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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28368	A remonstrance against the non-residents of Great Brittaine, or, Non-residency condemned by Scripture, by strength of arguments, by fathers, councels, canon-law, by the iudgement of reverend and learned divines	Blaxton, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing B3177; ESTC R4482	34,053	62

they visite their Congregations but once or twice in the yeare and then having gathered up the profits of their Livings they speedily returne to their Dennes of idlenesse that they may consume the same in rio●ous living I conclude therefore that they are not the faithfull Ministers of Christ and consequently that they ought to be reformed or removed Faxi● Deus 6 Argument against Non-Residency ALl Faithfull Ministers of Christ Iesus are and must be painefull and laborious in their Ministeriall function But Non-residents are not painefull and laborious in their Ministeriall function Ergo they are not the Faithfull Ministers of Christ Iesus I prove the Proposition First That they are laborious in their Ministery the examples of Christ his Apostles Prophets Euangelists Bishops and Martyrs of the purest time do abundantly prove It was Christs custome to enter in their Synagogues on the Sabbath dayes and to read and expound the Scriptures to the people It was S. Pauls manner to reason in the Synagogues and to open the Scriptures on the Sabbath dayes Vpon Sunday saith Justin Martyr all the Christians that are in the Cities or Countries about meet together and after some Commentaries of the Apostles and writing of the Prophets have been read the Senior or President doth by a Sermon exhort the people and ad monish them to the imitation and practise of those Divine truths which they had heard and read unto them And Saint Austen telleth us of Ambrose that he heard him rightly handling the Word of God unto the people every Lords day Yea it should seeme by the Homilies of Saint Chrysostome that hee did oftentimes preach daily unto the people and therefore wee frequently meet with his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} yesterday this and this I taught you and Origen intimateth this frequency of expounding the Scriptures in his time if saith hee you come frequently unto the Church of God and there attend unto the Sacred Scriptures and to the explication of those heavenly Commandements thy soule will be strengthned as thy body with food I will close this point with the assertion and profession of holy Austen that hee was never absent from his Episcopall service and attendance upon any licentious and assumed liberty but onely upon some other necessary service of the Church Secondly as faithfull Ministers are painfull in their ministry so they must be painf●ll and laborious There are no names given unto Ministers but they are words of employment and of labour For preaching comes of Praeco to be a proclaimer in the market place so are they called Trumpeters for that they must blow the silver Trumpet of the Lords word that it may sound and ring in the eares of the people Cryers so as they m●st be no tongue tyed fellowes for they are no fitter for this office then is a blind man to be a Pilot they must be as Shepheards which in Juda were faine to watch all night to preserve their flocks from Wolves Watchmen who must take heed least through their sloth the Fort be surprized Embessadours having a great message to deliver from the King of Heaven Angels as Christ is called the Angell of the great Covenant and Revel. 3. Write unto the Angell that is the Minister of such a Church workemen because they be builders of mens consciences Stewards to provide meat for the Lords inheritance we are Stewards of no meaner a gift than the grace of God and the wisdome of God that grace which by Saint Peter is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a manifold grace and that wisdome which by Saint Paul is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the manifold wisedome of God We are the depositaries and dispencers of the most precious treasures which were ever opened unto the sonnes of men the incorruptible and precious bloud of Christ the exceeding great and precious promises of the Gospell the word of the grace of God and of the unsearchable riches of Christ Now it is required of Stewards that a man be found faithfull that he defraud not Christ of his purchase which is the soules of men nor men of their price and Priviledge which is the bloud of Christ that hee neither favour the sinnes of men nor dissemble the truth of God Ministers are the light of the world and therefore their duty is to shine forth by heavenly Doctrine to enlighten Gods people they are the salt of the Earth and therefore their duty is to season with wholsome Doctrine the weake soules that bendto corruption they are builders and therefore must edifie the body of Christ the house of God They are Captaines and therefore it is their part to fight Gods battailes and as good Leaders and Chieftaines to instruct Gods people well in this spirituall warfare In Saint Pauls time it was a curse of damnation not to preach which cannot be appropriated to Paul himselfe it being a duty required of all that labour in Christs Vineyard and 2 Tim. 4. 2. He adjureth Timothy to preach insta●tly so that as John as the forerunner and Timothy as an Evangelist were to preach with vehemency so are we as Pastors to crie the same crie for it never yet pierced deep enough nor entred farre enough to make men watchfull over their lives The assumption is too true the Conclusion therefore must of necessity bee yeelded unto viz. that Non-Residents are not the faithfull Ministers of Christ and consequently that they ought to be removed CHAP. IV. Answereth the Objections made by Non-residents for the maintenance of their idlenesse Obje 1. THough Non-residents bee ordinarily absent from their people yet there is no place of Scripture expressely condemning Non-residency as a sin Answer We have the authority of Gods Commandement Acts 20 28. binding all Pastors carefully to attend unto the flockes of which the Holy Ghost hath made them Overseers and this not at the quarter or halfe yeeres day to gather in the profits and to feed themselves but to feed the flock the Church of God which Christ hath purchased with his bloud I would know whether this precept requireth the personall presence of the Pastor or no if any man say that hee is as good as present in his sufficient substitute I answer that the most doe not prove it so sufficiently but some rakeshame of men some Ieroboams Priest of the basest of the people that cannot tell otherwayes what to do with himselfe But if they did the Text is not satisfied which requireth his owne attendance neither injoyneth a Pastor to see his people fed but to feed them I would further here demand whether that Commandeme●t given to Archyppus belong not to all the Pastors of the New Testament Take heed to the Ministery that thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfill it which if it doe as no forhead