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judgement_n	according_a	lord_n	work_n	1,535	5	5.1853	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40986	The content of a wayfaring man ; and The accompt of a ministers removall : two sermons, the one preached at the morning lecture in the citie of London, the other more enlarged in another congregation / by J.F. ...	Fathers, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing F552; ESTC R32801	36,733	50

Word Yea but his Ministery was of heavie things yea and he would not abate one syllable of his message Jerem. 36.32 though he saw the Kings wrath the Nobles frowns and the stinking Dungeon before him But what say you then to Isaiah He was a man for these times he was stiled the Evangelicall Prophet Sam. 19.2.27 and as David spake of Abimaaz He is a good man and bringeth good tidings His prophesies were for the most part Gospel he did mysteriously and sweetly hold forth Jesus Christ and yet if you will beleeve him he had as little comfort amongst his people as other Mininisters might have amongst theirs I have laboured in vaine saith he and spent my strength for nothing Isai 49.4 But what speak I of the servant the Lord it is of whom this prophesie speaks as appeares by that which followes verse 6. Acts 13.47 I will also give thee for a light of the Gentiles and for salvation unto the ends of the earth Which words the Apostle Paul in his Sermon at Antioch 1 Tim. 3.16 1 Pet. 2.22 Matth. 22.16 Luke 20.21 bringeth home unto that admirable piece of that great mystery of Godlinesse Christ preached unto the Gentiles And now for Christ the Sunne saw never any mans life more inoffensive then his His Doctrine was with authority he was a Teacher sent from God and taught the word of God truly his greatest opposites being his witnesses and yet it is the succeslesnesse of his owne Ministery unto the circumcision of which himself by the Prophet complaineth I have laboured in vain I spent my strength for nothing Of him also the Divine Evangelist testifieth that He came unto his own and his own received him not John 1.11 It is more then manifest he gave that blessing to the Ministery of the Apostles which he with-held from his owne There were more converted at one Sermon of Peter then wee can read of by Christ in all his life time such was our Lords condescention to honour his Ordinances in his servants more then in himselfe Now by two or three witnesses truths may be established but if for further confirmation you desire reasons why a good Minister may be ill matcht with a bad people and the fault not his may you please to consider these Reason 1 1. Mininisters may say as Jacob Are we in Gods stead who hath with-held from us the fruit of our Ministery whose prerogative alone it is to make the sterill heart fruitfull Gen. 30.2 1 Cor. 3.7 and to beget the new creature in the barren conscience the labour is our worke the blessing is his 2. Our spirituall Seed is not alwayes visible some may lie under the clods A remnant may return though the generality be stark naught Isaiah 10.22 3. What if the Lord be pleased to send his Ezekiels to a rebellious House that will not heare them Gods glory is never the lesse Ezek. 2.3 Isai 15.11 Ezek. 2.5 though ours be under foot His Word doth the work for which hee sends it and if the people know no more yet this they shall know that the Lord hath sent a Prophet amongst them He was not wanting to their good in outward means if by not improving them they had not been wanting unto their owne Give me leave now to make some short application of this point and I have two words to say to People to Minister Vse 1 1. To the People and let me beseech you good people do not lay those burthens on your Ministers shoulders which belong unto your own It is one of the damnable stratagems of Hell to keep the people from profitablenesse under the Ministery of the Word by misrepresenting unto them the causes of their unprofitablenesse and it is one of the mighty methods of Satan to perswade them to charge the causes any where then where they ought upon their own hearts Yet one word more good people beare and I pray beare with your Ministers complainings under your unprofitablenesse for surely their discomforts are exceeding great not as you give out for their went of outward comforts For without all question God will never leave a godly Minister unprovided for If he straghten him in one place he will make room for him in another But because Gods glory and your soules are dearer unto them then their lives Moses for the glory of Gods name Exod. 32.32 Rom. 9.3 was contented to have his owne blotted out of the book of life and Paul for the salvation of many was prest in zeale to have parted with his own Nay beloved I will speak a bold word and a true your soules are much dearer unto your Ministers then they are unto your selves For did you bestow but halfe those paines and cares about your own soules which they bestow upon yours how good how much better would they be How prodigall are many of the sonnes of Adam to barter away the pretious purchase of Christs blood for an Apple their Birth-right for a messe of pottage their soules upon every slight temptation when it costs their Minister many a night watches many a painfull swets many a carefull thoughts and heavy Ephialts to recover the spoile out of the strong mans hands again Vse 2 To my fellow-labourers in the Gospel such as doe see their seed and travell of their soule whose lot is fallen unto them in a faire ground and they have a good Congregation Faelices nimium bona si sua norint I would have them to blesse God much for this rich mercy who have cast their lot amongst a people reverently affected unto their Ministery And I would perswade them with all tendernesse of spirit and condescension to blow up every sparke of good which they see amongst their people A word more I have to my fellow-sufferers who are discomfortably matcht with an unkinde and untractable people though their comfort be lesse then others yet their reward may not for our reward is not according to our successe but according to our labours I have laboured in vaine I have spent my strength for nothing saith Christ saith Esay But my Judgement is with the Lord and my work with the most High Though Israel be not gathered yet shall I be glorified The clouds doe kindly serve divine providence in dropping down their fatnesse though the earth be not fruitfull and the Sunne in giving out his influences though the clay be hardned should wee cast our pearles before swine Which doe not onely refuse our pearles but rend our persons Our pearles are not the lesse precious nor our kindnesse the lesse acceptable unto Jesus Christ for whose sake wee both labour and suffer I remember a passage between Christ and Peter Luke 5.4 5. Christ coming into Peters ship to preach after he had don his Sermon bad Peter to cast out his net into the Sea for a draught of fish why Sir saith Peter I have fisht all night and have caught nothing neverthelesse