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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79459	The dead speaking, or, The living names of two deceased ministers of Christ (contemporary, and eminently usefull in the west of England) viz. Mr. Sam. Oliver, and Mr. Samuel Crook Containing the sermon at the funeralls of the one preached by John Chetwind, B.D. and two severall speeches delivered at the funeralls of them both by William Thomas, B.D. Joyned together at the desire, and for the use chiefly of those Christians who were often occasional partakers of their labours.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.; Thomas, William, 1593-1667. aut	1654 (1654)	Wing C3795; Thomason E726_6; ESTC R206780	57,363	84

cast into Hell what then will become of my Lord the Arch-Bishop And indeed Brethren we have need to be warned because the worlds profits and honours are the most powerful temptations and therefore Satan made it his last assault against Christ by shewing him whom Mat. 4. 8. he hoped to have found like another man the Kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof Though Satan herein lost his labour yet he prevails thereby too much with many who with Balaam run greedily Jude 11. after the ways of iniquity and as Judas even sell their masters for pieces of silver and with Demas 2 Tim. 4. 10. forsake the Gospel to embrace the present world O the glory of the world How alluring the deceivableness of Riches How prevailing this makes men 1 Tim. 6. 5. kneel down to the devil without a Cushion and think That gain is godliness The Labourer is worthy Ibi fas ibi plurima mercis Luke 10. 7. Psal 35. 27. Salvian of his Hire and he that doth Gods work and trusts him for it shall not want his wages God is a good Master who delights in the prosperity of his servants An antient said of some O that it might not be truly said of some of us that are here present Uti volunt Deo ut fruantur mundo They use God that they may enjoy the world And I have read of a Fryer that he would alwaies in a counter-feit humility dine upon a Net till he had gaind the Popedome Let not then I beseech you Brethren our own preferment credit maintenance or any outward advantage be our proposed aim in our Ministerial employment Let it not be said of any of us Lanam non agnos Lac non vaccam Vineam propter vinum Populum ob praedam petunt I will not I need not English it they who know no Latine are too apt to speak it and O that it might be without cause For should we so do we should fetch our fire from our own Kitchins which should be lighted at Gods Sanctuary and thereby turn that which otherwise would be lawful gain into filthy lucre No know there is a more excellent gain even souls This Paul sought witness that expression I seek not yours but you and therefore Preachers should say as the King of Sodom did to Abraham Da mihi animas Caetera tolle tibi Give me the souls take thou the rest Let us look up to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ whose Embassadors Servants Messengers we pretend we are and since we bear his name and do his work its fit we should desire to have his mind he sought not his own but our advantage as Mercurie in Plautus being transformed into Sosia Etenim vero quoniam formam cepi hujus in me statum Decet facta mor esque hujus habere me similes item Walk we as Christ walked Tread in his steps 1 John 2. 6. Let us not do Gods will in our imployment for meat and drink But let it be our meat and drink to do Gods will O then Reverend Fathers and Brethren let the immortality of our imployment cause us to walk answerable to eternity The woman that was clothed with the Sun had the Moon under her feet and they who are Gods Agents to trade for Heaven should scorn the Devils factory for the earth For if in our hearts and practices we serve the world and yet with our tongues Preach the word We may peradventure as Noahs Carpenters help to build the Ark and yet be drowned our selves I now come to the general improvement of this truth to all of us here present First see the Excellency of the Ministerial imployment It s conversant about Eternal things All other imployments are in and about finite and temporal affairs The work of Lawyers Physicians all other professions is bounded within the limits of time Only the Ministers work runs parallel with the longest line of eternity The word of Christ Preached by them being not a finite message but an everlasting Gospel This consideration I would commend unto Rev. 14. 6. you that you that are Hearers may be able to judge and we that are Preachers may be able to bear those unworthy reproaches the poysoned Arrows of envenomed tongues set on fire by Hell that at this day James 3. 6. are darted against the pretious servants of God the faithfull dispensers of his word What though prophane Epicures scoffing Ismaels mocking M●chols furious frantick fiery Opinionists like Sampsons Foxes though looking contrary ways yet linked together by the tayls with firebrands Judges 15. all joyn together to cast reproach and dirt in the face of Gods servants Yet know that the excellency of our imployment the eternity of our work may support our spirits against all those disgraces that the unrestrained wickedness or wittiness of men unjustly lay upon us Now as to these reproaches I shall trespass yet further upon your patience while I shall mind you of 1. Some observations concerning them 2. Rules to direct us in our carriage under them 1. Observations 1. It s no new thing So persecuted they the Prophets Mat. 5. 12. that were before If the Jews call Christ Mat. 10. 25. Beelzebub who came to destroy Satan shall we now wonder if any call those Ministers Antichristian that have and alwaies do oppose Anti-Christ If the Galatians who would at first have Gal. 4. 15 16. pluckt out their eyes yet afterwards esteem Paul their enemy shall we now admire that some who have been formerly forward favourers of faithful Preachers are now become profess'd revilers Whence comes this alteration Not because Paul was changed No he spake still the Gal. 3. 1. same truth But because the Galatians bewitched by false teachers were fallen from that truth they formerly pretended a love unto 2. It s no sad thing as to those who are reproched but rather a cause of joy Rejoyce and be exceeding glad saith our Saviour for great is your Mat. 5. 12. reward For certainly it is not any personal quarrel that men have with Ministers that is the cause they dislike and vilifie them No but it s because they Preach the truth and therefore it s the truth of God they hate more than it is the Minister that Preached it For Propter quod unumquodque est tale illud est magis tale What causes the hatred is most hated Christ saith Woe be to him of whom every one speaks well and we may adde Woe be to him of Luke 6. 26 whom every one speaks ill but to be spoken evil Vituperari â malis esse laudari of by those who are themselves evil is no disgrace 3. It s no hurtful or dangerous thing and so not much to be regarded but to be pass'd by with a silent neglect The generous steed neglects contemptible barkings They hurt themselves most by that which they think to disgrace others by The stones