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A63127	Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2121; ESTC R219723	79,230	213

while the petty ones be complyed with Our Saviour would not run himself into the Lyons jaws when he might go out of his way with a good conscience Religion doth not entangle a man in unnecessary and impertinent snares God allows we should stand aside when the immediate concernments of his glory do not call us out precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints and therefore to be exposed but upon a very eminent account not squandered away Those that would not acept deliverance did so not because they were prodigal of their lives but could not have equall conditions for the simplicity of the Gospel and Dove-like innocency may well shake hands with the Serpentine prudence and an honest policy 27 VVhen our Saviour sent out the seventy Disciples to preach he charged them not to go from house to house Luke 10.7 yet Paul herein witnesseth his integrity to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus that he had taught them publickly and from house to house Acts 20.20 Pauls practice did not clash with the Lords precept our Lord forbids such a going from house to house as was upon the account not of teaching but of entertainment He would not that his servants should like beggars go from dore to dore low and unworthy waye for lively-hood agree not with the profession of those whose maintenance is cal'd double honour They are sent out without a scrip yet must make no base shift for their provision but observe a comely gravity in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give not by an unhandsome crouching to beg that hire which a true labourer may challenge as his due 28 In the charge which Paul gives Timothy to bring the things he left at Troas he takes especiall care for his Books and Parchments The chiefest furniture of a Minister is his Library and that which men reckon much as his commendation that he is a good Scholar there being nothing more contemptible then a dull headed illiterate Preacher but here 's the mischief of it that while they require Brick of us they give us no Straw their maintenance being such that if it hold out to buy a Cloak there is nothing left for Books and Parchments 29 When our Lord was invited to the Pharisees house he sets down with unwashen hands Luke 11.38 't was not unknown to him what was the Tradition of the Elders or the Pharisees judgement in that respect neither may we think him uncomplying with such things of decency and cleanlinesse as humanity required and though he might with a good conscience and would 'tis probable have washed afore dinner yet we see him therefore refusing it because they would make that necessary which was indifferent The very Esse of external worship being divine appointment while men go about to make that Religious which God left as indifferent they actually destroy what they intend to establish for which cause the Lord doth not only reprove such injunctions of theirs as were contrary to Gods Law but such as were beside it arguing hereby that they worshipped God in vain because they taught for Doctrine the Commandements of men and this very thing emphatically sets a Character upon Jeroboams time appointed by him for worship that it was the month which he had devised of his own heart 30 He that should have read that prophesie in Hosea Hos 12.1 would little have thought of such an interpretation as the Spirit giveth for who would have imagined that those words Out of Aegypt have I called my son should foretell Josephs bringing up Jesus out of Egypt 'T is hard to deduce certain conclusions from passages meerly propheticall and as dangerous to engage in things of practice only upon the conduct of such light as those places afford they being intended rather for confirmation than narration for which cause we find those predictions of our Saviour concerning his sufferings and resurrection hid from the Apostles but after they were effected then they remembred that he had said these things unto them and they beleeved the Scriptures and the word which Jesus had spoken 31 When I heard Herods promise and oath to the daughter of Herodias That he would give her what soever she should ask to the half of his Kingdome Mark 6.22 I expected she should have come in and requested some lusty boon a Dutchy at the least but behold she desires John Baptists head in a Charger there could be no such satisfaction in the Heremites head that the impotent soul should thus desire it if malice had not set so great a price upon it But whither will not the spirit of revenge transport us the good man had reproved an incestuous marriage and no lesse then his head must pay for it though purchased at so dear a rate as halfe a Kingdome but it seldome is that the purchases revenge maketh are not like Copy-hold Land paid for twice as this woman in a short time after dearly found for what the Prophet reproved Caesar disallows and punisheth 32 When Mary Magdalen stood weeping at the Sepulchre she turns about and seeth Jesus but knew him not Joh. 20.14 It doth not appear that the body of Jesus was changed after his resurrection as to what it might be known from another by for he shews Thomas the print of his nails and 't is said of the Disciples travelling to Emaus That their eyes were withholden that they should not know him implying that otherwise they would but we find no such cause here yet she mistakes him for the Gardiner The good woman was intent upon her sorrow and was suprized with so sudden and unexpected a discovery It is most dark at day break and Gods way of revealing himself is usually by contraryes as Abraham believed in hope against hope God steps in with such unlooked for mercies that his people doth not believe their own enjoyments Psal 126.1 VVhen God turned again the captivity of Sion we were like those that dream Thought they dreamed not crediting that deliverance reall but imaginary when we think comforts are farthest off 't is but turn about and they are before us for God delighteth that his mighty arm be made apparent and then to save when his people have no power and there is none shut up nor left 33 Our Lord sayes to Mary John 20.15 Woman why weepest thou whom seekest thou and yet she knows him not but when he says Mary she cryes Rabboni when he bespeaks her with the generall name of Woman he is undiscovered to her but when by the peculiar name of Mary he is own'd by her as Master So great a difference there is between general and particular calling how many have unprofitably heard Christ speaking to them in is word till he hath called them by name and that word by a particular application hath been laid upon their hearts Yea what odds is there between publick preaching and particular speaking how many have received more instruction

