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A59621	Antapologia, or, A discourse of excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them, the sin and misery brought in by them, as being the greatest bar in the way to heaven, and the ready high way to hell : being the common snare wherein most of the children of men are intangled and ruined / by Jo. Sheffield ...	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing S3061; ESTC R11053	145,253	322

again Who is Paul and what is Apollos It is God alone who gives the 1 Cor. 3. increase 4. The Calling is the fourth excuse from 4. Our Calling Duty of which also somewhat was spoken before and is that which is alledged in the Parable which gave us the matter of this Discourse My Calling my honest Employments must be looked after I must go try my Oxen I must go take possession of my Land purchased Reasonable and just Excuses one would think no contempt nor defiance They stood not idle in the Market nor were in Tavern or Ale-house tipling I pray have me excused was the worst Language they gave yet rejected The third said I have married a Wife and must consummate the Marriage I cannot come None said I will not yet is their slighting recorded and all three rejected No Employment no change of Condition can priviledge from attending God's Service One thing is necessary stands alwayes indispensably true the other might be done this must not be left undone There was a Dispensation in the Deut. 24. 5. old Law That if a man had new married a wife he should not be pressed to war that year but no Dispensation for omitting the Service of God for one day The King by his Place and by reason of the weighty Affairs incumbent on his Office be thought fit to be priviledged above any others as being Superior to all and Inferior only to God yet must is for the King and shall from his Superior He was commanded by God that when he sate Deut. 17. 18 19. upon the Throne he shall write him a Copy of the Law and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the dayes of his life c. Thus did holy David who made it his meditation continually and by his being Psal 119 97 99. so continually versed therein he became wiser then his Teachers And besides his many private Devotions the Psalms Hymns and Prayers of his own composing he was a constant Student in God's Word We read of that Renowned Successor of his Josiah that he took the 2 Kings 23. 2. Book of the Law and himself read it to all his People Luther tells of that pious and valiant Duke of Saxony that he had six of his Gentlemen who attended him read daily to him six hours out of the holy Scripture And never to be forgotten is the practise of one of the Kings of this Nation King Alfred who divided the four and twenty hours of the natural day into three parts allowing himself eight hours for his bodily refreshment by Sleep Food and Recreation a second eight hours he spent in Reading Praying and Writing and the third eight he spent in attending Affairs of State hearing Causes c. A rare example of a pious Prince and one that would give account of his time spending 5. But the great and general excuse is 5. Hereafter not yet Nondum venit hora I will hereafter but the time is not yet come This was not the Answer of one single Person but Vox Populi The People said The time is not yet come H●g 1. 2. the time to build the house of the Lord. So generally when we call upon men to repent and amend their lives they put us off and say It is a good work and must be thought upon and they will wait for a good hour to do it in Thus in another sense Christ may say My time is not yet come but your John 7. 6. time is alway ready your time to build your own Houses is come is present mine is future must stay But saith the Lord have I not met with you in your wayes Ye have sowen much and reaped little I have blown upon it what ye had was put into a Bag with holes and why because you ran so eagerly to build your own Houses and my House lies wast This is the common and most dangerous Excuse and too many instances we have in our daily experience Few go to Hell said a good Divine for Mr. Calamy saying they will not repent but many for saying they will but not yet This was the Sluggard's Plea Yet a little more sleep Prov. 6. 11. Acts 24. 25. a little more slumber This was delaying Felix his Plea I will take a more convenient season which he never had This the put-off of Two in one Chapter called by Christ the one desired respit till he had discharged his last office to his aged Father Lord suffer me first to bury my Father The Luke 9. 59 61. other Let me go bid my Friends farewel But for all we read they both bad Christ farewel and lost the fair season of Grace Alas how do many dally with Repentance and Salvation and sport themselves with their own Deceivings The young man is ready to make large Promises what he will do when he is old The single or unsetled man what he will do when he is setled The man in Health what he will do in Sickness And he in Sickness what he will do when restored to Health and all but words Sick-Bed Purposes are deceitful and Death-Bed Repentance as uncertain First Whether it shall be granted Secondly Whether it shall be accepted The present tense is the acceptable tense the future is the rejected tense Many shall seek to enter and shall not be able Luke 13. 