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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09092	The faithfull shepheard the shepheards faithfulnesse: wherein is for the matter largely, but for the maner, in few words, set forth the excellencie and necessitie of the ministerie; a ministers properties and dutie; his entrance into this function and charge; how to begin fitly to instruct his people; catechising and preaching; and a good plaine order and method therein: not so as yet published ... By Richard Bernard, preacher of Gods Word.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1607 (1607)	STC 1939; ESTC S101671	78,081	104

publike receiued translation As it may argue some presumption and pride in the Corrector so it may breed contention and leaue a great scruple and cast doubts into the hearers mindes what reckoning to make of a translation and it giues great aduantage to the Papists who heereby labour to forestall many that they smally account of our translations which we see can neuer be so well done and generally approoued of but some particular persons will be censuring the same and that not onely in priuate a thing happely tolerable if the censure bee true and wisely proceeded in but also they must needs shew their skill in Pulpits It may seeme that such hold it an excellent thing digito monstrari and that they weene and are of opinion that as Persius notes the vaine ones Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter It is verie necessarie that the translation be most sound But it is nothing expedient that euer publike proclamation bee made of some small defects that by much prying happely may be noted In a common auditorie we must onely vse our mother toong therein of euery ordinarie person but onely such faults as needs noting and that of learned men too As the text must bee read in the mother toong so heere to speake a little briefly of it by the way must the whole Sermon before a common assemblie according to the Prophets practise the 1. Cor. 14. 2. 4. 6. 9. 11. 16. 19. vse of our Sauiour the reasons of S. Paul the custome of the Apostles and as the Primitiue Fathers the Greeke and Latine Doctors of the Church were wont to doe as their Sermons extant declare without intermixing of long sentences in strange languages not vnderstood differing from their natiue speech A strange toong hinders the conceit of most hearers except it be vsed rarely aptly and briefly being ignorant of the same to apt that before spoken to that which followes after and except it be vsed with discretion it is a hiding to them what we professe rather than to teach them an vnprofitable mispending of time First needlesse to vtter it haply in Greeke then in Latine and after in English a treble or a double labour for one it may be one two three or some few vnderstand hardly the languages but all other doe not must we therefore pleasing our selues seeke to delight these few to win a little vaine praise of learning whilest all the rest stand at a gaze admiring what is said without edification We that stand vp in Christs roome must not seeke our owne commendations there wee must paint out the trueth liuely and plainly approouing our selues faithfull dispensers of Gods secrets to the conscience of euerie beleeuer in euery thing to the vtmost of our power Neuerthelesse necessitie constraining as some time to declare the emphasis of a word often more significant in the original than in the translation to note some special phrase to conuince some proudly conceited of his knowledge or The text must be out of the Canon of the Scripture Ier. 23. 28. 1. Pet. 4. 11. 1. Cor. 4. 6. Iohn 7. 16. 8. 26. 12. 50. Act. 26. 22. in a learned auditorie I doubt not of a libertie therein For the Text it must be Canonicall Scripture The Minister is Gods mouth he must then speake Gods word not onely taking it for his text but all his words must agree to the written trueth aboue which he may not presume The Prophets came with the word of the Lord our Sauiour vttered onely the word of his Father as his Father spake vnto him his Text was the Canon of the Scripture Luc. 4. 16. 17. he interpreted scripture Luc. 24. S. Paul taught Psal 19. 7. Heb. 4. 12. 2. Tim. 3. 16. Rom. 8. 7. Esa 29 13. Neh. 8. 2. Chr. 17 9. nothing but Scripture it onely bindeth conscience it is absolutely perfect it conuerteth makes perfect Mens precepts are no rule in Religion Will affection is too base to rule to command Reason and Reason to swaie by mans wisedome is too carnall for Religion Esdras text was Scripture Christs out of Esay the Leuites was the Law euery one spake out of the booke of God so continued vntil Popish Prelats inuented lying Legends to beguile the people such as God giues ouer to beleeue lies for that they kept not nor receiued a loue of the trueth and so remaine at this day euen ● Thes 2. 