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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10740	A vvorkeman, that needeth not to be ashamed: or The faithfull steward of Gods house A sermon describing the duety of a godly minister, both in his doctrine and in his life. By Charles Richardson, preacher at S. Katharines, neere the Tower of London.	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 21019; ESTC S115966	57,940	78

though hee will not turne from his wicked way Ezech. 3.19 and so die in his iniquitie yet hee should deliuer his owne soule True it is that it ought to bee the desire of euery good Minister that if it please God all his people may be conuerted and so come to saluation But if this cannot bee effected but that the Lord doe rather by his Ministerie make them fagots for hell fire and though his preaching bee the sauour of death vnto death vnto them all and not the sauour of life vnto any 2. Cor. 2.15 16. yet if hee haue faithfully and conscionably done that that was required of him he shall still be a sweet sauour vnto God And herein our condition that are Gods husbandmen is farre better then the condition of an earthly husbandman When he hath cast his seede into the ground if the haruest doe not answere his expectation hee loseth not onely his labour but his seede also But if we haue done our duty to the vttermost of our power though for any thing that we can see as the Prophet saith We haue laboured in vaine Isa 49.4 5. and spent our strength in vaine and for nothing yet our indgement is with the Lord and our worke with our God And though our people will not be gathered by our Ministery yet shall we be glorious in the sight of the Lord. Yea though our people out of a froward disposition do wrong vs and offer vs iniurie yet wee must not giue ouer our paines A mother casteth not away her childe though it haue made her brests sore with sucking but with patience endureth the smart to doe the childe good So must we 2. Tim. 2.24 25. 4.2 as the Apostle commandeth vs suffer euill men patiently and instruct them with meekenesse that are contrary minded prooning if God at any time will gine them repentance c. Nay we must not be discouraged though our people become our enemies and persecute vs. As many times it commeth to passe especially if we bee sincere in our Ministerie and doe plainely rebuke them Leui. 19.17 and not suffer them to sin Then they rage and then they vse al their power to worke vs trouble As indeede that speech of Luther is most true To preach the Word of God sincerely is nothing else but to draw vpon a mans selfe all the fury of hell and the deuill and all the power of the world And it is a most dangerous kind of life to offer a mans selfe to so many teeth of Satan This was the condition of all the Prophets and Apostles as may be seene in the whole course of the Scriptures And there are but a few faithfull Ministers at this day but they haue experience of it But we must not faint for fall this De Consid lib. 4. but rather as Bernard saith if they be of an hard forehead wee must also harden ours against them There is nothing so hard that will not yeeld to a harder And this is that which the Lord said to the Prophet Ezechiel that though the people Ezech. 2.6 3.8 9. with whom he had to deale were rebels and thornes and scorpions yet saith he I haue made thy face hard against their faces and thy forehead hard against their foreheads I haue made thy forehead as the Adamant and harder then the flint feare them not therefore neither bee afraid at their lookes And the like commandement did the Lord giue to the Prophet IEREMIAH Jerem. 1.17 Thou therefore saith he trusse vp thy loines and arise and speake vnto them all that I command thee be not afraide of their faces lest I destroy thee before them Wee may not bee dumbe and cowardly dogs that dare not barke at mens beards if they be great and of any power but we must be of generous spirits not fearing the face or big looks of any man And indeed seeing we are the seruants of God we need not feare but that he will protectvs in the discharge of our duties Wee see that great men in the world doe beare out their seruants much more will the Lord beare out his seruants that doe him faithfull seruice in the Ministerie of his Word As he promised the Prophet IEREMIAH Behold Ier. 1.18 19. I haue made thee this day a defenced Citie and an iron pillar and walles of brasse against the whole land c. For they shall fight against thee but they shall not preuaile against thee for I am with thee to deliuer thee saith the Lord. The vse of this doctrine for the people is first to reproue them that account the Ministers life to be an easie life As the most of them thinke that we get our liuing easily we take no paines but patter on a booke a little c. But wee see by that that hath been spoken that they are greatly deceiued Our Sauiour Christ compareth the work of a Minister to things of great labor as to plowing fallowing planting rearing an house feeding of cattell and such like in all which great paines and diligence is required Cato saith In lib. de agricult He that tilleth the ground must not sit still for he hath alwaies something to doe And indeede the worke of the Husbandman is neuer at ende Sometimes hee fallowes sometimes hee stirres sometimes he carrieth out his compasse Sometimes he sowes sometimes he harrowes sometimes he weedes yea euery moneth bringeth with it new worke So the Minister that is Gods husbandman if hee haue a care to do his dutie well shal find husinesse enough to keepe him from being idle And howsoeuer it be true that he doe not toyle with his body so much as the other doth yet his labour is much more profitable The Master of the ship seemeth to be idle hee stirres not the pumpe he driues not the oares he rides not the ropes hee doth no other work that is painefull to the body and yet his study and care is more auaileable to the safetie of the ship then all their labour In like manner wee may say of faithfull Ministers as Seneca said of Philosophers and a great deale more truely They doe not leade an idle life their ease and rest is more profitable to men then other mens sweating and running vp and downe Nay if the matter be well considered it will be found that the continuall exercise of his minde in diligent study and the enforcing of his voice in deliuering the word doth more enfeeble and weaken the bodie then any other bodily labour As Seneca saith well (a) In prolog Declam The wearinesse of the wit is no lesse then the wearinesse of the body but more secret And Luther maketh no bones to say that the labour of the Husbandmen hath no proportion to our toyle and sweat And whosoeuer shall compare them both together shall easily see this to be true The Husbandman that toyleth all the yeere in the field hath a sounder complexion