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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40725	Concio ad magistratum a nations honour, and a nations dishonour, or, A kingdoms prospective-glass : discovering who are the most faithful friends, and who the most dangerous enemies to the peace and prosperity of a kingdom / written by P. Fullwood.	Fullwood, P. (Peter)	1673 (1673)	Wing F2522; ESTC R7022	26,022	48

God and all good men then if any shall revive that old complaint what is the cause that the former times were better than these the Text gives Resolution it is sin sin is the snuff that dimmes all our light the leaven that defiles our passeover and renders us a Proverb and an hissing and astonishment to all our Neighbours Nations round about which to prevent currat paenitentia ne praecurrat sententia let us hasten our repentance that judgement do not overtake us before we be aware sin is of a shameful birth It is of the spurious race of Sathan the Father is an Amorite the Mother an Hitite ye are of your Father the Devil and his lusts will ye do he was a murderer from John 8. 44. the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the Father of it Selivius the great Turk upon revenge of his loss received of the Battel of Lepanto was resolved to put to death all the Christians within his Dominions and such is the Devils malice against all mankind for the loss of the favour of God and eternal happiness he seeks the ruine and destruction of them all your Adversary the Devil as a roaring 1 Pet. 5. 8. Lion walks about seeking whom he may devour An Athenian Curtizan boasted she could get all Socrates Schollers from him and he could never recover one of them again such as are the Schollars of Christ School had need take heed they be not drawn from God to sin for it is as hard to get out of his claws as for the Israelites to get out of Aegypts Bondage Again sin is a shame to our Profession Religion never suffered greater ecclipse then by the interposition of the enormities of Christians examples are the greatest load-stones to draw our Souls and of all none more prevalent that those that are evil This was the aggravation of Davids sin urged by the Prophet Nathan by this deed thou hast given great occasion 2 Sam. 12. v. 14. to the Enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the enormities of Christians was a main ●ause of the Mahometan Religion if the light be darkness how great is that darkness if the Salt have lost his savour that there is little hope that the unsavoury lives of Heathens Pagans or Infidels should ever be reformed Hell is not more contrary to Heaven than such prodigious impieties as swarm amongst Christians are to the inlargement of the Kingdome of Christ to purge out these evil humours which endanger the mystical body of Christ let us take out the Apostles direction let your conversation be such as becometh Phil. 1. 27. the gospel of Christ Sin likewise brings men to shameful ends what became of Pharaoh the tyrannical Achittophel the crafty Ahab the covetous Nebuchanezzar the ambitious Judas the treacherous their end was bitter as Wormwood and sharp as a two edged sword sutable to that of the Prophet thou dost set them in slippery Psal 73. v. 18 19 20. places thou castest them down into destruction how are they bronght into desolation as in a moment as a dream when one awaketh Which made the Apostle break through the cloud of his sinnes into this Emphatical exclamation O wretched man that I am who sholl deliver me from Rom. 7. 24. the body of this death O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to the impenitent when this Serjeant arrests them all the flowers of their Paradise fade away they that go out of this World without Christs pass-port shall go into another World without his wellcome shall be delivered up into the hands of that fearful sentence Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting flames prepared for the Devil and his Angles Consider with what shame and confusion of face impenitent sinners shall then appear before Christs Tribunal The Kings of the Earth and the rich men and the Revel 6. 15 16. chief Captains and the mighty men and every bond man and every free-man hid themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and said to the Rocks and Mountains fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of the Lord is come and who may abide it Sin is like an old Bond that hath long lyen uncancelled when it comes to be called for the full will be exacted and use upon use therefore very seasonable was that advice of our Saviour agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him least Mat. 5. 25. the adversary deliver thee to the Judge and the Judge to the Officer and thou be cast into Prison thou shalt not come out till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing Then let us be as fearfull of the commission of sin as of the shame and punishment of it and take heed of the love of sin as well as the commission of it Take away the cause the effect will fall of it self this was the Antidote werewith holy Joseph expelled the poyson Gen. 39. v. 9. of his wanton Mistress temptation how can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Sustinere as well as abstinere was a resolution becoming a Christian if the fear of sin be once laid aside we shall not want allurements to invite us to it Eve shall have an Apple Esau a mess of pottage Achan a golden wedg Jonah a ship Judas thirty pieces of silver but let us say to such as Luther did to the Pope when he sent Cardinals to tempt with promises of promotion valde protestatus sum me molle sic satiari I said flatly I would not be satisfied with such things So I come to the third and last step of this second General viz. The extent to any People sin is a shame to any People No Person of what quality or degree soever hath any toleration for sin nor exemption from the shame or punishment of it the revolting Jews Jer. 1. v. 9 10 11 12 13. having tasted a full draught of Gods tender love fall into the praemnuire of his sharpest censure I will plead with you saith the Lord and with your Childrens Children will I plead pass over the Isles of Chittim and see and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing Hath a Nation changed her Gods for them that are no Gods but my People hath changed her glory for that which doth not profit be astonished O yee Heathens at this and be horribly afraid be very desolate saith the Lord my People have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and chosen to them selves broken Cisterns that will hold no water Mans falling into sin is like the Children of Israels going into Aegypt they had all the favour that Pharaoh could extend to them all the

