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death_n	law_n	life_n	power_n	7,966	5	5.2131	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67768	The proofe of a good preacher the right art of hearing : that good counsel is seldom well taken : that wilful offenders are as witlesse as wicked : with an apologie for wholesome truth, how distasteful soever / by J.F.	Younge, Richard.	1661 (1661)	Wing Y180; ESTC R8002	18,965	45

raise them out of their security saying Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead all are instantly about his ears Then the wit-foundered Drunkard cries out saying He subverts the state of the world and troubles our City then the covetous Oppressour is ready to tell the Prophet as the Sodomites Lot Away hence he is come alone as a stranger and shall he judge and rule then the whole Rabble furiously raging together against the Lord and against his Anointed conclude peremptorily that a peece of a pulpit half a Benefice is too much for such an unquiet spirit such a Fire slinger As let Paul but touch Demetrius his Copy-hold preach down his profit he and all of like occupation will rore out of measure Acts 19.28 Wherein they shew as great policie as did the Sodomites who made haste to turn out Lot and his family that fire and brimstone might make haste to destroy them A guilty conscience loves application as dearly as a dog loves a cudgel Sore eyes cannot endure the light of the Sun nor Bankrupts the sight of their counting-books nor deformed faces of the true glass A man were as good take an Elephant by the tooth or seek to rob a Bear of her whelps as go about to make them better For let a Minister charge them from God like rusty or ill-wrough● peeces they will recoyl in his face and like Serpents not onely be deaf to his charming but turn their tails to sting him Wherein they resemble the mad man that wounded his Physician while he was administring physick to him for his recovery They more seek for a rag to cover their sins than for a plaster to heal them as it fared with David while he slept in that foul sin of adultery 2 Sam. 11.5 6 c. Now if they are so startled and terrified at the Ministers telling them of one or a few sins what will they do when Satan and the Searcher of hearts shall lay open all the sins that ever they have committed spread them before them If it be so dreadful to hear of what they shall suffer if they repent not how terrible will it be to feel it The Law wasp-like stings shrewdly but Satan that Hornet will sting worse a great deal But if men will be warned by the former they may prevent the latter only these want that we commonly call reason therefore like children and cowards they rather shut their eyes and chuse to feel the blow than to see and endeavour to avoid it Owoful wretches that had rather be everlastingly damned for their sins hereafter than endure to hear of them now to their eternal comfort But I hope better things of some amongst so great a number Gods truth if you mark it would cry down mens sins as preaching would have done Demetrius his trade and therefore ●o marvel if the Trades-men of iniquity are up in arms against the Gospel as Demetrius was against Paul And did not the Gospel crosse their sins they would not crosse the Gospel but the waves do not beat or rore any where so much as at the bank that restrains them The Pharisees could not endure Jesus because he came to break their customes Luke 6.2 The Masters of the Pythonesse Acts 16.21 objected this against Paul and Silas that they did teach contrary to their customes For this cause was that uprore at Ephesus Acts 19.26 to 31. Paul had never become their enemy but for telling them the truth dealing so plainly and roundly with them And why did more than forty of the Jews bind themselves with a curse neither to eat nor drink till they had killed him Acts 23. not for the evils they found in him but for the vices he reproved in them By all which it appears that obstinate sinners are as witlesse as wicked and that they would if they durst deal with their faithful Pastours as the Jews did by Stephen who in their blind zeal were so furious and merciless that they put him to death for shewing them the way to eternal life and stoned him for a Blasphemer against God and his Law who was a man full of faith and power and of the Holy Ghost Acts 7.55 c. It hath ever been the manner of wickedness to be head-strong in the pursuit of its own courses impatient of opposition cruel in revenge of the opposers The great spite and spleen therefore that men bear to the Word must be wreaked upon the Minister he must be hated outed and persecuted yea if they durst they would stone him to death as the Jews did Stephen for as their hearts brast for anger as they gnashed at him with their teeth when they heard him Acts 7.54 so fares it with these touching their Minister But in the meantime what horrible what hellish ingratitude is this if it be looked upon with an impartial eye Are not these the very worst of monsters O you sottish Sensualists what can you alledge for yourselves or against your Minister Is he any other to you than those three Messengers were to Lot that came to fetch him out of Sodome that he might not feel the fire and brimstone which followed Gen. 19. Or than the Angel was to Peter that opened the iron-gates loosed his bands brought him out of prison and delivered him from the thraldome of his enemies You shew just as much reason in it as if those blind deaf diseased distracted possessed or dead persons spoken of in the Gospel should have railed upon our Saviour for offering to cure restore dispossesse recover and raise them again And are like those wicked witless and ingrateful Jews Judg. 15. who when God in great love sent Samson to deliver them from the slavish thraldome of their enemies they in requital bind him in whom all their hope of deliverance lay and deliver him up to those enemies that kept them under to the end they might slay him and still make slaves of them Here is your case right Are you not ashamed to be such Sots Were there ever such fools or frenzie men did commit a greater folly For shame think of it before it prove too late before you have sinned away all hope of mercie In the mean time as our Saviour said of his murtherers Father forgive give them for they know not what they do so may your Minister say adding thereto that prayer of Stephen when they stoned him Lord lay not this sin to their charge Acts 7.60 Sect. 7. But that I may if it be possible fetch tears from your eyes and bloud from your adamantine hearts I will yet acquaint you with that which is worse and more considerable than all I pray mind it All the indignities and wrongs that are done to Christs Ministers and Ambassadours redound to him and he that traduceth or any way wrongs a Minister for the discharge of his place his envie strikes at the image of God in him and he so takes it as a world of places