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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97255	The pastors advocate. Together with the peoples monitor. By R. Junius Gent. Adde this as an appendix to Gods goodnesse and Englands unthankfulnesse. Imprimatur, Tho. Gataker.; Englands unthankfulness striving with Gods goodness, for the victory. Appendix.	Younge, Richard.	1651 (1651)	Wing Y169; Thomason E1230_2; ESTC R208886	18,505	17

men most brutish and irrationall yea impious and ungratefull As God forbid men should profit so little by their Minister as their Minister profits by them § 26. And yet they have some peece of reason for it for their blockish stupidity is such that they think none live more idely then Scholars yea doubtless they think Ministers can preach without study as the Apostles did or live by miracle as John Baptist did Mistake me not I have no minde to meddle with that perverse generation that are so drunk with an opinion of the spirit and such enemies to learning and pains in study that they barrowcado their hearts not only against the admitment of what any one of another judgement can attedge but even against common sense though these also are of the others judgement and that in the extreme For these hold yea will maintain that a Cobler may sit at his work all the week and yet preach two better Sermons upon the Lords day ex tempore then the best Scholar can do that spends himself in his library alledging the Apostles for their warrant And yet could I hear Fishermen or the like write and preach like the Apostles and likewise speak all Languages by the Spirit as they did who of no Scholars were suddenly changed into greater Scholars and better Orators then ever the world bred up in the best Vniversities I would see if I could prevail with my understanding to submit to their judgements In the mean time I say of all men in the world I mean not to meddle with them and I should be as sorry to have them meddle with me And therein also my hope is depending for like that Horse sent to Dr Butler in Cambridge they care not for books yea they will allow of no books to be read but the Bible wherein by consequence they condemn all preaching So having a little stept out of my way to meet with our Enthusiasts as once a grave Divine stept out of his text to meet with King James about his swearing I return to the parties with whom my business lies §. 27 Men envy not the prodigious wealth of Merchants Lawyers Courtiers but they cannot hear of a Minister that hath a tythe of their means but their hearts and splenes rise at it Nor must what they have be counted as due wages for their work though as I shewed before he that preacheth the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.7 to 15. Thought he that is taught in the word is commanded to communicate unto him that teacheth in all his goods Gal. 6.6 Rom. 15.27 Though our debt and duty to our spiritual Pastors is such as that Paul told Philemon Thou owest unto me even thine own self Philem. 19. And though the beleeving Galathians received Paul as an Angel of God yea even as Christ Jesus and to pleasure him would if it had been possible have plucked out their own eyes and have given them unto him Gal. 4.14 15. But it must be called a benevolence forsooth or free gift § 28. And in case he seeks to mend himself by accepting of better means they will make it such a hainous matter as if he had stolen a horse or as if he had forsaken his lawfull wife and married another woman As it would amaze a man to hear how confidently these blocks will maintain that a Minister in this case cannot with a good conscience forsake his people yea though his aym and end be principally the glory of God As when all or most in the Parish blinde themselves with prejudice against him and even stop their ears against whatsoever truth he delivers resolving against their own conversion If he shall remove to another people that will receive him as the Galathians did Paul and help them to another whom they far more respect and whose Ministry is more likely to do good upon them they will most basely calumniate him and not he alone shall suffer but all these Churchmen say they are so covetous that they never think they have enough And what hospitality do they keep when they have scarce enough to fill the bellies of their own families all which not only argues them as brainless as beasts but proves them to be as full of the serpents enmity as the egge of a Cockatrice is full of poyson But. § 29. 3. As it is most unjust and unreasonable so it is the most abominable in Gods sight of all other sins How abominable it is we may partly gather from the many complaints and threatnings which God throughout all the old Testament utters for the robbing him of his Tythes Offerings c. See Mal. 3.8 9 10 11. and 1.7 8 13 14. Hag. 1 and 2d Chapters c. Besides What is the root and spring of this their spight and enmity to the Ministry but an inbred enmity and hatred against God himself As when Satan slew Jobs sons and servants his malice was against Job Or as when Saul darted a spear at Jonathan his spight was against David He that loves not the members was never a friend to the Head § 30. And accordingly God takes what is done to his Ministers or Messengers as done to himself They have not cast thee away saith God to Samuel but they have cast me away that I should not reign over them 1 Sā 8.7 You are gathered together against the Lord saith Moses to Korah Dathan and Abiram when they presumptuously told him He and Aaron had taken too much upon them and what is Aaron that ye murmur against him Num. 16. 11. He that hateth me saith our Saviour meaning as he was a Minister of the Gospel hateth my Father also Joh. 15.23 which proves a world among us to be God-haters Rom. 1.30 Many such places I might alledge if I would be large If men honoured Christ they could not dispise his Ministers his Ambassadors if they despise his Ministers they do not honour Christ and if they do not honour him he will never honour them But it appears that too-many value not their Minister so much as they do their Horse which is a sign of a desperate condition When Homer had spent many lines in dispraising the body of Thersites he briefly describes his soul thus That he was an enemy to Ulysses And we need say no more of a bad man then he is an enemy to his Pastor that is enough to brand him But. § 31. 4. It is not more unjust unreasonable and abominable then it is foolish and prejudiciall to our selves For our selves suffer most and are the greatest loosers in this kinde of thrist As mark diligently I pray you but these few Scriptures Is it time for your selves to dwell in your seeled Houses and this my House lie waste Hag. 1. Now therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts Consider your own waies Ye have sown much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ye drink but ye are not filled with drink ye cloathe you