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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06135	A sermon preached at Torceter in the countie of Northampton the 8. of Iune, Anno Dom. 1588. at the visitation of the right reuerend Father in God, the Bishop of Peeterborow, by Iohn Beatniffe preacher of the woord of God in Brackley.	Beatniffe, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 1662; ESTC S116644	12,021	38

a direction whereby they might walke the bounds whereof they shoulde not passe but also hee sent foorth his seruants the Prophets whom he did endue with the spirite of Prophecie and trewe vnderstanding which shoulde rise vp early and late to teach Israell the sayde Lawe which shoulde threaten the people with the iudgments of God for theyr transgressions which shoulde call them to repentaunce and comfort them in their afflictions and at the last he sent the trew Prophet euen his Sonne Iesus Christ to teach hys Church and to gather together the dispearsed This proueth the Apostle S. Paul in these wordes Diuersly and many waies in times past Heb. 1.1 spake God vnto the Fathers by Prophets but last of all in these dayes hath hee spo kn to vs by his Sonne whom he hath made heire of all thinges By whom also he made the worlde This Iesus in lyke manner shewed his care ouer the Church Luk. 13.22 for as Luke sayth Hee went about through euerie Cittie and euerie Towne teaching and making his iourney towards Ierusalem He trauailed from place to place and by the way as he went he fedde the people he taught and declared his Fathers will vnto them more then that that his foode might more amply bee destributed and this doctrine more liberally be taught he chose certaine whome hee called Disciples Math. 10.18 and sent them abroade into all the worlde and commaunded them to teach all nations After his resurrection he said to Peter Iohn 21.15 Louest thou me More then these feed my flocke This he spake vnto him that time thereby to signifie vnto Peter the great and tender care that hee had ouer his purchased possession which is hys Church After his ascention hee called Paul that he might cary his name before the Gentiles before kings and before the Children of Israell thereby shewing to vs that as GOD had gathered his Church of all estates and degrées of people so he would haue al estates and degrées of people to know his will and also haue matter to feede vppon to the comfort of their soules and therefore in deede Paul was very carefull ouer all congregations and not onely taught diligently himselfe but also elected and chose others for the same worke as Timothie vnto whom he gaue authority to rule the Church of God at Ephesus and to feede them with wholesome doctrine As I besought thee to tarry at Ephesus when I departed into Macedonia 1. Tim. 1.3 so doe that thou maiest commaund some that they teach no other doctrine neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endlesse which breede questions rather then any godly edifying which is by faith To the same effect hee speaketh vnto his Scholler Titus that he might see to the Church For this cause left I thee in Creta Titus 1.5 that thou shouldest continue to redresse the thinges that remaine and shouldest ordaine elders in euery congregation as I appointed thee This care of God the Father of hys son Christ and of his Apostles or precessors doo teach vs which haue cure of soules to be diligent paynfull and carefull You looke now peraduenture that I shoulde make some bitter inuectiue speeches against Byshops which of some are thought not to be so careful as their office requireth but truely I am not so determined for indéede they be reuerend fathers Fathers of the Church and they be bretheren I came not hether to accuse any I loue it not I leaue it to the deuill qui est accusator fratrum which is the accuser of his bretheren and I will set it ouer to his adherents which take pleasure and exercise themselues therein day and night I came hether to doo the office of a Preacher to to teach the vnlearned and to put the learned in minde of those things which they already knowe and so will doe so long as I liue if God permit Now it followeth to declare vnto you who they be that must feede The Apostle himselfe in the first verse of this Chapter declareth The Elders sayth he 1. Pet. 5.1 I beseech which am also an Elder Feede the flock of Christ When he plainely speaketh to those which haue the office of teaching and administring of Sacraments committed vnto them and to such as are thereunto ordinarily and lawfully called Ierom describeth vnto vs foure sorts of calings Some saith he were called of God and not by men as the Prophets and Apostles Others were called of God and by men as Elizeus by Elias Others are called by men and not by God which séeing they haue an ordinary calling they may not be reiected Others there be which are neyther sent by GOD nor man these be the worst these be Annabaptists these runne of a blind zeale take vppon them to preach without any warrant Of these callings one is necessary that is lawfully to be called by God and man especially in this our time wherin we liue vnder a Christian Magistrate without whose authority in my iudgement it is not lawfull for any man to execute any office in Church or common wealth Calling therefore is not to bee despised but to bee sought for for it is not ynough to haue knowledge in the worde of God and be able to teach but also to haue calling by the Church beeyond which it is not lawfull to go Who so dooth whatsoeuer hee thinketh of himselfe Paul telleth him plainly what hee is Euen such a one Phil. 5. of whome we must take heede For they be dogges euill labourers and concision They giue fayre wordes but secretly they bite They take greate paynes in trotting from house to house in making long prayers in visiting widdowes houses in ouercomming the weake but al is to bréede factions and to get gaynes vnto themselues They call themselues circumcision but the Apostle by a pleasant prosonemasia caleth them concision such as break and deuide the Church such as cut in peeces the vnity and peace of the same Ier. 23.21 Of these sayth Ieremie They did run but I did not send them How then can they teach truely they cannot for the Apostle Paul asketh this question Howe can they preach except they be sent Rom. 10.15 as though he should say they cannot And therefore he sayth to Titus Tit. 1.5 For this cause haue I left thee in Creta that thou shouldest ordaine Elders in euery congregation as I haue appointed thee As though he shoulde say least any shoulde take vnto himselfe honour Heb. 5 5. but he that is called I haue left thee there for that purpose They which haue this calling God prospereth their labours they which haue it not thoughe they haue the words of fayth in their mouth yet they bring foorth no fruite for they see not that which is good but euen as it were to leade men by the eares to their peruersse opinions Feede ye heere is secondly noted vnto vs who they bee that