24. Shall and will seek but have not heretofore or do not yet The Sponsalia de praesenti make the Marriage good De future signifie nothing In Christianity the more hast the better speed yet alas how sad is it to consider the most of men do delay delay adjourn and put off Repentance and Obedience De die in diem from day to day as young Austin then no Saint did with his Noli modo Not yet Lord spare me a little He was afraid as he said he should be heard too soon But at length it pleased God to awaken him throughly out of this Lethargy and then he gets him into a private place under such a Tree and there he leaves his modo modo and cries out with a flood of tears How long O Lord how long Oh let there be an end of my sinful course and a new Spirit given me now now Cur non modo Domine non cras cras Conf. l. 9. c. 12. sed hac hora c. Lord I do not say nor do thou say to morrow or next day But Lord why not now this very day yea this very hour The great Heroes of the World that are eternized in the Book of Fame as Caesar Alexander and our Christian Chieftain Scanderbeg carried all before them by their Celerity and Expedition Of Caesar it is said Omnia confecit celeritate He brought all his ends about by his continual speed Of Alexander whose Motto was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lose no time defer not That he was wont to make such long and speedy Marches

them let them Play and do as Children And have they not Death and Hell before them too Train up a Child saith the Prov. 22. 6. Lord in the way of his Youth and he will keep it when he is old And again who so fit to be taught as these Esay 28. 9. Whom shall he teach Knowledge and whom shall he make to understand Doctrine them that are weaned from the Milk and drawn from the Breast Gracious Timothy was grounded 2 Tim. 1. 5. 3. 15. in the Scripture when a Child by his religious Mother and Grand-mother And Solomon tells us what Lessons he had given him by his Father and Mother Prov. 4. 3 4. Our Saviour bids us to bring our little Children to him for of such so brought up Mark 10. 14. is the Kingdom of Heaven We read of Children believing in Christ Matth. 18. 6. Of little Children knowing the Father 1 John 2. 13. Therefore doth that aged Disciple direct his Epistle to his little Children as well as to the young Men and aged Fathers Our greatest care should be of our young Children they are Spes Gregis the hope of the next Generation We break the Colt when young bend the Twig and twist it while green We swath and swaddle the Bodies of our Children when small and tender to keep them strait and then if ever is the time to frame and form their Spirits to prevent ill habits The lameness or crookedness in the Cradle as in Mephibosheth is hardly if ever cured much less are ill Principles to be rooted out that were suckt in when Children He who had been so from a Child was past Disciples Cure Mark 9. 21. The young Disciple usually wears the Garland and proves the most useful and eminent aged Father My Soul desireth the first Ripe Mic. 7. 1. Fruit saith the Prophet The most eminent Saints and choicest Instruments in God's Church have been usually such as have been trained up in Pious Education called and sanctified in their Infancy or Childhood as young Samuel Solomon Josiah Jeremy John Baptist Timothy c. of old And some such Instances we have of late That incomparable Vsher for one of whom it may be said Multa tulit fecitque puer sudavit alsit He could speak of his being in Christ from ten years of age then was he converted and what a blessed Instrument of much good was he not to many particular Persons and Congregations where he came and preached but as a Star of the first magnitude his light did shine not only all over the Horizon of these two great Islands of Great Britain and Ireland his Native Country to which he was so great a glory but his Name and Memory is pretious to all the Churches in the Europaean World But above all that example above all examples of our blessed Saviour when but a Child of Twelve years who was so increased in Knowledge and Wisdom that he was among the Doctors in the Temple hearing and puting forth his Questions to their astonishment and admiration And that saying of his in answer to his Mother worthy to be printed in the Breasts of all hopeful Children and be inscribed in the Frontispiece of all their Books I must now be about my Fathers business And he was Luke 2. 49. not yet come into the Teens was but Twelve years of age then A second makes the like excuse when his 2. Unlearned duty is laid before him and saith Non sum Doctus as he to whom the Book was given and bidden to read answered I cannot Esay 29. 12. for I am not learned I am a Lay-man a poor Mechanick Illiterate what would you have of me should I meddle with Scripture matters Duties of Religion Would you have me instruct my Family pray give thanks at Meat It is for Ministers Schollars and the learned to deal in such matters saith the ignorant Papist and the lazy Protestant But our Saviour biddeth the Laity as well as the learned Priests Search the Scriptures And St. Paul Joh. 5. 39. exhorteth all Christians that the Word of Col. 3. 16. God should dwell in them richly in all Wisdom teaching and admonishing one another c. The most eminent Saints in God's Acts 4. 