11. their diuinest Doctors by Gods iust iudgement Some heretofore haue preached without a Text but it is not now the custome of the Church which ordely must be obserued neither is that way so good to increase knowledge in the Scripture nor to cause reuerence to that which is spoken they not seeing whence it is grounded Secondly What kinde of Text. it must be a Text to beget faith to ground hope and to settle loue such places must we chuse as plainly affoord vs these things to teach them vsually as the Apostle exhorts Obscure Scriptures about which must necessarilie arise questions of controuersies leaue for Schooles and handle not amongst the common people and vulgar sort Common assemblies are not meet either to heare or iudge of controuersies yet it is a fault of many Preachers who vse commonly in euery Sermon to raise vp one point or other in disputation about which they spend the most of their time often without iust occasion or necessarie cause but the fruit of these mens labors is in their hearers contention talk about words quiddities and vain ostentation but not faith working by loue and holie sanctification Thirdly the Text must be fit for the hearers If S. Paul It must be a fit Text. preach before a Heathen Felix intemperate and vniust his words shall sound out temperance righteousnesse and iudgement that Felix may heare and tremble Christ Iesus will preach before Scribes and Pharisies against false interpretation of Scriptures mens traditions and hypocrisie This choise of ● fit text commends the Ministers wisedome in teaching his faithfulnesse to performe his office without feare and his care to doe good It will preuent cauils when things are reprooued which the Text plainly affords The discommoditie of an vnapt text On the contrarie an impertinent Text shewes that the Preacher wants iudgement either to chuse his Text or to discerne his auditorie or both or that hee hath but some bosome Sermons that alike must serue his turne vpon all occasions in any place or that he is fearefull and dare not take a Text to touch them especially men of place whom hee would rather please by his preaching to pleasure himselfe Gal. 1. 10. loth therefore is such an one to offend the fault of too many in these daies men pleasers not the seruants of The cause of painted eloquence Christ This is the cause why many weigh euery word as in a balance for waight and tuneable measure for

and emphasis of the words preaching of Gods word there all sorts of men begin to giue ouer good things which before they delighted in they decaie in graces and fall backe become rebellious and wickedly disposed whereby they make themselues naked of all graces yea of Gods fauour exposing themselues to their spirituall enemies and so perish and come to destruction Thus you see the doctrine explaned and enlarged by a paraphrase to the capacitie of leuerie one whereof in the next place are vses to bee made and then as one thinks good he may make some obseruation besides after the explanation acception emphasis c. The gathering of a doctrine is where the doctrine is not What it is to gather a doctrine and when and also how expressed in the text and is collected by good consequent necessarilie The doctrine is not to bee written from the text as if the text were drawen to the lesson and not the doctrine from it but must follow iustâ consequentiâ so is the collection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is by helpe of Logicall affection of arguments from a generall to a speciall from the whole to the parts from the proper adiunct to the subiect and from the cause effect subiect contraries comparats definition and distribution As for example Ierem. 31. 31. I will make a new couenant out of which this doctrine I gather from the adiunct That the Law of Moses was not to bee perpetuall but for a time till an other come in place thereof Hebr. 13. 4. Hence this doctrine ariseth It is lawfull for Ministers to marrie and their marriage is honorable which followes by iust consequent a genere ad speciem and is as good a doctrine as if it had been said expresly the marriage of Ministers is honorable and the bed vndefiled And thus he that so collects doctrines and deliuers them is to bee heard as the mouth of God And hee that thus can doe is an Apollo● in Gods Church mightie in the Scriptures shewing by Scripture that which he teacheth Act. 18. 24. 28. and shall conuince the consciences of gaine-saiers and establish the trueth in the hearts of the beleeuers and be bold to vrge it vpon the hearers as speaking with iudgement from authoritie In gathering doctrines which may be diuers waies obserued Whence to collect doctrines proceed in this order both naturall helpefull to memorie and also will occasion a man to thinke of manie lessons I. From the occasion of that Scripture as diuers occasions From the occasion were of the Psalmes of S. Pauls Epistles of the speeches of our Sauiour Christ of the Sermons in the Acts and the same of other Scriptures sometimes one sometimes an other and so accordingly may many doctrines be gathered II. From the coherence when it is with the other words From the coherence whether it be a bare affirmation or negation A reason or moe reasons of that which went before a preuention of an obiection a conclusion in that place of Scripture If a Reason it may teach to obserue that a reason is to be giuen of that which is deliuered for confirmation and that a bare assertion without proofe is not sufficient If the matter bee followed but without any reason annexed it may shew the same sufficiently