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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90871	Spiritual salt: or, A sermon on Matth. 5.13. Ye are the salt of the earth- preached in Whitchurch at an ordination of five ministers, Febr.20.1649. By Tho. Porter, M.A. minister of the Gospel there.	Porter, Thomas, d. 1667.	1651 (1651)	Wing P2998E; Thomason E629_14; ESTC R206441	20,769	24

convinced That sweet perfume made of sundry fragrant spices is said to be a Confection after the ART of the Apothecary tempered together the word is u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Exod 30. 35. Salitum ex simplice vacis Etymo Jun SALTED which shows not only Ministers excellency and peaceablenesse as before but Art also yet alas what crying out against Universities Learning Arts and Tongues It was a cursed piece of Policy in Iulian that Apostate by Edict to forbid the Christians the publike schools and study of the Arts and Tongues justing away as my Author saith x Speeds Hist of great Brittaine l. 6. c. 48. p. 168. n. 8. the reason of his injustice with scoffs saying that Aristotle Isocrates and Plato who must be their guides in such liberal learnings adoring Mercury and other gods he held it absurd that they should read and learn of their books that loath and rayle at their religion Thus would these men do that decry learning if they had power in their hands answerable to the malice in their hearts and to the ignorance in their heads It s strange to me that your children must serve an Apprentiship of seven years before they can with skill drive on a Civil trade and yet if any pretend to the spirit one quarter of an year and perhaps lesse he is fit to step up into the Pulpit and to debauch the learned Orthodox Minister Mic. 2. 11. If a manwalking in the Spirit and falshood do lye saying I will prophecy to thee of wine and of strong drink he shall even be the Prophet of this People y Speeds Hist ibid. l. 9. c. 4. p. 462. n. 43. Our Henry the first who for his learning was sirnamed Beauclerk was wont to say An unlearned Prince is a crowned Asse what then are the late swarm of unlearned Preachers 3. It teacheth 1. Ministers their dutie which lies in Vse 3. three things 1. Perform y Sal profacientibus officium Salis. Par. the office of Salt shew forth the vigour and vertue the efficacy and excellency of Salt Season the hearts of your hearers with the wholesome truths of the Word 2 Tim. 4. 2. Preach the Word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke c. Chemnitius hath observed to my hand that here all Ministers are put in mind of their duty that they diligently sprinkle the Salt of the Law and of the Gospel on their hearers bring them to repentance and preserve them from corruption of sinne and death Some are impotent and cannot like those Isa 29. 11. and 56. 10 Gods house is prettily well swept from such unsavoury Salt There are others who are idle and will not drawing down apace on themselves that judgement of Lots wife of being turned into a pillar of Salt Gen. 19. 26. Some of the Hebrew Writers say the reason was because she denyed to give Salt to her Guests at a feast the day before Pareus justly censures this for a Jewish fable an idle d●eam But it s neither uncharitable nor groundlesse to assert that many are become pillars and monuments of Gods wrath to the present and future age for not providing this spiritual Salt for the people committed to their charge of whom I may say as Austin z Ut nobis quoddam praestaret condimentum quo sapiamus aliquid unde illud caveatur exemplum Aug. de Civ Dei l. 16. c. 3. of Lots wife who became a pillar of Salt that we being seasoned may grow savoury and wise by her example Therefore Christ saith Luke 17. 32. Remember Lots wife Quest How must this be done 1. By preaching your Sermons first to your own hearts and souls Mark 9. 50. Have Salt in your selves in your hearts as well as in your heads and hands in your persons as well as in your papers If you your selves be not seasoned kindly with Salt how can you season others except like Lots wife as before If your spirits be unsavoury how shall the spirits of others becom savoury Ier. 23. 13. I have seen folly in the Prophets of Samaria Folly or as the word is u that which is unsavoury Lam. 2. 14. Thy Prophets have seen vaine and foolish or x Cambd. Rem p. 248. unsavoury things for thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Insulsum pro insulsa i. e. irrationabilia R. D. rem evanidam cui non est sapor Pagn Thesaur Sprinkle therefore some salt on your own souls 2. by Powdring your words with salt Col. 4. 6. let your speech be seasoned with salt i. e. be savoury such as may be holily pleasing to the palate and taking the people If Christians speeches in private must be such what then must 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fatuus infipidus inconditus insulsus cibus Schindl Pentaglott Ministers Sermons in the Pulpit be Eccles 12. 10. The Preachers sought to find out acceptable words Junius reads he studyed to find not utter quicquid in buccam venerit as they say True a man must study more for matter then for words but apt words are not to be neglected I mean not so much witty words as weighty words sound words not a meer sound of words which tickle the eare but do not touch the heart Some stomackes cannot but nauseate good meate when it is not well dressed or dished what unsavoury expressions nay paradoxes drop from some mens mouths for want of this salt Season therfore your Sermons with this salt 3. by Putting it on the consciences of the people Speak as much as may be to the heart Bring the word home to the soul Salt is for use and application as you must render tribute to whom tribute is due c. Rom. 13. 7. so you must reach out terrour to whom terrour is due Be not affraid of that bugge in being accounted a Leagall Preacher let the law be seasonably pressed as well as the Gospel preached Salt implyes both Herein it is good to imitate y Sal optimum utilissimum est ciborum condimentum si MODERATE adhibeatur Eflius in Col. 4. 6. Simon Deane of Lincolne who being called to Court and becoming a favourite of King Henry 7th was wont to say I am cast among Courtiers as salt among quick Eeles for that he made them stirre with his sharp and salt speeches The powerfull sprinkling of this salt will startle Conscience and make a sinner stirre and looke about him for a Saviour only take heed of misapplying as Luk. 19. 22. Meat may be marred with too much or too little salt Broken-hearted sinners may become desperate by unreasonable application of the Law and Brawny-hearted sinners may grow more dissolute by unseasonable amplification of the free-grace of God in Christ Scatter wisely this Salt 4. By practising in your life what you preach in the Pulpit that he that runs may read your doctrine in your doing Your Sermons preached in the Congregation must be printed in your Conversation else you are