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A45333	An exposition by way of supplement, on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth chapters of the prophecy of Amos where you have the text fully explained ... : together with a confutation of Dr. Holmes, and Sir Henry Vane, in the end of the commentary / by Tho. Hall ...	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.; Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1661 (1661)	Wing H431; ESTC R18972	450,796	560

gives liberty for every one that supposeth himself Gifted to Preach without any Call for though Amos were an Herdsman yet he was both gifted and called extraordinarily by God as appears Amos 7.15 The Lord took me as I followed the flock and said to me Goe Prophesie unto my people Israel Here is his Call and he shewed his extraordinary Call by his extraordinary gifts whereas those Enthusiasts amongst us who pretend to an extraordinary Call upon trial are found not to have ordinary gifts they can hardly write one line of true English 2 Obs. It is lawful sometime to use a Preface the better to quicken attention We are by nature dull and slow to beleeve or practice the truthes of God and therefore we had need of all good means to quicken us But of this elsewhere 3 Obs. Ministers must Preach the Word of God to the people They must not preach their own Fancies or mens Inventions but they must publish Gods Counsels teaching men to observe whatsoever he commands them Matth. 28.20 1 Cor. 11.23 De Deo nil sine Deo we must doe nothing in Gods Worship without the warrant of his Word all must be done according to Gods pattern without adding or detracting Deut. 12. ult Prov. 30.6 Hence it is that all the Prophets as Amos doth here came with a Dixit Dominus Thus saith the Lord and Hear the Word of the Lord Ezek. 1.3 Hos. 1.1 Jonah 1.1 Micah 1.1 Zech. 1.2 Mal. 1.1 Hee that preacheth to Gods people must publish his Oracles to them 1 Pet. 4.11 such a man may preach with power and authority It is this Word of God which Gods people must read Deut. 6.6 7. this they must search into Ioh. 5. 39. this they must meditate on Psal. 1.2 and this they must practise Joh. 13.17 and therefore great reason that this and this Word only they should hear 1 Away then with those Atheistical Sectaries who contemn Gods Word and prefer their own brainsick Revelations Raptures New Lights and Satanical delusions before the pure and perfect Word of God These are not of God because they reject his Word 1 Ioh. 4.6 these follow lying Vanities and so forsake their own Mercies they reject the Law which shewes they have no light in them Isa. 8.20 Those Ministers then are to be blamed that instead of saying with Amos Hear the Word of the Lord they cry Hear what Aristotle Tully Plato Plutarch Pindarus Seneca say how oft doe they cry Thus saith Austin and thus saith Ambrose when it may be they never once saw much less perused those Authors only they name them to get a name for Learned men when indeed it is a very poor peice of learning to get a few fragments and scraps of Latine in that kind together Wee are Gods Embassadours and must keep close to our Commission and though we may occasionally as the Apostle did and sparingly cite Heathens to convince them out of their own VVriters or else to shame Christians that come short of them yet we may in no wise make it our constant practise 4 Obs. Gods Ministers who are sent by him must plainly tell even great men of their sins so doth Amos here he sleights the sinful greatness of men and emboldens himself upon his authority and calling Though they were fat and full high and haughty yet he tells them to their faces that they acted rather like Beasts than men and should dearly pay for their cruelty It is true poor men must be reproved when they sin but rich men especially because the sins of great men are great sins and by their example they doe much hurt to others Hence Samuel reproves Saul and the man of God reproves Ieroboam for usurping and intermedling with the Priests Office which belonged not unto him 1 King 13.1 2 c. Their falls are not only Personal but Epidemical and teach general disobedience as they complained of Queen Vashti that her disloyalty would make others disloyal Hest. 1.16 17. It is in the body Politick as in the body Natural if the Vitals be poysoned the inferiour parts cannot bee free each Vein and Nerve and Artery like the flowing streams of some polluted Springs are receptacles of their infection as well as nature Let Ieroboam but set up Calves and all Israel is presently upon their knees to them How many silly people by following their Rulers have run themselves into destruction like the Prince of Frisland who asking what became of his Progenitors and Friends that were dead in their ignorance and error Answer was made That they were in Hell hee desperately replied that then hee would goe thither after them Subjects are ambitious to follow their Princes Tenants their Landlords and Servants their Masters though they forsake God to doe it It was none of the worst counsel which the good Judge in Lucian gave to Sostratus when he released him Bee good saith hee and see thou teach not thy offence to others for there are some who doe at once in the very same act both commit and teach sin and so to the numberless number of their own transgressions adde the sins of thousands Yee Kine of Bashan 5 Obs. Wicked men are brutish men Their prosperity and pomp besots them Ier. ● 5.21 it fills them with insolence and blasphemy Psal. 73.5 6 7 8 9. and debaseth them beneath the beasts that perish Psal. 49.20 because they have no changes therefore they fear not God because they are not emptied from vessel to vessel but they live secure and at ease therefore their scent abides within them Ier. 48.11 Hence it is that they are so oft compared in Scripture to Bulls Bears Doggs Swine c. as I have else where shewed at large That dwell in the Mountain of Samaria 6 Obs. God takes notice of the dwellings of men He knows where his enemies dwell Obadiah 3. and he knows where his people dwell Ezek. 26. Zech. 2.7 Revel 2 13. he knows our names our natures our callings and conditions Act. 16.14 15 yea not only our integral parts but even the hairs of our head are numbred by him Mat. 10.30 He sees us though we see not him Iohn 1.47 and knowes us by our names before we have a being Iosiah was called by his name three hundred years before hee was born 1 King 13.2 God hath a particular and distinct knowledge of every man and woman in the world hee perfectly knowes all things past present and to come Acts 15.18 and that not successively and by discourse by debating and searching out the causes of things but in a moment by one eternal act of understanding he knoweth all things with their causes and conditions in himself and of himself without any reasoning or help from others what was done or is to be done a thousand years hence is as present with him as a thing that is past Psal. 90.4 Hee calls the things that are not as if they were Rom. 14.17