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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42062	Teares and bloud, or, A discourse of the persecution of ministers, with motives to martyrdom and cautions about it set forth in two sermons, both lately preached at Saint Mary's in Oxford / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1905; ESTC R13097	43,961	52

himself O spare that womb that bare you spare those breasts that give you suck why should you ruine the Land of your Nativity 2 The losse of the Gospel would be a sad deplorable loss to the Saints of God do you ask me why I answer 1. The losse of the Gospel to you that are Saints would be the loss of your Fathers Surely the losse of a tender Father is a loss considerable Elisha laments it my Father my father who was that Father of his 't was Elijah 't was the Prophet your Ministers are your Fathers in Christ I have begotten you through the Gospel saith Paul now can you lose your Fathers and yet not drop a Tear can you see your Fathers ruined and yet that eye which seeth it be dry {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} O man do not kill my Father Croesus said a Child that never spake before do you not read how solemnly Joseph mourned for his Father and were there no cause why we should mourn for ours Joseph mourned for his Father from Aegypt to Canaan but should we lose these Fathers of ours we should mourn from Canaan to Aegypt should our spirituall Fathers dye this Canaan of ours would quickly become an Aegypt But 2 The loss of the Gospel to you that are Saints would be the loss of your food It s true you are born again but can you live without any food can the Child that is newly dropt from the womb subsist without its milk will the hungry babe be content without the breast O no do but deny your Child the breast and it crieth and roares now the promises of the old and new Testament are the Churches two breasts and shall our Mother lose these breasts and her babes not cry 't is not milk in the dish t is not milk in the spoon that alway stils the Child O no 't is the Dug and that alone so here 't is not the outward mercies of God 't is not the common blessings of Providence O no 't is milk in the breast the promises in the Gospell that content a soul Now should this Gospel be lost should our breasts be dry whan then Essurire non comedere saith Rupertus for a man to be hungry and yet have nothing to eat Sitire non bibere for a man to be a thirst and yet have nothing to drink surely this were sad here 's our case should we lose our Church we lose our Mother should we lose our Ministers we lose our Nurses should we lose our Gospell we lose our breasts and what Judgment so sore as this hunger and no bread thirst and no drink alas who can bear it 3. The loss of the Gospel to you that are Saints would be a losse of your comfort Thy word is my comfort saith David but if this word were lost what then were yours indeed God is the Fountain of Consolation but his Ordinances are the streames where you must drink God himself is the spring but the Ordinances the Conduit pipe now if this pipe be broken whence can you draw if these streames be cut off where will you drink it 's true your Cordials are of Christs preparing yea but to administer these Cordials is a work that 's ours your Physitian is Christ his Apothecaries are we when a soul is wounded for sin what then O now For an Interpreter saith Job your plaister is the bloud of Christ yea but under the Spirit your Minister is the hand that must apply it propter penuriam verbi Dei solent homines in peccatis contabescere desperare saith Osiander when a soul is dejected for sin what can raise it without a promise when a soul is disconsolate what can it doe without a Minister God indeed is the Father of Comforts but his Ministers are his Barnabasses they are the Sonnes of Consolation there may be a God of comfort in Heaven and yet without a Son of Consolation on earth our soules may be still sad there may be a Sun in Heaven and yet without it's rayes on Earth we are still in the dark 't is a dark night indeed that hath no Star to shine 't is a dark soul indeed that hath no beam of comfort sure I am if we lose the Gospell we lose our Sun if we lose our Church we lose our Moon if we lose our Ministers we lose our Starres and if so how can it be but poor dejected soules must sit down in the dark upon all these accounts the losse of the Gospell would be a sad deplorable loss even to the Saints of God 3. The loss of the Gospel would be a destroying damning loss to sinners alas unregenerate men are dead in sinne already but if they loose the Gospel that word of Life they must needs ly dead and rot in their graves for ever Vnregenerate men are enemies to God already but if they loose the Gospel that word of reconciliation they are like to be enemies to God for ever Sinners are in a state of damnation already but if once they loose the Gospel the Gospel of salvation the poor sinner is like to be damned for ever now is the damnation of sinners the thing you thirst for Surely if you have any mercy for sinners if you have any pitty for soules you dare not endeavour the loss of the Gospel that man who pittieth him that is like to starve dares not take his food away that man who pittieth him that is wounded dares not tear his plaister in pieces so here that man who pitieth dying soules dares not prevent them of their remedy 't were strange for men to talk of pitying the Sick and yet to withdraw the Physitian from them 't were strange for men to talk of pitying the Poor and yet under hand to rob them here 's the case for men to talk of pitying soules and yet undermine the Gospel for men to talk of pitying sinners and yet remove the meanes of their salvation what is this but to kill with a Complement what is this but to flatter soules into Hell that 's the issue should once our Ministers fail should our Ordinances but cease 't were a loss which thousands of sinners were like to feel and lament for ever 4. The loss of the Gospel would prove an undoing loss to our Posterity Our Infants are born babes in age but not babes in Christ they are Children of Nature and so Children of Wrath too they bear the Devils image as well as Ours Infants of a span long but sinners of a great dimension poor Babes Cockatrices in the Egge and when once hatcht Cockatrices still sinners in the womb and sinners from the womb indeed that it should be so is our shame but their undoing well but is there no remedy Our Children are born sinners but must they live so our Children are born Heirs of Hell but must they dye so and be damned for ever It 's true their being born in s●n

