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A10391	The description of fleshly lusts. Or a profitable and fruitfull sermon vpon the first Epistle of Saint Peter, Chap. 2. vers. 11. 12. Preached and penned by that famous, learned, iudicious, orthodoxall, holy, wise, and skilfull preacher and servant of God, now deceased, and with his God triumphing in Heaven, Iohn Randall, Batchelour of Divinitie, pastour of St. Andrewes Hubbart in little East cheape London, sometimes fellow of Lincolne Coledge in Oxford. And now published, to the glory of God, the edification of his church, and the honourable memoriall of the author, by William Holbrooke, preacher of the word of God in the church aforesaid	Randall, John, 1570-1622.; Holbrooke, William.	1622 (1622)	STC 20669; ESTC S102397	17,941	33

effect with him in his heart to the reformation of his life and sauing of his soule Againe in that he calls them here his Dearely beloued here is another observation offered vnto vs. He had shewed in the former Verses that they were the dearely beloued of God and therefore here in this Verse he is bolde to call them his Dearely beloued for seeing that Christ did loue them dearely his Apostle must needs loue them dearly too For the Lord neuer bestowes his loue vpon any but withall he bestowes many amiable Graces vpon them such as may procure them loue and fauour amongst men I say not amongst carnall men that cannot looke any farther then vpon flesh and bloud nor yet amongst worldly men that onely loue those that are like themselues but amongst spirituall men such as can discerne the louely gifts and graces of God shining in a mans soule Wee reade Genesis 39.3 4. of Ioseph that the Lord was with him Putiphar seeing the loue of God vpon him did set his loue vpon him too and in the 21. verse of that Chapter the Master of the Prison saw that the Lord loued Ioseph and then he loued Ioseph too and in the 41. Chapter the 39. Verse euen Pharaoh himselfe saw that the spirit of God was in Ioseph and therefore he fauoured him and preferred him exceedingly Thus was it also with Christ himselfe of whom we reade Luk. 2.52 that he grew in loue and fauour with God and with men first in fauour with God and then with men for men loued him because God loued him first Here is then a perfect Rule whereby to frame our loue towards men if first we behold and descry in them certaine testimonies of the loue of God then may we be bold also to set our dearest loue and affection vpon them Wee must take heed that we be not too light of our loue in bestowing it vpon euery one for our Christian loue is and ought to be a well setled affection proceeding from a good ground and therefore we must bestow it especially vpon those whom we see the Lord hath peculiarly endued with his sanctifying and sauing grace neither yet on the other side must we be too sparing of our loue in bestowing it onely vpon some few that fit our owne humor best but as many as the Lord hath vouchsafed to admit into the bosome of his Church and to call to the profession of our Christian Faith except we see in them some euident cause to the contrary as that they are hypocrites or yeeld any other manifest signes of impietie those we must loue as presuming and well hoping that God doth loue them But howsoeuer the Apostle had many respects to draw his dearest loue to these faithfull ones partly because they were his brethren in the flesh but much rather because they were his brethren in the Lord embracing the same faith worshipping the same God regenerate by the same spirit and liuing in the communion of one and the same mysticall bodie yet there was one reason further then all these that inflamed his heart with most feruent loue towardes them aboue all other and this was the charge which was giuen to him ouer them that he should be their Instructor to Preach the Doctrine of saluation vnto them For the Ministeriall charge which was assigned vnto Peter ouer the Circumcision Gal. 2.7 did knit his heart vnto them faster then euer the heart of Ionathan was knit vnto the heart of Dauid so that in this respect he might well call them his dearely beloued Wherein he giues an example to the Ministers of God teaching them how they ought to esteeme the flocke of Christ whereof the holy Ghost hath made them ouer-seers that they must carry a loue and affection towards them and that not any common loue but such as proceeds from the dearest and the deepest seate of their hearts Deare is that loue which must preuaile with vs so farre as to make vs to lay downe our liues for those whom we doe loue It is so deare and such a great loue as that our Sauiour Ioh. 15.13 telles vs there can be no greater Greater loue can no man shew then this when a man bestowes his life for his friends and yet such must be the loue of a Pastor toward his flocke euen to lay downe his life for them as Ioh. 10.11 A good Shepheard c. Thus it was with Moses that would rather be blotted out of the Booke of life himselfe then that the wrath of the Lord should be powred out vpon the Children of Israel Exod. 32.32 And thus it was with Paul that would wish himselfe to be seperated from Christ for his brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh Rom. 9.3 And thus it was with the great Shepherd of our soules Christ himselfe who did lay downe his life for his Sheepe and expose himselfe to all those dangers which by our sinnes we had incurred and thus it ought to be with all the Ministers of God they must loue their seuerall Charges euen vnto death embracing them with their dearest affection The second Insinuation is in these words I beseech you For although by that Apostolike authoritie which he had receiued he might command them yet he had rather to deale with them by entreatie to beseech them For this was a course fitter for him and fitter for them also Fitter for him as being a Minister of the Word it is for a Magistrate to command it is for a Minister to beseech and fitter for them the young tenderlings of a Vine are to be handled gently and charily and so these being but young Christians as hath beene alreadie shewed out of the second Verse were to be mildly dealt withall In matters of Religion though sometimes men may be compelled by strong hand and by force to obedience yet the readiest way either to winne those that are without or to conteine those that are alreadie wonne in the bond of obedience is for the most part by fayre meanes and by kind perswasions Suadenda potius est pietas quàm cogenda sayth a learned Father Sooner is godlinesse fastened vpon vs by perswasion then by compulsion And the very Heathen man Seneca could tell vs that in good causes Faciliùs ducimur quam trahimur It is easier to lead vs on by kind entreatie then to draw vs on by constraining meanes Here then is controuled that imperious Spirit which raignes in the Chayre of the Romish Sea that takes vpon him to commaund all the world He challengeth himselfe to be Christs Vicar and Peters successor but whither he be either of them let his commaunding courses testifie Christ sayd Learne of me for I am meeke and lowly What meeknesse is there in him that sends forth his Mandamus nothing but commands and threatnings to the people of God And Peter as you see here beseeches these Christians to be advised by him but he that challenges himselfe to be Peters successor lookes for it as