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A45328	An apologie for the ministry and its maintenance wherein is set forth the necessity, dignity and efficacy of a gospel-ministry against the Socinians, Swenckfieldians, Weigelians, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, Libertines and the rest of that rout ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing H425A; ESTC R28055	88,780	120

proud severity or a supercilious gravity but by mildeness and a sweet composure of manners and b●haviours strive to win them engage them to us and make them our own so shall we be able to have an Influence upon them prevail with them and live profitably and comfortably amongst them Love me said ●ustine and say what you will and do what you will As an Oratour should not onely be qualif●●d with prudence but with benevolence also so a Preacher For as the Philosopher observes it con●●ibutes much to the creditableness of the Orator if the Auditours be perswaded that he stands well affected to them The gravity of a Minister should not be such as may affright men from coming before him but such as compose them to reverence that do come Let us feed the Flock of Christ not imperiously as Lords much less rigidly as Tyrants but gravely and mildely as Fathers with a fatherly benevolence and affection desiring rather to be loved then feared To this purpose speaks La●renti●● upon 1 Pet. 5. 3. Let every Pastor govern the Church providently and prudently not straining his power to its utmost rigour but exercising a spirit of Lenity not alwayes in all things towards all using his utmost power and au●hority but sometimes denying something of his own right as Paul often did 1 Cor. 9. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 2. 2 Thes. 3. 9. In a word let us imitate Basil who for patience and constancy was an Adamant for meekness a Loadstone 6. Let a Pastour feed his flock zealously not carelesly and coldly Let us cry aloud and lift up our voyce like a Trumpet because we speak to dead men and stones Let us pray the father of Light to touch our tongues with a coal from the Altar that our lips may breath out nothing but what is pure and heavenly that we may be Lamps burning in zeal faith and Love and shining in words and works that we may be coals to our selves and lamps to our people such was Iohn Ioh. 5. 35. Wherefore Christ gave not fleshly but fiery tongues to the Primitive Preachers that they might preach zealously with them and enflame the hearts of their hearers Act. 2. 3. Excellent is that commendation of Luther VVhatever Luther speaks or writes pi●●ces into the ●earts and leaves a wonderfull sting in the cons●●ences of the hearers Let us look unto our Saviou● whom Zeal for Gods glory eat up Let us imitate Elijah qui zelando zelavit who was very zealous for the Lord all ●i●e for God whom God therefore sent for in a Fiery Chariot Let us imita●● Elisha Isaiah Ier●miah Ier. 20. 9. Iohn Baptist Paul Gal 2. 11. Who all being enflamed with the fire of Love did burne the cold hearts of their hearers with zealous Discourses Let our hearts our tongues our hands be all of a fire that we may bring men from sin unto God Even immoderate z●al is better than coldness in Gods cause for it is an error of love and not a love of error Let us neglect nothing through idleness or cowardi●● which may conduce to the Salvation of the soules of our people In a word let us imitate the holy Seraphims who have their name from fire who burning in zeal are alwayes in readiness to execute every command of God having with them six wings with which we may speedily move upward downward forward backward on this hand on that hand as God calls So zealous was the Angel who had the everlasting Gospel to preach who did not creep nor walk nor run but fly with a swift wing through the midst of Heaven Rev. 14. 16. See VVard's Coal from the Altar p. 390. 7. The word of God is to be dispensed purely without any sophisticall or superstitious comments Let nothing be said of God without Gods authority In all doubts we must have recourse to the Law and the Testimony Isa. 8. 20. Moses returning from the Mount brought commands not his own but Gods Exod. 19. 7 8. The Apostles Commission runns not for them to teach humane Traditions private Fancies but to teach all things that Christ Iesus had commanded them Mat. 28. 20. that is either by himself or by his Prophets Therefore the Apostles themselves father their Doctrines upon Christ 1 Cor. 11. 23. I have received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you so 1 Thes. 4. 2. Ye know what Commandements we gave you by the Lord Iesus● As much as if he had said The Commandements which I gave you are not mine but Christs he is the Law-giver I am onely his Messenger So also 1 Pet. 4 11. if any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God Let him be a Teacher well instructed in the Word of God and produce Oracles as it were out of Gods mouth God cannot abide unlawfull Mix●ures that men should play the huxters with his Word or plow with the oxe of his Word and the Asse of humane traditions together God will not have men set their thresholds by his and their posts by his posts Ezek. 43. 