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cause_n	child_n	parent_n	see_v	1,442	5	3.9893	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61300	The good masters plea, against the evill servants cavill Discovering the vanity of those men, who judge the service of God to be vaine. Delivered in certaine sermons upon Malachi, 3. 14. Being a taste of the labours of that reverend, faith full, and holy servant of God, Nicholas Stanton, M. of Arts; late preacher of the gospel of Christ, at the parish of Margarets in Ipswich, in Suffolk.	Stanton, Nicholas.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5251; ESTC R222417	42,730	188

THE GOOD MASTERS PLEA AGAINST THE EVILL SERVANTS CAVILL Discovering the vanity of those men who judge the Service of God to be vaine Delivered in certaine Sermons upon MALACHI 3.14 Being a taste of the labours of that reverend faith full and holy servant of God Nicholas Stanton M. of Arts late Preacher of the Gospel of Christ at the Parish of Margarets in Ipswich in Suffolk MALACHI 1.10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doores for nought neither do ye kindle fire on mine Altar for nought LONDON Printed for William Weekely and are to be sold at his shop at Ipswich and Iohn Rothwell at the Signe of the Fountaine and Sunne in Pauls Church-yard 1650. TO The Right Worshipfull the Bayliffes Burgesses with the rest of the inhabitants of the Towne of IPSWICH And in particular to the Authors Christian Auditors Worthy and well-esteemed friends THat generall and good respect which the author of this treatise found amongst you whil'st he was living hath well perswaded us that the reviving of any little piece of his would be very welcome after his death The restoring of a dead man to life 2 King 13.21 by the touch of the Prophet's bones was an extraordinary and indeed no lesse then a miraculous putting forth of the power of God and therefore no sufficient ground for the common preserving much lesse for the superstitious adoring of the bodily reliques of Saints departed Yet we must needs acknowledge that great reviving which many drooping hearts have found and felt by the Spirituall reliques of Gods faithfull servants in workes of this nature as it holds forth a sweet manifestation of the Grace of God going along with the endeavours of his servants so is it no lesse warrant for the preserving and publishing such Posthumes as these whereby the authors being dead Heb. 11.4 doe yet speake and after a sort out-live themselves putting also a kind of new life into their dearest friends who being most deeply affected with their death could have found in their hearts to have said with Thomas if the will of the Lord had beene so Joh. 11.16 let us also goe that we may dye with him I say the resurrection of their labours before hand which did seeme to have been buried with them doth not a little revive their friends Io. 11.23 24. and is next in comfort to the resurrection of their Bodies at the last day 1 Thes 4.13.14 c. or to the assurance of the happy condition of their Soules in the meane time For this cause wee were not a little encouraged to bring this child of light into publike view being well assured that all such as loved the parents will be very glad to see the face of it And if it should happen which is the sad case of many a poor Orphan to meet with hard usage from the hands and tongues of such as use to shew little kindnesse either to the living or to the dead we make no question but that great Lord Protector whose service it plead's for will also plead for it and under him we are bold to commit it to your care and patronage The work it selfe speaks much of the mind and spirit of him that compos'd it and is like the sweet sent of a perfuming Candle which continues a great while after the Candle it selfe is put forth and removed out of the roome It is a work fit for these times wherein the eyes of too mans professors are so dazled with looking up to their priviledges they know not how to looke downe to their duties Heb. 13.2 The author was like Moses a faithfull Servant in the house of God and wee are perswaded his maine designe was to draw Others also from the vassalage of Satan to the service of God Act. 26.18 in which worke Phil. 4.1 God hath crown'd his endeavours with so many seales of his ministery 1 Cor. 9.2 as well amongst your-selves as in other places that if wee should hold our peace Luk. 19.40 many stony hearts converted into flesh and made children of Abraham Mat. 3.9 would speake to the praise of Gods grace in this usefull instrument In the opening and applying of this Scripture hee hath notably discovered the vanity of those men who judge it a vaine thing to serve God It is most true 1 Cor. 15.33 that evill words much more evill principles in the heart doe corrupt good manners The activity or unactivity of men outwardly doth most certainly spring from internall principles most deeply rooted and closely rivetted in their spirits amongst the rest a world of hurt is done by this one common and hurtfull principle in the World it is in vaine to serve God What makes men either so desperatly Active for the worst of Masters or so shamefully unactive for the best but this secret perswasion that commeth not of him Gal. 5.8 that calleth them Now wee know a disease clearly discovered in the cause is in the high-way of cure The wisdome and spirituall skil of this heavenly physitian Pro. 20.27 hath much appeared in this kind who by the candle of the Lord hath made so deep search into the privy Chambers of the Soul and most inward thoughts of men that by the cleare discovery of the guil and self-deceit of their hearts in the service of God they might be throughly convinced of the error of their wayes 1 Cor. 14.25 and so the secrets of their hearts being made manifest they might fall downe on their faces and worship God reporting that God is in his Ordinance of a truth If the communicating these labours may through Gods blessing conduce to that happy end as wee are assured it was the maine ayme of this faithfull Stevvard in preaching of them so we hope it shall be our utmost end in the publishing thereof For this cause Eph. 3.14 we desire to bow our knees unto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and to begge of you that the Authors Plantation 1 Cor. 3.6 may be watered by your Prayers and teares also that God giving the increase his name may have the Glory of all that Service which is done in obedience to his commands and his poore servants may enjoy the comfort of all his precious promises Isa 45.19 who never said to the seed of Iacob seeke ye me in vaine By the grace and in the strength of this God wee are bold to engage our selves 2 Cor. 8.5.4 5. first to the Lord and then unto you by the will of God Your Servants for Jesus sake Matthew Lawrence Robert Stansbye Isaac Basil To the Reader Christian Reader THou shalt finde 1 Sam. 14.18 Absolon having no son to keep his name in remembrance he set up a Pillar this Godly Author whose modesty was far enough of from affectation of Printing as all know that knew him having no naturall issue though spiritually he brought forth many sonnes and daughters unto