Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	day_n	lord_n	week_n	1,570	5	10.1842	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16895	The preachers charge, and peoples duty about preaching and hearing of the Word : opened in a sermon, being the first fruits of a publike exercise, begun in the parish church of Lownd, for the benefit of the island of Louingland in Suffolke / by Iohn Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1631 (1631)	STC 3790.5; ESTC S1527	26,069	42

THE PREACHERS CHARGE AND PEOPLES DVTY About Preaching and Hearing of the WORD OPENED In a Sermon being the first fruits of a publike Exercise begun in the Parish Church of Lownd for the benefit of the Island of Louingland in Suffolke By IOHN BRINSLEY Minister of the Word in great YARMOVTH LONDON Printed for ROBERT BIRD and are to be sold by Thomas Carre in Norwich 1631. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL SIR IOHN VVENTVVORTH of Somerley-ton in the County of Suffolke Knight sauing health and eternall happinesse Right Worshipfull I Here send you the first fruits of your owne your owne by countenance your owne by maintenance What you heard with attention I questi●n not but you will willingly reuiew and in what concernes you readily practise The Charge which is here opened is directly ours but by consequence yours and whose not The Preaching of the Gospell being a publike worke though it requires not euery mans mouth to preach it yet his eare and his hand it doth to receiue it to vphold it This Arke of the new Couenant more is the pity it should be so frequently laid vpon the Cart is properly for our shoulders to beare but yet none are debarred from touching of it It is not onely the liberty but the duty of euery priuate Christian to further the cause of the Gospell in what hee may much more of them whom the Common-wealth calleth forth for publike imployments I blesse God that I haue no need to presse this charge vpon your particular or if I doe my arguments must bee commendations The bellies of the poore of these parts blesse you already in these times of scarcity I hope some of their soules shall blesse you for the Bread that perisheth not This religious exercise which God hath made you the instrument to erect and I hope to contiue shall honour you in the eyes of God and his Saints The Lord make it as prosperous as it is needfull and giue you the true comfort of it here and hereafter So prayeth Your Worships euer in the Lord IOHN BRINSLEY A Table for the Prophets chamber Parts ● The Ministers Charge A Duty inioyned Preach where is explained The thing what Preaching is The signification of the word implying The Preachers office viz A Cryer a Herald Manner of discharging it viz. To whom he is to speake to all In whose name his Masters How Boldly Faithfully Plainly The Word Christ. The Gospell of Christ. Consisting in foure particular actions Manner of performance Generall Be instant Earnest with Themselues Others Diligent Particular In Season At the set ordinary time the Lords day Speciall seasons and opportunities Out of season when the word seemeth to be so in respect of the Speaker Hearer Both viz. on the weeke day The Peoples dutie by way of application in fiue particulars 1. Heare 2. The Word not being offended at the simplicity of it 3. Be instant Earnest with Themselues in exciting To the dutie In the dutie Others God that he would giue to his Ministers Ability Liberty Efficacy Man Ministers themselues exciting them to their dutie by Christian exhortation which must be done with Loue. Wisedome Respect to their paces Incouragements Verball Reall Competency of maintenance Honor and respect due to their callings Entertaining the word with gladnesse in Receiuing Practising Priuate persons stirring them vp to attend vpon Gods ordinances Diligent 4. In Season At the set time the Lords day When God disposeth the heart after a speciall manner 5. Out of Season On the weeke day as occasion shall be offered When outward occasions may withdraw or hinder When inward indisposition may discourage THE PREACHERS CHARGE AND PEOPLES DVTIE 2 TIM 4. 2. Preach the Word be instant in season out of season IN all solemne Assemblies and publike meetings vpon ciuill affayres the first act vsually is to open and reade the Commission which may warrant the businesse to bee vndertaken This course I haue thought good to obserue and follow in making entrance vpon this holy and religious Exercise First to open vnto you the Commission which may warrant and beare out the duty wee are now to goe about and that not onely in the substance but also in the circumstance In this Exercise there are but two things subiect to question the Exercise it selfe and the season for the performance of it The Exercise it selfe The Preaching of the Word Carnall minded men who sauour not the things of God will happly conceiue of it at the least as not so necessary The season for the performance of this Exercise being on the weeke day others perhaps will censure it as not expedient To both these the Spirit of God in the words I haue now read giueth vs an expresse warrant and that not by way of allowance onely but by way of iniunction as of things that not onely may bee done but must bee done To the Exercise it selfe Preach the Word not onely a toleration but a peremptory command To the circumstance of time the season for the performance of it Be instant in season out of season No season vnseasonable for this so necessary a duty Euen that which may seeme to carnall reason to flesh and blood to bee out of season is yet seasonable Though it may seeme vnseasonable to the hearers yet it is seasonable in the speaker This is Saint Pauls charge to Timothy in particular and in him to all the Ministers of the Gospell Preach the Word be instant in season out of season In this Apostolicall charge there are two things present themselues to our consideration The duty inioyned and The manner of discharging it The Duty that is inioyned is Preaching of the Word Preach the Word The Manner how this duty must be discharged is With earnestnesse and diligence with vndaunted resolution with indefatigable industry Bee instant in season out of season To begin with the Duty it selfe Preach the Word This is a Duty imposed by God vpon all the Ministers of the Gospell They must Preach the Word This is the charge we see which S. Paul here imposeth vpon his sonne Timothy and he doth it with as much seriousnesse and earnestnesse as possibly can be conceiued I charge thee before God and the Lord Iesus Christ who shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and his kingdome Preach the Word Did you euer heare a charge set on with more pressing arguments with more compulsiue and commanding perswasions I but in imposing this charge vpon Timothy doth not Saint Paul deale as our Sauiour saith of the Scribes and Pharises who binde heauy burthens vpon other mens shoulders but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers Nothing lesse What he imposeth vpon Timothy he conceiueth and acknowledgeth to be as deepely charged vpon himselfe Necessity is laid vpon me yea Wee is vnto mee of I Preach not the Gospell So deeply did this great Doctor of the Gentiles account himselfe to stand charged with this Duty