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cause_n	consider_v	young_a	zeal_n	24	3	9.3914	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10320	An ansvvere to a sermon preached the 17 of April anno D. 1608, by George Downame Doctour of Divinitie and intituled, A sermon defendinge the honorable function of bishops wherein; all his reasons, brought to prove the honorable function of our L. Bishops, to be of divine institution; are answered and refuted.		1609 (1609)	STC 20605; ESTC S115514	39,711	60

seene he vvould but tell us vvhether he never supplicated to any for the furtherane therof But be it true that he did as he saith maie vve not justlie charge upon him the neglect of his dutie in that he entred into the Ministerie and took one lyving after another and that with subscription for ought is knovvne to the contrarie and yet held the matter in suspence a longe tyme resolued not to be as he afrervvard saith a meddler on either syd But to proced he giueth us tvvo reasons such as they be for his excuse The first is he rightly supposed as he saith his paines might be better bestowed in other parts of divinitie And vvhy soe doth he not affirm this parte to be a profitable and necessarie truth And hath not God commanded to his Ministers especially the studie as of everie parte of his will soe of this soe profitable necessarie a truth as concerneth the government of his Church the Ministers and Officers therof Yea can the Ministers more profitably bestowe their paines studie then in these pointes of divinitie that are moste doubted of controverted in the Church vvherof they are members Yea are they not bound to it when the cause soe standeth that they must subscribe to the one and that the moste suspected side even such as the moste and beste learned in the vvorld approve not Whether this suppositiō of his be right as he saith or no lett the vvorld judge But to give it the more credit he telleth us how he heard M. Greenham a zealous Preacher reprove yonge divines in a sermon at Cambridge c for setting up the roofe before they had layd the foundation Al as poore man vvhat succour is there under this mās shadovv Yf M. Greenham soe censured all yonge divines for studying the Discipline vvhereto can it be imputed but to some distempered passion or zeale vvithout judgment in him not to anie sound reason surely yf vve consider the matter vvell Was there not greater reason for him to reprove the Prelates for urginge yonge divines to subscribe to the Discipline in controversy and seeking resolution in it Have not yonge divines juste cause to studie it vvhen seing it controverted amongst manie great divines old and nevve they must notvvithstanding beforced to subscribe and thereby to approve that parte vvhich they know to be contrarie to the judgmēt of the greatest lights that these later ages have affoarded the Churches of God Is it not strange they can be contented men should naie will they not condemne them if they doe not subscribe to that as true and yet blame them yf they studie the same and examin whether it be true or no what is it else but vvith the blinde Papists to make ignorance the Mother of Devotion even to beleeve as the Church beleeveth and good enough yea what else is it but to controule the courses of our owne and all vniuersities in the world who require of yonge divines the publique defence of controversies of religion in open schooles assemblies of learned men and yet denie them the studie of these controversies that trouble our owne Church though they be deemed not to befoe deep and profound as other controuersies are but such as easynes it self if we maie beleeve M. Hooker hath onely made harde But the truth is that yonge divines indure no such censure in case they so studie these matters of discipline that they can learne to preach and dispute and raile against them in pulpitts and schooles naie they are the onely men that are judged to laie the best foundation pave the readiest waie for their owne preferment They onely which soe studie the same that they cannot but like and approue the truth of them they they I saie are the vuhappie mē that are ouerbusye in matters of discipline sett up the roofe before they have layd the foundation In his second reason he telleth us he could not see what good would come either to himself or to the Church of God by his paines taken in that controuersy For he conceyved the issue of his studie would be either the disgrace of his Ministerie amonge the forwarder sort if he resolued as no whe hath done or the ouerthrowe of his Ministerie if he should stand for that discipline Wherein besides his vncharitablenes renued mark how he discouereth one shame whilest he assaieth to cover another What else can it argue but that he walked not in the execution of his function with soe right a foote and syncere affection as he ought to have done had he made streight stepps to his pathes he would have respected not so much the grace of men how holie and forward in shew soeuer as the discharge of that office which God imposed on him is to be parformed without respect of parsons And is it any other but a vaine and ambitious minde soe to feare the displeasing of some and the disgrace of his Ministry with them as in that regard to forbeare of alonge tyme the scarching out of that divine truth which himself affirmeth to be both profitable necessarie Of as ill note is it that he refused soe to doe for seare leste in seing the truth professing it it would be the ouerthrowe of his Ministert can this be any better then Symonie and intrusion had not G. D. subscribed this sentence I could not have thought he had looked soe farre a squinte sought himself so much But obserue we surther hovv he vvrongeth those vvhom he calleth in a kind of disdeine the forwarder sort as though the Ministerie of those onely that dislik the present government vvere in grace vvith them the ministerie of all others vvere contemned dispised of them soe his vvords importe though vncharitablie For hovvever the forvvarder sort that is such as goe before others in vvelldoing vvould lik the better of those Ministers that approue of the present gouerment yf they vvere of judgment for the discipline of Christ yet so longe as they shevve themselves faithfull painefull in all other duties of their Ministerie and doe not sin of mallice in rayling against it all the vvorld seeth hovv they yeild due reverence vnto them their Ministerie M. D. having thus layd dovvne the causes of his suspence shevveth us the grounde of his resolution to studie it vvhere he saith that when of late yeares the cause was soe altered with the time that a necessitie was imposed on him to resolue professe on the one parte he entred on the studie therof parhaps with another mind then some others did therefore with other successe Wherof I can make no other construction but this an I leave his conscience to be examined by the searcher of hearts vvhether it be not the meaninge of these cloudy speaches that vvhen of late his conceited desyres other hopes of reformation in the begininge of his Magisties reigne did fayle him that he parceyved the case to