done t is like enough those Mountains may crush us to peices Sure I am here is our danger when we denounce against sin the displeasure of God we oft contract upon our selves the displeasure of men 4 T is our concernment in Times of difference to own that cause that is most just and righteous indeed t is a policy in men to take that side which is most strong but surely t is the duty of Ministers to espouse that cause which is most holy Gods Ministers must not be as cunning Gamesters who surely bet on that side that seems most likely to win we must not do as Gamesters we must not prefer the Club before the Diamond barely because at present t is turned up Trump In that contest betwixt David and Absalom I find that Ahitophell that Politician and States-man of Israel took part with rebellious Absalom yea but as for the Priests of the Lord as for the Levites I read that they all were with David yea but is it alway safe for the Priests of the Lord to side with David surely no Turn and slay the Priests of the Lord That Saul who had a sinfull mercy for an accursed Agag hath no mercy for the consecrated Priests of the Lord that Saul who could save Sheep and Oxe for a Sacrifice doth now refuse to spare the Sacrificers themselves T is his command slay the Priests of the Lord well and why so what have the Lords Priests done that they must be slain why their Crime was this Their hand also is with David David was the right heir of the Crown a man designed by God himself to succeed in the Kingdom and yet the Priests of the Lord must dye barely upon this account Their hand also is with David alas 't was a very little they had done for David they had given him bread to relieve him a Sword to defend him that Sword which David himself had wonne the Priest gives David the Sword of Goliah and for that must dye himself by the Sword of Doeg Sure it is for the Priests of the Lord to side with David to own that cause that is righteous and holy t is ever just but seldome safe if so the very discharge of our duty is that which renders us liable to persecution our good names our estates our liberties nay sometimes our lives are in danger except wee 'l basely betray Gods cause our own Trust and our Peoples souls 1 By way of exhortation and that both to Ministers and People First to you who are the People of God is Persecution Imprisonment nay death it self that which the Ministers of God have cause sometimes to look for why then 1 Be sure you pray for the faithfull Ministers of God if you ask me why I answer First Gods Ministers pray for you Secondly Gods Ministers upon many accounts deserve your prayers but the Argument in my Text is Thirdly this Gods Ministers need your prayers alas the Devil hates them the men of the world hate them they are in danger sometimes of bonds sometimes of death well and what then why Brethren pray for us but why would Paul be prayed for that we may be delivered from unreasonable men Persons still in danger are persons still in need to be prayed for the former is our condition the latter should be your practise 2 Be sure you bear with Gods faithfull Ministers in the discharge of their duties toward you See how in three particulars 1 Be sure you bear with us when we justly reprove you for sin to chide you for sin is not our delight but our duty to rebuke our hearers is not our pleasure but our danger reproofs for sin are your safety but our hazard when we contend against your sins we contend against your ruine yea but we venture our own when we would fain chide you into Heaven possibly we may chide our selves into a Goal and will you not bear with us in this is it reasonable that we should lose your love barely because we would save your lives shall we lose your hearts because we would save your souls though it be hard to bear with an injury yet me thinks it should be easie to bear with kindnesse and what kindnesse like to this Let the righteous reprove me and what if he do why it shall be a kindnesse when we reprove you for sin we v●nture your displeasure to prevent your undoing we hazard our own advantages to endeavour yours and is this a thing that cannot be borne with if this be a wrong why yet forgive us this wrong if this be an injury t is such an one as doth not wound but engage if you are to bear with wrongs when real methinks you may make some shift to bear with reall kindnesse and such is this we endanger our selves to secure you 2 Be sure you bear with us when we reprove you for errours in Judgment Surely errours in Judgment are as damnable as errours in practise Leprosy in the head is more dangerous then in the hand t is the Devils great design to corrupt the brains of men when he cannot debauch their lives the Scriptures mention not onely the works of the Devil but the Doctrines of Devils too and doubtlesse there is many a man embraceth the Devils doctrines that seems to renounce his works T is observeable that the first Fathers of Heresies were men of acurate lives poyson looks best in Plate tastes best being wrapped up in Sugar the Devil well knoweth that damnable doctrines will not easily be embraced without a disguise of externall holinesse to commend them now here 's our Employment we venture our selves to unmask the Devil and undeceive you t is not against your persons but against your errours that we contend {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} surely t is such a contention as you may bear with fain would we pull off the scales from your eyes and will you upon that account throw dust in ours Will a man bite off that finger that plucks the bone from his throat which otherwise would stick and choak him Am I become your Enemy because I tell you the Truth so say I shall we be counted your enemies because we would teach you Truth T is Gods command buy the Truth and sell it not t is your concernment to purchase the Truths of God at any rate and will you be angry with us who venture our selves to redeem them for you a man that diveth for Jewels ventures drowning so here the Truths of God those precious Jewels may cost us dear they may cost us our estates our liberties our lives but however let them not cost us your unkindnesse your displeasure O no though we reprove your Errours yet bear with us still the benefit is yours there is little but danger ours 3 Be sure you bear with us even when we denounce the judgments of God against you indeed the judgments of God must needs be sore