prooued and easie to be receiued If moe reasons bee brought in and the matter much vrged and largely stood vpon it argues the necessity of that point the earnest endeuour of the author therein that it is hardlie receiued of men as it ought or easily reiected as on a similitude an exhort dehortat commandement c. it ought not to be If the words be a preuention of an obiection wee may gather that in teaching there is as well required wisdome to preuent a foe as to instruct a friend If a conclusion a time to be obserued to end euery thing wherein is wisedome how farre to speake in a matter and when to conclude and be silent If the words bee a similitude to illustrate the matter it may not the obscuritie of the point handled or the plaine and euident dealing of the Author noting withall the kind of similitude and whence it is fetched Lastly If an exhortation threat promise c. wee may collect the vse of them for that end which the spirit vseth them Also from Commandement affirmatiue and exhortations that we are vnapt and slow to a thing From Commandement Negatiue and dehortation our aptnesse to a thing Withall prooue the exhortation to be necessarie or dehortation also promises and threats by other Scriptures and examples and shew wherein also the promises and threats made doe stand and in what particulars III. From the scope and maine drift of the words From the scope There is but one true sense of a place one scope and one proper doctrine or proposition Of a generall proposition or doctrine gathered out of many words from the most principall scope which doctrine is chiefe and principall of that Scripture As there is but one drift so but one proper and most naturall doctrine of that place which though it may be deliuered in a few words yet it is conteined sometimes in many sometime in fewer verses or words As for example In handling the Epistle to the Romans after the Preface to come to the matter we shall finde the first scope and principall proposition conteining the same to bee this That there is but one way for all Iew or Gentile to attaine saluation euen by the faith in Christ wrought by the Gospell the power of God to saluation which doctrine is conteined and followed from the 16. verse of the first Chapter to the beginning of the 19. chap. whereunto all that is spoken is to be referred as conteining reasons to confirme the same But now heere note as there is a generall scope and so a Propositions or doctrines lesse generall drawen from the words which haue a more speciall scope The lesse generall prooueth the more generall doctrine so are there other propositions lesse generall conteined within the same and serue to prooue the more generall the words hauing a generall scope to prooue likewise these lesse generall propositions As to declare my meaning The generall and principall proposition you heare what it is now besides the Apostle deliuers other propositions Generall as Rom. 3. 9. All men are sinners which doctrine is conteined from the 18. vers of the first chap. to the 19. verse of the 3. chap. Againe that the workes of the Law iustifie none That faith alone iustifieth All which propositions as they proue the principal scope so the verses wherein these prepositions are set downe must yeeld these doctrines the words must be applied to proue the same For wee cannot inferre by a true immediate consequent the principall proposition out of them which haue a Some verses or words which come in by the way prooue not other

thereof that would be further instructed heerein V. A minister must bee furnished with books as good Furnished with good bookes Of humanitie helps to further his studie and these of all sorts First for humanitie of the seuerall Arts of Ethickes Politickes Oeconomicks natural Philosophie such as haue written of Trees Herbes Beasts of Husbandrie Geographie Histories of Iewish customes of their Waights and Measures and what other matter the learned haue written of for the Scriptures especially Next these bookes of Diuinitie and other necessarie Of diuinitie with such as are immediate intended helpes therein First the Bible the booke of God in English Latin Greeke and The Bible Hebrue our best English translation Tremelius Septuagints translation Montanus interlineall or Vatablus Beza his Testament Secondly Dictionaries besides the Latin Dictionaries and Greeke common for all sorts the Hebrue Pagninus and Auenarius Thirdly Concordances Latin Greeke and Concordance and the singular vse therof to finde proofes for a Doctrine to enlarge the vse of the same by reasons and examples and to handle a common place Hebrue of which there is singular vse a Concordance helpes memorie much to finde out any place of Scripture also in comparing Scriptures to finde places the same with the text repeated or like places in words that affoord helpe to prooue doctrines by seeking the principall word in the doctrine which it will helpe also to enlarge by considering the seuerall places which speake of the same matter or haue the same words out of which may be obserued differences causes effects exhortations promises threats yea and examples also to handle therby a Common place As for example If a man would speake of Feare let him finde Feare in the Concordance and there he shall see some place wil tell him what feare is as Prouer. 