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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15086	Londons vvarning, by Ierusalem A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Mid-Lent Sunday last. By Francis White, Mr. of Arts, and sometime of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford.	White, Francis, b. 1588 or 9.	1619 (1619)	STC 25386; ESTC S119902	38,729	102

Lord God putteth into his mouth euen Balaam in the 22. of Numbers tels him as much where hee tels vs no not for a house full of gold and siluer he can speake a word good or bad but onely the Word which GOD putteth into his mouth to speake that and no other can he speake So that euery Minister of God he must in humilitie acknowledge and confesse what Iohn the Baptist before him stood not vpon to vtter Iohn 1.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am but the voice of him that cryeth of God that speaketh by mee For that which was matter of pride in Herod to heare the acclamation of the people The Voice of God and not of Man must be matter of humilitie in the Ministers of God when they heare The Voice of God and not of Man sith they be but Gods Voices Acts 12.22 the Word God puts it into their mouth what they shall say And therefore in the second place in that Gods Minister he is but the Lords Voice the Word it is Gods Word and hee is but the Voice to publish it This condemnes the great folly of the world which is so ready to taxe the Minister And if his Doctrine like the Arrow shot at peraduenture which smote wicked Ahab betweene the ioynts light vpon some Ahab 1. Reg. 22.34 some vngodly man entring thorow as the Word of GOD is liuely and mighty in operation Heb. 4.12 to the diuiding asunder of the soule the Spirit the ioynts and marrow This wicked Ahab 1. Reg. 22.8 this vngodly man he will hate the Lords Michaiah for this hee will hate the Lords Voice for this because he prophecies he preaches not good but as he conceitsit euil vnto him whereas sond man he considers not with himself how that the word it is Gods Word and the Minister he is but the Lords Voice to publish it and the Voice neither can it vtter good or bad but what the Lord God putteth into the mouth to say as Micaiah told the Messenger of Ahab who entised him to accord with the false prophets and to bring in his omnia bene with the rest Surely saith Micaiah as the Lord liueth whatsoeuer the Lord saith vnto me be it good or be it bad 2. Reg. 22.14 that and no other can I speake And therefore as we blame not the Bow if the Arrow hit vs but rather the hand which directed toward vs so let not men storme against the Voice which carries but the word vnto our eares But what then shall we storme against the hand of God which aymes the Word directly vnto vs Why storme we if we will but Dauid tels vs in his second Psalme wee rage and murmure but in vaine if our rage be not the sooner ouer God shal vex vs in his displeasure and breake these vessels of Clay these bodies of ours like a Potters Vessell be we wise therefore and be we learned in Gods feare and take we heed henceforward how wee storme against Gods Voices as wee doe Verse 39 lest as Gamaliel tels vs Acts 3. we be found fighters against God And take we heede withall how we censure Gods Voices as we doe bringing with vs cutious eares which heare more to descant on the Minister then to profit by his ministerie For in that we censure the Minister of God we seeme to censure God himselfe such the Minister he is but the Lords Voice the Word it is Gods owne Word and the Minister he is but the voice to publish it And therefore as Dauid tooke the indignities done to his Embassadours by the Princes of the children of Ammon 2. Sam. 10. as done vnto himselfe and so reuenged them so though euen Princes neuer so great ones of the world wrong and abuse the Embassadours of the Lord these Voices of the Lord God he will take the abuse as done vnto himselfe and will one day repay it home Henceforth then let the people take heed how they heare sith it is Gods Word they heare deliuered onely by mans voice And let the Minister also take heed how hee speake since it is Gods Word and not his owne which hee is to speake that so there being this sweet harmony betweene the Hearer of Gods Word and the Speaker there may be more true deuotion in the heart and lesse censuring prattle with the tongue And so frō the Ministers dutie proceed we onward to the Peoples It is so you see that the Minister he is the Lords Voice and therefore as it is all our duties to reuerence the Lord so is it also our duties to beare respect vnto his Voices For the Church it is Christs Spouse and the Congregation of the faithfull the Church of God cannot better expresse her loue to Christ her Husband who is in Heauen then by a due respect vnto his Voices who are heere on earth Now the due respect of a louing Wife vnto her Husband consists in three maine duties First to loue him Secondly to cherish him Thirdly to obey him All which the Church of God and Congregation of the faithfull because she is the Spouse of Christ is bound to impart vnto his Voices for they are Christs receiuers heere ouearth to receiue for him these pledges of our loue And so also saith our Sauiour he that receiueth you receiueth me Math. 10.40 Now we are first to loue Christs Voices and this is the thing the Apostle beseecheth at our hands to haue them all in singular loue 1. Thes 5.12 13. who labour amongst vs who are ouer vs in the Lord who admonish vs to loue such with a more then ordinarie with a singular loue for their workes sake and we are bound to loue them in two respects First because they are Christs his Embassadours sent vnto vs with an Ambassie of Peace beseeching vs in Christs stead 2. Cor. 5.20 to bee reconciled vnto God Now if we loue the Prince of Peace needs must we loue these Embassadors of Peace and if we loue CHRIST IESVS who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Word needs must we loue them who are the Voices to publish and proclaime this Word Secondly we are bound to loue them because they loue vs they watch ouer our soules nay they loue many a man better then hee loues himselfe for these Voices Hier. 9.1 they oftentimes with Ieremy carry about with them whole fountains of teares in their head and in their heart draw from these Wels with the two Buckets of their eyes such abundance of teares that their eyes shead teares day and night for their sinnes who seldome or neuer shead a teare for their owne sinnes And therefore good reason haue we to loue these Voices or at leastwise not to hate them as too too many doe who little better esteeme of them Gen. 16.12 then of Ishmael their hand against euery man and euery mans band against them I will say thus much to the honour and

