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A10924	Christian curtesie: or, St. Pauls vltimum vale Deliuered in two sermons, on 2. Cor. 13.11. at St. Margarets on Fish-street-hill in London. By N. Rogers (sometimes preacher there) at his farewel, vpon his remoueal thence to a pastoral charge else-where.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1621 (1621)	STC 21194; ESTC S116107	47,357	86

2.11 2 Iohn 5 abstaine from fleshly lusts c. And thus Saint Iohn I now beseech thee Lady So that wee see what meekenesse and mildnesse we ought to vse exhorting and intreating euen then when we may lawfully command And no maruel when God himselfe herein goeth before vs in his owne example Oh that Israel would haue hearkned Psal 81 13 Mat. 23. And our Sauiour Christ inuiting the Israelites in the same manner vnto himselfe that the Henne doth her chickens Let this serue then for our Imitation and Instruction Vse 1. that we endeauour to win our people with gentlenesse and loue And surely when ministers speake thus to sinfull men I beseech you by the mercies of God I beseech thee my Brother leaue thy whoredome forsake thy drunkennesse c. If the heart bee not sealed vp with hardnesse it must needes pearce it Wee see how in things of this life men are faine to sue for that which is their owne and are heart-glad if by fair intreaties they can gather vp their debts If then we can by earnest exhortations and effectuall perswasions get at our peoples hands this debt of obedience which they owe to God let it neuer grieue vs that wee come with Brethren I beseech you Cauca●s And yet withall great wisdom and circumspection must be vsed in this manner of proceeding for wee must beware that wee so lay downe our authority as that the word lose not any but abide still a word of power to command To this purpose these rules are to be obserued First so exhort and perswade as that the very cōsciences of men that hear thee may conclude that euen there where thou intreatest thou hast power to command although in loue thou laiest downe that power for the present So the Apostle to Philemon Phil. 8.9 Wherefore though I might bee much bould in Christ to enioyn thee that which is conuenient yet for loues sake I rather beseech thee c. Secondly so to exercise lenity as that thou forget not seuerity when the case requireth it Compassion must be had on some Iud. 23 but not on all som must with fear be puld out of the fire When sinne waxeth bold then must Gods Ministers put on bouldnes as Moses did when the calfe stood before him When the Ministery is like to bee brought into contempt then must power and authority be put on 1 Kings 19.13 Sometimes must Gods Minister deliuer the word as it were in a soft and still voice and otherwhiles hee must change his note and lift vp his voice like a trumpet and shew them their sinnes Paul Esay 58.1 2 Cor. 10.2.8 Acts 13.10.11 1 Tim. 1.10 as occasion serueth can stand vpon his Apostleship and authority hee can censure Elymas hee can deliuer vnto Satan as well as intreat and beseech Thirdly Doct. The Minister ought tenderly to affect his people 2 Cor. 6.11 in that the Apostle calleth them Brethren obserue with what tendernesse of affection a Minister should be deuoted to his people O Corinthians our mouth is open vnto you our heart is made large saith this our Apostle to this people to whom he now wrot And Phil. 1.8 writing to the Philippians he doth vehemently protest his sincere feruent loue towards them God is my record saith hee how greatly I long after you all Rom. 1.11 in the bowelles of Iesus Christ Such was his loue also to the Romans as he witnesseth when he saith That he longed to see them that hee might bestowe some spirituall gift vpon them to strengthen them 1 Thes 2.7 Such was his loue also to the Thessalonians as appeares in that hee saith Wee were gentle amongst you euen as a Nurse cherisheth her children not as a Nurse mercenary but as a nursing-Mother whose affections are most tender And a little after he saith thus We exhorted you Verse 11 and comforted and besought euery one of you as a Father doth his children And writing vnto Timothie he chargeth him 1 Tim. 4.12 That he should bee an ensample of the beleeuers in word in conuersation and in loue Where hee notes the Pastors duty So to loue his people as that they might learne by him to loue one another If Ministers should examine what loue they Vse bear vnto their people I fear many would finde a great want of brotherly affection How empty are their hearts of this hearty and vnfained loue who seeke pretenses of long absence from their flocks whereby the duties of teaching and examples of life in their own persons are neglected Surely this loue ouerthroweth ordinary absence without just and conscionable causes Lawfull causes of a Ministers absence from his flock I deny not but there may be som occasions which may and that lawfully draw a Pastour for a time from his people as when the publike seruice of the Chur. shall require it Alterius Ecclesian e●ssitatibus euocat●● ●●mime vobis solitū studium depend●●se v●d●or Amb. Ser. 28. for the settling and compounding variances and differences and such like profitable imploiments Thus when the necessity of other Churches calleth for help at a Pastors hands heer is a good occasion of absence And vpon this ground Ambrose excuseth himself vnto his flock And secondly when a Pastor personally is sought for and cannot remaine amongst his flock without peril of his life if the persecution be not publike both of the people and Minister but onely personal of the Minister alone heer is then good cause of his absence So Athanasius did leaue the Church of Alexandria and hidde himself for the space of six years in a dry cisterne Quis a●●hi mira ●●●ter diuinitus ●r●pto vt tio v●rtat quod non ●t mana● me quaere●t●n r●cc●●m Tripa hist l. 6. c 22. and 4 moneths in his Fathers Tomb and made this Apology for himself Who can blame me beeing miraculously deliuered that I did not cast myself into their hands that is the Arrians who sought mee Thirdly when health of body shall require discontinuance for a time Phil 2.25.28 it is lawfull This cause staied Epaphroditus from the Church of the Philippians whom assoon as he was recouered Paul sent vnto them Fourthly a Minister may vpon his necessary priuate occasions lawfully for a time bee absent as in following necessary sutes of law for defending of his right which requires his personall attendāce or in attending som Courts of Iustice whither he is cited and the like heer are just and lawful causes And yet in these cases Aug. Ep. 188 Augustines rule must be obserued There must bee a care had that the Church be not left destitute but the Pastors absence be by others for that time suppli'd and that by such as are sufficient to guide their people making no such bad choice of their Curates 1 Kings 11.31 as Ieroboam did of his Priests of the lowest of the people who were not Leuites that

