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A06810	Timothies taske: or a Christian sea-card guiding through the coastes of a peaceable conscience to a peace constant, and a crowne immortall. Wherein I. Pastors are put in minde of their double dutie, and how to discharge it. 1. Personall, as watchfull men. 2. Pastorall, as faithfull watchmen. II. True doctrine is advanced. III. Traditions discountenanced, & their rancour discovered. In two synodall assemblies at carliell, out of two seuerall, but sutable scriptures. This of I Timoth. 4.16. and that of Actes 20.28. Since concorporate, and couched with augmentation vnder their prime head: By Robert Mandevill, sometimes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and preacher of Gods word at Abbey-holme in Cumberland.	Mandevill, Robert, 1578-1618.; Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 17245; ESTC S102562	61,931	80

practise ought What maruell therefore though such depart as emptie of heauenly wisdome as they came voide of holy desire Sobrietie is a commendable and seruiceable vertue in the life of man to order and keepe the same in frame yet this without attendance and looking to may be lost or at least depart for a time as it did from Noah Therefore Saint Peter to backe and strengthen the moderation of affection and conversation requires the attention of the minde that so the enemie through his vigilancie neither withdraw vs from the good which we would and he impugnes nor draw vs to the euill we would not and which hee importunes vs to Pauls Panoplie or Christian armour is so necessarie a furniture as no man can with safety want this Notwithstanding when we haue put on not a part but the whole and haue had proofe thereof by withstanding the enemie yet are we warned to watch withall that we may stand fast So necessarie is vigilancie euen to an armed and weaponed Christian that without it he may be driuen from his stand as were our first Parents in that state wherein they were likest to haue with stood Prayer is the highest linke in that golden chaine coupling saluation to the soule of man yet will prayers be few and those frozen too where no heed is giuen to our selues therefore doth Christ ioyne invocation and attention together saying Watch and pray And his Apostle exhorts to be watchfull vnto prayer Wandring thoughts flye rife at such times chiefly and distract the minde as the fowles did hinder Abrahams sacrifice these attention must restraine There are times wherein wee are more willing yea desirous to talke with God then at other those oportunities must attention take the force of invocation is much abated if it be not accompanied with attention and the eye of attention would close oft-times and steale a nap if it were not kept waking by the voice of prayer In the principall parts of Gods worship either he speaks to vs as in the holy assemblies or we to him in the language of prayer We must avoid Hypocrisie as the bane of both In our conference with God lest the fault of these auncient hypocrites and hypocriticall Pharises be laid at our doore whose mouthes and mindes went sundry wayes we must take heed to ioyne these two together the lippes nigh and the heart farre off and then the King will deny vs nothing Concerning the latter Gods speech to vs lest that complaint of the Prophet or the Lord rather by his Prophet my people sit before thee and heare thy words but they will not doe them rise in record against vs we must be carefull to ioyne obedience to our audience If ye know these things happie are you if you doe them Hitherto haue I shewed a threefold vse of Christian heedfulnesse or attention The first that it keepes vs from sinne viz. grosse and enormous such as Dauid calls the great offence otherwise there is no man iust in the earth that doth good and sinneth not and this is a blessed thing as the Prophet affirmeth in the first Psalme Secondly it prevents many troubles wherewith others meet teacheth cheerefully to vndergoe such as God shall see meet for our exercise the way whereby we come to the Crowne of life and this can be no lesse then a blessed way for it leades to Canaan though it lye through the wildernesse Thirdly that it hath the tuition ouer-sight of all other meanes to set and keepe them on foot that which Christ himselfe pronounceth to be the true happinesse Seeing then there is no diuision of languages in this triplicitie but each doth seuerally promise blisse I may to close the whole point seale vp all with that saying of the Spirit Blessed is he that watcheth c. He shall weane his heart from vnlawfull liberties enlarge his libertie in heauenly affaires fill his heart with sollid delights free himselfe from much in cumbrance and safegard his soule from deadly wounds The second generall head or immediate obiect whereat this watch must begin OVr Apostle hauing exhorted his Scholler Timothie in the 12 verse to the practice of particulars hee doth heere imply no lesse in this one word Tibi then was expressed in those many Hence to set consideration on worke they who teach