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cause_n	aaron_n	fire_n	incense_n	12	3	10.6534	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81919	Israels call to march out of Babylon unto Jerusalem: opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 26, 1645, being the day of publique humiliation. / By John Durye, a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing D2867; Thomason E310_3; ESTC R9717	35,715	55

we should take notice That every one of us is 1 1. Thou art thy brothers keeper made his brothers keeper and that God will call us to an account not only how we have lookt unto our selves but how we have lookt unto our brethren It was Cains speech when he had murthered his brother and God calling him to an account for it he said What am I my brothers keeper yea thou art charged with the care of preserving thy brother and if thou doost not in love to him seek his good thou doest hate him in thy heart and he that doth hate his brother is a murtherer Our duty 1 Joh. 3. 15. then is to remember the rule bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ Gal. 6. 2. Christ did bear all our burdens therefore as he did deal with us we are bound to deal one with another if we will be counted his Disciples 2. Secondly we should take notice that although all men in one way or other are bound to bear the vessells of the Lord and to put to their hands to bear mutually their burdens yet that no man may goe beyond his line 2 2. Yet thou must not goe beyond thy calling and thrust himself upon a charge which is not committed unto him God hath distributed to every member of the body his faculty charge and place as he doth think good therefore no member can effect the ch●●ge and place of another the feet cannot effect the office of the hand nor the hand of the feet the eye cannot take upon it to be the eare nor the ear the eye the bowells cannot take the office of the arms nor the arms of the bowells So may not the Ministery incroach upon the Magistracy nor the Magistracy upon the Ministery nor may he who is called to bear the vessells only in a private way take upon him the charge of a publike relation belonging to the Magistracy or Ministery Every one of the sonnes of Levi had their distinct and peculiar charge within themselves about the Tabernacle nor was it lawfull for any to meddle with that which was not committed to him Let every man abide in the sphear and calling wherein God hath set him The last observation which I will make upon this part The third Doctrine is That God doth respect his vessel bearers of the Text which concerns the persons is this That God hath a peculiar respect to those that are entrusted with the charge of bearing his vessells We see that the coherence of the text with the former matter doth cleerly speak this for the joyfull promises of deliverance and salvation are no sooner offered to the people of God in generall but the particular application is immediatly made to those by name who bear the vessells of the Lord as to such who are epecially in Gods eye in whom he is concerned that their behaviour may be answerable to the effect of his intentions Now that God doth respect in a speciall manner those to whom he doth commit a speciall trust is clear from the law of justice and prudency setled in the heart of all wisemen who give a trust unto others The Law is this to whom much is given of him shall be much required Luk. 12. 48. consequently to whomsoever a peculiar charge of great concernment is committed upon him a peculiar eye will be cast and from him a speciall account will be expected of his faithfull performance of the work You only saith God by the Prophet Amos to the children of Israel have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. as if he had said I have in a speciall manner taken notice of you to make my self known to you by the ordinances wherewith I have entrusted you to make my name known therefore I have also lookt more narrowly to your wayes then to others and will not suffer your iniquities to passe without a punishment because you are above all others accountable unto me of your wayes The ground of this is that which Moses doth tell Aaron upon the punishment of Nadab and A●ih● Levit. 10. 3. for these two sonnes of Aaron presuming to offer incense unto God with strange fire which he had not commanded them were devoured with fire from the Lord for an exemplary punishment of will-worship and of false zeal in Gods service Hereupon Moses doth tell Aaron the cause of this punishment saying This is that which the Lord said I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before all the people will I be glorified God is jealous of his own glory therefore those that come nigh him must be holy as he is holy the neerer we are to him if we answer not the beauty of his holines to shew it forth we dishonour him the more therefore to vindicate and uphold his own honour he did before all the people glorify himself upon Nadab and Abihu lest their presumption being unpunished others might be encouraged to the like excesse God is interessed in those that are neerest to him in such as are strangers and aliens from the common wealth of Israel God is not much concerned and he doth suffer them to walk in their wayes and doth wink at the times of their ignorance but when he doth send them the knowledge of the Gospel and offereth unto them thereby the priviledge of being his people by Repentance and Faith he telleth them that they must be accountable unto him of their actions in the day appointed wherein he will judge the world in righteousnes Act. 17. 30. 31. The Gentiles that are not called by Gods name bring no dishonour directly unto it but it is for Israels sake that Gods name is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you meaning the Jews saith the Apostle is the name of God blasphemed Rom. 2. ●4 ●●erefore he is carefull even of servants professing the Gospel though otherwise mean and contemptible in the world that their wayes should be answerable to their profession lest the Gospel might be evil spoken of for their sakes 1 Tim. 6. 1. the misdemeanour of any of ones household doth reflect upon the Master of the family and this is Gods meaning towards the children of Israel Levit. 20. 7 8. when he faith sanctify your selves and be ye holy for I am the Lord your God and keep my statutes and doe them for I am the God that sanctifie you because I have set you apart for my self and I have given you my statutes which are the way of holines therefore set you your selves apart for me and keep my statutes for I am the Lord your God if you doe otherwise I will not own you as mine Can two walk together saith God by the Prophet Amos 3. 3. except they be agreed that is can God walk with a people and accept them for his own and employ them in his service to bear his vessells