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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42062	Teares and bloud, or, A discourse of the persecution of ministers, with motives to martyrdom and cautions about it set forth in two sermons, both lately preached at Saint Mary's in Oxford / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1905; ESTC R13097	43,961	52

to meet with at Jerusalem upon this the Saints of God endeavour to disswade him from his intended journey they beseech him with words and which is more Rhetoricall they beseech him with teares well and what is the issue why what was Paul's answer My Text acquaints us Then Paul answered what mean yee to weep and to break my heart c. The Text containeth Two Generall Parts 1. A Patheticall Question what mean yee to weep and to break my heart It 's true I hear of Bonds and Imprisonment but what then these are not the things that move me t is not my own future suffering but your present sorrow that grieves me 't is not the danger I hear of at Jerusalem but the teares I see on you that breaks my heart in peeces be my own persecutions what they will be I am as a man not much concerned I am not at all troubled about them tell me then what mean yee to weep and to break my heart 2. A Noble Testimony of our Apostle's Christian Courage Magnanimity and Resolution I am ready not to be bound only but also to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus Let the Jewes deal with me as they please let them throw me in prison nay let them put me even to death if they will yet here 's my resolu●ion come what will come in the cause of Christ I am ready to suffer all Now in this Second Cenerall we have Five Particulars very considerable 1. The Person that is like to suffer I well and what I is this why we may consider him upon a double account 1. Consider what this Person had been and what is that why I that ere while was a Persecutour am now resolved to become a Martyr I that but lately threw others in the Goal am now ready upon the same account to lye there my selfe I that even now was consenting to the death of Stephen am now consenting to my own I am the man ready not to be bound only c. 2. Consider what this person was at present and what is that why I that am now become a Saint I that am n●w ordained a Preacher nay more I that am become an Apostle what ever becomes of others though others may be unwilling though others may be afraid to suffer for Christ and his Gospel yet as for me now a Saint now an Apostle I am ready Two Things we may note from hence 1. God can and sometimes doth change even Persecutours into Preachers eminent Sinners into eminent Saints 'T was our Apostle's case {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith Chrysostome in him God turned a Wolf into a Shepherd he that ere while was an instrument to devour Christs flock doth now become an Instrument to feed it 2. T is the concernment of Eminent Sinners when once made Saints to doe and to suffer eminent things for God The Church of Christ had no enemy like Saul whilest a Persecutour yea but the Church of Christ had no friend like Paul when once an Apostle that Church which Saul once made such havock of even for that Church is Paul now ready to spend his blood I am ready But 2. This Persons Preparation and Willingnesse to suffer for Christ I am ready he doth not say I am content to suffer I le make what shift I can to suffer he doth not say t is an hard service a severe duty to suffer O no {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I am Ready I am Prepared the Jewes are not more forward to lay the Crosse upon me then I am to bear it 3. The Measure and Matter of what Paul was to suffer and what was that why I am ready not to be bound only but also to dye you 'l say that is Courage indeed t is an act of courage for a man to loose his liberty for Christ yea but to loose his life for Christ that is more to spend an Estate for God is a service considerable yea but for a man to spend his bloud for God that is higher still now here 's the case our Apostle was willing to wear a Chain for Christ yea and he was willing to bear a Crosse he was willing to become a Prisoner to a Goal yea he was willing to become a Prisoner to a Grave Fetters of Iron or Fetters of Death he is ready to put on both so runnes the Text I am ready {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not to be bound only but also to dye 4. The Place where our Apostle was like to suffer and where 's that why I am ready not to be bound only but also to dye at Jerusalem A strange place for such a transaction is there a Tragedy to be acted and is Jerusalem the Stage are the Ministers of God to be imprisoned and must the Dungeon be at Jerusalem are the servants of God to be Butchered and is the Slaughter-house at Jerusalem alas 't was enough that Christ died at Jerusalem had it been but once but must he dye there again and again 't was enough that Christ died at Jerusalem in his own Person but must he dye there in his Ministers too yea Jerusalem that city of God Jerusalem that place of Gods more speciall presence Jerusalem that place of Gods more solemn worship even this Jerusalem becomes the Golgotha of Saints it becomes the place where Paul must suffer I read that the Israel of God were sometimes bondmen but 't was in Aegypt I read that the Israel of God were sometimes Captives but 't was in Babylon yea but when the Prophets of God were to be Martyred that was usually done at Jerusalem 5. The Cause for which our Apostle was like to suffer and what is that why I am ready not to be bound only but also to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus surely no cause like that I have read of some that have been willing to dye to get themselves a name yea but Paul is willing to dye to get Christ a name t is noble for a Subject to dye for his Prince but what is it for a Saint to dye for his God the consideration of this cause is of great concernment t is that which adds a further guilt to the sin of the Jewes t is that which adds great Glory to the Sufferings of Paul were it not for this name of the Lord Jesus the Sinne of the Jewes had not been so dreadfull a persecution nor had the sufferings of Paul been so glorious a Martyrdome O no the weight of their sin and the worth of his sufferings do both lye in this I am ready not to be bound only but also to dye at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus 1 Persecution Imprisonment Death it self is that which the Ministers of God must sometimes look for No sooner is Paul bound for Jerusalem but here 's the news bonds and afflictions abide him there I am ready not to

