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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68783	Choice sermons preached upon selected occasions Viz. The happinesse of peace: before K. James at Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge. The love-sick spouse: at St. Pauls Crosse. The burning light: at a visitation in Christs Church, London. The magistrates commission, or wisdome justified: before the judges. By John Stoughton, Doctor in Divinitie, sometime fellow of Emanuel College in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanbury, London. According to the originall copie which was perfected by the author before his death.	Stoughton, John, d. 1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23302; ESTC S101828	15,654	34

Corne throughout the world hee went about spreading and sowing and planting the Gospell every where he came with infinite diligence and paines there must be holinesse and integrity of Life added to it I will not inlarge my selfe in an Argument so common and which would afford so many and so full discourses of wit and illustration as all know Ministers must not be like the drugge that the Physitian sayes or at least the world takes it so ordinarily is hot in the mouth and cold in the operation hot in the Pulpit and zealous there and frequent there but carelesse and unconscionable in their lives Origen comming to Hierusalem and being desired to Preach after he had denyed the truth and his ungodly offering Sacrifice to an Idoll though he was constrayned and constrained on hard tearmes the booke happens to open upon that place of the Psalmist What hast thou to doe to take my word into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed The remembrance of his owne fault reflected upon his Conscience and made him close the booke and sit downe and weepe so these that are not content to joyne holinesse of life to their diligence of Preaching the best way for them is to repent of their Preaching and so to Preach Repentance to the people But to come to the second besides the Qualities of the Minister in these three properties expressed There is the dignity of a Minister secretly coutched and the true degrees and distances of that dignitie A Minister is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Light but an inferiour light Not the Sunne the Fons caloris the fountaine of life and heate the Minister must know his distances he is but under God Viri radiis chorus can●● mulier●s as the Lawier saith the Minister shines as the Moone with borrowed beames from the Sunne all his light is kindled at Gods fire it is derived from him Secondly there is an Inferiour light but yet set up by God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} kindled and tinded by God God sets it up It is his Ordinance his Institution and his hand holds these Lights And in the last place he is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Light burning and kindled by God and a shining light This is the same the Aspect of all the Ministeriall dignities as they are under God and from God so they are guides to God shining and leading us in the way to happinesse and eternity this is the dignity of the Ministery There is another thing which I will runne over briefely besides the office The Hospituim the Entertainement of the Ministrie in the world If we looke upon the people we have that expressely set downe besides the degrees of extremity which are past over and omitted here sometimes they meete with better entertainment than our Saviour expresses here so that their Doctrine is embraced faithfully and men bring forth fruite with patience having not onely a flashing Joy in the light of it but fruitfulnesse with patience so sometimes they meete with better entertainment and sometimes they meete with worse entertainment men doe not alwayes gather about the light and dance about it as boyes about the Bone-fire making glee and being jolly at it glad of it but goe about to quench the light to extinguish it to persecute it and to labour to oppresse and overwhelme it sometimes they meete with such But these extremities are not here expressed in the Text A middle kinde of entertainement is here noted I will instance but in three particulars which comprize all that is here expressed with an intimation of defence First of all the first thing is in the Act of that entertainment given {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It signifies in the Originall as it were to dance a Galliard you are willing to dance a Galliard as I observed in the Embleme before which notes some defect some externall and formall Joy and jollity rather As learned Calvin doth sweetely expresse it from the place As servants that have a Candle allowed them by their Master to worke by at night they spend the Candle not in doing their Masters worke but in dancing about it and making good cheere and revelling and sporting and so weare and teare out the light that way rather I say such a jolly rejoycing at the light a vaine sinfull thing than any inward solide sincere joy seemes to bee noted Secondly I doe observe the rice of this joyfull entertainment in which also there may seeme something defective {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In his light you rejoyced Many rejoyced in the light in an innocent and harmelesse light that will not bite that hath no teeth that cannot burne that is plausible men rejoyce in it But it was his light that they rejoyced in rather than his heate yea Iohns light rather than Christs so a man may reverence such a mans straine rather than the Word of God to receive it as the Word of God whereas they should passe by and over-looke men and submit to it yeeld to it as the Word of God man being but the Instrument In the last place doe but marke the issue or the degree of duration and stability in this joyfull entertainement and there is something defective likewise there {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It was but a fit and unsetled unconstant ungrounded joy Fast and loose backeward and forward as men doe at dancing one step forward and two backward as the Grashopper that jumpes and falls againe to the ground leapes a little up and then dyes and goes out againe {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for an houre Many men are content for an houre to bestow it but if the houre be out if the glasse be out then they be quickly a weary of Iohn {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies the season and the flowre of a thing Many Ministers have their prime and have their flowres and many are willing to flocke about him till they have got a little taste of their gifts for curiosity and novelty to know what 's in him And then the prime is quickely gone nothing fades sooner than a Ministers reputation and respect in his case it is too frequent in the world As they say of another thing of inferiour nature gold in the morning and silver at noone and lead at night men decline and fall much a doe much exalting and much joy about the light when it is first set up but it quickely weares it selfe out men be quickely tyred like horses that bee metled at first but at length grow tyred and give out The last branch of the Text which is not directly in the words yet couched in them too besides the entertainment Ministers are like to finde in the world