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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87809	A looking-glasse for Levellers: held out in a sermon, preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe, upon Sunday in the after-noone, Sept. 24. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometime chaplain to a regiment of curasiers in His Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K683; Thomason E465_30; ESTC R204195	16,473	21

A LOOKING-GLASSE FOR LEVELLERS Held out in a SERMON Preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe upon Sunday in the After-noone Sept. 24. 1648. BY PAUL KNELL Master in Arts of Clare-Hall in Cambridge Sometime Chaplain to a Regiment of Curasiers in His Majesties Army LUKE 20.19 And the chief Priests and Scribes the same houre sought to lay hands on him but they feared the people for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them LONDON Printed in the Year 1648. A LOOKING-GLASSE For LEVELLERS c. St. LUKE 20. ver 14. But when the Husbandmen saw him they reasoned among themselves saying This is the Heire come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours THe first particle is discretive and severeth the Text from the fore-going Verses wherein our Saviour holdeth forth as it were a Dark-Lanthorne to the chief Priests That seeing they might see and not perceive and that hearing they might heare and yet not understand Or rather he sheweth them their faces in a Glasse wherein they might see plainly what manner of men they were The Looking-glasse is this present Parable of the Vineyard wherein he insisteth chiefly on three things First he sheweth the descent and pedegree of the Priesthood A certain man planted a Vineyard and let it forth to Husband-men Secondly he upbraideth the ingratitude of these Husband-men in abusing their Land-lords servants they beat them they intreated them shamefully they wounded them they killed them Thirdly he threatneth a punishment for their ingratitude which is no lesse then a re-enter the Lord shall destroy these Husband-men and shall give the Vineyard to others But more punctually to survey and view this parable By this certain man the Planter of this Vineyard we are to understand the worlds Creator God himself By the Vineyard we are to understand his Church confined for a long time to Judea Isa 5.7 By the Husband-men to whom the Vineyard was let out we are to understand the chief Priests who by their doctrine and example were as it were to prune and dresse Gods Vineyard that so it might be fruitfull in good works By the Servants sent to demand some of the fruit of this Vineyard we are to understand the inspired Prophets who were sent by God to call the chief Priests to repentance to bring forth fruits worthy of amendment of life Trium autem mentio fit c. saith Aretius God is said to have sent severally three Servants to the Husbandmen because three is a perfect number and is therefore used to shew Gods uncessant desire of their Conversion Uncessant I say it was for though it knew a little intermission yet it knew no termination though the word of the Lord were pretious in the daies of Eli yet even then God raised up Samuel to reprove the lewdnesse of the Priests there was no time there was no place but the Jewish Priests had Prophets sent among them Before their Captivity in Babylon they had Isaiah Jeremy Amos Micah Zephany and others In time of their Captivity they had Ezekiel and Daniel After their Captivity they had Haggai Zechary Malachy And the last was not the least for among those that were borne of Women there was not a greater Prophet then John the Baptist But what entertainment found these Servants amongst their Masters Tenants why just such as we that will not Preach treason meet with in these days just such as the Messengers of truth have alway found convitia verba vulnera as Stella speaketh revilings blowes wounds nay very death it selfe Isaiah was sawn asunder Jeremy and Zechary were stoned Amos had his braines beaten out with a Club Micah was thrown down headlong from a rock and all the rest did the Jewes either kill or at least hunt after them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as S. Steven asked them which of the Prophets did not their Fathers persecute Act. 7. yet see the never-wearied goodnesse of Almighty God though the chief Priests had killed his Prophets and had stoned those that were sent unto them yet he did so long to doe them good that nullum non movebit lapidem he will leave no stone unrolled no not the corner-stone he had but one bosome-Son and he sendeth him to them for his rent presuming that for shame they would not send him away empty They wil reverence saith he their young Land-lord when they see him But when the Husband-men saw him they reasoned among themselves saying this is the Heire come let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours The Text ye see is a conspiracy against Christ wherein we meet together the foure causes of it First here is the Efficient cause or the Conspiratours the Husband-men Secondly the Materiall cause or person conspired against the Heire when they saw him Thirdly the Formall cause or manner of their conspiracy they reasoned among themselves saying come let us kill him Fourthly and lastly the Finall cause or end of their conspiracy which was that they might be Lords of the Mannour that the inheritance may be ours These are the parts of which in order briefly and very plainly I begin with the first part the Conspiratours which are Coloni the Husband-men If the first man had been a good Husband there had been no Husband-man the Earth need have had no Mid-wife she would have brought forth of her self But Haec maledictio Adae c. saith Saint Bernard this was a curse entailed on Adams sin that for his sake the ground it selfe was cursed his barrennesse in obedience made the very Earth grow barren Which may therefore serve to mind us sinners of repentance the husbandry of the hand may teach us the husbandry of the heart even to breake up our fallow ground and sow in teares But I must not insist upon these Georgicks I must lead you from corporall to spirituall husband-men And these are the painfull Preachers of Gods word For as the Earth must be plowed and harrowed by the Country-man before she will ever bring forth her increase So the men of the earth must be directed and corrected by the Church-man before they will bring forth the fruits of righteousnesse The Clergy like the Prophet Elisha are a kind of Plow-men They that doe as it were drive the Plow are ordinary Ministers they that hold the Plow are the reverend Bishops the Plow would not go so well should Episcopacy be abolished Let these Labourers therefore have their due they are worthy of their hire And let them likewise have a respectfull estimation set upon them For the Courtier cannot live without the Country-man the King himselfe is served by the Field Neither doth man live by Bread only but by every word of God As then where no Hushandmen are the people sterve So likewise where no Ministers where no vision is the people perish Which admonisheth Gods husbandmen the Clergy to be industrious There is no profession more laborious then that of Husbandmen who in the sweat of their face most