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A77792	A sermon preached in the French church, in London on the 29. day of August 1652 At the imposition of hands on Mr. Stouppe by John Bulteel, minister of the word of God. With the action and circumstances thereof.	J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5453A; ESTC R224358	34,618	48

Doctrine condemns those of whom Gregory speaks the world is full of priests and notwithstanding there are found but few Labourers in the harvest they take upon them the office but do not execute the charge they leave the charge the preaching and the office and take the benefice and benefit thereof such are Archbishops Cardinals and Bishops among the Papists we may also say some of our Bishops and some of our Ministers of the word of God among us in this Land who esteem nothing in this world more unworthy of their persons than the charge of teaching and seems unto them that it is a thing too low contemptible and inferiour unto the Episcopal and Ministeriall dignity to preach the Gospel and notwithstanding they do possesse and enjoy great Benefices and revenews Saint Paul saith here wo is unto me if I preach not the Gospel but they say clean contrary wo unto us if we do preach the Gospel The Apostles said n Act. 6.2.9 It is not reasonable that we should leave the word of God and serve Tables but we will give our selves continually to prayer and to the Ministry of the word But the Popes Cardinalls Archbishops Bishops in a contrary sense do the quite contrary it seems unto them that it is not reasonable that they should leave the politick affairs of the State to preach the word they esteem it to be a base and vile thing to preach the Gospel whereas o Pet. 1.12 the angels themselves desired look into it to search and know the depth and the bottome of this profound mystery of the Gospel yea they were joyfull and ready to preach the birth of Christ p Luk. 2.10 13 14. Behold I bring you tidings of great joy and with the angel there was a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying glory to God in the highest and earth Peace good will towwards men The charge of the Ministry is so honorable the burden so heavy saith Chrysostome that it is formidable unto the angels that the Angels themselves notwithstanding would esteem it an honour and would crouch and stoop their shoulders to bear it and therefore how noble how rich how honorable soever men are let them not think that the Ministry is too vile or unworthy of them but rather that they are unworthy of the Ministry as it appears by the forementioned and forenamed titles for they are fellow servants with the angels yea they are stiled angels yea to which of the angels unto which of the Princes of the world did God at any time time say that which he said unto his apostles ministers q Mat. 16.19 whatsoever you shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven Whatsoever you shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven And r John 20.23 whose soever sins yee remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sinnes ye retain they are retained But if the Cardinals Archbishops and Bishops of the Romish Church do preach it is but rarely and seldome and when they preach and teach they do not preach the word of God but false doctrine the traditions of men the superstitious ceremonies of the Pope they feed the people with Fables and curious Questions so that in what manner soever we do consider them they are ranked and comprehended within and under the curse Wo unto them because they preach not the Gospel 2. This condemns those that swell and raise up themselves against God and against his Church by oftentation ambition or vain glory a vice altogether unworthy of pastors and Ministers of Gods word and notwithstanding a cōmon vice but a dangerous one so that it is a safer thing to hear the word of God than to preach it for he that hears Gods word learns to humble himself but he that preaches is in danger to exalt himself for the more he receives the graces of God the more he is subject to ambition and certes we see that the Apostle Paul was in danger to exalt himself above measure in that he was an Apostle ſ 2 〈…〉 4.7 And through the abundance of the revelations caught up to the third heaven into Paradise heard unspeakable words which is not lawfull or possible for a man to utter there was given unto me a thorn in the flesh the Mssenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure Pirncipally this sin is incident to novices and young ministers t 1 Tim. 3.6 who are in danger to be lifted up with pride and to fall into the condemnation of the Devil as if he should have said he will glory in that he is a minister u Mat. 7.22 and preacheth Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name O we must not glory in that for though I preach the Gospel saith Saint Paul I have nothing to glory of If Saint Paul so great so excellent an Apostle could not glory in that who in all his Epistles abaseth himself that God may be his all and may be thereby exalted and glorified who will know nothing save Jesus Christ and him crucified who protests that he will glory not in his vertues not in his merits but in his infirmities that the power of God may rest upon him If such an Apostle so sensible of his infirmities so humble by reason of them such an Herald of the mercy of God such an enemy of the merits of men such a trumpeter of their sinnes and demorits if such an Apostle could not would not boast of such things and especially would not glory in the preaching of the Gospel because necessity was laid upon him and wo unto him if he did not preach it how much lesse the Pastors and ministers of the word of God inferiors to so great an Apostle have they matter and occasion to glory therein by reason of that necessity and of that threatning But to come nearer unto our selves and to apply those things and uses to us that are Pastors and to the brother whom we are to establish and ordain unto the holy ministry without making a particular application unto our said brother as we might We learn and he also our duty which is proposed at length in this 9. chapter of the 1 Cor. and in the first of Timothy chap. 3. and in first chapter of Titus which we will read to you anon The first and principall duty is to preach the Gospel and teach the truth and will of God contained and revealed in the sacred Scripture x 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Given by inspiration of God and profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto oll good works sufficient not onely for our salvation which the Papists confesse but also for our instruction which they deny witnesse Bonner Bishop of London who examining a martyr and telling him that he was a right Scripture man and would have nothing but Scripture and