13. Calendar were sometimes illiterate men Fishermen Publicans Plebeians c. But after they had been conversant with Jesus they were taught and inabled of God and made fit for every good work They who are not Book-learned may be Christ-learned Austin said in his time Surgunt Cons l. 8. c. 8. indocti rapiunt Regnum coelorum The unlearned rise up and get the start of us the learned of the World and break into Heaven with a holy Violence while we with our learning and disputes lie weltring in the mire Think not therefore want of Book-learning may excuse thee from all common Duties of Christianity There is not one Heaven for Schollars and another or none at all for the unlearned In an Army you see all are not Commanders and Commission-Officers but the greater number common Souldiers upon whose hands the great shock and brunt of the Battell lies So in God's Host the Church-militant all are not Divines and Pastors but the greatest part of Christ's Flock consists of ordinary and many of them unlearned Christians In the Catalogue of Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes the total is summed Heywoods Elizabeth up to amount to 260 whereof five were Bishops one and twenty Doctors eight Gentlemen but the greatest part by far was of the meaner rank eighty four Artificers an hundred Husbandmen Servants and Labourers fifty five Women Maids Wives and Widows A third little differing from the former 3. Want of Parts is I want Parts and sufficient Abilities This was Moses his excuse O Lord I pray thee have me excused I am not Vir verborum Exod. 4. 10. I am not eloquent I pray let it be done by some better hand So plead some Masters of Families had I the Gift and Ability of some others I would pray and set up Religious Exercises in my Family but I want expression and that discourageth me So it may be some Ministers I should Preach more frequently and more chearfully had I the gifts and utterance of some Paul or Apollos God's work would not be done negligently they say True but if it be done faithfully seriously and sincerely it is accepted according to what a man hath and not according to what a man hath not We find by experience God doth often bless the Endeavors of conscientious Masters of Families to a great measure of promoting and spreading Religion all over the Family and as oft the Labours of some his faithful though less eminent Ministers to the conversion and building up of more then some of the chief Master-Builders As if the Lord would say Not by Might nor by Power Zach. 4. 6. but by my Spirit And as if he would have us say

fails and we are by Satan beaten out of all our holds and pleas This is the Excuse Saint John furnisheth us withall 1 Joh. 2. 2. If any man sin and he that saith he doth not is a Lyar We have saith he an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the Propitiation for our sins Christ is our Advocate Spokesman Surety Excuse-maker An Advocate is properly one that is of Councel for a Client to assist him and plead his Cause in Court which he cannot so well do for himself Christ is such an Advocate It were ill with us if we were to plead our own Cause and to answer for our selves But if Christ undertake for us there is no fear of miscarrying how deplorate and desperate soever thou judgest thy Case He hath carryed the whole Company of Believers and some of them had been as great sinners as any other through the Bryers and is able to save thee to the utmost by his Intercession This hath born up the Spirits of Sinners in their greatest Agonies Charles the Fifth when near to Death is said to comfort himself when in great perplexity about his future state with this Christ said he had a double Title to Heaven the one in right of his Sonship the other by the merit of his Passion he was content to make use of the one for himself and hath left me the other which is all my Claim and I am sure that I making this Claim shall never be disappointed It was St. Bernards before Satan is the great Accuser and Christ the only Excuser He our Surety Mediator Justifier Advocate he was wont to plead in the Behalf of his Servants against their Accusers of his Disciples against the Pharisees Mat. 12. 3. For Mary against Martha Luke 10. 41. For Mary Magdalen against Simon Luke 7. 40. He fetcht off the Woman taken in Adultery ready to be stoned with one word speaking His word goes far and his bloud speaks better things for us then a thousand Prayers Tears Alms or all our Faith Repentance Obedience can do then the best bloud of Martyrs or all the Intercession of Saints and Angels Heb. 9. 14. Benjamin might thank God for a good Brother that became Surety for him first and Advocate for him at last that he was brought off so well Onesimus might thank God he had such an Advocate as Paul to prevail with his Master for his Reception And we are all bound to give thanks for Jesus Christ who is become our Surety and will be our Advocate For what once our Saviour said to the obdurate Jews to the aggravation of their Sin and increase of their Condemnation If I had not come and spoken to them and done the works which no other man did they had had no Sin but now they have no Cloak or Excuse as it is in the Margin for their Sin that he speaketh to his Servants by way of Consolation If I had not come into the world and done and suffered that for you which none other could you had had no Cloak nor Excuse for your Sins but now I am your Surety and Advocate I have taken away your Sins and shall present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in the sight of God Col. 1. 22. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh awy the sins of the World FINIS Books to be sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and three Crowns in Cheapside A Commentary on the Hebrews By John Owen D. D. fol. 49 Sermons upon the whole Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians By Mr. John Daille Translated into English by F. S. Tho. Taylor 's Works the first vol. fol. 2. An Exposition of Temptation on Matth. 4. verse 1. to the end of the 11th Divine Characters in two parts distinguishing the Hypocrite in his best dress By Samuel Crook B. D. A Learned Commentary or Exposition on the 1 Chapt of the second Epistle to the Corinthians By Richard Sibbs D. D. fol. A Commentary on the whole Epistle of S. Paul to the Ephesians By Mr. Paul Bain●f A practical Exposition on the third Chapter of the first Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians with the Godly Mans Choice on Psal 4. v. 6 7 8. By Anthony Burgess fol. The dead Saint speaking to Saints and sinners living in several Treatises The first on 2 Sam. 24. 