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A30925	The faithful and wise servant discovered in a sermon preached to the Parliament of the commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, at their late private fast in the Parliament House, Jan. 9, 1656 / by Matthew Barker ...	Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1657 (1657)	Wing B773; ESTC R20191	33,385	52

of the several vanities that he had observed under the Sun and one is this which he mentions chap. 6. vers 7. All the labour of man is for his mouth and yet the belly is not filled Man labours and toyls and yet he hath not out of all his labour that which can fill his appetite His appetite is capable of more then his labour can bring him in which was a vanity he observed But now he that is in sincerity serving the Lord when he comes to enjoy the fruit and the reward of his service he shall find that which will be satisfa●tion to his soul for he shall find God himself both in that service and especially at the end of the service As the good servant in the Gospel that had faithfully served the Lord was bid to enter into his Masters joy Other servants that are serving the World and serving their Lusts may enter into the joy of the creature and the joy and pleasure of sin but not into the joy of the Lord which is only that joy that can satisfie the heart of man Lastly consider this If a man doth not serve the Lord he doth not Live I say again he doth not live It is true take life in a large sense so it is the whole activity of the Reasonable Soul displaying it self in the several actions of man in the world But take life in a stricter and Theological sense and so it is the activity of the soul displaying it self by the power of the holy Ghost in the service of God So that when the service of God is the Sphaere and the Spirit the Principle of the souls activity this is most truly and properly life The Apostle saith of the Widdow that liveth in pleasure She is dead while she liveth The Widdow indeed She serveth God day and night as he 1 Tim. 5. 6. said before But she that liveth in pleasure not serving God is dead whiles she liveth I suppose you have heard the story of him that was converted in the latter end of his days and therefore would have this Inscription upon his Tomb after his death Diu fui in Mundo parum vixi I have been long in the world but I have lived but a little For that life which man lives whiles he is serving himself and acting his lusts and promoting his own carnall interests is so far differing from that life which he at first reveived from God in innocency that it is quite another and not that life as if he that had lived the life of a man should come to live the life of a beast as Nebuchadnezar did you would say this is another and not the same life So that when a man is in sincerity serving the Lord this is his original life and his only true life Thus I have spoken to you as men and the ingagements you see that lie upon you on that lowest account are very strong to be serving the Lord but those that follow are yet stronger wherein I shall speak to you 2. Secondly as Christians Christians I mean not in the largest sence as Baptized only into the name of Christ but in a stricter sence as Baptized into his Spirit for I believe I speak to many such at this time and as such you are peculiarly ingaged to serve the Lord. For 1. First you are those that the Lord hath bought peculiarly bought for though Christ in a more general sence hath purchased all men yea the whole creation for his Lordship and dominion over all creatures comes in upon him upon the account of his death yet his death and the purchase of it doth more peculiarly relate to his people Being the Saviour of all men yet especially of those that believe Now the Apostle argues 1 Cor. 5. last concerning the believing Corinthians Ye are not your own why For ye are bought with a price What then Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are the Lords As a servant that is but hired is ingaged to serve his Master how much more if bought with his money as those servants under the Law So that the Lord hath a stronger title to you then others as being not only his by the more common right of Creation but the more peculiar right of purchase And the price that purchased you is not Silver and Gold which yet are accounted the most precious things in nature but the blood of Christ the blood of God which is indeed the greatest that Heaven or Earth could yeeld So that Gods expectation cannot but be greater upon his people then upon any others that whoever deny him service yet that they should yeild it to him And so saith the same Apostle 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. If one died for all then were all dead c. that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that died and rose again As if he should say we were indeed all dead but we are purchased from death into life by Jesus Christ and this life now we are not to live it to our selves but unto him by whose death we come to live 2. As Christians you are Married to the Lord. He hath divorced you from your first Husband which is the Flesh which you were in League with and obedient to and he hath married you to himself Now why are you thus married the Apostle tels you Rom. 7. 4. We are married to him that is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God We are married to Christ Crucified that we might be dead to sin and to Christ raised from the dead that we might live a new life which is to bring forth fruit to God As we know in Marriage a man marries a wife that she might bring forth her fruit as by himself and not by another so to himself and not to another also Now this is to serve the Lord when the fruit we bring forth we bring it forth not to our selves but unto him And we know also by the Law of marriage the wife is not her own but her Husbands and hath not power over her own body but the Husband as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 7. 4. So is the case here ye that are married to the Lord the Law of that spiritual Relation doth take you off from being your own or having a power over your selves so as to be serving your selves and doth ingage you to be the Lords and to be serving him 3. As Christians and Saints he hath bestowed more cost and workmanship upon you then upon others he hath formed you for himself He hath Created you again So saith St. Paul Eph. 2. 10. We are his workmanship why So are all Creatures but he adds Created in Christ Jesus we have a new creation in him but to what are we created To good works that we should walk in them and what is that but to be serving the Lord Why was it that the Lord did so expect fruit

