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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96652	A good and seasonable caveat for Christians. Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley, Knight and baronet, in the parish church of Breedon, in Leicester-Shire. / By John Wilson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in the sayd parish. 7. Octob. 1646. Imprimatur, Jo. Downame.	Wilson, John, of Breedon, Leicestershire.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2899; Thomason E1182_5; ESTC R204901	27,614	71

what he hath done in the flesh O that men would seriously revolve this in their minds that so they might be caused to walke circumspectly with God and man and as Moses in my Text exhorts to take heed to themselves and keepe their soules diligently Application It serves for exhortation First to Magistrates secondly to Ministers thirdly to the Common People to be circumspect in their waies and to take heede to themselves in all their enterprizes First let Magistrates and men in eminent places take heede to themselves in all their undertakings for they have as much nay more cause to be circumspect in their waies then others First they are bound to it by the former reasons scil. their actions as wel as the actions of other men if undertaken unadvisedly produce miserable and prodigious effects Again they have the same enemies the Devill the world and the flesh endeavouring their overthrow as well as the overthrow of others and finally they must die as well as others Psal. 82. v. 6. 7. and give an account for their thoughts words and deeds as well as others But secondly they have more cause to take heede to themselves and to be circumspect in their waies then others for these reasons First God hath advanced them above others in dignity and he therefore expects that they should walke more warily then others if God should finde them guilty of such enormities as others he might justly cry out against them as Caesar did against Brutus tu fili What and thou my son Have I honored thee so much And wilt thou be so carelesse of my honour and of thy owne salvation It should be with men as it is with the elements the higher they are the purer they are aire is purer then water and fire then aire so the higher men are in office and wealth the more circumspect ought they to be in their waies to whom much is given of him much shall be required Luke 12. 48. good to this purpose is that of Gregory Crescentibus donis crescunt rationes donorum the greater our guifts are the greater should our care be Againe men in eminent places ought to be more circumspect then others because the people commonly follow their examples their good or evill life doth commonly cause much good or evill amongst the people I remember a saying which experience in all ages hath proved to be true Qualis Rex talis Grex such as the King or chiefe Rulers are such for the most part will the people be for their president is more followed then their precept If the King be an Idolater it lodgeth not in his breast alone but like a gangrene or spreading leprosie it passeth over the whole body of the Common wealth If on the contrary the King be a religious and sanctified person the people will at least in shew appeare so too If Jeroboam the son of Nebat become an Idolater and an errector of strange Altars he shall not goe alone but all Israell will sin with him for company 2 Ki. 10. 31. if Joshus devote himselfe to serve the Lord all the people will be ready to comply with him 1 Josh. 16. Ahaz was an Idolater so were the people Hezekiah his son worshipped God truly so did the people thus Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis the examples of eminent persons are as looking glasses after which the Country dresse themselves and therefore you may find that Jehosaphat speaking to such charges them even in the very words of my Text to take heede to themselves 2 Cron. 19 c. 6. 7. v. and he said to the Judges take heed what you doe for you judge not for man but for God who is with you in your judgement v. 6. againe v. 7. wherfore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heede and doe it Secondly let Ministers take heede to themselves and be circumspect and wary in all their courses First let them take heede that they thrust not themselves into the calling of the ministry without due calling thereunto let them not intrude into Moses Chaire or rashly lay hold on the Arke of Aaron let them not presume to execute the ministeriall function in preaching the Word and administration of the Sacrament without Commission I beseech you doe not uncharitably misconstrue my meaning by concluding that I condemne Lay-men that are carefull in teaching their Families the fundamentall grounds of Piety and true Religion for it is their duty so to doe and in so doing they are worthy of much honour Bernard hath an apt saying to this purpose as saith he it is our duty to teach you in the Church so it is your duty to teach those that are under your tuition in your houses and Augustine saies that every man in this case is a Minister or if you will a Bishop so he keepe within his owne Diocesse but for the publique charge the Pulpit let no over officious Nadab or Abihu approch into it there to offer up the strange fire of their owne preposterous Zeale lest fire come downe from Heaven and consume them as it did Nadab and Abihu Levit 10. 1. 2. be pleased to looke into the Chapter and you shall in the first ver. find their arrogance and presumption in offering up strange fire unto God and in the very next verse Gods just judgement on them for their most unjust presumption in sending downe a miraculous fire to destroy them O then as we love our owne soules let us know our owne charges let every man take heede and keepe him to his owne Trade or Vocation Ne Sutor Vltra crepidam Let not the Cobler mistake the Pulpit for his stall and instead of patching soles take upon him the charge of soules Let not the Taylor mistake the Lords Table for his cutting board let him not instead of a garment cut out a Text and with some stollen shreds of other mens workes patch up a Sermon God forbid that this should be suffered for if it should our Religion our Land nay our soules are like to suffer ruine I assure you beloved I speake not this out of any pride of my selfe who am the unworthiest of all the Prophets neither doe I speake it in the contempt of the gifts of others be they never so meane for I could wish with Moses that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would ponre downe his holy spirit upon them But as a late writer saies we must give God leave to be the orderer of his owne Ordinances and we that are called to the ministry must take leave to call upon men to keepe them to their owne callings and I desire you to forbeare hearing such arrogant Nadabs and insolent Abi●ues for they are not Pastores Pastors sed impostores but impostors not Doctores Teachers sed Seductores but seducers not Vigiles but Noctambulones not guided by the spirit but scared with spirites like the seven sonnes of Sceva