may not be betraied Follow peace and holinesse saith the Apostle Our peace then must be a holy peace and not vnholy Melius est dis●duem pictatis ortum causa quam vttiosa 〈◊〉 ordia Hier. for a godly dissension is far better than it When question is of matters of religion when by our silence the truth is like to bee betraied God dishonoured and the saluation of our Brethren hindred in these cases peace cannot be retained Hence Apostles and Apostolike men haue chosen to contend by preaching and by writing against errors and superstitions as Paul with the Galatians Augustine against the Manichees and Donatists and so others rather then by holding their peace to betray the truth of Christ So ought wee then to haue peace with men as that we doe not make warre with God If the truth and righteousnesse be violated pluck vp thy heart be valiant and fight the Lords battaile and chuse rather to lose peace then truth and Iustice Our peace is a warfare against Satan and his complices Pax nostra b●llum cōtra Satanam Tert. l. ad Mart. Secondly So much as lieth in vs. Som are so quarrelsome and contentious as do one what hee can to appease and please them they will haue no peace Towards these wee shall do our dutyes when we are peaceably disposed neither giuing nor hastily taking any occasion of dissension We are to desire and seeke peace as much as lieth in vs that there be no defect in vs no neglect of our duty And if then we cannot gaine peace with them we shal bee sure to get praise with God and though heer peace fly frō vs yet in the end peace shall be our portion To dreame then of an vnity with the Papists of an vniformity with Schismatickes is an idle phantasie For so long as one is an enemy to truth the other an enemie to Peace both set on mischief cōbined in faction though differēt in faith wee may wish for it but neuer haue it But is it lawfull for a man to sue another at the law seeing that seems to be contrarie to peace Quest It is lawfull if ther bee iust cause Resp Rom. 13.4 for the magistrate beareth not the sword in vain He beareth it to punish wrong-doers and defend the right which hee cannot doo if hee haue no knowledge of it And how shall he knowe if there be no Plaintiff And yet with these Caueats Caueats in suing at the Law First not for euery trifle or trespasse but in matters of waight and importance Secondly not vntill thou hast offred peace and it be refused and that not once but often Thirdly not accounting him whom thou impleadest as an enemy hauing war onely with his vices but peace with his person Fourthly prosecuting it with mildnesse not with extreamity As in suing of bonds and recouering dammages mercy must be shewed according to that rule of the Apostle Let your moderation be knowne vnto all men Phil. 4.5 Which rules being obserued As thou maist lawfully vse physicke for the recouery of thy health so maist thou vse the Law for recouering of thy right And thus we haue seen what the Apostle in this precept requireth how to perform that which he requireth at our hands What now remaineth but that wee put these things in practice and endeauour to keep the vnity of the spirit in the bond of peace Eph. 4.3 Let vs not be vnpeaceable with the peaceable that argueth a diuelish minde nor vnpeaceable with the vnpeaceable which argueth a corrupt mind nor yet content our selues in that we are peaceable with the peaceable for that argues but a ciuill minde but if it be possible and as much as in vs lieth let vs bee peaceable with the vnpeaceable which is that that onely argues a true Christian and heroical mind And so should we make it good that wee are endued with true grace Esay 11.6.7 ● Rom. 14.17 and are true subjects of that kingdome which is the kingdom of Peace whose king is peace Peace was that last rich jewell which Christ departing to his Father left his Spouse for a Legacy Peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you Iohn 14.27 It is the last duty I shall exhort you vnto Be peaceable my Brethren I haue read of two Noble Lacedemonians who were at mortall hatred and beeing met with by their King called Archidamus in the Temple of Minerua hee requires them to put their matter to an indifferent Vmpire They chuse the King himself He makes them swear to abide his order which accordingly they doo Now saith the King I order that you shall not go out of this Temple vntill you be friends And so they were reconciled for an oath taken in that Temple was vnlawfull to bee broken My Brethren we are the Temple of God and now heer met together in the Temple of God and haue this day and now doo partake together of the holy things of God And yet as I hear 1 Cor 6 7 there is vtterly a fault amongst you in this respect in that there are contentions one amongst another and going to law one with another and that onely for such things as sauour but of spleen Might I be Vmpire the like order would I giue as that King did you should not depart out of this Temple till you were reconciled Remember my Beloued the diuell is the authour of dissension Hee it was that went about at the first to seuer man from God and it is he that now laboureth to seuer man from man Christ is our Salomon the Lord of peace The Church is the Shulamite the Lady of peace If thou belongest to Christ or to his Church be peaceable And so much be spoken of the duties whereto they are exhorted now a word or two of the Argument or Motiue wherwith they are enforced Text. And the God of loue and peace shall be with you God is heer called the God of loue and peace because hee is the authour approuer and rewarder of it And heer by the way it is worth our noting how that the Apostle praying for peace or exhorting to peace sets God before him as hauing that in him for which he praies and of which hee speaks giuing such titles to him as best fits the presents argument Doct. We are to see in God th● fulnes of these graces we desire of him and may teach vs wheneuer wee come to God by praier so to consider of him as that wee may see in him those things we desire Thus the Apostle exhorting the Romans to patience and consolation fals to praying for them and sets God before him as a God of patience and consolation Rom. 15.4.5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you c. And a little after Verse 13. he cals him the God of hope The God of hope fill you with all ioy c. And in the very next