1. 7. some the kinds of God of man true and false feare what to feare and what not as Matth. 10. Exhortations to true feare Deuter. 4. how to attaine it Prouerb 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Deuter. 17. 19. signes of feare Psal 119. verse 14. The benefits reaped thereby Psalm 25. 34. And diuers other things at large will bee offered to thy consideration to follow any point of Diuinitie thereout if once you had gotten an vse heerein the benefit of this is more then heere I can conueniently expresse Surely he that vnderstands his text well and knowes how to draw a doctrine needs no printed or written Sermons to helpe for to inlarge it the right knowledge how to vse a Concordance is euerie way a sufficient helpe for proofes reasons and illustrations of the same It may seeme and will prooue irkesome to him that at the first makes triall thereof but time and experience will make it easie and pleasant IV Analyticall expositions for the diuiding of bookes Analyticall exposition benefit therof and chapters and vnfolding of the Scriptures as Pflacherius hath done on the Historie of the Bible Piscator on the new Testament and some of all such bookes helpe to shew you the coherence the antecedents and the consequents the scope of the Author the whole method arguments for confirmation or confutation of the proposition handled It were verie good for a yoong beginner to read euerie day one chapter or two with some learned mans resolution of the same hee shall profit much thereby in knowledge of the Scriptures V. Of Annotations as Bezaes of Phrases Westhemerus Annotations and Illyricus in his Clauis Scripturae hath gathered many of diuers acceptations of words as also Marlorats Enchiridion The commoditie of Marlorats Enchiridion sets downe which booke is of verie good vse to shew how many waies many words are taken to helpe to finde out like places to compare with the text and to handle a Common place the benefit of these books and such of the like kinde is to further vse in the interpretation of any obscure portion of Scripture Reconciliation of places VI. Of reconciling places seeming to differ and to be one against an other as Christopher Obenhimius and Andreas Catcehismes Althamerus or any other if any haue more or done better of this matter VII A Catechisme conteining the doctrine of the Church and principles of Religion Caluins Institutions and Vrsinus Catechisme both which studied throughly will sufficiently informe a mans iudgment in the chiefe points of Religion which a Diuine must bee well practised in for the trial of his doctrine and other mens iudgements by the Analogie of faith as before declared It is good for a beginner to haue without booke the definitions and distributions of the principall heads of Theologie as Polanus Partitions setteth downe that so hee may readily know to what Common-place bookes and speciall traclates being particular common places of seuerall things at large head to refer his doctrines or other mens propositions to examine and iudge rightly of them VIII Common-place bookes Musculus Peter Martyr Zegedinus tables which booke is a sum of most principall learned mens labours before his time At the first a Diuine is to exercise himselfe in handling making Common places for so doing he shal furnish himselfe with much matter and learne to discourse follow and stand vpon a point in a Sermon Vnder Common places I conteine particular Tractats of seuerall things being some large Commentaries and what vse to make of them Common place of some speciall point of God of Christ his incarnation passion resurrection c. and of any other thing distinctly let downe IX Commentaries of Orthodoxwriters all which will helpe thee in vnderstanding the text they will more confirme thy iudgement seeing others to agree in that which thou hast conceiued thy selfe they by occasion of words may put into thy minde what of thy selfe thou canst not dreame of nor they themselues intended by these thou maiest as it were talke with and aske the iudgement of the Ecclesiasticall histories and Epistles of the ancient Fathers greatest Diuines in the world of any Scripture they write of they yet liuing and speaking to vs by their labours as Caluin Peter Martyr Musculus and others X. Ecclesiasticall Historiographers Eusebius tripartite Historie Ruffinus Socrates Theodoretus Sozomenus Euagrius Nicephorus Iosephus Philo Zonarus to which adde the Epistles of Ierome and other Fathers and of late writers These historicall books are of this vse for the knowledge of the Churches estate to reforme maners and to abolish superstitions XI The Acts and Canons of ancient Councels the Acts and Canons of Councells Centuries Functius Sleidans Commentaries and the book of Martyrs to see the iudgement of Churches in matters of Religion the condemning of heresies and maintenance of the truth Heereunto adde the Harmony of confessions of late reformed Churches XII Controuersies whereinto we may safely proceed Controuersies and when to studie them and whos 's in the first place being well grounded by these things aforesaid Heerein it is good