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The ministers office, the infants inheritance By James Harwood, B.D.
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Harwood, James.
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the excellent knowledge of Christ Iesus This is that unum necessarium one thing onely needful to know Christ Jesus Iohn 17.3 his birth death resurrection ascention and his for ever making intercession for us This must be subjectum basis praedicationis the subject of our sermons Christ Jesus and the reason is given by St. John the Evangelist who said Haec est vita aeterna this is life eternal to know God and whom he hath sent Christ Jesus O what a plentiful Harvest is here I wish we had had more time to inn this divine grain But as we must reach you to know verbum Christum the word Christ so verbum Christi the word of Christ two places I will press upon you one threatning judgement without repentance Matth. 3.10 where it is said And now also the ax is laid to the root of the tree and every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewen down and cast into the fire The other place promising salvation to all that confess and believe Rom. 10.9 the words be these who so confesseth with his mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in his heart that God hath raised him from the dead shall be saved I cannot give you a less Manuel of the Law and Gospel the one place steering you off the rock Presumption the other preserving you from being crushed upon the rock Despair while the one threatning punishment the other promising salvation and now betwixt these two the Lord grant we may sail in safely to that haven the kingdom of heaven And so I pass along from the quid to the quomodo how we must teach the people of God the good Word of God Quoad se Quoad nos Quoad se purè integrè Purè purely not teaching for Doctrine the Traditions of men God will not be pleased that we preach what we please the gold must all of it be fined and refined which we hammer upon that anvil the Pulpit we have no licence to disburse any other Peters pence unto Gods people save such as have been delivered to our hands out of the Treasury of the Scriptures And therefore our sacred Bellows have in them no winde to blow and bouy up a people into rebellion against their Sovereign we know better how to interpret that Text Curse ye Meroz then some have done who for I had almost said their unpardonable sin conscience enjoyned a publique penance Again you may long be hearers of Orthodox Divines before they give the least encouragement for a Civil State to rob Christs Church Nor yet hear till that they approve of those numberless Locusts the Enthusiasts who being taught by a white devil pretend Gods Spirit to destroy Christs Gospel No we honour the gospel of Christ Jesus praise God for those that bring purple and fine blue to adorn the Sanctuary and preach ever since we have heard of the mutinous angels obedience to the Sovereign Power under whom we have lived for many years a godly and peaceable life And thus having winnowed out the chaff we feed you with the kernel of the Scripture the Babes with Spoon-meat milk the strong men with Manna meat for Angels neither must we be spiritual niggards but integrè wholly impart and make known unto you the Gospel of Christ Jesus we must endeavour to imitate the Apostle who sayes I have hid no nothing from you What shall we think then of such Ministers that have hid the truth in unrighteousness who many years have concealed while not read the Ten Commandments in our Churches surely these are those new kinde of Ministers that would have their hearers forget their duty to God and charity towards their neighbours What shall we think of those Teachers sprung up of late like Mushrums who have hid while hindered their Parishioners for many years from receiving the Holy Communion Had the good people detained their Tythes when these Mungril Ministers first refrained giving Communion I will warrant you ere they would have wanted the Pig and Goose they would have given you the Bread and the Wine What shall we say now to those Preachers who deptive poor Infants of their jus divinum I mean Baptisme but of this I shall make a large discourse to the Anabaptists shame and our Mother the Churches renown These are the Preachers who have detained from Infants their due and also stoln from us Christs Legacy while instead of peace they have cryed up war in the room of Subjection voted up Rebellion in the stead of Religion brought in Atheism nay their false Doctrine so commonly ventilated hath made as fearful a rent in our Church and State as was at the death of the King of Salem in the Temple of Jerusalem As our sins have brought upon us this misery so none can help us but the King of glory Now Lord for thy ancient mercies sake for thy Son his merits sake be good unto Zion and build up the breaches in the walls of our Jerusalem And thus having prayed for our selves let us look quoad nos at our selves and take into consideration how we the Ministers of Christ Jesus ought to preach the Gospel this must be done with a quick speed deliberate discretion with a constant continuance to joyn all together Haste without discretion is like wings without eyes discretion without haste is like eyes without wings both without constancy is like feet and eyes without an heart First we must hasten to our business and teach saith St. Paul I conferred not with flesh and blood when it pleased God to send me to preach his Son among the Heathen Gal. 1.16 And to shew what speed all the Apostles were to make they are commanded to salute none by the way Remember what Solomon saith As vinegar is to the teeth and smoak to the eyes so is a sluggard to them that send him Prov. 10.26 Remember Peter and John were at the Temple at the third hour of the day Secondly Discretion is mightily required in teaching to make our spiritual receipts we stand in need to be inspired with Gods Spirit and all this to know how much oleum and how much acetum we must pour in 3. We are to hold on teaching for 't is said Cursed is he that puts his hand to the plough and pulls it back A Ministers work is never at an end for as we make the Devil mars we must therefore to our work again as we sowe the wheat the envious man sowes tares when therefore tilth time is past preaching the Law seed-time past preaching the Gospel The weeding time comes in and never ends till our end till you Gods harvest be inn'd into that common barn the grave Here is work for us then all our lives you finde us work a long life-lasting work 't is an hard case to work so long for no wages for small wages nay more for all our pains to be scourged out of the Temple plundered of all our goods as Iob was by the
