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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97255	The pastors advocate. Together with the peoples monitor. By R. Junius Gent. Adde this as an appendix to Gods goodnesse and Englands unthankfulnesse. Imprimatur, Tho. Gataker.; Englands unthankfulness striving with Gods goodness, for the victory. Appendix.	Younge, Richard.	1651 (1651)	Wing Y169; Thomason E1230_2; ESTC R208886	18,505	17

lose their salary Nor dare they reprove great mens particular sins because such an attempt would bring them into contempt But how unlike are such Messengers to Eliah in his personall dealing with Ahab to Elisha about Jehoram Jeremiah with Pashur Amos with Amaziah John Baptist with Herod our Saviour with the Scribes and Pharisees Steven with the high Priests and Elders yea St Paul with Peter his fellow Apostle and with Elymas the Sorcerer most of them mighty and potent And most pitifull is the case of such a people whose sins are so connived at except conscience makes a supply which were extraordinary Indeed if that be awake it will fear no man but dares check a Magistrate controul a Prince And admit it may sometimes slumber as no woman is alwaies scolding yet when it wakes it will speak and speak home § 17. But I speak not of those trencher Chaplains who out of coveteousnesse and for want of courage betray the truth who are more carefull for their own profit and quiet then of the peoples good or Gods glory for these were never sent of God and it 's meet their wages should be according to their work and yet I would rather erre in giving a Wolf his due if he be appointed my Pastor then in the least detain from a faithfull Shepherd what of right belongs to him But I tell you of such as fear God and are of his sending who think it better to lose mens favours then their souls and will be sure to discharge their consciences from the burthen of any ones bloud As Gods glory will make a good man speak even when terrour it self hath commanded silence A conscionable Minister resembles David who would venture on a Bear rather then lose a Lamb and Jacob who would endure heat by day and frost by night rather then neglect his flocks And Moses who would fight with odds rather then the Cattell should perish with thirst Only a Balaam wants this mercy § 18. And what though men remain obstinate for a time When wood is green it will not presently burn yet if it be long blown it will take fire and flame at length Or admit the worst yet he will not be silent Good meat put into a stomack corrupt feavourish or hydropicall doth not more nourish nature then the disease yet we do not thereupon forbear utterly to give them meat but rather strive to purge out those bad humours which cause the offence The Lord by his Ministers gives every of us light let us beseech him also for clear and sound eyes that we may finde benefit and take comfort in the light he hath given us § 19. I grant that in speaking of this sinfull sin of Sacriledge even the most conscientious and faithfull Ministers are too sparing Not for that Sacriledge scorns to be reprehended nor for that he is taxed of indiscretion that meddles with it but that it may appear they least of all seek themselves And for that they should thereby so prejudice their hearers that they would little regard what ever else they do deliver For such is the sottishness and sordidness of most men which makes me the rather speak neither let any of these Godhaters Rom. 1.30 blaspheam the Ministry for what I have or shall speak For I am no Minister nor have I any particular relation to the Ministry so that self-interest can bear no sway with me I only speak my conscience as it is informed from the Word And to me it represents it self as the most unjust unreasonable ingratefull abominable and prejudiciall sin to our selves of all other sins §. 20 1. Most unjust for we partake of the Preachers goods they bring us the glad tidings of salvation would furnish and endow us with the spirituall unvaluable and lasting riches of grace and glory and shall not they partake of our goods that are inferiour earthly and perishing Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all his goods sayes the Apostle Gal. 6.6 None but those who would give sinne a pasport to offend can deny this to be New Testament and to be most just and equall Yet to go home to that place or to bring that place close home to mens consciences would appear harsh in these times of Gospel light or New-lights as they call them if any man does not communicate and communicate in all bis goods God is not mockt Gal. 6.7 so it falls and I fear it falls heavy on many amongst us Again saith the same Apostle If we have sowen unto you spirituall things is it a great thing if we reap yiur carnall things 1 Cor. 9.11 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with the Altar Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel ver 13 14. He useth many other arguments in the same Chapter that he may meet with mens carnal reasonings in this case As Who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock and the like the which reade at your leisure And in Rom. 15. Their debtors they are which proves it not a benevolence or free gift for if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things their duty it also to minister unto them in carnal things ver 27. The Apostle calls it a debt and tells us it is our duty observe that All which is New Testamens if obstinacy would suffer men to take notice of it But our Pharisees are worse then the Pharisces of old for what saith one of the worst of them I pay tythes of all that I have I should have thought he had lied but that our Saviour justifies him even to mint and cummin A Pharisce of Jerusalem was in this an honest man to many Citizens of London yet that Pharisee went to hell in all probability § 21. Yea a Minister must not require those dues that are acknowledged though perhaps those dues will not maintain him but he is too strict especially of the meaner sort● and yet sometimes and in some cases in losing his right he shall wrong and do prejudiee to other Pastors that live about him and those likewise that shall succeed and come after him in his living yea foster his people in that fond conceit of thinking their labour and ministry so little worth which ought to be stood upon Aristippus the Philosopher would take money of his friends though he car'd not for it to teach them that it was his due and how they ought to esteem of the riches of the minde Fourthly Why should Ministers more then other men take a testern for a shilling when themselves that make the objection will not think it fair dealing from their debtors but take their full due and think it neither breach of justice piety or