commendation of this famous Citie There is no Nation vnder heauen more respects these Voices if they be the Lords Voices indeed then the more graue and discreeter Citizens And as for the rest they loue them too but not with so good discretion for they loue them in a manner as the Ape doth her yong ones they loue them so importunately that they kill them And therefore it were to be wisht they would loue them a little more in louing them a little lesse while they giue the Voices a breathing time to follow the Apostles rule to his beloued Timothy 1. Tim 4.13 To giue attendance to reading and to exhortation and to doctrine that there may be a breathing while for the Voices to giue attendance to reading as well as all to exhortation and to doctrine For the Voices they will be so much the better able to teach others by their doctrine when they haue first taught themselues by their reading Now as wee are bound to loue the Lords Voices so can we not better expresse our loue vnto them then in cherishing them For farre bee it that the Lords Voices should be fedde like meere voyces indeed onely with ayre and that their maintenance should bee the peoples courtesie and beneuolence for this it were a dishonour vnto God and a great abasing to the Ministerie The very Heathens tell vs as much Ptut Mor. For Plutarch tels vs of a Laconian who seeing a Collector going about and gathering the peoples deuotions for the gods O saith he I will now make no more reckoning of the gods so long as I see them goe a begging and to bee poorer then my selfe And would not thinke you many a churlish Nabal and repining Laban of these dayes bee ready to fall into the same disdaine of God and of his Voices if the Offals onely of their reuenues and cruell mercies of their purse were the stay and maintenance of the Ministers life This it were great pitie it should be so and hope suggests the best that it wil neuer be For were it so as in the same Plutarch we reade Plut. Mor. of one Philippus a Priest amongst the Heathen so poore that hee beg'd for his liuing and yet hee would goe about and tell how happy he should be When quoth one will this be When I am dead saith he Why then poore fellow quoth the other thou art too blame thou diest not quickly that thou mayst be happy Euen thus should the Lords poore Voices bee flouted of the world The Lord is our portion say the Voices and wee shall bee happy but when saith the world shall you haue this portion that ye may be happy When we dye say the Voices Why then sayes the world yee are too blame ye dye not quickly to be happy in Heauen whom the world hath tooke an order with neuer to bee happy on earth But this it is the voice of the sonnes of Belial who haue euill will at Sion and had rather put a Church into their purse then empty their purse vpon the Church For you beloued the Lords Voices are perswaded better things of you how regardfull of them you haue alwayes beene and how carefull you be 2. Reg. 4. not onely with the good Shunamite to prouide them a Chāber a Table a Stoole when they turne in vnto you but to send them away as Ioseph did his Brethren Gen. 42. with their Sacks full of Corne and euery man his money in his Sacks mouth meat for the belly and money for the back For which care of yours in cherishing the Lords Voices the blessing of Heauen and the farnesse of the earth be your great reward And may they euer liue registred in the Kalendar of Saints who already haue or hereafter shall more like the Primitiues of old then the hold-fast Possessiues of these times thus bring in part of their Possessions and lay it downe at the Apostles feet bringing an offering to the worke of the Tabernacle to this so worthy a Worke. Now as wee are to loue and cherish so are wee also to obey the Lords Voices And this is it the Apostle exhorts you vnto Heb. 13. Verse 17 Obey them which haue the ouer sight of you and submit your selues for they watch for your soules as they that must giue account for them vnto God that they may doe it with ioy and not with griefe for that is vnprofitable for you You are then to obey Gods Minister because God hath set him as a watchmā ouer your soules he must giue an account to God for your soules Now if ye doe what hee commands you from God his shall be the ioy and yours the crowne But if yet will be stiffenecked and not obey though his bee the griefe to see his Ministerie take no better effect amongst you yours shall be the perill For if hee giue vp his account of your soules with griefe of heart for your disobedience to the Gospell of Christ this it is vnprofitable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for you and not for him And therefore as you tender your soules obey the Lords Voices which watch ouer your soules Giue an obedient eare to the Lords Voices to heare them and an obedient heart to the Lord himselfe to feare him that yee may be blessed For in the 30. of Deuteronomie Verse 20 there be three wayes set downe the three rodes by which we come to blessednes the first is by louing the Lord thy God the second by obeying his Voice and the third by cleauing vnto him so that if thou loue the Lord because he is thy Father if thou cleaue vnto him because he is thy Saniour if thou obey his Voice because hee is thy Lord thou and thy Seed shall liue and bee blessed vpon earth For if thou obey diligently the Voice of the Lord the Lord in the 28. of Deut. pronourices thee Blessed in the Citie Verse 3 and blessed in the field Verse 4 blessed in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of the ground Verse 6 blessed in thy comming in and in thy going out Verse 8 blessed in thy storehouses blessed in all thou set'st thine hand vnto Thus shall the man bee blessed that obeyes the Voice of the Lord. And therefore all ye who desire blessednes heare and obey that yee may eate the good things of the Land And thus now you see how for the Lords sake whose Spouse the Church is you are to loue to cherish and to obey the Lords Voices Now let euery faithfull Christian which is a member of the true Church the Spouse of Christ plight faith to Christ the Husband of this Spouse for the performance of this Christian dutie which God so requires at our hands And so from the Voice come we to see the nature of the Voice It is a crying Voice The Lords Voice Cryoth and neede had the Voice be a Crying Voice for it hath a Citie to Cry in and a whispering still Voice