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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60954	Twelve sermons preached upon several occasions by Robert South ... ; six of them never before printed.; Sermons. Selections	South, Robert, 1634-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing S4745; ESTC R13931	201,576	650

low and sordid So that the use of the word Minister is brought down to the literal signification of it a Servant for now to serve and to minister servile and ministerial are terms equivalent But in the Old Testament the same word signifies a Priest and a Prince or chief Ruler hence though we translate it Priest of On Gen. 41.45 and Priest of Midian Exod. 3.1 and as it is with the people so with the Priest Esa. 24.2 Iunius and Tremellius render all these places not by Sacerdos Priest but by Praeses that is a Prince or at least a Chief Councellour or Minister of State And it is strange that the Name should be the same when the Nature of the thing is so exceeding different The like also may be observed in other Languages that the most Illustrious Titles are derived from things Sacred and belonging to the Worship of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the Title of the Christian Caesars correspondent to the Latine Augustus and it is derived from the same word that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cultus res sacra or sacrificium And it is usual in our Language to make Sacred an Epithete to Majesty there was a certain Royalty in things Sacred Hence the Apostle who I think was no Enemy to the simplicity of the Gospel speaks of a Royal Priesthood 1 Pet. 2.9 which shews at least that there is no contradiction or impiety in those terms In Old time before the placing this Office only in the Line of Aaron the Head of the Family and the First-born offered Sacrifice for the rest that is was their Priest And we know that such Rule and Dignity belonged at first to the Masters of Families that they had jus vitae necis jurisdiction and power of Life and Death in their own Family and from hence was derived the beginning of Kingly Government a King being only a Civil Head or Master of a Politick Family the whole People so that we see the same was the foundation of the Royal and Sacerdotal Dignity As for the Dignity of this Office among the Jews it is so pregnantly set forth in Holy Writ that it is Unquestionable Kings and Priests are still mentioned together Lamen 2.6 The Lord hath despised in the indignation of his Anger the King and the Priest Hosea 5.2 Hear O Priests and give ear O house of the King Deut. 17.12 And the man that doth presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Priest that standeth there to minister before the Lord thy God or unto the Iudge even that man shall die Hence Paul together with a blow received this Reprehension Act. 5.4 Revilest thou God's High-Priest And Paul in the next verse does not defend himself by pleading an extraordinary Motion of the Spirit or that he was sent to Reform the Church and might therefore lawfully vilifie the Priesthood and all Sacred Orders but in the 5th v. he makes an excuse and that from Ignorance the only thing that could take away the fault namely that he knew not that he was the High-Priest and subjoins a reason which further advances the Truth here defended For it is written thou shalt not speak evil of the Ruler of thy people To Holy Writ we might add the Testimony of Iosephus of next Authority to it in things concerning the Jews who in sundry places of his History sets forth the Dignity of the Priests and in his second Book against Appion the Grammarian has these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Priests were constituted Judges of all doubtfull causes Hence Iustin also in his 36th Book has this Semper apud Iudaeos mos fuit ut Eosdem Reges Sacerdotes haberent though this is false that they were always so yet it argues that they were so frequently and that the distance between them was not great To the Jews we may joyn the Egyptians the first Masters of Learning and Philosophy Synesius in his 57. Epist. having shewn the general practice of Antiquity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gives an instance in the Jews and Egyptians who for many Ages 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had no other Kings but Priests Next we may take a view of the Practice of the Romans Numa Pompilius that civilized the fierce Romans is reported in the first Book of Livy sometimes to have performed the Priests office himself Tum Sacerdotibus creandis animum adjecit quanquàm ipse plurima sacra obibat but when he made Priests he gave them a dignity almost the same with himself And this honour continued together with the Valour and Prudence of that Nation For the Success of the Romans did not extirpate their Religion The College of the Priests being in many things exempted even from the Jurisdiction of the Senate afterwards the Supreme Power Hence Iuvenal in his 2. Sat. mentions the Priesthood of Mars as one of the most honourable places in Rome And Iul. Caesar who was chosen Priest in his private Condition thought it not below him to continue the same Office when he was Created absolute Governour of Rome under the name of Perpetual Dictator Add to these the practice of the Gauls mentioned by Caesar in his 6. Book de Bello Gallico where he says of the Druides who where their Priests that they did judge de omnibus ferè controversiis publicis privatisque See also Homer in the 1. Book of his Iliads representing Chryses Priest of Apollo with his Golden Scepter as well as his Golden Censer But why have I produced all these examples of the Heathens Is it to make these a ground of our imitation No but to shew that the giving honour to the Priesthood was a custom Universal amongst all civilized Nations And whatsoever is Universal is also Natural as not being founded upon compact or the particular humours of men but flowing from the Native Results of Reason And that which is Natural neither does nor can oppose Religion But you will say this concerns not us who have an express Rule and Word revealed Christ was himself poor and despised and withall has instituted such a Ministery To the first part of this plea I answer That Christ came to suffer yet the sufferings and miseries of Christ doe not oblige all Christians to undertake the like For the second That the Ministery of Christ was low and despised by his institution I utterly deny It was so indeed by the malice and persecution of the Heathen Princes but what does this argue or inferr for a low dejected Ministery in a flourishing State which professes to encourage Christianity But to dash this cavil read but the practice of Christian Emperours and Kings all along down from the time of Constantine in what respect what honour and splendour they treated the Ministers and then let our Adversaries produce their puny pitifull Arguments for the contrary against the general clear undoubted vogue and current of all Antiquity As for two or three little Countries about us the Learned and Impartial will not

