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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	bishop_n	paul_n	timothy_n	3,899	5	10.7094	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92077	Morbus epidemicus: or The disease of the latter dayes: discovered and laid open in a sermon out of the II Ep. of Timothy, ch. 4, v. 3, 4. / By John Ramsey, minister of East Rudham in the county of Norfolk.	Ramsey, John, Minister of East Rudham.	1656 (1656)	Wing R224; Thomason E892_2; ESTC R631	18,369	36

Ministers round about them yet not satisfied and content herewith they admire and run agadding after strangers like unto silly Doves without heart as the Prophet speaks of Ephraim Hosea 7.11 That forsake their own Dove-cote and build in the next Barn or Steeple And herein they bewray a spiritual kinde of covetousness and say of their Heap of Teachers as he in the Poet of his full Bags and Chests Verùm dulce est de magno tollere acervo O! it is a pleasant thing to take whole handfulls out of a great heap Secondly 2. The qualification and condition of them this Heap of Teachers may relate to their qualification and condition when there is a multiplication of such as are insufficient and unworthy And so (b) Magìs coacervatio est si fiant quatuor indigni quàm centum boni Aquin. in loc Aquinas expounds the place Then may it more properly be said to be an Heap of Teachers if there be four bad than an hundred good There are three marks and characters of this Heap of Teachers 1. Young and youthfull Teachers Three characters of them 2. Ignorant and unlearned Teachers 3. False and flattering Teachers The first character of these Teachers 1. The first characters Young and youthfull Teachers they are young and youthfull A Bishop must not be a Novice that is St. Paul's charge to Timothy 1 Tim. 3.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he says not a young man but a Novice A Plant that is new-set in the Nursery of the University or the Garden of the Church that hath not taken any deep rooting nor grown up to any great heighth and so cannot bring forth much fruit There is no building with green and unseasoned Timber And to lay the burden of the Pastoral charge upon the shoulders of a Novice is all (c) Greg. de cura Pastor part 3. c. 16. one saith Gregory as to raise the Roof of an House upon the walls while they are yet green and tender this is to build unto ruine and to downfall the whole Frame and yet these Novice Teachers are the men whom they most respect and reverence and are every way as inordinate in their loves and likings of green years and green Heads as women with childe in their longings after green fruit For albeit youth is not to be despised as St. Paul adviseth Timothy 1 Tim. 4.12 Let no man despise thy youth And the reason is given by Ignatius (d) Ignat. Epist ad Magnes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Then is not youth to be disdained when it is devoted and dedicated unto God and seasoned with sanctity and holiness yet nevertheless youth hath not that ballast of knowledg and learning that (e) Bos lassus fortiùs fig it pedem Hieron senex ad Aug. Juvenem Aug. Ep. 13.1 solid gravity and experience of elder years And young Elihu was not mistaken when he thus thought and taught Job 32.7 I said Days should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdom There is as great a difference betwixt Age and Youth as betwixt old and new Wine and though new Wine be the more brisk and sparkling yet the old hath the deeper colour and the greater strength And that Age is to be preferred before Youth we may learn from the Parable of old and new Wine Luke 5.39 No man having drunk old Wine straightway desireth new for he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The old is better A second character of this Heap of Teachers 2. The second character Ignorant and unlearned Teachers They are ignorant and unlearned A strange kinde of Mothers who bring forth and give suck too before they conceive They teach what they never learned and are the Masters of the unlearned ere that they ever were the Scholars of the learned as (f) Nimiùm multi imperitorum Magistri fiunt pr isquàm fuerint Doctorum Discipuli Hieron Ep. ● St. Hierom complains of too too many in his Time And to make choice of such kinde of Teachers is to imploy a lame Messenger to command him to run and at the same time to cut off his Legs It is the wise mans comparison Prov. 26.6 He that sendeth by the hand of a Fool cutteth off the Feet This is to make use of blinde Guides and if the blinde lead the blinde they will both fall into the Ditch (g) Si Sacerdos est sciat legem Domini si ignoret legem Domini ipse arguit se non esse Sacerdotem Domini Hier. super Agg. c. 2. How can they prove good Seers that want their eyes Or afford light unto others that are darkness themselves as if darkness should bring forth light Et nox nocti indicaret scientiam and night unto night should utter knowledg And of such Teachers as these that Prophecy of Micah is verified and made good Micah 3.6 Therefore night shall be unto you that ye shall not have a vision and it shall be dark unto you that ye shall not divine or prove sound and able Divines The Sun shall go down over the Prophets and the day shall be dark over them The third and last character of this Heap of Teachers They are false and flattering 3. The third character False and flattering Teachers who daub with untempered mortar and parget a rotten Post or a ruinous wall with a fair crust and out-side as deceitfull Builders and sow Pillows under mens arm-holes that they may sleep and snort more securely Ezek. 13.10 That (h) Et quoniam mel in Dei sacrificiis non offertur nimia dulcedo arte mutata est quâdam piperis austeritate condita ap ud Deum nil tantum suave placet nisi quod babet in se aliquid mordacis veritatis Hieronym de legal sacrific sacrifice with Honey in stead of Salt and offer (i) Offerunt coccum sed non bis tinctum non duplicatum Origen in Exod. Red but not Scarlet the Dye of their words go not deep enough but cocker and cherish and sooth and smooth men up in their sins such were the Teachers in Micah's time and ours and like unto parallel lines they both go together Micah 2.11 If a man walking in the spirit and falshood dody he shall even be the Prophet of this People The fourth general part 4. The fourth part The effect of the Disease is the Effect of the Disease and that is double wherein as in every motion there are two Terms 1. There is the Terminus à quo They shall turn away their Ears from the Truth 2. There is the Terminus ad quem And shall be turned after Fables There are two things considerable in every sin 1. An aversion from God an immutable and unchangeable good 2. And a conversion to the creature a flitting and a fading vanity both these are very observable and inseparably joyned together in the effects of this sin They shall turn away their Ears from the Truth There is an aversion and