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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01027	A fruitfull sermon made by the reverend and learned Mr. Iohn Forbes. Pastour of the English company of merchants adventures at Delft. Published by some of his flock out of sincere affection for common good	Forbes, John, 1568?-1634.	1626 (1626)	STC 11130; ESTC S116489	28,013	106

A FRVITFVLL SERMON Made by the Reverend and Learned Mr. IOHN FORBES Pastour of the English Company of Merchants adventurers at Delft Published by some of his flock out of sincere affection for common good AT AMSTERDAM Printed by Richard Plater 1626. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Liber A fruitfull Sermon upon 2. Cor. Cap. 13. vers 5. Proue your selves if ye be in the faith examine your selves know ye not your owne selves that Iesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates IT is no vvonder that in all ages and especiallie in this sinfull profane age wherein wee now liue there hath beene and now is so great and universall a contempt of the blessed ministrie of Christ as of a base and Contemptible thing when an Apostle and such an Apostle as Paule had so much a doe to vindicate his ministrie from the Contempt base account therof amongst the Corinths notwithstanding that they had beene converted thereby and the sygnes of an Apostle had bene so powerfully wrought by him amongst them For if the weakenes and infirmitie of his flesh and outward estate worldlie did so blind the Corinthians eys that they could not perceave the divine power of Christs spirit in so weake a vessell what marveil is it that succeeding ages and this present fleshlie age judging according to the flesh of such as are far inferiour to Paule in grace doe not behould that heavenlie power which accompanyeth their ministrie The grief of this vanitie were easie to be borne if it were onelie the profane worldlings that did so seing no natural mā is able to discern the things of Gods Spirit But it s a more lamētable error when it falleth in such as profes the trueth and doe vphold this ministrie and reape the sweet and vnspeakeable fruits thereof to esteeme so baselie of that which is the power of God to their salvation if ever they be to be saved Yet this example of that church which was not inferiour in anie thing to other churches by the Ap. Paules paines amongst them so comtemptiblie speaking of him who was not in anie thing inferiour to the verie chief Apostles that his presence was base and weake and his speach of no value may serve to teach al ministers patience under the like crosse but withall as Paule who was glad when he was weake and they were strong did play the foole in boasting of him self for the defence of his authoritie power of his ministrie not because of anie ambitious desire of vaineglorie but onelie to procure their edification that by their contempt of his ministrie they should not frustrate themselves of the blessed fruit thereof even so the faithfull ministers of Christ in this age haue more then just cause with Paule to speake somewhat for themselves not vainelie for their owne creditie sake but onelie to prevent the like dāger in their hearers upon the like contempt of their ministrie knowing that the same causes still produce the like effects In doeing this as it is necessarie so it shal be sufficient to use no more Apollogie then is contained in this one verse of this text As being the strongest argument whereby not onelie Paule forced the Corinthians to confesse the mightie strength of Christ in his ministrie towards them but also whereby all true and faithfull Pastors must convince the conscience of their hearers that they are not reprobate Pastors The maine scope and force of the Apostles argument being punctuallie taken up is this You Corinthians must eyther acknowledge the divine vertue force of my ministry or thē ye your selvs must be reprobates but wee trust yee are not reprobates neither will ye have us think so therefore yee must acknowledge the vertue of our ministry Thus doth he reduce them to a necessitie eyther of acknowledging him not to be a reprobate minister but such an one in whom Christ did speake or then of acknowledging themselves to bee reprobate Christians without faith and without Christ the evidence of the truth and soundnes of his argument wee shall God willing manifest in the particular opening thereof For the cleare vnderstanding of the Apostles meaning wee are first to consider what hath gone before and how this verse dependeth or cohereth with the former Two arguments have beene used by the Apostle to shew why he behooved to manifest to the Corinthians the authority of his ministry in not sparing them at his comming againe The first was because they were lawfullie convinced of obstinacie having bene now twice or rather thrice admonished and therefore he behooved to proceed against them with sharpnes if they did not now repent before his comming even according to the law of God which ordaineth that in the mouth of two or three witnesses everie word shall stand The second argument was this They who having felt Christ to be mighty in them by my ministrie doe yet seeke a proof of Christ speaking in me must needs haue it in sharpnes to make them know me to be an Apostle of Christ But ye Corinthians do yet after your conversion seeke an experience of Christ speaking in me Therefore you must haue a sharper proof seeing ye acquiesse not in that which ye haue alreadie and reverence not my admonitions given you upon that proof which ye haue of Christs power in me To shew yet farther the equity of this threatning upon this ground he layeth downe an assertion of the power of Christ in his ministrie towards them affirming that Christ in his ministrie towards them was not weak but mighty in them and therefore this their doing was nothing but a tempting of Christs power in him even as the people of Israel in the wildernes after sufficient proof of the mighty power of God in Moses by the miracles wrought in Egipt by leading them safely through the redd sea which overwhelmed their enemies by the waters given them out of the Rock c. did notwithstanding of all these and much more tempt the Lords power desiring yet a farther evidence thereof by covering them a table in the wildernesse and giving them flesh to eate as though all the preceding wonders had been no sufficient proofe of Gods almighty power Even so the Corinthians having had sufficient evidence and testimonie of Christ speaking in Paul by his mighty working in thēselvs yet for all this did esteeme Paul but base and weak and his words of no value and so forced him to giue them a sharper experience of Christ speaking in him to their farther grief if upon this evidence past they would not reverence his words nor obey his warnings but would yet tempt Christ in him for a farther proof of his power Now before the Apostle prove this which he hath affirmed touching the might of Christ in them by his ministry perceaving the chief ground and cause of this their foolish judgment to be the weaknesse and poore estate of the Apostle in the flesh he first removed this