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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93732	Because that in the following discourse the reason is recited and answered, why my ministry is rejected and not received by this ignorant, but more especially corrupt world; therefore I thought it expedient and necessary to publish the same.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5107G; ESTC R184555	29,991	44

Saint to Gentile as well as to the Jew to Bond or Free yea to all of the Race and Lineage of Mankind To turn aside the Right of any Man whatsoever or to subvert any Man whatsoever in his cause the Lord approveth not So that if herein I have only delivered and made known the truth as it is in the Scriptures of God then also it is the truth as it is in Jesus for Jesus is the Word of God Then I say That when the Dead small and great shall stand before God I shall have boldness in that Day when I shall at the Bar of his Judgment Seat implead the People of this my Generation and Nation for their not hearing or not receiving that part of the Word of God which was committed to my Ministration and themselves may meet with fear shame and confusion of Face when they are called to give an Account for the same then also shall they know who did forbear That there hath been a Prophet among them They are in our Text called Rebellious who did forbear for so many things in the Scriptures of God are spoken forth against them who are non hearers or who refuse to hear his Word Seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee Psal 50. 17. This evil people which refuse to hear my words Jer. 13. 10. Yea there is much more said against them then those Cautions are against Deceivers or Take heed what ye ●ear Where again it is observable That we are not forbid to hear but intimation is rather given That we should hear as well as prove all things for how could we Prove them unless we did first hear and know them We ought to Take heed what we hear that is Examine and Prove well what we do hear Seeing that these things are so I admire how any who pretend to have the real fear of God can or do turn their backs upon the Preaching of his Word Such who forbear and refuse to Hear Read or Receive it would have the Word of God which like its Author is without Uariableness or Shadow of turning to be fashioned and modelled according to their own Imaginations and Lusts Which same Imaginations and Lusts of Men are different from and contrary unto the Word of God A manifest Evidence that there is a spreading and prevailing Corruption Transgression and Iniquity in this Nation because that the multitude of People is so very much zealous for it for the multitude have been all along for what is either contrary unto or different from the Law and Revealed Will of God Even from the days of your Fathers ye are gone away from mine Ordinances and have not kept them Mal. 3. 7. This Word Ordinance doth denote an established and fixed Order of things according as God hath appointed them And here it is witnessed and affirmed That in the several Generations and Countries the People have varied from and have not kept them Now there is more credit to be given unto the affirmation of the Word of God that being a forerunner of his future Judgment then to all the Uindications and Hypocritical Pretences of the People themselves that they have not gone away from his Ordinances when indeed they have or then indeed is to be had to all the sayings of Bishops Doctors or Preachers the Priests and People themselves Who Rob Father or Mother and say it is no Transgression Prov. 28. 24. When indeed it is a Transgression And so it will clearly appear at the Judgment Seat of Christ when another Scene and Face of things will be seen over what is now then they which justifie themselves before Men and who are highly esteemed amongst Men will be abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. And on the other hand that solid sincere unaffected Piety that universal Zeal for God and for all his Commandments indefinitely without exception not keeping some and neglecting others as the manner of many is at this Day but an actual observance of all them not breaking the least Commandment Mat. 5. 19. For any specious end or pretence whatever although this be now spoken against and reproached by Men who are the Transgressors will yet be commended and accepted by God In all probability and likelihood the Stream and Multitude of the Jewish People did run against Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon with as much Zeal Heat and Enmity As we have seen and known the greater part of the Inhabitants thereof do hate him that was King over this Nation and for these twelve Years last past They would not have him Reign over them Luke 19. 14. And that for the same Reason For as our People feared that such a one would Conquer and Enslave them after French Methods and compel them to Popery So peradventure the Antient Jews might have secret indignation and hatred against Nebuchadnezar because he had made a Conquest over them for this belongs to Conquerors to be inwardly and secretly hated though they are outwardly feared And also because this Nebuchadnezzar was an Heathen an Idolater and a Stranger and as it was Not lawful for a Man that was a Jew to keep company with any other Nation so they did conceive and keep up unkindness and hatred against them Notwithstanding this mind of the Jewish Nation yet Ezekiel a true Prophet of the Lord in his seventeenth Chapter doth speak ●undry thing in behalf of the King of Babylon according to humane Apprehension whereas in Truth he speaks for the Oath and Covenant of God which the Jewish Nation had taken unto him So that here it might have been Objected and Upbraided unto Ezekiel What dost thou go about to destroy the Worship of God which at that day was among the Jews and to bring in the Heathenish customs Inasmuch as thou would'st have us retain our subjection unto an Heathen King and not rebell against him as we have done Nevertheless the Prophet Ezekiel doth there speak sundry things against their Rebellion Nay It is not so much Ezekiel as the Spirit of God God which spake by him who knows best what is his own Laws and what is pleasing in his Sight Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord and read for therein it is written That we should have our Conversation honest among the Gentiles least the Name of the Lord should be Blasphemed and the way of Truth evil spoken of amongst them That we should carry out selves wisely towards them that are without Recompence to no Man evil for evil Provide things honest in the sight of all Men Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Now seeing that our God hath given such and such Commandments and many more to the same purpose as may be seen in the Old and New Testament here to allude unto that saying of Peter in Acts 11. 17. What are we the Ministers and Preachers of his Word that we should withstand God Or that we should vary from his Word and Commandment