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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43045	The ministers office, the infants inheritance By James Harwood, B.D.	Harwood, James.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1099; ESTC R221283	28,474	108

the excellent knowledge of Christ Iesus This is that unum necessarium one thing onely needful to know Christ Jesus Iohn 17.3 his birth death resurrection ascention and his for ever making intercession for us This must be subjectum basis praedicationis the subject of our sermons Christ Jesus and the reason is given by St. John the Evangelist who said Haec est vita aeterna this is life eternal to know God and whom he hath sent Christ Jesus O what a plentiful Harvest is here I wish we had had more time to inn this divine grain But as we must reach you to know verbum Christum the word Christ so verbum Christi the word of Christ two places I will press upon you one threatning judgement without repentance Matth. 3.10 where it is said And now also the ax is laid to the root of the tree and every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewen down and cast into the fire The other place promising salvation to all that confess and believe Rom. 10.9 the words be these who so confesseth with his mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in his heart that God hath raised him from the dead shall be saved I cannot give you a less Manuel of the Law and Gospel the one place steering you off the rock Presumption the other preserving you from being crushed upon the rock Despair while the one threatning punishment the other promising salvation and now betwixt these two the Lord grant we may sail in safely to that haven the kingdom of heaven And so I pass along from the quid to the quomodo how we must teach the people of God the good Word of God Quoad se Quoad nos Quoad se purè integrè Purè purely not teaching for Doctrine the Traditions of men God will not be pleased that we preach what we please the gold must all of it be fined and refined which we hammer upon that anvil the Pulpit we have no licence to disburse any other Peters pence unto Gods people save such as have been delivered to our hands out of the Treasury of the Scriptures And therefore our sacred Bellows have in them no winde to blow and bouy up a people into rebellion against their Sovereign we know better how to interpret that Text Curse ye Meroz then some have done who for I had almost said their unpardonable sin conscience enjoyned a publique penance Again you may long be hearers of Orthodox Divines before they give the least encouragement for a Civil State to rob Christs Church Nor yet hear till that they approve of those numberless Locusts the Enthusiasts who being taught by a white devil pretend Gods Spirit to destroy Christs Gospel No we honour the gospel of Christ Jesus praise God for those that bring purple and fine blue to adorn the Sanctuary and preach ever since we have heard of the mutinous angels obedience to the Sovereign Power under whom we have lived for many years a godly and peaceable life And thus having winnowed out the chaff we feed you with the kernel of the Scripture the Babes with Spoon-meat milk the strong men with Manna meat for Angels neither must we be spiritual niggards but integrè wholly impart and make known unto you the Gospel of Christ Jesus we must endeavour to imitate the Apostle who sayes I have hid no nothing from you What shall we think then of such Ministers that have hid the truth in unrighteousness who many years have concealed while not read the Ten Commandments in our Churches surely these are those new kinde of Ministers that would have their hearers forget their duty to God and charity towards their neighbours What shall we think of those Teachers sprung up of late like Mushrums who have hid while hindered their Parishioners for many years from receiving the Holy Communion Had the good people detained their Tythes when these Mungril Ministers first refrained giving Communion I will warrant you ere they would have wanted the Pig and Goose they would have given you the Bread and the Wine What shall we say now to those Preachers who deptive poor Infants of their jus divinum I mean Baptisme but of this I shall make a large discourse to the Anabaptists shame and our Mother the Churches renown These are the Preachers who have detained from Infants their due and also stoln from us Christs Legacy while instead of peace they have cryed up war in the room of Subjection voted up Rebellion in the stead of Religion brought in Atheism nay their false Doctrine so commonly ventilated hath made as fearful a rent in our Church and State as was at the death of the King of Salem in the Temple of Jerusalem As our sins have brought upon us this misery so none can help us but the King of glory Now Lord for thy ancient mercies sake for thy Son his merits sake be good unto Zion and build up the breaches in the walls of our Jerusalem And thus having prayed for our selves let us look quoad nos at our selves and take into consideration how we the Ministers of Christ Jesus ought to preach the Gospel this must be done with a quick speed deliberate discretion with a constant continuance to joyn all together Haste without discretion is like wings without eyes discretion without haste is like eyes without wings both without constancy is like feet and eyes without an heart First we must hasten to our business and teach saith St. Paul I conferred not with flesh and blood when it pleased God to send me to preach his Son among the Heathen Gal. 1.16 And to shew what speed all the Apostles were to make they are commanded to salute none by the way Remember what Solomon saith As vinegar is to the teeth and smoak to the eyes so is a sluggard to them that send him Prov. 10.26 Remember Peter and John were at the Temple at the third hour of the day Secondly Discretion is mightily required in teaching to make our spiritual receipts we stand in need to be inspired with Gods Spirit and all this to know how much oleum and how much acetum we must pour in 3. We are to hold on teaching for 't is said Cursed is he that puts his hand to the plough and pulls it back A Ministers work is never at an end for as we make the Devil mars we must therefore to our work again as we sowe the wheat the envious man sowes tares when therefore tilth time is past preaching the Law seed-time past preaching the Gospel The weeding time comes in and never ends till our end till you Gods harvest be inn'd into that common barn the grave Here is work for us then all our lives you finde us work a long life-lasting work 't is an hard case to work so long for no wages for small wages nay more for all our pains to be scourged out of the Temple plundered of all our goods as Iob was by the