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A06810	Timothies taske: or a Christian sea-card guiding through the coastes of a peaceable conscience to a peace constant, and a crowne immortall. Wherein I. Pastors are put in minde of their double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, as watchfull men. 2. Pastorall, as faithfull watchmen. II. True doctrine is advanced. III. Traditions discountenanced, & their rancour discovered. In two synodall assemblies at carliell, out of two seuerall, but sutable scriptures. This of I Timoth. 4.16. and that of Actes 20.28. Since concorporate, and couched with augmentation vnder their prime head: By Robert Mandevill, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and preacher of Gods word at Abbey-holme in Cumberland.	Mandevill, Robert, 1578-1618.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 17245; ESTC S102562	61,931	80

heart in vre with God made the Commandements his meditation not in the morning only and that early and all day long too but when hee should haue taken his rest as others doe his eyes prevented the night watches yea his manner was to rise at midnight when others slept for to giue thankes It is storied of Sampson that when Delilah was set on worke by his enemies to knowe how he might bee bound to doe him hurt he dallied a while first with seauen wit hs then with new ropes which he brake as threds c. In the end importunitie made her mistris of his minde and him miserable for when shee had caused the seauen lockes of his head to be shauen hee was afraid and troubled at the voice which said The Philistines bee vpon thee Sampson Then awaking out of sleepe and thinking to goe out and shake himselfe as at other times hee could not doe as hee had done therefore they tooke him and put out his eyes bound him with fetters and set him to grinde in the prison house Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur Change but the name and each christian is the man whose strength lies in the lockes of heed-taking and attention which so long as they are preserued and kept in vre the Philistines his fore-named enemies cannot prevaile but if a rasor of securitie come over his head and shaue his haire the Divell I meane secretly stealing his heart from his true treasure and set it on other strange delights then Sampson like he becomes weake as other men the voice of pleasure allures him the voice of profit intangles him hearing that voice in the 6 of Ieremie which saith take heed to the sound of the trumpet hee answers as they say there I will not take heed Then the enemy of the soul takes him captiue puts out or bleres at least for some space his eyes his affections are then fettered and grinde he must to that lust of the flesh that lust of the eye pride of life which he before had in subiection Satan sent a Delilah to lull Paule in her lap and binde him with wit hs of greene delights but his watchfull soule displeased deepely with that flesh-pleasing force complained thereof shaked himselfe and so found ease Lot so long as his soule was kept waking by the city of Sodome brake with ease those ropes of vanitie which drew destruction on the cittie Sed qui in ipsa ciuitate peruersa i●stus fuit in monte peeca●it he that walked vprightly in the midst of that peruerse and forlorne place fell downe right in the mountaine Sinne is that to the soule which putrefaction is to the natural bodies as in nature three things preserue therefrom heate cold and motion so the same through heedfulnesse preserue the soule from corruption First intensiue heate and drynesse hath a hindering hand in this businesse so whilst attention keeps the heart frequent and feruent in prayer no aire of temptations can corrupt the soule Thereupon Christ tels vs that if we watch and pray we shall not enter into temptation 2. Cold that is outward is another let or preseruatiue because it resists extrinsecall or outward heat which hath the chiefe stroke in the worke The aire of affliction is cold and causet● many to fall away yet warily drawne in and wisely referred to the right end it breedes good blood in distempered bodies causing them with diligence to seeke the Lord. Againe the neighbour-hood of cold Christians and cohabitation of lukewarme professours by a spirituall antiperistasis warme some the more Lot was the forwarder amidst the frozen Sodomites Enoch walked with God alone when others went from him Noah in his generation sought the Lord by the practice of faith and repentance when all the world forsooke him and made way by their wicked practice to their destruction The third preseruatiue in nature and naturall things is motion which hath the like effect in our soule affaires For this cause the Apostle exhorts vs not to be wearie of well-doing wherein also this text requires continuance the aire doth euer moue in his Region so ought we in our seuerall stations alwayes be exercised in the course of godlinesse No mosse stickes to the rowling stone which if it laid still would be ouergrowen standing ponds gather skumme whilst murmuring brooks runne filth-free The neglected plant be it of the best either dyes or frustrates hope An vntilled field be it of the fertillest brings forth weedes briers thistles You wote why Aegistus became an adulterer Desidiosus ●rat he was entomb'd before his time for idlenesse is the graue of a liuing man The crabfish is desirous of Oysters but because she cānot perforce open them she watcheth the time when they open themselues then thrusting in her clawes shee speedes her selfe There is a time when mans heart is shut vp and kept so close that sinne cannot ceaze thereon nor enter therein a time when it is more open and apt to receiue the infectious impressions of lust anger envy and the like Which Satan obseruing by his diligent attendance ensnares the soule as he did Dauids who first slept securely on his bed then paced it idlely on the roofe of his palace when he should haue gone forth to the battell and displayed his banner against the enemie Hee that lookes to his feet and numbers his steps in a slipperie path shall set the surer whereas he that sets he lookes not where must needes-slip and fall the oftner Secondly as it preserues from sinne so it is an antidote against crosses the fruite of sinne as Moses makes them Deut. 28. Stolne waters are counted sweet and hid bread is pleasant but this pleasantnesse ends in painfull accusations and secret checkes of conscience those waters coole loue quench the spirit and both may breed that distresse of minde wherewith no worldly crosse may compare For the spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmities but a wounded spirit a burden importable who can beare it To proceede from inward troubles which are lesse seene to those which are outward and better discerned Some finde that true in proofe which Solomon speakes by way of Proverbe he that is hastie to anger committeth folly and folly sometimes commits him to be cooled within the prison wals and the busie-bodie is hated Can Elyes education but breed ill blood in his prosperitie Is not pride the Mother of contention contention of discontentment and shall not he that loues pastime be a poore man What dilapidations and alienating of states doe prodigall and intemperate Heires make causing auncient houses to spew out their owners and teaching their lands to deny their names Hell should haue no suburbes on earth if rash and and vnripe contracts did not maintaine marriage broyles The malefactor on the ladder taking his farewell of the world leaues this Cave for the best