disturbances Yea if the people will not come to hear it preached but be spending their time in drinking and revelling and the like when they should be attending upon it he may command them to give their attendance upon it at least in one place or another especially such as own the Christian profession as we do generally in this Nation 3. He is not only to remove obstructions but he ought to countenance and encourage the true Preachers and Ministers of the Gospel in their preaching and the Professors of the Gospel in their profession He is to take them under the wing of his Government and to protect them in their just Liberties against all opposers and to furnish them with convenient places for their meetings and publique Worship and to provide what maintenance may be necessary for the furtherance of the preaching the Gospel and spreading of it as Constantine did in his time And all this he is to do because of that Supream Right that the Gospel hath from him that is the King of the Earth to be published in the world 4. But lastly He may also upon the same account inhibite the divulging and propagating of any principles opinions or religion so called which will directly tend to the undermining and subverting of this Gospel For it is only the true Gospel that hath a right to be propagated and received in the world So that the Magistrate is under no ingagement to any Religion but the true Religion any Gospel but the true Gospel any profession but the true profession for that only hath a right as I said to be propagated and entertained So that if any man will come and preach another Gospel then what the Apostles had a commission from Christ to preach and will preach such Doctrine as will tend to the undermining of it The Magistrate is under no ingagement to give to that liberty much lesse countenance but rather to restrain it because it is not that Gospel and that true revelation of the mind of God which he hath decreed to be entertained of men If a man will come and preach up Paganisme Turcisme Judaisme Papisme yea and to go farther Pelagianisme Socinianisme or Arminianisme in the grosser points of it and claim liberty and protection from the Magistrate in so doing let him shew by what right he would claim this liberty for where can he shew that ever any man had a commission from Christ to preach up these religions or opinions in the world I would be understood to speak only of those opinions that do undermine the true Gospel and that way of truth which God hath revealed for the salvation of the world and which may be accounted in the number of those Heresies that are damnable and not of lesser mistakes either in point of Doctrine or Discipline wherein the godly both have and may differ for in things that are doubtful or not fully certain there ought to be a forbearance least the truth be restrained in stead of errour Neither have I pleaded for the punishing of any mans person meerly because he holds this or that opinion what I have said is that the Magistrate is under no ingagement to errour as errour or to give liberty to the spreading of those opinions that rase the Foundation of our Christian Religion Object 1. But there are such c●ntroversies in religion that we know not how to be sure what is a truth or what is errour and so we may oppose truth in stead of errour and make way to errour in stead of truth Answer Are we not sure that the Christian Religion is the true Religion if we are not sure of that we leave our soules in a desperate hazard and lie sadly open to the snares and temptations of the Devil and of men Cunning to deceive But if you say you are sure the Christian Religion is the true Religion may you not then be sure also of those great truths which are as the pillars upon which it stands May we not be sure that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah and that he was really in the nature of man and that in that nature he suffered death for the Redemption of the world May we not be sure that he is risen from the dead and lives for ever making intercession in that nature wherein he died and that he will come again to judg the world May we not be sure that the Scrip●ures are the written word of God and the rule of our Faith and obedience by which all light in the hearts or Doctrines of men is to be examined Again may we not be sure that we are justified by Faith and not by the works of the Law May not we be sure that there shall be a Resurrection of mens bodies at the last day and that some shall rise to eternal life and others to go into everlasting fire c. If we cannot be sure of such things as these my preaching may be vain and your Faith also vain Object But the Magistrate is not to determine what is truth and what is errour Answ 1. I do not say he is ●o determine yet I say he is to be instructed as the Text speaks and to know which is the true Religion and the great truths upon which it is built and when he knows them he is to give freedom countenance and what furtherance he may to them And if some Magistrates have through ignorance or prejudice turned their power against the truth yet it was their duty to have improved their power for it in those wayes and upon that ground that I before mentioned His ignorance and inability to discharge his duty doth not at all exempt him from it Thus I have shewn briefly and I hope clearly wherein the Magistrate may befriend the Gospel and the true Religion and so upon that account be serving the Lord. There are other things also of another nature wherein he may serve the Lord As in suppressing open vice and wickedness putting down those houses that are the nourishers and maintainers of them I mean disorderly Ale-houses and Taverns whereof we have yet too too great a store every where Something I perceive hath been done upon that account in the Countries and I could wish they were a little more narrowly lookt after in the City God had a sad controversie with Eli though a good man that when his Sons did wickedly he restraind them not He 1 Sam. 3. 13. was a Magistrate and though he could not change their hearts yet he might have restraind their practise And I think this will somewhat befriend the Gospel and the passage of it among us And then as for other things wherein you may serve the Lord as Enacting righteous Laws doing justice and judgment relieving the opprest establishing the Liberties of the Nation so far as may consist with the just liberties of the people of God and the security of that cause wherein the godly of the Nation have been and yet are