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church_n	apostle_n	bishop_n	timothy_n	4,167	5	10.7647	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60350	The protectors protection, or, The pious prince guarded by a praying people a sermon preached at St. Edmundsbury in Suffolk, upon the 13 Octob. 1658, being a day set apart for solemn fasting and humiliation and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector / by Sam. Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1659 (1659)	Wing S3968; ESTC R22448	38,832	77

these poor Labors may not be altogether useless I have been willing contrary to mine own Genius to send them forth into the world the blessing of God go with them Something I have added I hope that will not offend since no thing is diminished you have one or two passages twice ever because I thought it a piece of honesty publishing my Notes u●on such an occasion to leave out nothing As for you mine honored Friends I have onely to tell you that I love you in the Lord desire your welfare pray for and shall rejoyce in the prosperity of your souls And I do beseech you to walk worthy of the Lord in all well-pleasing Go on as you have begun to own God his Cause and Ministers whereto you have already attained walk by the same rule and minde the same thing Mark them which cause divisions and avoid them keep up an high esteem of publique Ordinances and be constant in your attendance upon them contend earnestly for the Faith once delivered to the Saints Hold fast that which you have and let no man take your Crown Be humble and fruitful study not to be wise above what is written credit the means you enjoy by your spiritual increases and exemplary conversations And that God would bless you with grace peace and comfort here and crown you with glory hereafter is and shall be the prayer of Your Servant in the Lord Samuel Slater From my Study Ian. 24. 1658. 1 Timothy 2.1 2. I exhort therefore that first of all Prayers Supplications Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty THe Parents of Timothy being religious and having imbraced the Christian Faith did as in duty they were bound train up and instruct their son in it from his very childhood knowing that what Principles children suck in betimes with their mothers milk they carefully preserve for old acquaintance sake and carry with them to their graves They made it their care to season him with Gospel-Truths and to acquaint him with that way in which he ought to walk and their pains herein were so successful as that Paul testifieth this of Timothy That he knew the Holy Scriptures from a childe Being thus in his childhood instructed by his parents he was in his youth entertained by Paul who took much pains with him and built upon that foundation which was before laid At last being duly qualified for he was admitted unto the Office of an Evangelist which was extraordinary and not much inferior unto that of an Apostle He supplied Pauls absence in divers Churches which were newly planted by him which trust he discharged with singular fidelity thereby fully answering that confidence which Paul had of him Among other places he was left at Ephesus Paul going from thence into Macedonia to make an end of ordering and setting the affairs of that Church which was already planted there And whilest he was thus executing his charge the Apostle sends this Epistle to him which contains in it wholesom Directions and strengthning or comfortable Encouragements In the beginning thereof he chargeth him to lay a restraint upon those who were over-busie in spreading of Doctrines either contrary to or diverse from that which Paul had already preached among them and effectually to endeavor the rooting out of that false Doctrine those Tares of Error which Satan had by his instruments sowen among them and so to maintain the Truth delivered in its purity the Church erected in its beauty Afterwards in the Epistle he toucheth upon sundry points some of universal concernment respecting all men some having a more particular and limited respect unto persons in such or such places and capacities Thus he treats of the duty of women and enjoyns them modesty in apparel silence in the Churches He shews what qualities are required in Bishops and Deacons who are Ecclesiastical Officers And as our Saviour would have Cesar have what was his due so his servant the Apostle treading in his Masters steps teacheth Timothy and by him the Church at Ephesus and not onely them but all that owe part of that debt and duty which we owe unto them is Prayer for them the payment whereof he requires of all men in the Text I exhort that supplications c. be made for Kings and for all that are in authority This Exhortation as * some conceive was ordered out because in those days there were some * who bare no good will to Magistracy but nourished this erroneous opinion That all civil Order was profane and contrary to the freedom of the Gospel and that Kings and Princes were quâ tales enemies to God and Religion inconsistent with the Gospel and hinderances of that liberty which was purchased by Christ as if our Redeemer did not do enough for us in breaking the powers of Sin and Satan and in pulling down the prince of darkness from his seat and in bringing a spiritual liberty from the law of sin and death over unto his people unless he also overturned the thrones of worldly Princes wrested their Scepters out of their hands and pluckt up by the roots the hedge of all humane laws A Principle which did not die with those of that age or if dead and buried with them it was afterwards raised out of the grave by the Anabaptists and it is at this day made much of and kept warm in the bosom of those whom we call The Fifth-monarchy-men who I believe are not yet such desperate enemies to Power and Authority but that they would welcome a Scepter and Sword if put into their own hands since they plead for the Saints governing the world wisely making themselves of the number Our blessed Apostle in order to the correcting of this foolish and erroneous conceit calls upon Timothy and all others to pray for those that have the Sword of Magistracy and Government in their hands thereby teaching us that we should be so far from decrying them opposing them or rising up against them that we should by prayer beg Gods assisting them in the administration of that Trust which is committed to them In the words you may take notice of these Parts First a Duty exhorted unto That Prayers Supplications Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made Secondly the persons for whom Supplications c are to be made and they are First All men Secondly Kings and all that are in authority Thirdly that which we are to pray for That under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty I shall not spend time now in opening the words and shewing you what lieth in the womb of each phrase in them since that will be done in the handling of the Doctrine which I shall draw from them that is this Prayers are to be made for Kings and Governors for all that are invested with