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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77792	A sermon preached in the French church, in London on the 29. day of August 1652 At the imposition of hands on Mr. Stouppe by John Bulteel, minister of the word of God. With the action and circumstances thereof.	J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5453A; ESTC R224358	34,618	48

Doctrine condemns those of whom Gregory speaks the world is full of priests and notwithstanding there are found but few Labourers in the harvest they take upon them the office but do not execute the charge they leave the charge the preaching and the office and take the benefice and benefit thereof such are Archbishops Cardinals and Bishops among the Papists we may also say some of our Bishops and some of our Ministers of the word of God among us in this Land who esteem nothing in this world more unworthy of their persons than the charge of teaching and seems unto them that it is a thing too low contemptible and inferiour unto the Episcopal and Ministeriall dignity to preach the Gospel and notwithstanding they do possesse and enjoy great Benefices and revenews Saint Paul saith here wo is unto me if I preach not the Gospel but they say clean contrary wo unto us if we do preach the Gospel The Apostles said n Act. 6.2.9 It is not reasonable that we should leave the word of God and serve Tables but we will give our selves continually to prayer and to the Ministry of the word But the Popes Cardinalls Archbishops Bishops in a contrary sense do the quite contrary it seems unto them that it is not reasonable that they should leave the politick affairs of the State to preach the word they esteem it to be a base and vile thing to preach the Gospel whereas o Pet. 1.12 the angels themselves desired look into it to search and know the depth and the bottome of this profound mystery of the Gospel yea they were joyfull and ready to preach the birth of Christ p Luk. 2.10 13 14. Behold I bring you tidings of great joy and with the angel there was a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying glory to God in the highest and earth Peace good will towwards men The charge of the Ministry is so honorable the burden so heavy saith Chrysostome that it is formidable unto the angels that the Angels themselves notwithstanding would esteem it an honour and would crouch and stoop their shoulders to bear it and therefore how noble how rich how honorable soever men are let them not think that the Ministry is too vile or unworthy of them but rather that they are unworthy of the Ministry as it appears by the forementioned and forenamed titles for they are fellow servants with the angels yea they are stiled angels yea to which of the angels unto which of the Princes of the world did God at any time time say that which he said unto his apostles ministers q Mat. 16.19 whatsoever you shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven Whatsoever you shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven And r John 20.23 whose soever sins yee remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sinnes ye retain they are retained But if the Cardinals Archbishops and Bishops of the Romish Church do preach it is but rarely and seldome and when they preach and teach they do not preach the word of God but false doctrine the traditions of men the superstitious ceremonies of the Pope they feed the people with Fables and curious Questions so that in what manner soever we do consider them they are ranked and comprehended within and under the curse Wo unto them because they preach not the Gospel 2. This condemns those that swell and raise up themselves against God and against his Church by oftentation ambition or vain glory a vice altogether unworthy of pastors and Ministers of Gods word and notwithstanding a cōmon vice but a dangerous one so that it is a safer thing to hear the word of God than to preach it for he that hears Gods word learns to humble himself but he that preaches is in danger to exalt himself for the more he receives the graces of God the more he is subject to ambition and certes we see that the Apostle Paul was in danger to exalt himself above measure in that he was an Apostle ſ 2 〈…〉 4.7 And through the abundance of the revelations caught up to the third heaven into Paradise heard unspeakable words which is not lawfull or possible for a man to utter there was given unto me a thorn in the flesh the Mssenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure Pirncipally this sin is incident to novices and young ministers t 1 Tim. 3.6 who are in danger to be lifted up with pride and to fall into the condemnation of the Devil as if he should have said he will glory in that he is a minister u Mat. 7.22 and preacheth Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name O we must not glory in that for though I preach the Gospel saith Saint Paul I have nothing to glory of If Saint Paul so great so excellent an Apostle could not glory in that who in all his Epistles abaseth himself that God may be his all and may be thereby exalted and glorified who will know nothing save Jesus Christ and him crucified who protests that he will glory not in his vertues not in his merits but in his infirmities that the power of God may rest upon him If such an Apostle so sensible of his infirmities so humble by reason of them such an Herald of the mercy of God such an enemy of the merits of men such a trumpeter of their sinnes and demorits if such an Apostle could not would not boast of such things and especially would not glory in the preaching of the Gospel because necessity was laid upon him and wo unto him if he did not preach it how much lesse the Pastors and ministers of the word of God inferiors to so great an Apostle have they matter and occasion to glory therein by reason of that necessity and of that threatning But to come nearer unto our selves and to apply those things and uses to us that are Pastors and to the brother whom we are to establish and ordain unto the holy ministry without making a particular application unto our said brother as we might We learn and he also our duty which is proposed at length in this 9. chapter of the 1 Cor. and in the first of Timothy chap. 3. and in first chapter of Titus which we will read to you anon The first and principall duty is to preach the Gospel and teach the truth and will of God contained and revealed in the sacred Scripture x 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Given by inspiration of God and profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto oll good works sufficient not onely for our salvation which the Papists confesse but also for our instruction which they deny witnesse Bonner Bishop of London who examining a martyr and telling him that he was a right Scripture man and would have nothing but Scripture and