8. VVhat is the cha●●e to the wheat What are false Prophecies to the truth of God Ier. 23. 28. Mens inventions are like light and empty cha●●e that has no substance in it nor give any spirituall nourishment but Gods Word is nu●ritive like the purest wheat We are called to be dispencers of the Ministries of God not broachers of out own groundless conceptions prop●gators of the old way and Doctrine not coiners of a new If an Angel from heaven should preach any other Gospell let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. Reject therfore all new and feigned worships and worship God after a way that is Gods 8. The word of God is to be dispensed plainly He is the best Preacher not who s●●atcheth the ears but who pricketh and pierceth the heart Therefore does Paul profess that he had rather speak 〈◊〉 words in a known and intelligible Language than five thousand in a strange and unknown tongue 1 Cor 14 19. Let us preach a crucified Christ in a crucified stile not with the perswasive words of mans wisdome but in the demo●station of the spirit and power not Rhetorically but Apostolic●lly not so much fi●ely as soundly not so curiously as carefully not so ●dmirably as intelligibly Let our speech be simple witho●● figures plain without mysteries pure without mixtu●e not curious painted affected unnecessarily adorned and so shall they be as fiery darts piercing the inmost conscience and strong hammers bre●king the hardest rock 9. The Word of God is to be dispensed fully For so runns the Dispensers Commission Mat. 28. 20. all things whatsoever c. The least particle of Gods Word is not fraudulently to be detained but the whole counsel of God without addition or diminution is to be declared Act. 20. 27. And then if any soul dye it shall fall by its own hand and not by ours and its blood charged upon its won head not ours when we shall faithfully

deservedly have for the Other If any man in this nice Age may be judged worthy to be the Object of a Dedication it must be a Theophilus and if any other I do verily believe you are a Theophilus if a sober moderate Contemplative serious life adorned with many publick and private Exercises of Religion Expressions of a Gracious Soul if constant and vigorous Endeavours to reconcile Differences amicably and suppress Sin Authoritatively if an engaging edifying aweing presence to Wife Children servants if a sweet friendly charitable owning of Gods People or a cordial gladsome Entertainment of his faithfull Ministers if any of these if all these will denominate a man a Lover of God Accept I pray you Sir ths poor Oblation and although I do not cannot judg this little Impolite Treatise worthy your Countenance or Patronage yet I beseech you for the love of God to stir up all your whole Soul 〈◊〉 improve your utmost interest to maintain and defend the Cause which therein I study to Patronize which is not yet so much my Cause as the Cause of all the Faithfull Ministers of Christ and not so much theirs neither as Christs Go on ● beseech You and whatever Troubles shall be upon the earth whatever Divisions Distractions Dissettlements Apostasies are or may be in England yet study to approve Your Self to be a Friend to God's Cause whom you love and Faithfull to the Interest of Jesus Christ in whom you believe And so doing that You may be bless'd with dayes as prosperous as many with a Crown as Glorious as Eternall is and shall be the hearty Prayer of Sir Your Friend and Servant in Christ Jesus Sam. Shaw Long-Whatton Iuly 2. 1659. TO THE Impartial READER Reader IT is not long since that a faithfull Minister of Christ my very loving Friend presented the World with a Latine Treatise vindicating and asserting the Necessity dignity and duty of a Gosp●l-Ministry which when I had perused and discovered not onely by the testimony of the Epistles Commendatory but by my own Iudgment in it a great Acuteness of Wit a sweet Savour of a pious Disposition pertinent and cogent Arguments full and satisfacto●y Answers to all Objections militating against the Truth holding Discourse with him concerning it I was bold to intimate to him how convenien●ly and usefully it might have been offered in a Tongue more known amongst us for the Conviction and satisfaction of English Cavillers Adding That I thought they who had so much knowledge as to understand Latin had also more Iudgment than to need to be satisfied in that thing Whereupon the Reverend Authour concurring with my Iudgment but giving me a good Account of his Style was pleased at first to desire and upon reluctancy to press me to do that which I onely wish'd had been done withall trusting me with the liberty of Paraphrasing and Enlarging by his Letters of June 11. and June 25. 