some may very worthily deserve to be hated and of all men living who may or doe the Deceiver certainly deserves it most To which I shall add this one Remark further That though Men's Persons ought not to be hated yet without all Peradventure their Practices justly may and particularly that detestable One which we are now speaking of For whosoever deceives a Man does not only do all that he can to ruine him but which is yet worse to make him ruine himself and by causing an Errour in the great Guide of all his Actions his Iudgment to cause an Errour in his Choice too the Misguidance of which must naturally engage him in those Courses that directly tend to his Destruction Loss of Sight is the Misery of Life and usually the Fore-runner of Death when the Malefactour comes once to be muffled and the fatal Cloth drawn over his Eyes we know that he is not far from his Execution And this is so true That whosoever sees a Man who would have beguiled and imposed upon him by making him believe a Lye he may truly say of that Person That 's the Man who would have ruined me who would have stripped me of the Dignity of my Nature and put out the Eyes of my Reason to make himself sport with my Calamity my Folly and my Dishonour For so the Philistines used Sampson and every Man in this sad Case has enough of Sampson to be his own Executioner Accordingly if ever it comes to this That a man can say of his Confident He would have deceived me he has said enough to annihilate and abolish all Pretences of Friendship And it is really an intolerable Impudence for any one to offer at the Name of Friend after such an Attempt For can there be any thing of Friendship in Snares Hooks and Trapans And therefore whosoever breaks with his Friend upon such Terms has enough to warrant him in so doing both before God and Man and that without incurring either the Guilt of Unfaithfulness before the One or the Blemish of Inconstancy before the Other For this is not properly to break with a Friend but to discover an Enemy and timely to shake the Viper off from ones Hand What says the most wise Authour of that Excellent Book of Ecclesiasticus Ecclus 22.21 22 Though thou drewest a Sword at thy Friend yet despair not for there may be a Returning to Favour If thou hast opened thy Mouth against thy Friend fear not for there may be a Reconciliation That is an hasty Word or an indiscreet Action does not presently dissolve the Bond or root out a well-setled Habit but that Friendship may be still sound at Heart and so outgrow and wear off these little Distempers But what follows Except for Upbraiding or Disclosing of Secrets or a Treacherous Wound mark that For for these things says he every Friend will depart and surely it is high Time for him to go when such a Devil drives him away Passion Anger and Unkindness may give a Wound that shall bleed and smart but it is Treachery only that makes it fester And the Reason of the Difference is manifest for hasty Words or Blows may be only the Effects of a suddain Passion during which a Man is not perfectly himself But no man goes about to deceive or ensnare or circumvent another in a Passion to lay Trains and set Traps and give secret Blows in a present Huff No this is always done with Forecast and Design with a steady Aiming and a long projecting Malice assisted with all the Skill and Art of an expert and well managed Hypocrisie and perhaps not without the Pharisaical feigned Guise of something like Self-denial and Mortification which are Things in which the whole Man and the whole Devil too are employed and all the Powers and Faculties of the Mind are exerted and made use of But for all these Masks and Vizards nothing certainly can be thought of or imagined more base unhumane or diabolical than for one to abuse the generous Confidence and hearty Freedom of his Friend and to undermine and ruine him in those very Concerns which nothing but too great a Respect to and too good an Opinion of the Traitour made the poor man deposite in his hollow and fallacious Breast Such an one perhaps thinks to find some support and shelter in my Friendship and I take that Opportunity to betray him to his mortal Enemies He comes to me for Counsel and I shew him a Trick He opens his Bosom to me and I stab him to the Heart These are the Practices of the World we live in especially since the Year sixty the grand Epoch of Falshood as well as Debauchery But God who is the great Guaranty for the Peace Order and good Behaviour of Mankind where Laws cannot secure it may some time or other think it the Concern of his Justice and Providence too to revenge the Affronts put upon them by such impudent Defyers of Both as neither believe a God nor ought to be believ'd by Man In the mean Time let such perfidious Wretches know that though they believe a Devil no more than they do a God yet in all this Scene of refined Treachery they are really doing the Devil's Journey-work who was a Lyar and a Murderer from the beginning and therefore a Lyar that he might be a Murderer And the Truth is such an one does all towards his Brothers Ruine that the Devil himself could do For the Devil can but Tempt and Deceive and if he cannot destroy a Man that way his Power is at an End But I cannot dismiss this Head without one further Note as very material in the Case now before us Namely That since this false wily doubling Disposition of mind is so intolerably mischievous to Society God is sometimes pleased in mere Pity and Compassion to Men to give them warning of it by setting some odd Mark upon such Cains So that if a Man will be but so true to himself as to observe such Persons exactly he shall generally spy such false Lines and such a Sly Treacherous Fleer upon their Face that he shall be sure to have a Cast of their Eye to warn him before they give him a Cast of their Nature to betray him And in such Cases a Man may see more and better by anothers Eye than he can by his own Let this therefore be the second Reward of the Lying and Deceitfull Person That he is the Object of a just Hatred and Abhorrence For as the Devil is both a Lyar himself and the Father of Lyars so I think that the same Cause that has drawn the Hatred of God and Man upon the Father may justly entail it upon his Off-spring too and it is pity that such an Entail should ever be cut off But Thirdly and Lastly The last and utmost Reward that shall infallibly reach the Fraudulent and Deceitfull as it will all other obstinate and impenitent Sinners is a Final and Eternal Separation