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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12350	A fruitfull sermon vpon part of the 5. chapter of the first epistle of Saint Paule to the Thessalonians. By Henry Smith, which sermon being taken by characterie, is now published for the benefite of the faithfull	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22665; ESTC S113466	14,732	47

not so safegard a Cittie as the Prophets which teach it and pray for it Howe ioyfull and glad was Lydea when shee coulde drawe Paule and Silas to her house If you thinke me to be faithfull come to my house shewing that neuer any guests were so welcome to her house before Howe tender was the Shunamite ouer Elisha that shee built an house to welcome him and to keepe him with her thinkes all the places in her house too bad for him shee built him a newe roome and made him stay Howe much did the Galathians make of Paule that hee saith They woulde pull out their owne eyes to doe him good So once a Prophet was esteemed like a Prophet and hath hee bidde you despise them nowe which bad you to honour them before No Paule chargeth vs to receiue our teachers as hee was receiued himselfe saying Hee which laboureth in the Word is worthy of double honour That is the preachers after a sort are as well to be honoured as the Ruler Aaron and Moyses were brethren If Aarons Vrim and Thumi woulde haue serued Moyses rod and staffe should not haue needed But when the tongue could not perswade then the rodde did compell As Paule sheweth the Thessalonians howe the Preachers of the word should be honoured so he teacheth the Phillippians how to honor their teachers saying Receiue him in the Lord with great gladnes and make much of such that is shew your selues so glad of him that hee may be glad of you Haue you neede to be taught why Paule woulde haue you make much of such because they are like Lampes which consume themselues to giue light to other so they consume themselues to giue light to you Because they are like a Henne which clocketh her chickens together from the Kite so they clocke you together from the Serpent Because they are like the Shout which did beate downe the walles of Iericho so they beate downe the walles of sinne Because they are like the fiery Piller which went before the Israelits to the lande of Promise for they goe before you to the lande of promise because they are like Moises which stept betweene the plague and the people because they are like good Andrewe that shewed his bretheren the Messias so they call you to see the Messias and therefore make much of such If wee shoulde make much of Prophets how much should we make of prophecying If we should loue our instructers howe much should we loue instruction Simeon keeping in the Temple met with Christ so many hearing the Worde haue met with knowledge haue met with comfort haue mette with peace haue met with saluation but without the Word neuer any was conuerted to God therefore whensoeuer the word is preached euery one may say to himselfe as the Disciples saide to the blinde man Be of good comfort he calleth thee Be of good comfort the Lorde calleth thee But when the word is not preached thē euery man may say to himselfe Beware the deuill calleth thee When the Prophets went from Ierusalem then sworde and famine and pestilence and all the plagues of God rayned vpon them euen as the fire came vppon Sodome so soone as Lot was gone out There be two trades in this lande without which the Realme can not stand and one is the Queenes souldiours and the other is the Lordes souldiours and the Lordes souldiers are hardly vsed like the Queenes souldiers for from the Marchant to the Porter no calling is so despised so contemned so deryded that they may beg for their seruice for their liuing is turned to an almes one saith Moyses is quis that is the Magistrate is some bodie but Aaron is quasi quis that is the Minister is no bodie because no bodie is despised like him Receiue a Prophet in the name of a Prophet nay receiue a Prophet in the name of an enemie as Achab receiued Eliah Art thou heere myne enemie If Paule had liued in our dayes he would not haue saide Despise not the Prophets but persecute not the Prophets for hee shoulde haue seene not onely despisers of the Prophets but mockers of them not onely mockers but slaunderers of them not only slaunderers but hunters biters and smiters of them Charme the Charmer neuer so sweetly let his song be neuer so pleasant yet many Adders are readie to stoppe their eares and to stoppe his mouth like a Birde which is smitten in her song of the Archer whom she singeth vnto euen as Saule let his speare flye at Dauid while he played vppon his harpe to solace and comfort and driue the euill spirite from him Once they did builde houses for the Prophets like the Shunamite but nowe they take their houses from them and thinke they doe God good seruice when they make them and their Wiues and their Children and their Seruants beggars Once Paule saide to Timothie Let no man despise thy youth shewing that Preachers shoulde not bee despised for their youth but nowe they despise the younge Prophets and the olde too with great contempt Howe is the double honour turned to single honor Nay how is our honour turned to dishonour If I bee a Master saith God where is my feare so if we be Prophets where is our reuerence Dooth not the contempt of Prophets crye vnto God as well as the blood of Abell When the Messengers which were sent vnto the Vineyeard for fruites were beaten of them which shoulde haue laden them then it is said that the Lorde of the Vineyarde waxed worth and saide that hee woulde let the Vineyarde vnto others which shoulde yeelde vnto him the fruites thereof The meaning of this Parable is this that when the Preachers and Teachers which Christ sendeth to his Church for fruits are abused and persecuted or contemned and scorned by those whom they by him appointed doe call vnto the heauenly banquet then will hee remooue the glorie of their Light and the sweete comfort of his Gospel to others which will yeelde him the fruites thereof Theerfore what may those feare which haue vsed Christs Ambassadours as Ammon vsed Dauids Ambassadours Ierusalem is left without one Prophet because shee despised them Sodom was burned because she dispised Lot the whole world was drowned because it despised Noah And are not these examples written for our warning The time came when Saul sought for a Prophet and GOD woulde not aunswere him by Prophets because hee had despised his Prophets before so the time commeth when you shall aske Wheere is the Seer and they shall say he is rapt away like Elias a Prophet was amongst vs but when hee was despised in Ierusalem he was sent to Niniuie Is not iudgement begun already dooth not the Gospell stande at the doore as if shee were ready to take her leaue are wee not come from despising of Prophets almost to the despising of prophecying too Doe not many walle