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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49697	Christ crucified, or, The doctrine of the Gospel asserted against Pelagian and Socinian errours revived under the notion of new lights : wherein also the original, occasion and progress of errours are set down : and admonitions directed both to them that stand fast in the faith and to those that are fallen from it : unto which are added three sermons ... / by Paul Lathom.	Lathom, Paul.	1666 (1666)	Wing L572; ESTC R25131	132,640	284

these things once nor to receive them by unwritten Tradition but earnestly defired St. Mark that he would write down for them the substance of that History of Christ which they had received by word of Mouth And ceased not till they had prevailed with him And thereby they gave occasion to the writing of that Holy Gospel which we to this day enjoy the benesit of and which bears the name of him that wrote it And again Eusebius writes further out of Papias Hist Eccl. l. 3. c. ult that St. Mark being St. Peters attendant and Interpreter did accurately write down what he had heard from St. Peter not indeed in the same order as they were spoken or done by our Saviour for he was not one of them that heard and followed Christ but onely heard St. Peter and wrote what he retained in his memory from his preaching And therefore he is not to be condemned for that he doth not follow the Method of the other Evangelists seeing he did not design a full Commentary of all things that Christ had done and spoken but onely to relate with faithfulness what he did retain in his memory And further Hist Eccl. l. 6. c. 24. the said Eusebius relating a Catalogue of the Books of Canonical Scripture out of Origen he speaks of this Gospel written by St. Mark that he wrote it according to the direction of St. Peter 1 Pet. 5.13 who in his aforementioned Epistle calls him his Son The death of this Holy Evangelist is referred to the Reign of Nero and the 63d year of Christ by Bucholtzer in his Chronology But Dorotheus refers it to the Reign of Trajan and describes the manner of it thus That at Alexandria in the place called Bucolus he had a Cable-rope put about his neck and therewith drawn from Buclous to a place called the Place of the Angels and there by the Idolaters burnt to death in the Moneth of April and his bones buried in the Bucolus This account I thought meet to trouble you with concerning this Holy Evangelist St. Mark The Text you know is part of that portion of Scripture appointed by our Church to be read as the Epistle for this day In the beginning of which Portion the Apostle sheweth us that the variety of those gifts which God hath bestowed upon divers members of his Church v. 10 11. are the fruits and benefits of Christs Ascension And that the end of all the Officers both extraordinary and ordinary which he hath appointed in the Church is for the benefit of the whole Vers 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the perfecting or kniting together of the Saints And for the work of the Ministry to fit men to serve him in the daily administration in the Church and for the edifying of the Body of Christ for the building up of the Church and further instructing of those that are come into it Vers 13. Till we all come in the unity of the Faith and of the Knowledge of the Son of God till Jews and Gentiles come to be one sheepfold under one Shepherd and till we be grown up to that perfection of Knowledge as will speak us to be men of Stature And then he proceeds in my Text to shew one of the great Benefits which we hope to reap from those Officers whom Christ hath appointed in his Church and from our being built up in Knowledge and Holiness by their Ministry that we shall be setled in the unity of the Orthodox Faith against all the assaults of those that are enemies to the Truth That we henceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried away with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive In which words we may observe six parts 1. The causal particle of conjunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 2. The subjects spoken of included in the verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we be 3. The condition they had formerly been in which had disposed them to receive prejudice and that is expressed in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Children 4. The prejudice which they had been apt to receive in that condition which is set forth in two very Emphatical words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tossed to and fro and carried about 5. The instruments of doing them this mischief set forth in those words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the winds of strange Doctrine 6. The Authours and Promoters of this mischief which are set forth in those words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive While I go over the illustration of each of these parts and improve them to our ulstruction and Edification I shall be bold to beg your serious and candid attention I begin with the leading part of the Text 1 Part. the Conjunction which connects these words with what went before Pulchre in Metaphorâ a viro perfecto sumptâ perseverat c. saith Mesander upon this Text. The Apostle had been mentioning it but now as one of the special benefits which we receive by those Officers which Christ hath appointed in his Church that we might be built up from the condition of Children to that of grown men or men of stature in the Faith And here he proceeds further in setting forth this benefit that being come to the stature of men in the knowledge of Christ we should now put away childish things wavering and irresolution of minde in matters of Faith and set our selves as men to stand fast in the Profession of that Faith into which we have been Baptized Our Learned Doctor Hammond doth express the sense of this illative particle to the life thus Which may secure us that we henceforth c. So that this Conjunction doth readily offer us this Note That the continuance of a powerful and painful Ministry in the Church is one special expedient to establish people in the Faith and to settle them against the seducements of false Teachers The truth of this is so evident to every mans Observation that I shall need to say very little for the clearing of it To the Office of a Minister it belongs to shew the people the ways of Truth which they ought to follow and by so doing they must needs at once shew them the by-ways of errour which they ought to avoid For Rectum est index sui obliqui To the Office of a Minister it appertains to exhort and admonish the people that they be not drawn away by the errour of the wicked 2 Pet. 3.16 to depart from their own stedfastness but rather to grow in Grace Now the words of the wise saith Solomon are as nails to fasten men and as goads to stir them forward in that which is good when they are fastned by the wise Masters of Assemblies Eccl. 12.11 And therefore the labours of such may