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A63260 The pastor's care and dignity, and the people's duty a sermon preach'd at the assembly of ministers at Taunton, 7th September, 1692 / by G.T. Trosse, George, 1631-1713. 1693 (1693) Wing T2304; ESTC R23764 21,711 65

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●5 to give them their Meat in due season when 't will be most useful for them and not when 't would be hurtful to them Luke 12. ●2 And as his Wisdom is shewn in the Seasonableness so also in the Quality and Quantity of the Meat which he gives them which ought also to be such as is due to them Three great Books which a Minister ought chiefly to study to make him wise and prudent are the Holy Word his own Heart and his own People 4. Such must be sincere and faithful they must be Loyal to their Trust and according to their due knowledge they must dispense what they are entrusted withal An unfaithful Steward may greatly wrong his Master and injure the Family either by an extravagant Wasting or a clandestine Embezelling of the Goods committed to him 't is therefore an especial Qualification in a Steward and especially in a Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Steward that he be true and trusty This is the Property our Ssaviour gives of his Servant and Steward Matth. 24.45 that he be faithful as well as wise Luke 12.42 have an honest Heart as well as an able Head to give his Houshold their Meat in due season And this the Apostle speaks of in the Verse immediately following the Text. Moreover 't is required in Stewards 1 Cor. 4. that a Man be found faithful as tho' 't were the only necessary Qualification of such an one And when he directs Timothy to the Properties of those that should be intrusted with the Mysteries of God he tells him 2 Tim. 2. The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also NOw this Faithfulness and Loyalty to God excludes all base and sinister ends of the Stewardship as Honours Riches Applause from Men Partiality Men pleasing sowing Pillows under Elbows dawbing with untemper'd Mortar 5. Such must be diligent and laborious Stewards must have their heads their eyes their hands their feet busied or they will never discharge their Office Ministers must redeem all the time they can from their Recreations of the Body from Sleep from Visits they must imploy and exhaust all their strength in this their Stewardship they must wear out their Lungs in Praying and Preaching and blunt their Brains in studying grudge no Pain nor Labor devoting their all to and imploying it in and laying it out about this their Function Matth. 24. So our Ssaviour saith that his Servant must be found so doing when he cometh that is he must be always busie and imployed very industrious and laborious and that without ceasing because our Lord's coming is always uncertain So St. Paul commands Timothy Tim. 4.2 I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom Preach the word instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine Day and night at all times he must labor when any Conveniency presented And he was a most excellent Practiser of his own Precepts for he tells the Corinthians 2 Cor. 1 15. That he would very gladly spend and be spent for them Exhaust his Spirits Blood and all for their Souls good And when he had at Miletus called the Bishops the Presbyters of Ephesus he tells them in that excellent Speech to them Acts 20 21 231. I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you but have shewed you and have taught you publickly and from house to house All day preaching and praying in publick assemblies and at night instructing private families And again watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears An excellent Example proposed for our Imitation 6. Such must be courageous and magnanimous Of an undaunted and fearless Spirit in the Discharge of their Office Stewards must be so or else every sawcy and unruly Fellow will daunt them and tread them down and so either make them cease to Discharge their Duty or else out of fear to act quite contrary thereto So must ministers because they will meet with Affronts Accusations Contradictions Evil Intreaties from some other of the Family besides Persecutions of all sorts from abroad if the Devil can raise them even all Persecutions of Tongue Hands Sword Prisons Gibbets and Flames and the more able wise faithful and laborious they are the greater Oppositions and more stout and daring Encounters they are likely to meet with even in the Church are Tares as well as Wheat Chaff as well as good Grain bad as well as good Fish Vessels of Wood and Earth and to Dishonour as well as Vessels of Gold and Silver and tho Honour and from these if forreign Persecutions come not they must expect and will experience very great Oppositions and Discouragements and therefore they must have a courageous Spirit and a Countenance like a Wall of Iron and a Gate of Brass or they will never be able to bear up against and wade thro' all these God therefore forbids his Prophets this carnal Fear of Men as Jer. 1.17 Gird up thy loins and arise and speak unto them all that I command thee Be not dismayed at their faces lest I confound thee before them So also Son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words Ezek. 2.6 tho' briars and thorns be with thee and thou dost dwell among scorpions be not afraid of their words nor be dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house 7. Such must be zealous for God's Glory and devoted to his Honour Stewards must be heartily affected with and swayed by their Master's Interest and must look upon their Lord's Reputation as their own grand Concern and this will engage them to be prudent faithful diligent c. in their Place So must Ministers be toward God toward his Name Kingdom and Glory So was St. Paul that glorious Steward that incomparable Example of all Stewards who did and suffered more for the Glory of his Lord and for the Good of his Houshold then any other Phil. 1.20 he tells us That 't was his earnest expectation and his hope that in nothing he should be ashamed but that with all boldness as always so then also Christ should be magnified in his body whether 't were by life or by death He would labor he would suffer he would live industriously and wear out himself he would dieshamefully and give up himself for the Magnification of the Lord Jesus And so in other places he professes Acts 20. ● Bonds and afflictions abide me neither count I my life dear unto myself so I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the gospel of the grace of God So that he might testifie the Gospel and introduce Jews and Gentiles