we cannot prevent but cannot we prevent their dying in Sin Surely there's but one way in the world to do it Except a man be regenerate and born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God If our Children be not born again better had it been they had never been born at all well but how must they be born again t is true Regeneration is the Spirit 's own work but who is the Spirits instrument our first birth is a great work of God and yet the Creature 's hand is in it so here our second birth is God's own mighty work and yet there 's an instrument used well but who is it I have begotten you through the Gospel there 's no ordinary meanes to regenerate your Children but Paul and the Gospel the Minister and the Ordinance the Font and the Pulpit the Water and the Word should Gospel Ordinances fail amongst us should the word of God that spiritual seed be spilt and taken away should the Ministers our spirituall Fathers be once removed should the Church our spirituall Mother be ruined and dye O then what meanes were left for our Children to be born again Surely should it once be thus our poor Posterity were like to be undone for ever Now Sirs tell me what doe you think of your Ministers ruine What doe you think of the Gospel Would you bring forth Children to be Fuel for Eternall flames you are loath to see your Children in a Goal and would you not be loath to see them in Hell you would be loath to see your Children beg their Bread and would you not be loath to see them damned it cost you pangs and granes to bear them and would it cost you no sighs no teares to loose them we have a knee to dandle our Babes and yet not an heart to pity them we have a bosom to embrace a lip to kisse our Infants and yet no bowells of mercy for them we count Herod not a Man but a Monster for murdering the Babes about Bethelem and what shall we be if we murder the Babes of England the Babes of Bethlehem were but an handfull the Babes of England would be Millions the Babes of Bethlehem died as a kind of Martyrs the Babes of England would dye as Sinners the Babes of Bethlehem did but Dye the Babes of England would likewise be damned Damnati antequam nati saith Austin to damne their Soules before we beget their bodyes to secure them of Hell before ever they live on earth is this the Portion we intend to provide them is this the Inheritance we intend to leave them Our Fathers dealt not so with us they spent their bloud to transmit the Gospel to us their Children and shall we endeavour to take it away from ours Surely though we care not for Gods Ministers yet we should care for our own Babes though we regard not our Spirituall Fathers yet we should regard our Naturall Children down with your Ministry and undoe your Posterity remove the Gospel and damne the Babe that is yet unborn if so be advised how you dare attempt it pi●y the Nation you live in pity the Saints of God that love you pity the soules of sinners that lie at stake but if not yet at lest pity them who are a part of your selves your tender Infants your pretty Babes O why should these miscarry for ever why should you be as Adam why should you strick a Church a Nation your whole Posterity dead at one blow It is the concernment of the Ministers of God to sUFFER Persecutior Imprisonment nay death it selfe upon Christs account with willingnesse courage and resolution {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I am ready not to be bound onely but to dy c. It was thus with Saint Paui and it must be so with us But why so I answer 1. To suffer for Christ is but just and equal Christ himself hath suffered for us Surely the sufferings of Christ were somewhat considerable 't was much for the Son of God to be reproached by wormes it was much for the Son of God to be scourged by those hands which himself had made it was much for him that sate upon a Throne to be laid in a Manger to be hanged upon a Crosse 't was much for the Lord of Heaven and Farth to want at his birth a room of his own to be born in at his death a Grave of his own to be laid in it was somewhat considerable for the beloved Son of God to bear the wrath of his Father and why all this why he was delivered for our offences yea but was Christ Jesus willing thus to suffer yea I have a Baptisme to be Baptized with and how am I straightned till it be accomplished The Baptisme which he speaks of was not Baptismus fluminis a Baptisme of water that was past already nor was it Baptismus flaminis the Baptisme of the spirit that was over ô no it was a Baptisme of another nature Baptismus sarguinis Baptisme of sufferings a Baptisme of tears a Baptisme of bloud and yet saith he {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} how am I straightned till it be accomplished ah Lord what an expression is here straightned till it be accomplished why tell me are these things thus desirable reproaches buffettings the sorest of death the displeasure of God are these things to be longed for ô how would I fain lye down in flames how fain would I bear the torments of Hell how doe I long to bear the wrath of God where 's that soul that faith so surely that Baptism which Christ Jesus speakes of was a Baptism of horrour a Baptism of wrath a Baptism of death and Hell and yet how am I straitned and now {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} faith Chrysostom if our Lord and Master was Crucified what great matter is it if we be bound if Christ was ready to be thrown into a Grave into Hell for us shall not we be ready to be thrown into a Goal for him 2. To suffer for Christ hath been the Practise of Saints we have a Cloud of witnesses and what became of that cloud why alas that cloud emptied it self in shovers of bloud I might spend not onely Time but Teares to mention the sufferings of Moses Elijah Prophets Apostles Martyrs men that sealed the Truths of God with their dearest bloud had it not been the practise of all Saints to suffer whence is it that our Book of Martyrs swells into a Volume now shall others suffer and yet not we shall others kisse the stake and we avoid it shall others embrace the flame and we refuse it as Alexander once said to a Coward of his own name quit thy basenesse or quit thy name so say I be content to become Martyrs or be content to be no Professours if Saints have have suffered Saints must be willing to suffer still 3. To suffer for Christ is your Covenant 't