spoils of Amaleck for sacrifice because beside the rule find a curse instead of acceptance and is told Obedience is better than the fat of Rams 16 VVhen God sent Gideon to deliver Israel Judg. 6.12 he bespeaks him The Lord is with thee Thou mighty man of valour VVhat needed there mention of Gideons valour when the weapons of that warfare were to be spiritual rather then carnal a strong faith rather then a strong arm to blow with the Trumpets and cry The sword of the Lord and of Gideon required rather good Lungs then a valourous heart besides 't was Gods purpose to glorifie himself immediately in this delivery therefore chose the three hundred that lapped rather than the other thousands so that the veriest Coward had been rather for Gods turn then a man of courage But though the work was the Lords the enterprize was daring and required a well fortifyed mind to undertake it the exposing of three hundred in such a posture to an army that covered the earth like Grashoppers could not but stagger him who desired a sign that God would save Israel by his hand when he had thirty two thousand men following him therefore the Lord thus be speaks him questionably whether Indicatively or Imparatively to shew him so or make him so or at least more so therefore the Commission is Go in this thy might or thus Wade mighty but however if Gideon were high in valour he was low in humility though cryed up by the testimony of an Angel and so hard a matter to be a good Souldier and not a Braggard too yet not a word of his boasting through the whole story God can well allow us our portion when thereby we intrude not on his interest 17 In the 2 Same 13.5 we find Jonadab of counsel to Amnon in the ravishment of his sister Tamar and in the 32. verse either of counsel or conscious to his murder we read him indeed advising in the execution of the wickedness but not admonishing of the punishment Those Decoyes are frequent who cog us into danger but there leave us I have read of an evill spirit that was wont to entice men into mischief and then make himself sport with their troubles 't is the Devils play to laugh at those miseryes whereinto those things brought us to which he advised us 18 A charge is given by David to Ziba to till the Land for Mephibosheth and to bring him the fruits that his masters son might have food to eat and yet at the same time there is a promise made That he should eat bread continually at the Kings Table Surely Davids provision was not so short as that there needed a supply from Ziba there might have been mention made of Rent to his Coffers but it seems impertinent to provide food to eat where to talk of a supply had been a disparagement But Mephibosheth had a son and 't is probable store of Attendants and for these is the food intended reckoned as his because for his Dependants besides under the name of food other necessaries are understood though lesse necessary as bread promised to Mephibosheth at Davids Table because the staffe of mans life and therefore principally mentioned though only so excludes not the other delicacies which at the Kings Table were to be had When we pray to God for our daily bread we intend also the other conveniencies of life and that for us and ours and when God promiseth to give us food so that we need not take thought what we shall cat yet then he intends we should be provident for our own diet Davids courte sie must be accompanied with Ziba's industry 19 In the History of the Kings of Israel the Scripture refers us to the Books of Nathan Gad Jasher and others if these books were not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 't is probable they were not yet being thus referred to they were of Divine Authority though not a priore by Divine Inspiration yet a posteriore by Divine approbation and like Leather money though no silver was yet currant being stampt even those words of the Heathen Poet being quoted by the Spirit are being so of like Authority but why are we referred to them for our confirmation or information Indeed God to establish our weakness repeats his Command that we be strengthned Be strong yea be strong we have the same things reiterated God thinks not much to shoot two Arrows out of his Quiver to strike the mark dead that like a Partridge kill'd by a Merlyn it may not so much as quiver a wing though the first did mortally woud it By two immutable things whereby it was impossible for God to lye could God have lyed had there been only a single asseveration and did that impossibility arise from the Duplication surely not to God who cannot deny himself and changeth not but as to us in condescension to whose weaknesse God makes that Bond double which before was so strong that Heaven and Earth should be dissolved first but why are these books then lost Even miracles that swadled the infant-truths of the Gospel were left off when by time they had gathered strength to stand alone yea God expects we should not be alwayes Babes and therefore reckons upon the time whereas for the time ye ought I have many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now which yet were said when they could bear them all things are not fit for all times those Books might be meet for the present Generations that were not so for those that followed John points with the finger Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world yet the Disciples are charged To tell no man that he was the Christ Besides as God will sometimes help our weaknesse so at other times try our faith Hence that universal silence or perversion in profane story of what the Divine makes mention how short a touch doth Josephus give of the Lord Christ who yet copiously handleth things even to common judgement far less memorable yet of those Books that were written and lost or Traditions hath God taken care to insert so much in the Scriptures as was pertinent for his Church for which cause those words of Enoch are recited by Jude whereas what was written or said by him besides is perished 20 Though God be often attested to be no respecter of persons yet we find him dealing differently with divers persons in divers cases Gideon requires a sign more than once and is favourably complyed with Zachary doth so but once and hath his own dumbnesse given him for an evidence But 't is no wonder if God who knows the thoughts deal diversly to our thoughts Gideons faith like a child newly come to its feet desires that it may be upheld by a signe and pity it should not be led that was willing to go Zachary stands at a gaze and seems not so much to desire confirmation as to dispute the possibility of the thing