1658. Which Task I have accordingly undertaken being Influenced I hope by a desire to glorifie God and have performed being assisted by the strength of that God whom I desire to glorifie Besides what I have already express'd and intimated I need give no further Account of my Enterprize but the Apprehensions which I then had I see dayly more and more justified of the proneness of our Apostatizing times to grow Antiministeriall Pardon me I pray thee if through my weakness any of the Author's Ingenuity elegancy or strength be lost or the Truth suffer through my Inability to vindicate it And I humbly beseech Almighty God that these poor Endeavors may contribute some little towards thy satisfaction or Confirmation towards the Edification and Provocation unto Duty the maintaining the Maintenance and Honor the encouraging the Faintings and Fears of the Faithfull Ministers of Iesus Christ. AN APOLOGY FOR THE MINISTRIE And it's maintenance c. CHAP. 1. Matt. 5. 13. Ye are the salt of the earth HE that will speak more for the commendation of any thing than to say it's good must say it's seasonable For he that sought out acceptable words hath as fitly told us that A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver Here 's a golden sentence adorn'd with a silver season by so much the more usefull by how much the more suitable having this addition to it's commodiousness that it may be so fitly accommodated to our present times And if we consider what hast the furious ●renzyes of our age do make intending the contempt and if it might be the very extirpation of our Gospell-Ministers we may well compare it to the seasonable addresse of wise Abigail to resolute David Or if you will let it be called as before a golden apple and so there 's hopes it may retard the ●eadlong hast of these cruell Atala●ta's that design the ruine of Christ's Embassadors What better language do the devills drudges and emissaryes now adayes afford the Ministers of the Gospell than dec●ivers of the people Baal ' s priests the Locusts of the b●ttomlesse pit l●mbs of Anti Christ Thieves Lya●s Seducers Generation of vipers ravenous wolves whited walls Hirelings Babylonish Merchants Hypocrites Dumb d●gs Simon Magul's unclean spirits and whatever the malice of hell or the madnesse of men can devise And what better confutation of such calumnyes can we des●re than thi● one sentence of our Saviours ye are not the Di●turbers of Kingdoms the Betrayer● of Kings the Bu●dens of the Earth the Disease of the Land the Sweepings of the House the Scumme of the Countrey the Refuse of the Nation the Dreggs of the World the off ●couring of all things as the devi●s g●sse 〈◊〉 ●arry i● but ye ar● the 〈◊〉 of the earth A short sentence but enough to con●●●e those voluminous aspersions that are cast upon them A compe●d●ous encouragement What though the Devill be the accu●er of the Brethren what though our Brethren be our accusers for him Yet who shall lay any thing to the charge or what can the charge be that any can lay upon those whom Christ justisyeth Loe here the sentence may lose i'ts order and yet retain it's truth wisdomes Children are justifyed of her ye are the salt of the earth Let us a little search the context that we may find the meaning of the text When our Saviour had in the very threshold of his Sermon discoursed of the blessed ones of the world in this second step that he makes he ●●tly subjoyneth a discourse concerning the Ministers of the Gospell whose qualifications he teacheth by three metaphoricall resemblances of salt ●ght and a C●y up●n an hill S●eming to make this the one summary of his similitudes that the Ministers of the Gospell must not only be Sayers but Doers Preachers but Practicers Talkers but Walkers and must have not only the salt of doctrine but the light of conversation also But more particularly by this similitude of salt he s●rs out in lively colours the necessity and efficacy of the Gospell-Ministry Fo●

of the Ministry and gifts to the Ministers The contempt that is cast upon Christ's Ambassadors lights upon Christ himself Luk 10. 16. Is. 7. 13. Let no plots devices injuryes conspiracyes then weaken our courages or dant our hearts For Christ Iesus shall be with us not a few days but to the end of the world by his power and spirit Mat. 28. 29. He whose name is Immanuel will not cannot be farre from us The world shall sooner cease to be than Christ cease to be with us He will protect us in dangers comfort us in temptations help us in undertakings direct us in doubts and upon all occasions stand by us Let us therefore be of good courage discharg our calling going on it cheerfully What though we may tremble at the sense of our own infirmities yet we may be bold and adventurous in the strength of Christ. He will not desert us in the work that is his own but will either give fredome from suffering or patience courage and constancy wherewithall to suffer Through the wonderfull providence of God all things shall work together for good unto us He can make to his messengers medicines out of this poyson cause roses to spring up to them from amidst these prickles and make figs to be the fruit of these thistles Let hereticall men g●●sh their teeth sharpen their swords spit their venome at us their end shall be to be destroyed Let them associate themselves they shall be broken in pieces Let them gird themselves they shall be broken in pieces Let them take Counsell it shall be in vain Let them speak the word it shall not stand because God is with us Is. 8. 