THE MINISTERS Office THE INFANTS Inheritance By JAMES HARWOOD B. D. Bulling advers Anabapt Cum id quod majus est Infantes habeant rem scilicet signatam gratiam Dei remissionem peccatorum Quis illis id quod minus est Signum Aquam videlicet denegabit LONDON Printed by R. W. for the Author 1659. To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of SOUTHAMPTON Baron of Titchfield Right Honourable THat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of favour which I have received from you bindes me in a strong obligation to return a thankful acknowledgement Some in these sad times have voted Charity an Heretick a Sect whose Faith is in the full their Charity in the wayne it is their belief they are for Heaven their works say they are for Hell these call themselves young Saints but are old Devils they profess much practise nothing full of science but make no conscience of their wayes these have a Bush at the door no Wine within A generation of Vipers who cry up Christ and Crucifie his Members My Lord here you have in full view these Arch Hereticks enemies to young and old all the young Infants in the Land and all the old Ministers of the Gospel We at this time in comparision ane as few as Gideons Lappers yet with those few sounding Trumpets the Lord I trust will throw down the Walls of Jerico to the ground Our Church much resembles the sweet waters of Hypanis through which a Well of incredible bitterness runs that as Heroditus and Solinus do affirm none of those sweet waters admit of any of the bitter waters to lodge within their source Here we live together as in the Ark clean and unclean incorrigible Hereticks and devout Conformists yet no hereticall brinish waters do we suffer to intermix with the waters that issue out under the threshold of the Temple Phideas his Picture was so made that it all appeared in every part of Minerva's Im ge but the Picture of Heresie God of his mercy hath kept from appearing in the face or dwelling in the tongue of us so much despised Divines There is yet a Sibboleth Shiboleth by which your Honour may discover who is the Gileadite who the Ephraimite who are the Sons of God who are of their Father the Devil My Lord it is no small comfort to us The Seers of Israel to behold such tall Cedars as your Honour standing upright in this our Lebanon who for all the storms of Schismes and Heresies hold fast to the Faith of Christ Crucified to the Doctrine of his Apostles to the practice of the Primitive Church It 's well known how you approve of the Ministerial Office as the highest calling as also Infants Baptisme and yet in these latter dayes perillous men are start up who debar yong Children from the Font and shut the Church doors upon us called to officiate their malice reaches from the Font to the Pulpit from the Pulpit to our Persons Their Germane Massacre makes us fear a second Parisian Mattens or else the Cicilian Evening-Song where they predominate they are most bloody none talk more and less reason they are ever questioning but never satisfied And thus I have taken to task unreasonable men whom though we inform they will never reform The Sun-beams makes clay the harder and the Beams of Gospel Admonitions makes these more obdurate a just judgement for their Capital crime their sin was against the Head and God gives them over to be headstrong Hereticks And now my Noble Lord since I have to do with such sons of Belial and so ill-opiniated I crave the shrowding my Manuel under the benigne shrine of your protection your gracious compliance shall oblige me to pray for your health here and happiness in heaven which is the Christian engagement My Lord of Your Honours most humble servant in the Lord James Harwood THE Ministers Office The Infants Inheritance Matthew 28.19 Go ye therefore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost THe occasion of these words lieth thus Our Christ who was attached arraigned condemned crucified and now is risen from the dead appears to Mary Magdalen and the other Mary verse 9. Christ giveth the woman a gracious salute An all hail and the woman again do him worship O! A word of Christ first to us is able to make us fall down at his feet and worship him O! Christ cometh to us via gratiae or we can give him meeting via Ecclesiae But it seems the two good old women fall a trembling but saith our Saviour Be not afraid He would have them fear him but not be afraid of him fear him as the Childe the Father not be afraid of him like Malefactors of the Judge Nay they have just cause to rejoyce and again I say to rejoyce for they have foud him whom they had lost they have found him whom their soul loves even the Lord Jesus God blessed for ever Amen These are his servants and he sets these to work verse 10. The two Maries must go tell the eleven nay more saith Christ Go and tell my Brethren Brethren But such Brothers as Josephs who had sold him so did some of them at best left him so did most of them the prime of them forswearing him so did Peter And yet he calls them Brethren Go tell Brethren and bid them go into Galilee and there they shall see me me lately left in the grave now the Lord of Life me and my side which the Jews wounded me and my head which Jews crowned with thorns me to whom all power is given in heaven and in earth But as the women so the eleven they are now come they come whither Christ did command into Galilee unto the Mountain Yea as the women so the eleven they worship him but the women begin this divine worship the Apostles are onely their seconds They at the Grave Christ newly come out of the grave these Apostles not till the two women instructed them And thus as our first Mother Eve by sin threw down the first Adam so now these two women throw themselves down at the feet of the second Adam as if not onely willing to bewail Eves evil and fall but also as a woman first wronged mankinde so these the same Sex first desire to do service to mans Messias These first after the Resurrection met with Jesus and Jesus sends them to tell his Disciples his Apostles They are met verse 11. now the Apostles see him they worship him even that Jesus who was delivered up to death for us all Rom 8. Yea this is he hath overcome him who hath brought to the ground all our Ancestours Death Death as sath the Apostle He hath swallowed up death in victory and therefore that sacred Christ-tide carrol is made in his praise 1 Cor. 15.55 O death where is thy sting O hell where is thy victory Ride on O Lord with thine Honor full of Majesty and Power thou who guidest