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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91944	The figg-less figg-tree: or, The doome of a barren and unfruitful profession lay'd open. In an exposition upon that parable: a certain man had a figg-tree planted in his vineyard, &c. Luke 13. 6,7,8,9,10. / By Nehemiah Rogers, a minister of the Gospel of Christ.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1823; Thomason E973_1; ESTC R203371	458,183	541

march on resolutely You can easily apply it Our discords are the sweerest Musick in the ears of Papists Anabaptists c. they have weakned us strengthned them Sirs said Dion to his contentious souldiers your enemies see your mutinous behaviour pointing to the Castle wherein their enemies were Oh! that we would spend more then a few thoughts upon it our enemies see and are glad to see and make use of what they see in beholding our differences and discords and clap their hands to see us wring ours Highly to be commended were Basil and Eusebius who perceiving the Arrians to improve a difference that was betwixt them to the prejudice of the Orthodox Faith were soon reconciled and united their forces against the common enemy And we read in story that Aristides perceiving the open scandal that was like to arise by reason of the contention sprung up betwixt him and Themistocles he besought him mildly after this manner Sir We both are no mean men in this Commonwealth our dissentions will prove no small offence unto others nor disparagement to our selves Wherefore good Themistocles let us be at one again and if we will strive let us strive who shall exceed the other in Virtue and Love Oh! that there were such a strife between Minister and Minister Such a strife would be our glory Thirdly Unity and concord amongst God's Ministers is very acceptable and pleasing unto God and delights his spirit In the 2 Chron. 5.13 2. Chron. 18. we read that when the Trumpeters and Singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praysing and thanking the Lord there the House was filled with a Cloud even the House of the Lord God drew near and manifested his gracious presence amongst them And Acts 2.1 11. Divers spake in divers Languages at once Acts 2.1 11. yet all consented in the thing which they spake for all spake the wonderful things of God and then the Spirit of God was amongst them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and fell on them and that in the likenesse of cloven tongues not of cloven hearts Thence Interpreters conclude Animarum unio concordia est optima d spositio ad recip●endum Spiritum sanctum that unity and concord is the best disposition of the mind for receiving of the holy Ghost But on the other side God is not present with his favour his spirit abides not where discord and dissention is That merry Cardinal intimated as much to his fellows in the Conclave when they could not agree about the choice of the Pope Let us said he untyle the House quia Spiritus sanctus nequit ad nos per tot tecta ingredi because the Holy Ghost cannot get in unto us through so many Tyles Differences and contentions amongst us keeps Gods spirit from us Nay yet more It causeth God to be highly offended with us and to smite us when we agree not that we may be made to agree together A very remarkable passage hereof we read in Socrates great difference and contention did arise betwixt two famous Bishops Socrat. Eccles Hist l. 8. c. 13.17 21. Epiphanius and Chrysostome insomuch that in a rage they parted asunder using some unchristian imprecations I hope said Epiphanius to Chrysostome that thou shall not dye a Bishop and I hope said Chrysostome to Epiphanius that thou shalt not return alive into thine own Country both which fell out accordingly for Eiphanius dyed at Sea as he was returning home and Chrysostome was deprived of his Bishoprick and dyed in exile Many were slain in taking parts the Cathedral Church and Senate House in Constantinople was burned to the ground in persuit of revenge A fearful president of Gods displeasure against the discords of his Servants think how God loathes that which he so severely punisheth Ridley and Hoper could not agree about black and white God made them to agree in red Lastly The after-throes that we put our Mother the Church unto by our Dissentions would be laid to heart Gen. 25.22 Rebeccah finding a strugling in her Womb cryed out Why am I thus So saith the Church Oh! why am I fruitful of Children when they prove such dissenting and diagreeing Children Diens Alexandr Apud Niceph. Time was when it was said by the holyest men that then lived in the Church non minoris esse laudis non scindere Ecclesiam quàm Idolo non sacrificare that it was no lesse praise worthy to abstain from renting the Church then to forbear sacrificing to an Idol These things well considered would without all question work somewhat towards unity and concord between dissenting Brethren whose divisions do cause great thoughts of heart in every faithful Christian who desires to see our Vines and Figg-Trees flourish Judg. 5.15 And provoke them to use all good meanes of reconciliation and hearken to all lawful proposals that may make for peace Now what these meanes are that by Gods Min●sters must be used whereby this unity and concord amongst them may be attaine d would be shewed And so besides those general directions before given these particular Rules are very useful First Let us make our peace with God for till that be done no peace can be expected with man Phil. 4.7 9. It is in Judgement that God divides our hearts I will divide them in Jacob Phil. 4.7 9. Gen. 47.7 c. St. Basil lamenting the discord that was in that Church imputes the cause thereof to mens contempt of their Heavenly King As did the troubles of Israel and the Judges arise from this that there was no King in Israel Questionlesse our dissentions are Paenal and Judicial punishments for that willful Rent which hath bin made amongst us and till God be appeased still dissention will abide You may read Zach. 11.4 of two Pastoral Staves Zach. 11.14 wherewith the Flock of God is fed the one is Beauty which signifies safety and protection the covenant made betwixt God and his People the other Bands which signifieth unity and concord amongst God's People Now the Staff Beauty God takes and breaks shewing their wicked dealing with the Covenant of God then Bands cannot hold This is our case it is to be feared our covenants with God have bin violated we have broken the staff Beauty and God in his just judgment breaketh Bands that it holds not Secondly Let our care be to stock our selves well with Heavenly wisdom that Heavenly wisdom which is from above that is with the knowledge of Divine things Such I hope is the Resolution of the associated Ministers of this County as appeares by their agreement Essex We resolve through the grace of Christ to contend daylie to the comprehension of that Ministerial knowledge and wisdome whereby we may understand our way and to study more and strive after that excellent Wisdom and Art of winning Souls c. Indeed we professe our selves to be Wisdom's Schollars yea Wisdom's Children Now Wisdom looks to be justified

