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A57545	The good Samaritan; or an exposition on that parable Luke X. ver. XXX----XXXVIII. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell amongst theeves, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, preacher of the gospel.; Mirrour of mercy, and that on Gods part and mans. Part II	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1823A; ESTC R222130	165,186	261

Luk. 21 34. 5. An Host may not be a fighter nor quarreller nor may Gods Ministers No fighter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith S. Paul to Timothie alienus a pugnis a jurgijs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 3.3 no striker saith the same Apostle to Titus his duty is to heale wounds not to make them 6. An Host would not be covetous Tit. 1.7 nor greedy of gaine for then he would chop away a good conscience for money This vice as ill becomes a Minister and therefore required by the Apostle as a necessary qualification in him that he be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no lover of money 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor given to filthy lucre this ill beseemes any much lesse a Minister Thou ô man of God fly these things 1 Tim. 3.2 7. An Host must be harborous ready to lodge and entertaine strangers Tit. 1 8. This in a speciall manner is required of a Minister he must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lover of hospitality as hath beene a ready shewed vers 31. 8. An Host would be a lover of his good Guests these should have the best respect Tit. 1.8 So must a Minister bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a lover of good men all should be respected but such as honour and feare the Lord should be preferred by him 9. An Host would be wise Tit. 1.8 just holy temperate And all these which time will not suffer to speake of particularly are required of a Minister He must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man of a sound mind And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a just and righteous person giving every one their owne and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a holy person For God will bee sanctified in all that come neere him and he must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a continent or temperate person one that must master himselfe and his appetite and not suffer any inordinate lust to beare sway in him 10. To conclude 1 Tim. 4. an Host must be watchfull and give attendance This S. Paul requires of Timothie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dum venio attende And so of every other Minister who is willed to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 watching even as the Host watcheth for a guest to invite him in and then attends on him and sees that he hath all things fitting so Ministers for soules Heb. 13.17 Vse Hence you may inferre the necessity of the Ministry Every one of us being as Travellers and strangers here on Earth and too too often benighted the shadow of death and darknesse being stretched out upon us before we be aware In such a case who would not thinke it a great part of his happinesse to light upon a good Inn and Host at whose hand hee may find good usage So in a darke tempestuous night when the snares of death do compasse us and horrour of conscience hath seized on us no mens feete shall be more beautifull to us then these mens whose face in the day of prosperity we will not know But wee beseech you bretheren know them which labour amongst you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you 1 Thes 5 1● and see First That you esteeme them very highly in love for their worke and callings sake It may be as Plato was wont to say of his Master Socrates they are to looke upon like the Apothecaries gally pots which on the outside have Apes and Owles and Satyres on them but I must tell you within they have pretious drugs for diseased persons which every one will covet in time of need 2. As they welcome you so take you heed of grieving them Heb. 13.17 For that will be unprofitable for you little care hath the Host to visit such a guest rather glad when the house is well rid of him and the cost cleared 3. Reward them The Host is well payed by an honest Guest for all his paines and charges are honest●y defrayed and the Host thanked for his good entertainement at departure So in this case it should be 1 Cor. 11.13 14. We owe them much how much our goods Gal. 6.6 our eyes Gal. 4 15. our selves Phile. 19. our lives Rom. 16.4 In former ages Guests were better paymasters then now they are they would discharge what was owing and be bountifull to the Host and house besides but now wee depart away out of our Inn and leave all on the score 4. Give good testimony of them unto others so doth the good Guest of a good Host Rom. 16.23 2 Iohn 1.2 If ever you had received any good by Gods Ministers you would assuredly give a good testimony of them as we read that plaine man did 1 Cor. 14.24 25. Acts. 22.11 5. Enquire of them as the traveller doth of his Host Hag. 2.12 Mal. 2.7 about the way wherin you are not well acquainted So Ier. 6.16 Thus did the Disciples of our blessed Saviour frequently Mark 4.10 7.17 10.10 Iohn 9.3 So the Corinthians of S. Paul 1 Cor. 7.1 10 22. 6. Forsake them not the traveller doth still know his Host and Inn Deut. 12.9 and cannot easily be drawne away without speciall cause In forsaking of thy Minister see thou beest able to approove thy heart to God upon good and sufficient warrant there is a brand laid on such as do 2 Tim. 1.15 4.10 16. Duo denarij sunt duo Testamenta qua imaginem in se habent aeterni Regis expressam quoniam pretio vulnera nostra curantur Amb. in loc Come we next to consider what was left in hand with this Host The Text saith Hee tooke out two pence and gave c. By the two pence some understand the two Testaments others the Word and Sacraments But wee may safely take the meaning to be more large and so understand thereby whatsoever gifts Christ hath furnished his Ministers withall whether they concerne this life or an other So S. Austin de Quest Evang lib. 2. q. 19. seemes to me to understand the meaning Vel duo Sacramenta aut etiam duplicem doctrinam Legis Evangelij paenitentiae gratiae Aret in loc It is evident enough Christ hath betrusted his Ministers with gifts and graces for the reliefe and comfort of distressed soules Mat. 25.14 These gifts are of two sorts Spirituall and Temporall The Spirituall are either Ouward as the Word and Sacraments these are put into their hands Math. 28.19 Or Inward as the graces of the spirit such as those spoken of Eph. 4.8 12. The Temporall gifts we read of in the Law Deut. 10.8 9. Lev. 27.30 compared with Numb 18.21 And in the Gospell 1 Cor. 9.4 14. Vse 1 Such mistake then as thinke Ministers beggarly and empty fellows A Bishop saith Nazianzen is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a vaine and empty name he is well furnished if in travelling from Hierusalem to Iericho he hath escaped the Theefe at least it is intended he should so be Read Math. 13.52