I send thee And therefore m Amos 3.8 The Lion hath roared who will not fear The Lord God hath spoken who can but prophesie Amaziah the Prief of Bethel said n Amos 7.12 13 14 15. unto Amos O thou Seer go flee thee away into the Land of Judah and there eat bread and prophesie there but prophesie not again any more at Bethel for it is the Kings Chappel and it is the Kings Court Then answered Amos and said to Amaziah I was no Prophet neither was I a Prophets son but I was an herdman and a gatherer of Sycomore fruit and the Lord took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said unto me go prophesie unto my people Israel As if Amos had said I did not heretofore prophesie but now I do prophesie for there is a necessity laid upon me to prophesie So Saint Paul was neither an Apostle nor an Apostles son but a Pharisee and a persecutor of the Apostles and disciples of Christ and of his Church but after he received a Commandement from Christ Go I do ordain thee a minister of the Gentiles this necessity was laid upon him to preach the Gospel This necessity of Gods command did make Moses to teach the people of the Jews although he was adopted son of the daughter of Pharaoh It was this that induced the Prophet Isaiah to prophesie although rich and noble being the uncle unto the King Manasses according to the opinion of the Hebrews So likewise Paul though an Hebrew of the Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin a Pharisee as touching the Law brought up at the feet of Gamaliel did preach for the necessity of Gods Command occasioned the necessity of obligation Saint Paul was obliged by the Commandment of God to preach the Gospel without any glorying therein o Luke 17.10 When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do saith Christ the Saviour of the world unto his Disciples 2. Saint Paul was bound to preach the Gospel by his calling for his office and those excellent and eminent titles of his vocation did oblige him to do it the prophets the Apostles the Evangelists and Ministers of the word of God are stiled the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof Angels watchmen Bishops overseers superintendants fishers of men the light and salt of the earth workers and labourers yea labourers together with God builders vine-dressers Pastors spirituall Fathers Stewards of the mysteries of God saviours starres in the right hand of Christ and other such titles and admirable names that are attributed and appropriated unto them in holy scripture to shew and signifie their calling their charge their duty and their honour We read that Timotheus the Musician was so expert learned and admirable in his art that he made of men Lions or Lambs when he would for playing on his instrument he did so stir up and encourage Alexander the great that he did arm himself with all his armour animated and provoked with courage and force to go and fight against his enemies and then on a sudden changing the tune and notes he touched so sweetly on the strings of his instrument that he did pacifie and mollifie King Alexander he did calm him and made him as supple and quiet as a Lamb. The Ministers of God are intitled Boanerges which is the sons of thunder Mark 3.17 who animate and encourage the faithfull p Eph. 6 19 15 16 17. to take the whole armour of God having their loins girt about with t●ruth and having on the breast plate of righteousnesse their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God By these heavenly weapons they fight against the Devil the world and the flesh and have the victory over them They are besides in another consideration stiled Boanerges the sons of thunder to thunder the Judgements of God against sinners and to draw them to repentance and humility and to reclaim them and make them as tame quiet as lambs The ministers are also named Barnabas which is being interpreted the son of consolation Act. 4.36 to comfort all that mourn q Isa 61.1 to preach good tidings unto the meek to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the Captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound They are stiled Barsabas Acts 1.23 to wit sons of Conversion converting sinnes to repentance yea and they are called Bar-jonas sons of the dove that is to say sons of peace and reconciliation So that these titles which are given them do shew their Office and duty their honor and charge for it is not an idle dignity but a work and honourable burden Thus in the Old Testament r Habbak 1 1. The burden which Habbakuck the Prophet did see and Saint Paul in the new Testament calls it ſ Rom. 1.5 grace and Apostleship or charge of Apostle Now these titles above mentioned did appertain unto Paul as an apostle and Evangelist to represent his vocation office obligation and therefore necessity was laid upon him to preach the Gospel But besides this twofold necessity there was another necessity that did presse and urge him namely the threatning and curse of the Lord in case he shewed himself refractory and disobedient and would not preach the Gospel and that is that which the Apostle propoundeth in the last place which he saith Yea wo is unto me if I preach not the Gospel Here we must observe that the word Wo is taken in holy Writ two manner of wayes 1. It doth signifie a corporall wo a temporall curse calamity and misery 2. A spirituall and everlasting wo and curse When Jesus Christ said u Mat. 24.19 Wo unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those dayes he speaks not there of a spirituall and eternall wo but of a temporall and corporall wo whereunto women that are with child and that give suck shall be subject in those times But when he saith x Luk. 6.25 Wo unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation c. He speaks of a spirituall and everlasting wo so the rich man that had had here on earth his consolation was in eternall desolation and misery in hell For y Luk. 16.5 Abraham said unto him son remember that thou in thy life time received good things likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented And the Reprobates do feel in hell unspeakable torments which eye hath never seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man crying out uncessantly Wo wo unto us Now when the Apostle saith here wo is unto me he means it not in the first sense he speaks not of a temporall and corporall