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death_n	godly_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	18	3	9.3212	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14386	Romphaiopheros = the sword-bearer. Or, The Byshop of Chichester's armes emblazoned in a sermon preached at a synod by T.V. B. of D. sometimes fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and now pastor of the church at Cockfield in Southsex.	Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1627 (1627)	STC 24705; ESTC S119120	20,427	32

made mention of Zanchius his interpretation on that place let us also take notice of his application Discant hinc concionatores non semper blandè leniter agendum esse cum populo Let all preachers learne from these proceedings of God not alwaies to sing a song of peace but to take up the axe of reproofe and to lay about them with the sharpe sword of admonition that sinners may see their daingerous estate and how to avoyd it For as he goeth on there well mostly now adayes men are hypocrites and carnall Gospellers and out-side professors who cannot indure any voice but the sweet sound of the Gospell that Christ is the Saviour of the worlde that he died for our sinnes and that by his death he hath wrought a full and perfect redemption and yet in the meane time no shew nor touch of any true repentance in them for sinne no change in their liues at all but remaine obstinate and obdurate in sinnefull courses and will in the length kill their owne soules meerely with flatterie unlesse some speedy and sharpe course be taken to rouze them out of their securitie I know there is a more gentle way milder course to be taken with sorrowfull and relenting sinners of whom there is hope that they will be reclaimed and reformed by that milder course but I speake now of notorious obstinate sinners which are setled upon their lees as the Prophet speaketh And yet in dealing with them I grant that the Minister ought to use a great deale of discretion For though the minister haue the face of an Eagle that is be able to soare up never so high in the contemplation of divine Mysteries though he haue the face of an Oxe that is be as painfull and diligent in his place as an Oxe is at his labour though he haue the face of a Lyon that is be as bold as a Lyon in rebuking of sinne yet if he haue not also the face of a Man to guide and direct all these things according to discretion they are nothing worth But here now falls in that maine question What is discretion I feare there are some Clergie-men I will not say that make an idoll of it but that doe not well in opposing Zeale and discretion as though they could not stand together and under pretence of discretion slack their paines in preaching grow perfunctory in their perswasions cold in their reproofes healing the sores of the daughter of my people with faire words and I feare preaching peace peace where there is no peace But if this be the discretion they meane then well-fare the ardour of Elias the fervencie of Phineas and the godly zeale of Moses Of Moses it is said that although according to the testimonie of Gods spirit he was the meekest man upon earth yet in Gods cause he was zealous to the death Causam populi precibus egit apud Deū saies Philo causam Dei gladijs egit apud populū For when he was to plead for the people unto God he did it by prayers but when he was to pleade Gods cause with the people he did that with swords It is an excellent speach of S. Austine Non omnis qui parcit est amicus nec omnis qui verberat inimicus He that spareth when he should smite is no friend he that smiteth freely when there is cause is no Enemie Meliora sunt vulnera amici quam voluntaria oscula inimici Better are the wounds of a friend then the voluntary kisses of an enemie Melius est cum severitate diligere quam cum leuitate decipere And it is alwayes better to loue though our loue be mixed with severity and sharpnesse then to deceiue by too much lenitie gentlenesse Aug. Epist. 48. Uincent Too much eagernesse is naught and so is too much remissenesse too but beloved charitie is so cold and pietie so rare and the dayes so desperately wicked that I make it a great question whether a man can now be ouer zealous in Gods cause O beloued we are fallen into those dayes wherein the people for the most part non sustinent veritatem they cannot abide to haue the truth spoken home plainly and particularly Is any covetous ulcus est ne tangas it is a sore a gall take heed how you touch it Is any a drunkard ulcus est that 's a gall too take heed how you touch it Is any sacrilegious ulcus est a sore gall I promise you it must not be touched Is any an oppressour ulcus est That 's a very sore gall too and take heed how you touch it For and if you doe then be sure the gall'd Horse will kick and fling and you must looke for nothing but hard measure from that furious beast Amant veritatem lucentem saith Augustine non redarguentem If you will weaue out unto them some goodly faire plausible discourses they will heare you as long as you will but come once to use this sharpe sword to reprooue sinne and rip up their secret offences then they will cry out presently Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should liue any longer These things being considered I trust it doth appeare that it is not for Ministers to disharten their brethren or to pick quarrells one with another for preaching plainly and powerfully they should rather joyne the right hands of fellowship to outpreach sinne to out pray sinne to outface sin and they should whet one another on by their good example as Iehu said unto Iehonadab If thine heart be upright with mee as mine is with thee then come along and thou shalt see what Zeale I haue for the Lord of hoastes 2. Kings 10. And I wish heartily that in these last times and therefore the lewdest and of loosest manners all the Ministers were such as Bernard describes de Consid. lib. 4. Qui Regibus se Ioannem exhibeant Aegyptijs Mosen that would be as sharpe with Kings and greate ones as S. Iohn was with Herod that would spare mightie sinners no more then Moses did the Aegyptians Qui fornicantibus Phineam Eliam idololatris Elizaeum avaris that would be another Phineas against fornicators another Elias to idolaters and another Elisha to the covetous Qui Petrum mentientibus Paulū blasphemantibus negotiantibus Christum that would beate downe with their voyce horrible lyers as Peter did that would confound palpable blasphemers as Paul did that would whip out grosse sacriledge as Christ did the buyers and sellers out of the temple I must yet go on a little further with that mellifluous Author Qui vulg us non spernunt sed doceant that do not despise the meanest but rather teach them Qui divites non palpent sed terreant that do not flatter rich men in their sinnes but thunder against them Qui minas principū non paveant sed cōtemnant that do not feare the threatnings of great men