maine scope of the Gospell 1. Manifesting that righteousnesse in Christ alone by which the law is fulfilled Gods iustice satisfied and life obtained so absolutely that if righteousnesse bee by the law c. So plainely as not of workes least any man should boast himselfe so peremptorily as yee are abolished from Christ whosoever are iustified by the law yee are fallen frō grace distinctly with direct exception to our righteous deeds 2. Speaking of the never enough admired meanes of our salvatiō as of a thing already done not to be done perfectly not in part by another for vs not by our selues or any worke of God in vs. Freely without merit or motiue on our pa●t Fully without our furtherance in our incogitancy without knowledge Having neither will to affect our spirituall welfare we being dead in such desires nor goodnesse to deserue well being vngodly sinners nor reason to expect such good being enemies nor power to doe for our selues because we were of no strength 3. Pointing out Christs person for the author his blood for the price his passion for the mean his glory as the finall cause the riches of his goodnesse as the efficient and impulsiue so that the true Christian need neither buy it in the royall exchange of the Romish merchants nor seeke it by intercession of Saint or Angell nor can challenge it for the worthines of his owne workes or thinke to purchase it by the overplus of other mens 7 Against all grounds of Christian confidence and consolation 1. The mercy of God which is lesse magnified by mans merit 2. The merit of Christ which is mangled and made insufficient without supply of theirs 3. Grace which is disclaimed for if it bee of workes then is grace no more grace 4. Peace of conscience which is discarded for being iustified by faith we haue peace with God 5 Christs death which is frustrated 6. The assurance of Gods favour which is forfeited therefore it is of faith that the promise might be sure to all the seed 7. Faith 8. And the promise which are made voide and of none effect 8 Against our Saviours application of the exāple drawne from the husbandmā If an earthly master owe not so much as thanks to his servant for his good service on whose head hee made not the worst haire blacke or white into whose hands he put no pith neither infuseth the least force into any other part much lesse is the heavenly master and maker of mankinde bound or beholden to such for their broken service as he fashioneth secretly in their mothers wombe supports by his providence each moment of their time and begets to the hope of better things Such as hee loues first or they could not re-loue Such as he giues to or they could not re-giue Such as hee beginnes it in or they could doe no good Such as he goes on with or they could not persist in the good begun They therefore that extenuate grace to apparell nature with her stolne plumes that obscure Gods glory to leaue matter of glorying in themselues never learned that language of the spirit when they haue done all they can to say they are vnprofitable servāts If servants then out of duty they ought to doe what possibly they can doe if vnprofitable what so great vertue can spring thence of power to turne dutie on mans part toward God into debt on Gods side towards man Which were in some sort to make the creator inferiour or subiect to the worke of his owne hands and to advance the clay aboue the Potter 9 Against the extent of Gods mercy and full effect of Christs merit whose meares they pitch in this life onely dishonorably to God whose bounty in giuing his beloued sonne to the end c. should so lesse bestead then his owne intention and the Evangelists relation beare vs in hand Discomfortably to man whom they desperately expose to that curse whereto all are liable who for life relie vpon their owne performance of the law Dissonantly to that which the Gospell giues thereto aswell at that as this day Detractingly to that righteousnesse which is shouldered out of its proper place that redemption whereof wee pertake not fully and in each respect till after dissolution and then onely through him who was therefore giuen that blood and obedience which is the proper compleat and meritorious meanes of our entrance that ascentiō which is the immediate cause of our session in the heavēliest places 10 Against the nature of God himselfe who is ● mercifull gracious and bounteous not through obligation as indebted to any but by a voluntary communication of his gifts and graces flowing originally from his good pleasure as the fountaine and first motiue exhibitiuely from Christ whose death and passion are the only meritorious cause to vnfold the effect of an impatible nature after an humane manner of speech are impulsiuely occasioned vpon the exigence of mans misery 2. Whose pleasure and purpose is absolute within himselfe and whatsoever hee delights in or doth good to without himselfe is for that which is in and from himselfe 3. Whose indulgence is nether deserved nor desired but hee promiseth and performeth freely out of an inward and essentiall propertie without all externall prevention or provocation 4. Who delights in shewing mercy not vrged allured or outwardly set on worke but out of a liberall and selfe inclination a gratuitall and independent propension of nature doth he pleasure vs because mercy pleaseth him 5. Whose kindnes towards vs in Christ Iesus is much disgraced and disparaged by the pretended worth of mans workes since no created vertue is so powerfull or power of vertue to binde bring the creator within a compasse of a debter 11 Against the scope of that parable Mat. 20. each part whereof speakes pithely against all ability in man to merit Doe the labourers offer their service or the householder goes forth to seeke the labourers Loe mercie preventing by invitation I am found of those that seeke mee not Come they vpon their call It is mercy and that moving by attraction no man can come to mee except the father drawe him Labour they being come They are enabled thereto by influence of grace It is God that worketh in vs both will deed Recea●e they the peny their labors ended Behold mercy rewarding out of a benevolēt dispositiō Is thine eye euill because mine is good doth he stop the murmurers mouthes by an impeacheable power and preroga●iue that it was lawfull for him to doe as he lifted with his owne then if his worke had earned and not his larges giuen the hire he could not rightly cal that his own which was alienated and become anothers nor which was more assume the libertie of giuing