanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirme 1 Tim. 1.7 A great fault therefore it is in young Diuines to scorne the Catechisme affecting a profounder kinde of learning as they conceiue plodding in Postills and Controuersies and raw in Principles Taking the greatest mysteries of Religion fittest Arguments for the exercising of their wits In his Chryso passus As Eckius who discussing the question of Predestination in the very enterance of his discourse giues his Reason why he vndertooke that Argument for that he thought it to be the fittest question in which he might Iuueniles calores exercere When we know a wise man will choose to deale with Woodden wasters before he plaies at Sharpe An error in the Foundation puts the whole building in apparent hazard Therefore it shall be your wisedome who are sons of the Prophets first to aske Councell of Caluins or some others learned Institutions to peruse well the booke of the Articles of our Religion and the Bookes of Homilies as our Church enioyneth that what you deliuer for Doctrine may be comprehended in Essence Substance Effect or Naturall inference with some one of them But of all the Sheaues let the Bible haue preheminence and let the rest of the Shocke doe obeisance vnto it Nor let young Cockerills which newly begin to Crowe be setting vpon the great Cocks of Game billing at that Sophisticall Bellarmine or at that Iudicious Interpreter Caluin audaciously controuling him foolishly despising their great skill and learning Nor run rashly vpon the point of Discipline before they know it may bee what the name meaneth Better by many degrees it is to let these things alone till they be growne in Iudgement and able to speake of them to purpose 2. Modus without wronging either themselues or the Cause The Manner of making euery letter would be knowne as well as the Ground or Reason Let a Scribe begin to frame his letters after a Corrupt and Contrary way as to begin at the heele when hee should begin at the head will hee euer proue good Pen-man Would we be the Ornaments of our Pulpets and haue the praise of being good Ezra's apt and readie Scribes begin we then methodically The wise Preacher taught the people knowledge yea he gaue good heed and sought out and set in order many Prouerbs Eccles 12.9 God hath deuided his Word into fit parts and ordered it to our Capacitie and Vnderstanding It belongeth therefore vnto Gods Ministers to gather out of this treasure things both New and Old and like good Stewards set them forth before Gods family in the best order that they can beginning first with milke and spoone-meate after the Apostles practise 1 Cor. 3.2 Heb. 5.13 It is a preposterous course for any be they themselues neuer so learned comming to an ignorant people and superstitious for they are seldome seuered to begin with Controuersie Let vs first teach the Principles plainely and diligently and after a familiar manner by Question and Answer and spend one part of the Lords-day Commonly called Sunday in this Course for as much as there is still need New-commers on You know it was the practise of the Primitiue times the Apostles had their Catechisme Heb. 6. Where you haue the Name how it was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prima Christianismi principia as Beza renders it The Principles of the Doctrine of Christ as our Translation truly hath it And the Heads or Principles themselues therein contained and handled In number sixe after the

ordinary account 1. Repentance from dead workes i. e. the doctrine of mans misery the knowledge whereof comes by the Law Rom. 7. 2. Faith towards God The doctrine of mans deliuery the summe whereof is contained in the Apostles Creed 3. The Doctrine of Baptismes That is of the Sacraments Baptismes by a trope being but for both And besides the trope both the Inward baptisme of Christ and the Outward of Iohn i. e. Christ's Ministers being thereby noted 4. Laying on of hands An ancient Ceremonie vsed both in the time of Law and Gospell in sundry Cases 1. In healing of the sicke Luk. 4.40 Marke 16.18 2. In ordaining of Ministers Acts 13.3 1 Tim. 4.14 5.22 3. In Conferring the gifts of the Holy Ghost Acts 8.17 19.5 4. In Blessing of Children Gen. 48.14 Matth. 19.13 Luke 18.15 The Manner was The Children of the Faithfull being Catechized were to make open and publike Confession of the former Principles viz. of their Repentance Of their Faith Of the Sacraments and after this they had hands lay'd vpon them and were Confirmed to be of the Couenant of God and of the visible Church A Ceremonie which through the long neglect thereof is much excepted against and carped at but may bee wished that it were vsed oftener then it is and more respected which the due cautions being obserued and it freed as with vs it is from superstitious abuse it well deserues Now vnder this Head the Ministerie and Discipline of the Church may bee Comprehended 5. Resurrection from the dead Albeit they should die and their bodies be lay'd in the earth yet that at the last day their bodies should be raised vp to life againe 6. Eternall Iudgement And that