is a brand of your sin and shame so shall your hearts be the better affected as was Davids Ps 119.136 Lastly upon Gods Ordinances we should look especially in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper When we see the Bread broken and the Wine powred forth O what a deepe impression should that make Zach. 12.10 Vse 2 Secondly it sets forth the blessed condition of the faithfull departed and taken out of this wretched world First in regard of what they see not Isay 57.2 2 Kings 22.20 Iosiah had a tender heart it melted to heare of the threatnings how would he have endured then to see the miseries of his country and people therfore God tells him His eyes shall not see that evill he will first take him away by death The like promise did God make to the young child of Ieroboams 1 King 14 13. And it was the Prayer of Luther that he might not live to see the Judgements which he did verily believe God would bring on Germany for their sins and therin God heard him for soon after his death the land was almost made desolate by the sword Secondly in regard of what they doe see though not as yet with their bodily Eyes yet by Vision But one day both they and we shall see with these Eyes face to face Iob 19.27 1 Iohn 3.1 O think how great then that joy and happinesse shall be when the Eyes both of soule and body shall be full If the sight be such a working sense what impressions then will they make upon the soule In these respects why should it be thought a thing unlawfull to blesse GOD for soules departed Vse 3 This is a terrour to wicked ones who no sooner shall peepe out of their graves but they shall see him whom they have crucified with the scarrs and wounds in his sides which they have made come in the cloudes to judge them to see those they have derided and scorned to be taken up to him to see all that they have delighted in burning about them and themselves with those they have drawne into sin their own Friends Children Acquaintance c. to be driven from Gods presence into everlasting vengeance how this will affect their hearts let them in time thinke Vse 4 Lastly desire we the Lord to cast his Eye upon us seeing sight worketh so effectually on the heart We read 1 Sam. 6.5 what advice the Priests of the Philistines gave their Princes who were stroken with Emerods make Images say they of your Emerods and Images of your Mice which marre the Land and you shall give glory to the God of Israell Peradventure he will lighten his hand from you Conceiting with themselves as some conceive that God but looking upon the similitude of their loathsome disease and grievance presented before the Arke his bowels would be mooved with compassion towards them Sure I am that David thought it enough to shew God his trouble Psal 142.2 And to say Aspice afflictionem meam looke upon my affliction and misery Psal 25.18 This kind of cunning Martha and Mary used Behold he is sicke whom thou lovest Iohn 11.3 And so Hezekiah 2 King 19.14 16. God never casteth his Eye upon any but there he setleth his affection and he never setleth his affection without an intention of blessing As Christ cured mens bodies with a word so their souls with a look He looked upon Saint Peter and presently he repented He looked on Zacheus and presently he was justified He looked on Saint Mathew and presently he was called Lord look on us miserable sinners that we are and the bowels of thy compassion will be mooved and our soules saved He had Compassion Text. His very intrals were affected for so the word imports even an affection comming from the bowells or inward parts of the heart much like to that of a mother grieving for the misery of her chi●d Isay 49.15 So it is said of that woman who contended before Salomon for the living child 1 King 3.26 She would not endure that the child sh uld be divided for saith the Text her compassion was kindled her bowels were mooved and did burne and yearne within her And Gen. 43.30 we read that such was Iosephs affection towards his brother Benjamine Aust de Civ Dei l. 9 c. 13. Accordingly Saint Austin defineth Mercy to bee a fellow feeling in our hearts of anothers misery And Gregory saith it hath the denomination and Etimology a misero corde from a miserable and woefull heart because as often as wee behold a ma● in misery the minde through commiseration being touched with griefe at his misery doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mi sereor as it were Cor miserum facere vexe and torment the heart with a sympathy and a fellow-feeling of his misery And indeed there is a two-fold branch of Mercy the one is referred to the mind and heart properly called Misericordia pitty or compassion the other to the word or work called Miseratio Bounty or Beneficence They thus differ saith Hugo Misericordia est quasi fons in affectu miseratio quasi rivulus in effectu The first is as the Fountaine in the heart and affection the other as the River flowing forth to outward action so we see in this good Samaritane From whose Example first wee learne Doct. To be tenderly affected towards the afflicted and so touched with the sight of others miseries as if they were our owne Rom. 12.15 16. Col. 3.12 Heb. 13.3 1 Cor. 11.25 Examples see Neh. 1.4 Dan. 10.2 3 Exo. 2.6 2 Sam. 11.10 Reason Humanity requires it Every creature will commiserate such of their kind as be in misery if a Swine be lug'd all the rest of the company will in their kind condole If a beast be slain and the blood spilt another of that kind spying it will scrape Earth upon that blood bury his fellow and solemnize his Funerall with a kind of lamentation over him Homo sum humanū a me nibil alieaum puto Teren. And doth not humanity much more teach us to pitty the ruins and miseries of other men Isa 58.7 2. Christianity much more enjoynes it And that First from the consideration of our owne frailty Heb. 13 3. Secondly from the consideration of our neere community Rom. 12.5 1 Cor. 12. Vse 1 Such then transgresse who insult over their poore brethren in their miseries persecuting them whom God hath smitten Psal 69.26 dealing hardly with those who are afflicted as Shimei did with David drawing blood from the back which was yet blew with the stroakes of the Almighties hand So the Edomites in the day of the destruction and captivity of Iudah as we read in Obadiah or like Iosephs brethren when they had cast him into the Pit They sate downe to eate bread and to bee merry Genesis 37.25 Vse 2 They also are to be lesson'd who though they afflict not yet they affect not they do not sympathize and condole