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conscience_n	blood_n	soul_n	sprinkle_v	1,209	5	10.9438	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02793	Two godlie and learned sermons, preached at Manchester in Lancashire before a great audience, both of honor and vvoorship. The first, containeth a proofe of the subtill practises of dissembling neuters, and politique worldlings. The other, a charge and instruction, for all vnlearned, negligent, and dissolute ministers: and an exhortation to the common people, to seeke their amendment, by prayer, vnto God. By Simon Harward, preacher of the woord of God, and Maister of Arte, late of Newe Colledge in Oxfoord.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1582 (1582)	STC 12924; ESTC S112568	108,746	262

T it 2.14 but that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie and purge vs a peculiar people vnto him zelous of good workes And thus our especiall care ought to be to frame Christ in the hearts of men 2. Cor. 3.6 And therefore Saint Paule saithe that God Idoneos nos fecit Ministros noui Testamenti he hath made vs able Ministers of the new Testament not of the letter but of the spirite for the letter killeth but the spirite giueth life Luke 16.16 Lex et prophetae vsque ad Iohannem ab eo tempore regnum dei annunciatur The Law and the Prophets continued vnto Iohn and from that time the kingdom of God is Preached whereby we are giuen to vnderstand that we are especially the Ministers of the new Testament to Preache the kingdome of God that is the Gospell of Iesus Christ not that we ought not to Preache the Lawe also for the teaching of the law is very necessary Firste Rom. 3.20 5.20 7.7 Gal. 3.21 4.1 Psa 1.2 19.7 119.105 Math. 5.17 to make vs acknowledge our owne wretchednes and miserie Secondly to be as it were our Schoolemaister to leade vs vnto Christ And last of all to reueale vnto vs the will of our heauenly father whereunto euery Christian must indeuour to the vttermost of his power to frame his life and conuersation But for that our chéefest labour ought to be to sprinckle the soules of men with the bloud of Iesus Christ 1. Peter 1.2 Heb. 9.14 and by his death and passion to purge their consciences from dead workes to serue the liuing Lorde What though some doo abuse the liberty of the Gospell and of the doore of saluation doo make vnto themselues a window vnto all wickednesse what though some by abusing Christes benefites doo shew themselues vnworthy of the same what though many come to the Supper without their wedding garment yet we must follow the ensample of our heauenly Father who Math. 5.48 maketh the Sunne to shine vpon the good and bad and the Raine to fall vpon the iust and vniust we must follow the seruants Luke 14.17 which were sent to bid men to the Mariage we must bid all bothe worthie and vnworthy and if any doo come which are vnworthy hauing not their wedding garments God will not condemne vs but them he will not saye to vs why did yee bid him why did ye let him enter Math. 22 1● but he will saye vnto the vnworthy guest freend how cammest thou heather hauing not thy Wedding garment take him binde him hand and foote and cast him into vtter darkenesse where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Wee must followe the good Sheepeheard Luke 15.4 which if he haue but one Sheepe lost will leaue ninetie and nine in the Wildernes and go and seeke that one which is lost And therefore if in the whole congregation there be but one which with Dauid Ps 6.3 38.4 dooth grone vnder the burthen of sinne and therefore néedeth comfort and all the rest be abusers of Christian libertie there is no reason that for the great multitude of the abusers he should be depriued of comfort for whom Christ dyed And thus ye sée first the wisdom which is required in them that will be profitable labourers in the Lords Haruest that they know how to labour how to chuse the Séeds how to Sowe it with discretion how to bruse the cloddes and knottie affections of mens hearts by the threatenings of the lawe but especially how to molli●ie them and water them with the swéete dew of Gods mercies and with the comfortable promises of the Lorde Iesus Christe Then yee which are nowe to take the Office of the Ministerie vpon you are héere to trie and examine your selues whether ye be able thus to labour in the Lordes Haruest or no and if ye be not assure your selues the Lorde dooth not send you ye respect the liuing to féede your selues and not your knowledge to féede the flock and therefore Iohn 10. ● are ye Hierlings ye are theeues and murderers ye come in at the windowe and not at the doore Christ Iesus And as for you which now either for want of knowledge or otherwise for want of age are not admitted at this time into the Ministerie be not therefore discouraged but rather accompt it to be a token of the mercifull prouidence of God that he would haue you to tarie the time vntyl he himselfe shall call you and make you fit for that function and with this persuasiō apply the scriptures and no doubt the Lord will blesse bothe you your studies the better Paul will haue the Minister to bee no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no young Plant 1. Tim. 3.6 not greene timbered but to be seasoned for a time with the knowledge of Gods worde and with grauitie and integrity of life For if the chéefe beames and Rafters of the house be made of gréeue Timber there is great daunger least the Timber shrinke and so the fall of the house be great The Minister must be one of the Beames to vpholde the house of God and therefore séeing ye are yet but gréene wood as I am sure your owne conscience dooth witnesse vnto you let it not gréeue you to be seasoned for a time that ye may be made fit for the building of the Lorde And héere by the way I am to make my humble petition to you my Lorde that as your Lordship hath had a godly care and taken a good course that none should be admitted at this time but such as for their learning and knowledge are of great hope and towardnesse So also an order may now be taken that they may be driuen to some godly exercises wherby not onely the good gifts of God may be continued and increased in them but also Isa 56.10 the blinde guides and dombe Dogges which are already crept in may be in time reformed You must deale with all these Ministers as the Eagle dooth with her young Birdes as many as can looke stedfastly vpon the Sunne so many dooth she nourish the rest she turneth out of the Nest as vnfit to be kept You must set before them all Math. 4 2. 1. Cor. 14.29 1. Tim. 4.13 the beames of the sunne of righteousnes Iesus Christ appoint them godly exercises to the increase of their knowledge and as many as cannot abyde thus to looke vpon the sunne of righteousnesse so many should be turned out of the nest as vnfit to serue in your Lordships Dioces And thus if their Talent be exercised then no doubt their Talent shal be increased Math. 25.20 and God will double his holy spirite in them so that in short time they shall be able bothe to exhort with wholesome doctrine Tit. 1.9 Act. 1.4 6.3 Luk. 24.49 and also to improoue the gainesayers and except they haue these giftes and graces of the holy spirit and