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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64125	Rules and advices to the clergy of the diocesse of [blank] for their deportment in their personal and publick capacities. Given by the Bishop at the visitation.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing T387; ESTC R222418	12,560	52

God can no more be hurt by all the powers of wickedness than by the noise of a flies wing or the chirping of a Sparrow Brethren do well for your selves do well for your selves as long as you have time you know not how soon death will come 13. Entertain no persons into your Assemblies from other Parishes unless upon great occasion or in the destitution of a Minister or by contingency and seldom visits or with leave least the labours of thy Brother be discouraged and thy self be thought to preach Christ out of envie and not of good will 14. Never appeal to the judgement of the people in matters of controversie teach them obedience not arrogancie teach them to be humble not crafty For without the aid of false Guides you will finde some of them of themselves apt enough to be troublesome and a question put into their Heads and a power of judging into their Hands is a putting it to their choice whether you shall be troubled by them this week or the next for much longer you cannot escape 15. Let no Minister of a Parish introduce any Ceremony Rites or Gestures though with some seeming Piety and Devotion but what are commanded by the Church and established by Law and let these also be wisely and usefully explicated to the people that they may understand the reasons and measures of obedience but let there be no more introduc'd least the people be burdened unnecessarily and tempted or divided IV. Rules and Advices concerning Preaching 1. LEt every Minister be diligent in preaching the Word of God according to the ability that God gives him ever remembring that to minister Gods Word unto the People is the one half of his great Office and Employment 2. Let every Minister be careful that what he delivers be indeed the word of GOD that his Sermon be answerable to the Text for this is Gods Word the other ought to be according to it that although in it self it be but the word of Man yet by the purpose truth and signification of it it may in a secondary sense be the Word of God 3. Do not spend your Sermons in general and indefinite things as in Exhortations to the people to get Christ to be united to Christ and things of the like unlimited signification but tell them in every duty what are the measures what circumstances what instruments and what is the particular minute meaning of every General Advise For Generals not explicated do but fill the peoples Heads with empty notions and their Mouths with perpetual unintelligible talk but their Hearts remain empty and Themselves are not edified 4. Let not the humours and inclinations of the people be the measures of your Doctrines but let your Doctrines be the measure of their perswasions Let them know from you what they ought to do but if you learn from them what you ought to teach you will give but a very ill account at the day of Judgement of the souls committed to you He that receives from the people what he shall teach them is like a Nurse that asks of her sick Child what Physick she shall give him 5. Every Minister in reproofs of sin and sinners ought to concern himself in the faults of them that are present but not of the absent nor in reproof of the times for this can serve no end but of Faction and Sedition publique Murmur and private Discontent besides this it does nothing but amuze the people in the faults of others teaching them to revile their Betters and neglect the dangers of their own Souls 6. As it looks like flattery and design to preach nothing before Magistrates but the Duty of their people and their own Eminencie so it is the begining of Mutiny to preach to the people the duty of their Superiors and Supreme it can neither come from a good Principle nor tend to a good end Every Minister ought to preach to his Parish and urge their Duty St. John the Baptist told the Souldiers what the Souldiers should do but troubled not their heads with what was the duty of the Scribes and Pharisees 7. In the reproof of sins be as particular as you please and spare no mans sin but meddle with no mans person neither name any man nor signifie him neither reproach him nor make him to be suspected he that does otherwise makes his Sermon to be a Libel and the Ministry of Repentance an instrument of Revenge and so doing he shall exasperate the man but never amend the sinner 8. Let the business of you Sermons be to preach holy life obedience peace love among neighbours hearty love to live as the old Christians did and the new should to do hurt to no man to do good to every man For in these things the honour of God consists and the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus 9. Press those Graces most that do most good and make the least noise such as giving privately and forgiving publiquely and describe the grace of Charity by all the measures of it which are given by the Apostle 1 Cor. 13. For this grace is not finished by good Words nor yet by good Works but it is a great building and many Materials go to the structure of it It is worth your study for it is the fulfilling of the Commandments 10. Because it is impossible that charity should live unless the lust of the tongue be mortified let every Minister in his charge be frequent and severe against slanderers detractors and backbiters for the crime of backbiting is the poyson of charity and yet so common that it is past into a Proverb After a good dinner let us sit down and backbite our neighbours 11. Let every Minister be carefull to observe and vehement in reproving those faults of his Parishioners of which the Laws cannot or do not take cognizance such as are many degrees of intemperate drinkings gluttony riotous living expenses above their ability pride bragging lying in ordinary conversation convetousness peevishness and hasty anger and such like For the Word of God searches deeper than the Laws of men and many things will be hard to prove by the measures of Courts which are easie enough to be observ'd by the watchful and diligent eye and ear of the Guide of Souls 12. In your Sermons to the people often speak of the four last things of Death Judgement Heaven and Hell of the Life and Death of Jesus Christ of Gods mercie to repenting sinners and his severity against the impenitent of the formidable Examples of Gods anger powr'd forth upon Rebbels Sacrilegious Oppressors of Widdows and Orphanes and all Persons guilty of Crying Sins These are useful safe and profitable but never run into Extravagancies and Curiosities nor trouble your selves or them with Mysterious Secrets for there is more laid before you than you can understand and the whole Duty of Man is To fear God and keep his commandments Speak but very little of the secret and high things of God