euery one should receiue in their bodies that which they haue done be it good or euill Eccles 12.14 These two last Heads being made distinct and howeuer happily handled vnder the second Principle the Doctrine of Faith yet here beaten particularly vpon by the Apostles for these two reasons 1. For that they were derided by the Gentiles 2. For that they were the hope of Christians As the Apostles so had the Ancient Fathers after them their Introductions to Religion Clemens Alexadrinus his Pedagogus Lactantius his Institutions Cyrill his Catechismes Augustine his Enchyridion and booke de catechizandis rudibus And so hath euery Church in Christendome Master Yates his Modell of Diuinity in his Epist ded to the Church of England And ours amongst the rest which to vse the words of a Reuerend and Iudicious Diuine is like Sampsons haire faire and strong Strong in precepts beautifull in method And therein carry's away the honour from other formes For whereas some teach the Commandements before the Creed as if they would teach a man to goe before he liue Others put the Seales in the midst of their writings as if that which seales all should not hang at the bottome of the bill or bond Our method is to begin with Faith by which we liue then to come to the Law of life by which we walke After this it leads vs to Prayer least we should faint in faith or waxe wearie of workes And lastly finding faith but weake obedience imperfect and prayers not as they should be it brings vs to Gods seales as the safetie and security of all our estate Thus farre hee Now then Good Fathers and Brethren pittie the miscarrying of many a soule vnder your Charges for want of Method And giue eare to that Counsell which that Reuered Father Bishop Babington in Leuit. 7. doth giue vnto you Art thou a Minister called of God c. submit your selfe to the profit of your people hunt not after your owne glory that you are so learned eloquent and profound If your people profit not because you flie too high a pitch for them and scorne to lay a foundation of the Catechisme amongst them you will be found at the reckoning day an vnprofitable seruant and one that hath gained nothing to his Lord but hath hid his talent in the fowle napkin of fruitlesse matter and idle figures of affected speech Thinke of that Charge giuen by the Arch-Bishop of our soules Feed my Lambes Feed my Sheepe His Lambes first and why so Surely for that the encrease and welfare of the Flocke depends on them If they be surfeted or starued the Flocke shall neuer thriue nor prosper The Papists in their preface to the Catechisme of the Councell of Trent confesse that all the ground which we haue got of them hath beene by Cetechizing and shall wee againe loose that ground through our neglect Iulian himselfe could not deuise a readier way to ouerthrow Christian Religion then by pulling downe Schooles and ouerthrowing those Places where Children were religiously educated and catechized Let vs effectually consider of these things and be no longer like to some vndiscreet and foolish master who to please a fond and ouerweening parent marres the progresse of a childe in raising him vp to a higher Forme and Author before hee hath learned his first Rules of Grammer What followes vpon this But first a losse of our owne paines and labours Looke on him that preacheth twice or thrice a weeke and so hath continued for many yeares together omitting Catechizing of his People and tell me if hee hath reaped so much fruit of his long labours as some one hath done of one yeares paines who hath ioyned both together Secondly An emptie ostentation in the Hearer A rash censuring of Church-Gouernement and Discipline through heate of Affection and want of Iudgement Censorious professors are ignorant professors try it when you please this you shall finde that those who spend their zeale this way haue not wherewith to answer you if you question with them about Fundamentall Points For as the Philosopher teacheth of mad and phantasticall men they are very apprehensiue of all outward accidents because their soules are inwardly emptie and vnfurnished of any thing of worth which might hold the inward attention of their minds and might ballance it and keepe it vpright against all outward occurrents whatsoeuer I hasten to a Conclusion and come to the Third and last thing obseruable in Writing wherein indeed the Substance of it doth Consist and that is the Species Should a man bee able to giue the Reason Shew the Manner of making euery letter yet vnlesse he giue it its full Proportion and Shape he doth loose his praise For that giueth life and spirit to his writing Here the Particulars considerable are many I will content my selfe with some few 1. The Sizing of the letter would be looked vnto that the Depth and Fulnesse bee Proportionable To bee euer preaching Law and harping vpon the sad string of Iudgement is not well Wee beare the name of Spirituall men if then we be wanting in the Comforting part of our office where is the Spirit that we haue our denomination from The Spirit is the Comforter if then a Minister can or doe say little