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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	apostle_n	church_n	word_n	1,489	5	3.9514	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40725	Concio ad magistratum a nations honour, and a nations dishonour, or, A kingdoms prospective-glass : discovering who are the most faithful friends, and who the most dangerous enemies to the peace and prosperity of a kingdom / written by P. Fullwood.	Fullwood, P. (Peter)	1673 (1673)	Wing F2522; ESTC R7022	26,022	48

Prophesie it was the direction our Saviour gave to his Disciples before he sent them to preach Behold I send as Lambs among Wolves be ye therefore wise as Serpents but innocent as Doves The Prophet David fought first with a Lion then with a Bear then with a Phillstine but we must wrestle with Principallities Powers the Rulers in dark places here is the great Lucifer of the Church of Rome together with other evil Angels that have fallen the Church by Apostacy therefore let us walk in Wisdome toward them that are without Secondly respectu habito justitiae It is a principle in moral Policie that corrupt execution of Law is as dangerous as unjust violation it is a mercy to have such in Authority modo audeant quae sentiunt saith Cicero the Aegyptian Kings usually and solemnly presented this Oath to their Judges not to swerve from their consciences though they should have a command from them to the contrary such an heart without affection a mind without passion a treasurer which keepeth for every man what he hath and distributeth to every man what he ought to have Thirdly respectu habito charitatis the rigour of Justice is not to be exacted without the sweet commixture of Mercy Rulers must be like Cherabins to have wings to shelter the innocent as well as a flaming sword to drive out offendors he that is Judge of the whole world his mercy like Nebuchadnezzars tree spreads over the face of the whole Earth or Davids Sun which runs from one end of the Earth to the other therefore as God said to Moses see thou do all things according to the pattern shewed thee in the Mount So I come to the last step of this first general let them labour in the word and doctrine The office of an Elder as it is a work of great importance so not to be done negligently such deserve not this double honour but a curse rather cursed is every one that doth the work of the Lord negligently the Elders are compared to Planters Builders Soldiers Husbandmen the Husbandman is never out of work redit Agricolae labor but especially in time of Harvest now is the Lords Harvest there is need of painful labourers to gather Gods wheat into his Barn but do I stand upon comparisons there is no labour saith St. Chrysostome is comparable to the labour of the faithful Pastour hence the Apostle here adds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some take the word not in apposition but in composition plurimum laborantes labouring most earnestly they must not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take an easie and light yoke but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 use double diligence they must labour in the word and doctrine they must labour but not in the affairs of this life with which they must not intangle themselves that they may please him who hath called them the inordinate cares of this World are a great distraction to any Christian much more to such as are called to wait at Gods Altar the Prince of Philosophers hath given this precept let no Husbandman or Handy-crafts-man be a Priest it is a maxime grounded upon the Law of Nature It stands not with the honour of God that they that are imployed in his service should be manuary Trades Such mechanical imployments with-draw their minds from their holy function and are repugnant to that knowledg and other gifts that are required in that holy order they that spend more time amongst bea●ts then amongst books are fitter for the plough than the Pulpit let us fix our thoughts on a more noble object let us labour in the word and doctrine let us not labour for the meat that perisheth but for the m●at that endureth unto everlasting life Theodorus Beza in one of his Polemical Treatises upon these two Word and Doctrine hath found a ground of upholding their new distinction betwixt Pastours and Doctours which he thinketh so manifest as he saith quis not videt and yet never any before him could find it out duae istae voces saith Calvin rem unam significant as Joseph said of Pharaoh●s two dreams they are both one Carthusianus starts another distinction upon these two Word and Doctrine they must labour in the word of exhortation and in the doctrine of instruction for the enlightning of the understanding the word of exhortation for the regulating of the affections the one to dispel the darkness of the mind the other the rebellion of the heart the doctrine of instruction with the word of exhortation doth commonly produce a cold and speculative knowledg without practice the word of exhortation without the doc●rine of instruction begets a blind and pernitious zeal without knowledg Other distinctions betwixt these two Word and Doctrine have been noted in verbo scientibus in doctrina ignorantibus so Aus●lmus in the word to them that know already in doctrine to them that are yet to learn he must labour in verbo scientibus in the explication of obscure and difficult peeces of Scripture called by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he that cannot unfold is like the ridiculous builder of whom it is said caepit ad ficare no● potu●t consummar● this man began to build and was not able to finish He must labour likewise in doctrina ignorantibus in catechismes gathered from easie and plain places of Scripture which were in u●e in the Apostles time and called a form of sound words and the principles of the doctrine of Christ and since the Apostles time both in the Greek and Latine Church the neglect of catechizing is the cause why so little good is done amongst us by Preaching Preaching without Catechizing seems Rachel like beautiful but barren making the Hearers like Pharaohs lean kine that devoured the fat ones and were never the fatter Be we then like those Olive branches in the Prophet Zacharie which through these two golden pipes empty the holy oyl out of our selves Thus at the length we have measured the waters of this golden sea viz. the Elders duty Oh! let the waves thereof beat a while upon your affections and then they will bring you to the Haven to that honour that double honour which is intailed upon us Let the Elders that rule w●ll be counted worthy of double honour especially such as labour in the word and doctrine So I come to the second general the Elders heres first Quale honos honour Secondly Quantas double honour Thirdly Quar● they are worthy Fourthly Quomodo how let them be counted worthy of these in their order and first of the first The Heathens directed by the divine light of Nature ever had and still have their Priests in great estimation amongst the Romanes none were created Pontificies but such as were of noble blood by the Mahometan law if any outrage be done to a Priest if he be a Turk that so doeth he looseth his right hand if a Christian or Jew that so doeth he must be burnt alive there is no greater