furtherance that Joseph could contribute to them the best of the Land the Land of Goshen to invite them and to draw us into sin we have all that Pharaoh the God of this World can doe all that Joseph our own flesh can doe the best of the Land the glory of the World to invite us no wonder then if Noah Lot David Peter fall like starrs from Heaven the purest Diamonds is not without its flaw the sweetest Rose not without its prickles the fairest Flowers not without their witherings but external priviledges as they cannot exempt from the guilt so neither from the punishment of sin to prove this let us call in the evidence of John the Baptist who hath for●warned you to Mat. ● 8 8 9. flee from the wrath to come bring forth fruits meet for Repentance and think not to say within your selves we have Araham to our Father To hold up sin was more than Atlas could do who as the Poets feign underprops Heaven Heaven could not hold the Pride of Lucifer nor Paradise Adams disobedience Citties Gates and Walls were to week to keep the Old World from the Deluge or Sodom or Gomorrah from Fire and Brimstone Sin changed the Government at Rome destroyed our Abbies Frieryes and Nunneryes and without Repentance it is to be feared will destroy us Here then as in a glass we may behold who are the greatest Enemies to the peace and prosperity of a Kingdom such as draw humility with cords of vanity and sin as with a cart-rope In the dayes of Eli Phineas Wife being with Child bowed her self and travailed for pain came on her and being near the time of her death she named the child Icabo● for said she the glory is departed from Israel it is our national sins that makes our Kingdome bring forth Icabods Sons of shame and contempt Davids Adultery Solomons Idolatry Ahabs oppression Belt●shazars Luxury Nebuchadnezzars pride proves fatal to the subversion of their Kingdomes When Ahab saw Elijah Ahab saith unto him art thou he that troubleth Israel and he answered I have not troubled Israel but thou and thy Fathers house in that ye have forsaken God and served Balaim we need not fear all our Enemies without us were it not for sin within us though the Sea roar and make a noise and the billows thereof arise let us stop the current of our sins before they overflow the Banks and become a sad and fatal Deluge and over-run the Territories of our Kingdome Hear ye this then all ye People of high and low rich and poor one with another let the reproach and shame of sin invite you to amendment how long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and fools delight in scorning turn you at my reproof break of your sins by repentance arise from the sink of sin and dungeon of Death and wash you in the Laver of Repentance if the tears of a penitent soul cannot cleanse you behold the Rivers of blood and the Cataracts of Heaven stand open there is a fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness wash there and you shall be clean through this red Sea all our Fathers were wont to pass to the promised Land having their Enemies their sins all swallowed up in those waters unless these Vipers be shaken off God regards not your offering repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be done away when times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Acts 3. 19. Father Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling and present you faultless before the presence of his Father to the Eternal invisi●le and only wise God be ascribed as is most due all Honour Glory Might Majstey and Dominion now and for ever CONCIO AD CLERUM Presbiteri onus honos THE Ministers Duty AND THE Ministers Due OR The Church Mans looking-glass wherein he may behold the face of his Office and the beauty thereof As it was delivered in a Visitation Sermon preached at Chester-field in the County of Darby April the 14th 1671. Written by P. Fullwood M. A. R. of South-Normanton in the County of Darby LONDON Printed by John Lock for E. Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of St. Pauls 1673. 1 Tim 5 17 Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especialy they who labour in the word and Doctrine VVE cannot without honour look back on the lines when Userpers pretend to Moses rod committed the crime that K●rah designed destroying the mirrour of Princes and seeing that pleased a generations of factious and seditious spirits proceeded further to lay violent hands on the primitive order of the Church indeavouring to exterpate their Authority and swallow up their revenues dooming likewise the rest of that sacred orders perpetual silence who would not worship that golden Image they had set up Thus have we fallen amongst Thieves that have stript us wounded us and left us half dead this blessed Apostle with that good Samaritan seems to pour in oyl into our wounds and to set us upon our own Beast again and this he doth in these words I have read unto you Let the the Elders that Rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially such as labour in the word and doctrine The Text Rebceca like brings forth Twins heres Presbyteri onus honos The Elders duty and the Elders due First the Elders duty let them rule well let them labour in the Word and Doctrine and this I shall divide into the Parts of a Demonstration first the Elder subject Persons Presbyteri the Elders Secondly Affectione's hear what let them rule let them labour how let them rule well let them labour in the word and doctrine secondly the Elders due let them be counted worthy of double honour And this like the River of Paradise runs into four heads First Honour Secondly double honour Thirdly why they are worthy Fourthly how let them be counted worthy of these in their order by Gods assistance and your Christian Patience leaving curiosity to its Courtiers and first of the Presbyteri the Elders Presbyteri seems to be a Title annext to the holy order of Priesthood as appears by this subsequent clause who labour in the word and doctrine and this is signed with a Scriptum est v. 18. The scripture saith thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the Corn and the labourer is worthy of his hire Now that the truth hereof may appear as clear as the Sun let us take a view of their Ordination When they had ordained Elders in every Church they commended to the Lord suitable to that prayer in our Churches Liturgy or the initiation of Infants by Baptism grant O Lord that whosoever is here dedicated to thee by our Office and Ministry may be endued with Heavenly Vertues c. To which may be added the elder Induction into the 1 Pet. 5. v. 1. 2 3. 4. Church by St. Peter