others ought first to take out the Lesson themselues Thou that gloriest in the Law through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God Some man is wittie and hath instructed many but is vnprofitable vnto himselfe as Balaams Asse rebuked the foolishnesse of the Prophet nothing bettered himselfe thereby Pulcherrimus est ordo saluberrimus saith one vt enus quod alijs portandum imponis tu portes prior It is the most comely and meet method a preacher can vse first to beare the burden himselfe which he laies vpon another Christ taxeth those ●s too hard impositors and immoderate commanders who would lay burdens on other mens shoulders from which they withdraw their owne His Apostle counts those wise men who take heed to themselues whose liues are circumspect Who can commend Noah his shipwrights who made an arke for the safetie of others but were not themselues preserued by it What wisdome is it to send others to the promised land and build Tabernacles in this wildernesse for our selues What charitie to open the kingdome of heauen to others and to beare keys to shut out our selues He can never bee said what can to contradict he I say can never seriously seeke not earnestly thirst after the salvation of others who hath no care to worke out his own Qui sibinequam cui bonus The charge Paul ga●e to Titus was in all things to shew himselfe an example of good workes with incorrupt doctrine c. Mē are sooner perswaded by workes then words eye-sight then heare-say to well doing Non sic inflectere sensus H●manos edicta valent quàm vita docentis Practice will set an edge on the bluntest precept and actiō is the best rule in our Rhetoricke to moue men to put a good lesson in vre The Pharises had tongues which spake by the tal●egrave et but their hands scarce wrought by the ounce Therefore no time shall weare out the staine wherewith our Saviour Christ did blemish them in his time they say and doe not Their breast plate was all composed of Vrim without ●hummim they had knowledge void of holinesse resembling the coine which being in it selfe white notwithstanding drawes a blacke line Or water in great mens kitchins which hauing purged and clensed other things is it selfe cast into the sinke such are all they who Grecian-like knowe what is good but with the Lacedaemonian forbeare to practise the good they know It is said of our Saviour Christ that he spake as never man spake that he did all things well

the best ornament of the naturall man compared to the sauing and sanctifying doctrine which giues assurance of mans redemption suppose a being and it is not impossible for a man so to be stript of the rest whereof Iobs storie is a rich record but without the knowledge of our saluation in Christ and reconciliation with God I may say of the rest as Iob of his three friends Miserable comforters are see all Iob. 16 2. Two potent Princes lay claime to both thy soule and body the Prince of Peace and duke of darkenes It highly concernes thee to know vtriregno to whether kingdome thou dost belong Repaire to some Timothie he will cleare this case of conscience Revel 3. 8. Thou art naturally poore blind and naked embrace that truth which Timothie teacheth and it wili enrich thee as gold doth adorne thee as Robes doe and as eye-salue cure thy spirituall blindnesse The expert Physician turnes thy sicknesse into health but he is an odde man and one of a thousand who in the bitterest pangs of a distressed minde can couer thy sinnes and recouer thy soule The naturall Parents beget and bring forth but to mortalitie yea miserie immortall except regeneration which thou hast by Timothies helpe come betweene The Magistrate procures thy peace with man whose breath is in his nostrils whose wrath is mortall as himselfe Or if he liue so long that thou see the graue before him yet thy goods or bodie beares the smart thy soule is not endangered but Timothie drawes vp conclusions of peace twixt God and man whose wrath workes both on soule and body euen to the casting of both into that place where the tormenters are spirits created of vengeance the torment fire the manner burning and the measure enternitie We reade of Prometheus that when he had framed man of the earth but senselesse without life being by Minerua's helpe lift vp to Heauen he tooke thence fire from the Sunnes wheele which applyed to that earthly Masse of mans body gaue life to it That which is fabled of Prometheus is truly verified of our Timothie who elevated in affection and conversation to Heauen to him who is the true Minerva the liuely Image of his Fathers wisedome thence as it were à solis rotâ from Mal●ch his sonne of righteousnesse the fountaine of light and life he brings the fire of sacred doctrine which laid and by him applyed to the hearts of men dead in trespasses and sinnes doth quicken and make them his worke in the Lord. Many daughters haue done vertuouslie but thou surmountest them all saith S●lomon describing a good huswife So may I say that many commodities come to man by the helpe and hand of man but Timothies part excels them all Since