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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08769	The shepheard, or A sermon, preached at a synode in Durisme Minster, vpon Tuesday, being the fifth of April. 1608. By Thomas Oxley, Master of Artes, and preacher of Gods word	Oxley, Thomas.	1609 (1609)	STC 19053; ESTC S105795	16,556	32

glory that they might be strengthened by his spirit in the inner man Ephe. 3.14 And deepely protesteth to the Romanes calling God to witnesse that without ceasing he made mention of them alwayes in his prayers Rom. 1.9 And he thankes God that without ceasing he had remembrance of his Scholler Timothie in his prayers night and day 2. Tim. 1.3 To these two adde sanctitie of life and no more can be required Oper● be vnto them that beleeue saith S. Paul to Timothie an example in word and in conuersation 1. Tim. 4.12 For he that saith and doth not is like him who hauing mony can put it to no other vse but to tell it Plutar. de profectu morum which Anacharsis the Scythian somtimes spake of the Grecians who were great Philosophers in words but in life and manners most lewd and light Jn Lacon Plutarch tels a Story to this purpose of a certaine old man who hauing a long time walked vp and down amongst the Grecians at the games of Olimpus and finding no place to rest him in at length he went among the Lacedemonians where not onely all the children did rise to giue him place but many of the men likewise which when the Grecians as many of them as were present and did obserue did with great applause approue of The old man cries out He● misertam Omnes graeci norini quid sit honestum sed eo soli vtuntur Lacedemonii All the Grecians doe know what is honest but the Lacedemonians onely practise it I would not our Shepheards proued Grecians and the flockes Lacedemonians and then that follow which the Lord spoke by his Prophet They that should minister the law knew me not and the Pastors also offended against me Iere. 2.8 Gods ministers are called the salt of the earth and if the salt be vnsauorie Mat. 5.13 wherewith then can it season other things Qui sibi nequam Cui bonus hee that cannot rule himselfe is not fit to rule others They are called lux mundi the light of the world Mat. 5.14 for the example of their vertues If therefore that light be put vnder a bushell how can it enlighten others It was a good saying that of Senecaes Eum elige tibi doctorem quem magis admireris cum videris quam cum audieris Epist 34. make choice of such a teacher as thou maist admire more hauing seene him then when thou heardst him Whose life is more commendable then his learning And therefore Paul commaunds Titus that aboue all things he should show himselfe an example of good workes Titus 2.7 For plus mouent exempla quam verba Examples do moue more then precepts Gregorie and a good life then a good lesson Et facilius homines ad bene faciendum exemplis quam verbis inuitantur Origen and men are incited sooner by works then by words and by liues then by lawes to doe well And this manner of teaching is very admirable and powerfull to inflame the minds of men with a desire to doe well A good souldier Non sentit sua cum benigni ducis contuetur vulnera Bernard feeles not his owne wounds when hee sees the soares of his kinde Captaine Iulius Caesar as Tullie tels it neuer said to his followers Goe but Come for the labour seemes alwaies the lesse when hee that commands cannot be idle Let Shepheards learne to instruct their flockes as Abimilech did his subiects by making himselfe an example who when he had cut downe boughs and bare them on his shoulders spoke to those that were with him Quemadmodum vidistis me facientem ita vos facite As you haue seene me doe so doe you Iudg. 9.48 But as the godly life of good Shepheards is powerfull to perswade the people vnto good So the lewd life of bad Shepheards is of as much or farre greater force to draw them vnto euil since such is our nature that we learne nothing sooner then filthines forget nothing more hardly And therefore saith Saint Gregorie Greg. in past There is no man more daungerous in the Church then hee that liues wickedly and carries a name or degree of sanctitie whereupon saith Saint Austen August lib. de past Omnis qui male viuit in conspectu eorum quibus praepositus est quantum in ipso est occidit He that liues badly in the sight of those ouer whom he is placed as much as in him is is a murderer Wherefore I will conclude this point with that of Saint Bernard to Eugenius Lib. 2. de considerat Monstrosa res est gradus summus animus infimus sedes prima vitaima Lingua magniloqua manus otiosa sermo multus fructus nullus vultus grauis actus leuis caput Canum et cor vanum facies rugosa lingua nugosa ingen authoritas nutans stabilitas And thus much of the Shepheards office Should not the Shepheards feed But whom should they feede Obiectum This is our third part the obiect of the duetie Pasce gregem Non seipsos sed greges Not themselues but the flockes Should not the Shepheards feede the flockes The Elders which are among you I beseech saith S. Peter feede the flocke of God 1. Pet. 5.1.2 Be diligent saith Salomon to know the state of thy flocke and take heede to thy heards Prou. 27.23 Two things there are of speciall moment to persuade hereunto The first whereof is the price the second the perill If we respect the first experience tels vs Praetium that we must regard what we hold deerest we loue most and what is most worth And what I pray you is more precious then the safetie of soules for which the onely begotten sonne of God did not sticke to shed his blood to lay downe his life to humble himselfe to an opprobrious death If the second what is subiect to more apparant dangers Periculum since our life is a warfare as Iob cals it vpon earth In which wee haue to deale with three cruell and bloody enemies The world the flesh and the diuell The first vaine and curious the second fraile and rebellious the third euill and malitious Saint Austine compares our life vnto a sea and such an one Vbi ventus est procellae non desunt tentationum Tract 14. in Ioan. Wherein there are both windes of aduersitie and stormes of temptations And Saint Chrysostome to the Aegean sea where there are venti angustiae Charibdis stagna syrtes winds waues rocks sands very hard to be sayled In the Marsilian sea saith Saint Bernard ex decem nauibus vix vna aliqua periclitatur of ten ships scarce any one is endangered but in the sea of this world often soules scarce any one is saued To be short for I would not likewise trouble you with tediousnesse amongst all the dangers of this world tell me of any either more imminent or eminent then this of