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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88695	The persecuted minister, in defence of the ministerie, the great ordinance of Jesus Christ. Setting forth the severall names of Apostles, prophets, &c. [brace] 1. That there is a ministerial office. 2. That the sacrament of baptisme by a lay-person is invalid. 3. That necessity is no plea. 4. That the long omission of the Lords Supper is unwarrantable. With many other things, plainly and methodically handled / by William Langley late of S. Maryes in the city of Lichfield, minister ...	Langley, William, b. 1609 or 10.	1656 (1656)	Wing L408; Thomason E860_4; ESTC R202682	143,990	208

him the silver not the halter When he sent Gehazi after Naaman he suggests unto him the Garments and the mony not the Leprosie He presents unto Christ the glory of the world not the vanity He layes forth his wares to the fairest shew Do not Ixion-like take a Cloud for Juno Let not Religion be a meer fancy deceive not your selves under appearances and think not that zeal which it conceits Oh it is a heart-breaking to a devout soul to see hypocrisie made piety to see men boast of Religion and yet are but as sounding brass and a tinkling Cymball A Minister saith a Father Debet esse lugens sua aliena del cta ought still to be lamenting his own sins and the sins of the people Oh what abundance of hypocrisie and spirituall pride is there amongst men conceiting highly of themselves and despising others and of all men the most envious and censorious if this be of the Spirit of Christ I leave it to you to judge I read that Pambo a man utterly unlearned in the Scriptures on a time came to S. Hierome to be taught some Scripture without book he turned him to the first verse of the 39 Psalm I said I will take heed to my waies that I offend not in my tongue a Lesson very seasonable and to be learned aswell by the Scribes and Pharisees as Publicans of our times The good man being blamed for not resorting unto his Tutour again in three moneths answers That he had not yet learned well his first lesson yea and forty years after being asked the same Answ that as yet he had not fully learned that lesson And indeed let men and women pretend what Religion they will unlesse they learn this lesson they learn nothing at all of goodnesse Jam. 1.26 If any man among you seemeth to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans religion is but vain The first lesson that the wicked learn their Alpha yea and Omega too their first and last is to speak evil so the Psalmist Psal 58.3 The wicked speak evil from their mothers womb Oh that I could prevail with the professing men women of our Age that would be Guides of the blinde and Instructers of the unlearned that they would learn themselves this lesson to take heed to their waies that c. Goe into your grounds in the dead of Winter and of two naked trees you know not which is the sound and which the rotten at heart the Summer will give Christs mark by their fruits you shall know them Oh that people would shew lesse and doe more of goodnesse that they would learn not to know much but to practice much and as they hear and repeat Sermons so learn obedience this is the life and power of godlinesse In a word Love all especially the houshold of faith have bowels of compassion towards them despise none especially the Ministers of the Gospel much lesse persecute them but stand by them and with them help and encourage them for they are the servant of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God CHAP. V. Luke 10.16 Sheweth that the contempt of the Ministers of the Gospel is a great and grievous sinne the reasons of it and how it exposeth men to the wrath of God THey doe exceedingly aggravate their sinnes that dare insolently and presumptuously oppose themselves against Gods Ministers returning reproofs for reproof and inverting and perverting Gods own Order and Ordinance The Law punished this insolency and presumption even with death as appeareth Deut. 17.11 12. The Lord inflicts a heavy judgment upon Corah and his Associates for this very sin Contempt of the Ministery Numb 16.11 What are we your murmurings c. their sinne was not against Aaron but against God himself and his Ordinance It was not men they opposed and despised but God the just One the Lord. Seeing we are fallen upon these unhappy men this rebellious rout let us take a fuller view of them 1. You have their Conspiracy They gathered themselves together Surrexerunt they rose and made an Insurrection They made a schisme then a faction and in the end a mutinous commotion a rebellious insurrection the word is passive They were gathered together 2. You have the persons Corah Dathan Abiram and On the Son of Pelech here are not Sheba and Shimei base Bethshemites that rose against David empty fellowes such as rose against Rehoboam not Faex populi a sort of abject and contemptible men but Corah the Son of Levi Aaron's Cosin-Germane and Dathan Abiraem and On the Sons of Reuben Israels first-born famous eminent men Captains of the people men of renown You may note that the head of this Conspiracy is a Son of Levi Corah It is dangerous when insurrection begins at the Sanctuary Secondly that Reuben joyns also insurrection hath sharers Corah is for the Mitre Reuben for the Scepter Let Moses look to his Throne Aaron to his Chaire Levi hath many things that will doe Reuben good and Reuben therefore will be sure to pleasure Levi. Thirdly you have the persons against whom this Insurrection is made Moses and Aaron Magistrate and Minister Fourthly the Grievance their usurping of Rule over the people You take too much c. and not onely Usurpation but Intrusion too Why lift ye up your selves Fiftly you have the ground of this Grievance the Congregation is holy every one of them and what need of Aaron the Lord is amongst them what needs a Governour or Moses Here were glorious shews and pretences they charge Moses and Aaron with Ambition and Intrusion Vice rebukes Virtue Humility challengeth Arrogance when as their main end was to rush into their rooms to possesse themselves of their dignities Now observe all this is not against them but against God the abuse and affront offered to them he takes as a dishonour to himselfe ver 11. What are we your murmurings c. and therefore he plagueth them in a strange and unusual manner to be Ensamples to us that we should fear and not doe so wickedly Their intent of a subversion of Moses and Aaron ends in the destruction of themselves for the Earth openeth her mouth and swalloweth them down quick We should never read of this judgment but it should make us tremble and pray that thus we may not sin Examples of this sin are very frequent Jer. 18.18 Come let us devise Amos is accused of Conspiracy against the King Amos 7.10 It is common for the sons of Belial to lay nets and snares to entrap the Prophets of the Lord. How great a sin this is hear what S. Paul saith 1 Thes 4.8 He that despiseth despiseth not man but God c. Observe the words this Argument is a Conclusion of the former Reasons enforcing them all saith Zanchy on this place as if he should say It is not I Paul that exhort you but Christ and Christ is not onely man but God he that willeth Sanctification is