10. The second on Cant. 4. 9. The third on John 1. 50. The fourth on Isa 58. 2. The fifth on Exod. 15. 11. By Samuel Bolton D. D. fol. Christianographia or a Description of the multitude and sundry sorts of Christians in the world not subject to the Pope By Eph. Pagit fol. These 7 Treatises next following are written by Mr. George Swinnock 1. The Christian Man's Calling or a Treatise of making Religion ones business in Religious Duties Natural Actions his Particular Vocation his Family Directions and his own Recreation to be read in Families for their Instruction and E●ification The first Part. 2. Likewise a second Part wherein Christians are directed to perform their Duties as Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants in the conditions of Prosperity and Adversity 3. The third and last part of the Christian Man's Calling wherein the Christian is directed how to make Religion his business in his dealings with all Men in the choice of his Companions in his carriage in good Company in bad Company in solitariness or when he is alone on a week-day from morning to night in visiting the sick on a Dying-bed as also the means how a Christian may do this and some motives to it 4. The Door of Salvation opened by the Key of Regeneration 5. Heaven and Hell Epitomised and the True Christian characterized 6. The fading of the Flesh and the flourishing of Faith Or One cast for Eternity with the only way to throw it well 7. The Incomparableness of God in his Being Attributes Works and Word opened and applyed All these by Geo. Swinnock M. A. An Antidote against Quakerism By Stephen Scandwet A learned Commentary on the fourth Chapter of the second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is added First A Conference between Christ and Mary Second the Spiritual Man's Aim Third Emanuel or Miracle of Miracles By Richard Sibbs D. D. 4 to An Exposition on the five first Chapters of Ezekiel with useful observations thereupon By Will. Greenhill 4 to The Gospel-Covenant or the Covenant of Grace opened Preached in New-England By Peter Bulkeley 4 to God's Holy Mind touching Matters Moral which himself uttered in ten words or ten Commandments also an Exposition on the Lords Prayer By Edward Elton B. D. 4 to A plain and familiar Exposition of the ten Commandments By John Dod 4 to Fiery Jesuite or an Historical Collection of the Rise Increase Doctrines and Deeds of the Jesuites Exposed to view for the sake of London 4 to Horologiographia Optica Dyalling Universal and Particular Speculative and Practical together with the Description of the Court of Arts by a new Method By Sylvanus Morgan 4 to Praxis Medicinae or the Physicians Practice wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot By Walter Bruel Regimen Sanitatis Salerni or the School of Salerns Regiment of Health containing Directions and Instructions for the guide and government of Man's Life 8 to Christ and the Covenant the work and way of Meditation delivered in ten Sermons Large Octavo By William Bridge late of great Yarmouth Heart-Treasure or a Treatise tending to fill and furnish the head and Heart of every Christian with soul-inriching treasure of truths graces experiences and comforts to help him in Meditation Conference Religious Performances Spiritual Actions Enduring Afflictions and to fit him for all conditions that he may live holily die happily and go to Heaven triumphantly By O. H. with an Epistle prefixed by John Chester The sure Mercies of David or a second part of the Hearts Treasure Closet Prayer a Christians Duty All three by O. Heywood A Glimpse of Eternity By A. Caley A Practical Discourse of Prayer wherein is handled the Nature and Duty of Prayer By Tho. Cobbet Of Quenching the Spirit the evil of it in respect both of its causes and effects discovered By Theophilus Polwheile Wells of Salvation opened or Words whereby we may be saved with advice to Young Men. By Th. Vincent The Re-building of London encouraged and improved in several Meditations By Samuel Rolls The sure way to Salvation or a Treatise of the Saints Mystical Union with Christ wherein that great Mysterie and Priviledge is opened in the nature properties and the necessity of it By R. Steedman M. A. Sober Singularity By the same Author The greatest Loss upon Matth. 16. 26. By James Livesey Moses unvailed By William Guild The Protestants Triumph being an exact Answer to all the sophistical Arguments of Papists By Ch Drelincourt A Defence against the fear of Death By Zach. Crofton Gods Soveraignty displayed By Will. Geering A sober Discourse concerning the Interest of Words in Prayer The Godly Man's Ark or City of Refuge in the day of his distress in five Sermons with Mrs. Moor's Evidences for Heaven By Ed. Calamy The Almost Christian discovered or the false Professor tryed and cast By Mr. Mead. Spiritual Wisdom improved against Temptation By Mr. Mead. The True bounds of Christian Freedom or a Discourse shewing the extents and restraints of Christian Liberty wherein the truth is setled many errours confuted out of John 8. verse 36. A Treatise of the Sacrament shewing a Christians Priviledge in approaching to God in Ordinances duty in his Sacramental approaches danger if he do not sanctifie God in them both by Sam. Bolton D. D. The Lords Day enlivened or a Treatise of the Sabbath By Philip Goodwin The Sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of Christ two Sermons By W. Bridge