of Tillage or Manuring which is that you call the tenth of the Rent or two Shillings in the Pound and that the Landlord allowes for in letting of his Lands he so letteth them as to pay that burthen which lyeth on them so doth the seller in making sale of his at any time for if that burthen were taken off the Purchase or Rent should be raised accordingly This was generally desired Petitions with many hands thereto preferred much mony in some parts of this our County gathered to prosecute the businesse Non ignota cano And in all likelihood that Petition had passed had not divers Impropriators then present in Parliament in respect of their own interest say some made stop of it Notwithstanding this many Ministers especially in this part of our County Ad faciendum populum willing to accomodate their People in their desires as they had need coming into their Livings upon a tickle Title condiscended to their People's request who now groan under the mischief of it finding it experimentally true that the taking of their maintenance in that way which is allowed and appointed by the Magistrate for those who labour in the Word and Doctrine is the safest surest easiest and speediest way as before was said But still the covetous desires of many are unsatiable and think they are not low enough they deal by their Minister in their Compositions as we do by an Onyon take off Pill after Pill so long till they leave nothing but tears in the Eye Or else if they promise payment for what they have compounded they are so long about it like the School-boy who is about to receive his payment from his Master so long in fumbling about his Hole that the Minister like the Master weary with long stay had rather forgive them than to wait so long upon them or send so often to them for it But be it known unto you that these and the like unjust practises are not onely Injury to men but Impiety against God The style of all ancient Deeds and Grants belonging to the Church run in this form We have given unto God Mag. Chart c. 1. Capit. Car. l. 6. c. 28 both for us and for our heirs for ever To the Lord our God we offer and dedicate whatsoever we deliver unto his Church said Charls the Great Now can you think it any other than what is said to rob the Minister of his due It is Robbery and that in a high degree and such a Thievery that very Heathens and Pagans are ashamed of Me-thinks if men did but seriously think of the Curse denounced against the House of the Thief Zach. 5.2.3 Mal. 3.3 and more especially against the House of that Thief the Church-Robber that sacrilegious Thief Mal. 3.9 And of the soar and severe Judgments which have been inflicted in all Ages visibly and apparently on such Thievs It should cause their mouths to leave watering after Church-morsells But I dare say you think that I have been too long already upon this Subject which in your Judgments doth not so well become a Pulpit but if Moses the Prophets and Apostles have wrote so much and spoke so often of this matter it may very well beseem the mouth of the Minister to speak in the cause of God his Church and Gospel But is there nothing to be inferred from hence which concerns the Minister Yes without doubt and I will shew you Use 3 Such as intend to take this Calling upon them must resolve to buckle to the work and not dream of pleasure and an idle Life Peter's Chair is not to sit and sleep in Qui Episcopatum desiderat 1 Tim. 3 13. c. saith the Apostle He that desires the Office of a Bishop desires a worthy Work Opus non dignitas labor non deliciae saith Jerom It is a Work not dignity a labour not a delicacy And to Preach the Gospel truly is as Luther sometimes spake little lesse then to raise up the rage and sury of all the Country and therefore when one defined the Ministerial function to be Artem Artium Scientiam Scientiarum The Art of Arts and Science of Sciences Melancthon sayd If he had defined it to be Miseriam Miseriarum the Misery of Miseries he had hitt it right And being entered into this painful Calling let them see that they take pains in it We Preach against idlenesse in other Callings and shall we our selves be addicted to so base a sin In so doing what do we other then give place to that reproof Thou that teachest another Rom. 2.21 dost thou not teach thy self Thou that preachest against idlenesse art thou an idler In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Raign I have read that one Preaching in Christs-Church Canterbury when men indeed were very backward in Preaching he spake by a Prosopopeia to the Pulpit after this manner Oh good Pulpit how hast thou offended the Cannons of Christ's Church If thou wert an ambling Nagg they would ride thee if a Bed of doun they would sleep on thee if a good Garment they would weare thee Alas good Pulpit what hast thou done that none would come near thee to Preach in thee Shall any Pulpit in these dayes complain against any Pulpit-man after that manner when we have more abilities more knowledge then they in those Dayes Our Pulpits in these Dayes are better supplyed then formerly Yet by the like Prosopopeia we may speak to the Table of the Lord Oh! Holy Table wherein hast thou offended that thou art so little regarded wert thou furnished with delicates for the Body to pamper that thou shouldst be resorted unto c. But what is thy offence How and with what conscience can such receive the wages that do not the Work and require maintenance from the Altar that work not at the Altar A sad Wo is cenounced against such Ezek. 34.2 3. Ezek. 34.2 3. Wo unto the Shepheards of Israel that feed themselves should not the Shepheards feed the Flocks ye eat the Fat and Cloath you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but you feed not the Sheep Therefore wo unto you for your idlenesse and greedinesse St. Paul speaking in his own commendation mentions his aboundant labours 2 Cor. 11.23 1 Cor. 15.10 2 Cor. 11.23 Aug. Confes l. 6. c. 3. And indeed this is one of the greatest commendations that belongs unto a Minister that he is laborious and painful in his Calling This was that for which the Bishops and Martyrs in former times were so highly extolled and commended St. Austine tells us of St. Ambrose Bishop of Millaine that he heard him preaching the Word of Truth unto the People Omni Dominico Every Lords-Day And Possidonius writeth of St. Austin Bishop of Hippo that he taught and preached privately and publiquely in the House and in the Church after the practise of St. Paul by the space of three years not ceasing to warn every one Night and Day