other benefites but better our outward state onely which makes many worse then otherwise they would be or procure the welbeing of the body which is but the outward rinde of man or purchase a better being of the minde by knowledge which is vaine without the knowledge of Christ crucified or giue a being in this life by which though we haue a name we liue yet we are dead or long being which makes the end more bitter and loathsome vnlesse we be in Christ new creatures Since Timothie by his doctrine adornes the soule our nobler part with the noblest qualitie making it partaker of the divine nature If men would rightly consider Timothie and Timothie himselfe and them they him as the Minister of Christ and their saluation he himselfe as one them as ouer whom the Holy Ghost hath set him as they would be more swift to heare that they might be saued so could not he be slow to speake that they might heare So from the vtilitie to the honour the other branch of this Motiue It was an honorable place which Ioseph held in Pharaohs court yet Da●id himselfe a King prefers the basest office in the Church of God to the greatest glory that worldly Kings without the Church can either inioy thēselues or confer vpō others I had rather be a doore-keeper in the house of God then to dwell in the tents of vngodlinesse To be a controwler steward or treasurer in a Christian kings court or a keeper of the great seale i● a roome of more respect and honour then the other but to be a steward treasurer and disposer of his mysteries on whose thigh that name is written Th● King of Kings and Lord of Lords is such an honour as kings themselues haue therewith beautified their scepters and enobled their crownes To be the servants friends and sonnes of God the heires of his kingdome and coheires with Christ is a prerogatiue and that such as many Kings and Princes haue never attained and yet this honour haue all Gods Saints But to bee Gods messenger to his people and as it were the peoples mediator to him againe to open and shut the gate of life to haue ratified in heauen what he doth on earth to succed the sonne of God in that ministerie and function which hee exercised himselfe in the daies of his flesh to be a fellow laborer in the blessed work of the more blessed Trinitie the salvation of soules is such an honour as none may take vnto him but he that is called of God as was Aaron Good men shall receaue crownes their pilgrimage finished but good Ministers not onely receaue themselues but by their labours purchase crowns to others The iust man as saith the Prophet shall liue by his faith but the man of Gods mercy as he liues himselfe so he begets other to the life of faith Righteous men shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament but they that turne many to righteousnesse Righteous Ministers shall shine as the starres for ever and ever Our Saviour Christ spared no paines on his tender body to traine vp soules in his fathers schoole hee was so wholly taken vp with the excellency execution of such things that he quite forgot to eat his meat Pauls imploiment this way was aswell private as publike by night as day not without testimony of his teares What is the charge which Paul giues to his pupill Timothy is it not to preach the word But how With a holy importunity bee instant in what measure or quantitie might Timothy say so seldome as all shall think it done in season No but such so much as some will thinke and not sticke to say as too often they both say and thinke that it is out of season In season and out of season wherein if he faile both is duty broken and danger incurred whereof hee is one day to heare with terrour and confusion of face The Church is a garden which we must weed a fountain which we must keep both sweet and cleare she is her husbands iewell wee must watch for her safegard she is his best beloued he

a reasonable service Rom. 12. 1. And Baals Priests who went further lancing their flesh with kniues 1. King 18. 29. were farre enough frō Gods kingdome 4. Such as are wary heedfull but in the service of the worst Master whilst they obserue their owne ordinances 5. Such as run in the course they vse but with more haste then good speed since they walke not in the rode-way wherein Dauid safely ran Psal. 119. 32. but run in those wayes wherein God suffered the Gentiles for to walke 1. their own wayes 6. Such as beleeue in Christs merits but not as true Christiās ought to do seeing their trust in Christs merit is that he hath purchased grace for them to merit for themselues Heauen by free-will if they list thereby to be iust before God in themselues and fully worthy of Gods kingdome by which kind of belie●e they are abolished from Christ fallen from grace and bereft of the benefits of his merit as were the bewitched Galathians in the Apostles dayes Againe when they draw men from the wholesome pasture of Gods word to repast and feed in the strengthlesse chaffe of mans braine doe they not reiect the commandements of God that they may obserue their owne traditiōs In the three estates of humane