9 10. Let our adversaryes write whole volumes of satyres against us and fill every page and line with some new scandall or reproachfull title we will bind them as Crowns upon our heads They do the best to me quoth Luther who speak the worst of me Luther feeds upon opprobries The Ministers of Christ are in this like Philip King of Macedon who used to thank the Athenian Orators for rayling him into the better for he was resolved that his upright conversation should confute and give the lye to all their soul-mouthed declamations They think with Seneca that no name is better than an ill name well got In a word let us comfort our selves against the ingratitude of the shamelesse world by the serious review of Gods gracious promises Do wretched and godlesse men deprive and defraud us of temporall rewards It is God who hath promised eternall ones For the best wages of Christs Ministers are reserved in heaven for them where they shall inherit an eminency if not a singularity of eternall glory and brightnesse Dan. 12. 3. Mat. 5. 12. Mat. 24. 45 46 47. I Cor. 3. 8 9. 1. P●t 5. 4. This Crown the Apostle Paul still had in his eye 1. Tim. 4 8. Rom. 8. 18. Suffering for a time triumphing to eternity The work shall have an end but so shall not the wages The people shall-receive each man a reward for his good works but the pasto● shall receive a reward for the good works of them all For his own he shall receive a Crown for each of theirs a coronet as Chrysostome acutely notes Nay even in this life they shall be sure of some reward as 1. Encrease of their gifts This augmentation is sure they have God ' s own expresse order for it Mat. 13. 12. To him that hath shall more be given 2. The feast of a good conscience which in the saddest and ebbest condition of life accompanies a sincere fai●hful Minister of Christ who eys only the glory of God and the Salvation of his hearers Act. 23. 1. and Chap. 24. 16. 2. Cor. 1. 12. and Chap. 6. 10. when he shall be as a man sorrowing yet here in he shall rejoyce In a time of famine he shall have this table spread for him 3. The concurrence of divine assistance Whom God calls to this employment them he will also protect and assist and give in fresh supplyes of new strength for the discharge of the same Is. 42. 6. I have called thee I will hold thee by the hand and keep thee Thus will God shew himself a father and a Protector to them Nay he will not only save them but clothe them with Salvation Ps 132. 16. A fourth corollary may be this Let us then study to preserve mutuall peace and concord amongst our selves God hath joyned salt and peace together Mark 9. 50. Have salt in your selves and have peace one with another Now what things God hath joyned let no one par● asunder Because salt by its acrimony biteth therefore our Saviour presently advises so wisely to temper it that peace may be preserved inviolable The love of our brother must correct the salt of correction and the salt of justice must season the love of our brother And so shall we be insuperable by being inseparable and shall gain many to Christ As lighted torches if they be separated cause a smoake but if they be united do encrease the flame All wisdome is folly and madnesse except it be seasoned with peace and charity As sacrifices must be without honey so neither doth any service or sacrifice please God that issues from an heart stuffed with anger envy animosity and bitternesse Let us not forget that there are many Canaanites and Perizzites in the land that are offended at our differences and from them seek occasion to oppresse and devoure us Let us by mutuall and universall concord therefore grow into one body into one soule thinking with our selves what an incongruous thing it is that the messengers of peace should fall into mutuall jarrs and how unseasonable it is at this time when the adversary is laying snares for us our strength had more need be united by peace than broken and enfeebled by divisions There is a fitter object of our anger than one anothers throats And he seems to be mad but too much who promises himself a standing in the downfall of the Church It is an excellent commendation which is given to Myconius by a worthy Author He lived with his collegues two and twenty years together in an uninterrupted peace and concord We have runne sayes Myconius himself We have wrestled we have wrought we have ●ought we have conquered most unanimously and undividedly Oh that some such blessed fire of love and peace were kindled in our frozen breasts That the Character sometimes proper to the primitive Church might be common to us all See how they love one another and are ready to dye one for another In those dayes says the Historian Act. 4. 32. Believers nay the whole multitude of believers were of one heart and of one soul there was a morall onenesse though not a physicall one for they did so agree in minds and manners as if they had indeed had but one heart and the same soul amongst them all Oh happy age of the Church