gouernment Oecomicall Civill Ecclesiasticall the papacy masked with pretence of Religion regularitie Davus like disturbes all In the first which is Domesticke prohibiting mutuall offices of loue obedience hereditary succession due benevolence twixt Master seruant father sonne husband wife In the second dispencing with allegeāce disposing of scepters deposing Caesar crowning of murtherous attēpts against his person with a Lawrell of new-sprung martyrdome Touching the third Diruit aedificat mutat diuina prophanis He destroyes puls downe what God hath built with those Nimrodian rebels in the tower Babel seekes to raise the wals of Babilon higher then any mischance can soare as Niobe somtime said of her selfe He changeth divine precepts into prophane blasphemous fictions whilst in euery commandement branch of the Law the word is made of no authority by the traditions which he hath ordained By this time I doubt not but we see good reason of obseruing that Apostolicall rule He that speaketh c. The Prophets are Gods factors sent to negotiate in these remote Regiōs There traffick is the reconciliatiō gain of soules the Church is the ship wherein they imbarke the world the sea whereō she floates the word the card that directeth her course Timothie as Pilot keepes the sterne Tradition is the rock which he must shun The place of arriuall is the promised Land that coelestiall Canaan which is aboue His exchange there the richest for commodity rarest for perpetuity euen the saluation of himselfe those that saile with him Let Timothie then take heed to himselfe that his life be vnreproueable touching the grosse offence to doctrine that it be pure profitable to perseverance lest beginning in Leo he end in Cancer Let him looke to saying because a necessitie is laid vpon him Woe is c. to doing because such as say do shal be counted great in the kingdome of God aswell this of grace as that of glory continuance because not he that runs fast for a spurt setls before he come at the goale but he that endures not that for a time neither till the sun of tribulation begin to scoarch but he that endures the heats sweats of this holy Climate that to the end he I say or rather Christ saith it he alone shal be saued Iudas shone for a space gaue a flash as if he had bin a fixed star amongst the twelue but time discovering his false faith he proued a Comet or shooting star being drawn down withdrawn with a Quid dabitis what will ye giue me I will deliuer him vnto you St Paul on the other side approued himselfe to be a fixed star in the Churches firmament 1. by his owne heedf●lnes since he knew nothing by himselfe 2. by his industry in teaching whilst as a candle he spent himselfe to giue others light 3. by cōtinuance in holding out vnto the end witnesse that Swan-like song I haue fought c. that loue that his appearing Against which appearance the Lord prepare vs by a care so circumspect as may keepe vs vnspotted of the world a diligence so succesfull as may gaine others by such a continuance in both as may be intreated with that approbation Euge bone serue It is well done good seruant faithfull c. Blessed is that seruant whom when his master commeth he shall sinde so doing Soli DEO gloria ConfIrMet qVoD In nobIs operatVs est JehoVah FINIS 1 Tim. 1. ● Verse 6. Wisd. 4. 9. 1 Kings 14. Marke 13. 25. Gen. 19. 26. ● Take heed Math. 26. ●1 Psal. 119● Math. 13 4. 5 6 7. Luke 21. 34. 1 Pe● 5. 8. Heb. 3. 12. 1 Cor. 10. 12. Iude 5. 6. 1 Cor. 16. 13. 1 Thess. 5. 6. Wisd. 1. 3. Math. ●5 12. Verse 19. Prov. 4. 23. 2 Tim. 4. 4. Reasons of heed fulnes drawne from Christs t●ing the houre whereof is imminent but not knowne Mark 13. 33. 1. Pet. 5. 8. From the nature of our adversary Who is Sedulo●● Mark 13. 37. Luk. 12. 46. Powerfull Iob. 41. 17. Politike Malicious Iob. 7. 1. Wanting no war like advantage nor will to vse it to his best furtherance Mark 5. Ephel 12. Mat. 4. 9 Math. 12. Rom. 7. Gen. 3. 5. a Cloathing vice with a vi●grd of vertue 〈◊〉 drunkennesse with brothe●ly fellowship covetousnesse with christian providence c. 2. Cor. 11. 14. Iohn 2. 16. b When his 〈◊〉 is to frustrate that intention and depraue our good purpose by perverting the manner corrupting the meanes or altering some circumstance to marre the whole worke and make it worthlesse Eph. 6. 12. 2. Sam. 12. Psal. 30. 7. Ion. 4. 4. 1. Sam. 28. 5. 7. 8. From the world which is 1. deceitfull Iosh. 1. 21. 2. Pet. 2. 15. 2. Tim. 4. 10. Dangerous From the flesh which is false fraile Ps. 55. 12. 13. 1. Cor. 9. 27. Psal. 39. 1. R●sist the Divel Iam. 4. 7. Fly fornication 1. Cor. 6. 18. Ier. 6. 20. Vt corpus redimas ferrum c. arida nec sitiens ora c. Take heed Gen. 19. 33. Gen. 9. 21. Iudg. 16. Mat. 26. 6● 2. Sam. 11. ● Ps. 119. 148. Psal. 5. 3. Psal. 119. 62. Iudg. 16. from the 5. verse to the 22. Vers. 17. 1. Ioh. 2. 16. ● Cor. 12. 7. Ioel 2. ●0 ● Math. 26. 41. Math. 43. 21. Hosea 5. 15. Gen. 5. 19. Gen. 5. 22. Gal. 6. 9. Otium viv● hominissepultura ● Sam. 11. Prov. 9. 17. c Where the curse of GOD ●aunts the wicked as it were a fury in all his wa●es If he bee in the