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A02793	Two godlie and learned sermons, preached at Manchester in Lancashire before a great audience, both of honor and vvoorship. The first, containeth a proofe of the subtill practises of dissembling neuters, and politique worldlings. The other, a charge and instruction, for all vnlearned, negligent, and dissolute ministers: and an exhortation to the common people, to seeke their amendment, by prayer, vnto God. By Simon Harward, preacher of the woord of God, and Maister of Arte, late of Newe Colledge in Oxfoord.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1582 (1582)	STC 12924; ESTC S112568	108,746	262

all excusable And secōdly by the lawe of nature which God hath ingrafted in their hearts their owne consciences eyther accusing or excusing them The Iewes he condempneth by the written lawe of God which they read and heard continuallie yet not withstanding were daylie transgressours of the same so that they which were without the lawe did perish without the lawe and they which were vnder the lawe were iudged by the lawe and therefore that bothe Iewes and Gentiles were all sinners and depriued of the glorie of God were iustified fréely by grace through the redemptiō that is in Christ Iesus which he prooueth bothe by the ensample of Abraham who about fouretéene yéeres before he was circumcized was counted iust only by faith and by the sentence of Dauid who pronoūceth That man only blessed whose iniquities are for giuen whose offences are couered and to whome the Lorde dooth not impute his sin Afterward he maketh a comparisō of Christ with Adam of Death with Life of the Lawe with Grace In the sixt Chap. he descendeth from Iustification to Sanctification shewing them by an argument taken of Baptisme That they which were baptized in Christe were baptized into his death And therefore as Christe was raysed vp from the dead by the glorie of God the Father so they also should walke in newnesse of life not giuing their members seruaunts to vncleannes and iniquitie but making them seruants to righteousnes and holines of life Which that they might the better doo he sheweth them in the next Chapter of the right vse of the Lawe and of the bent ready will which euerie Christian ought to haue to the vttermost of his power to performe the law of God and with the vertue of his spirit to striue against the flesh And then he setteth downe the conclusion of the first part of his Epistle next after his salutation to wit That there is no condempnation to them which are in Christ Iesu which walk not after the flesh but after the spirit because the spirite of adoption which they haue receyued in their harts wherby they cried Abba Father dooth so seale in them the hope of euerlasting life that nothing ●s able to seperate thē frō the loue of God which is in Iesus Christe their Lord. Now in the thrée Chapters following the .9.10 ● 11 He disputeth Of the iust reiecting of the Iewes and of the free calling of the Gentiles Wherein after that he hath in the last Chapter layde downe the foundation thereof in the frée election purpose of God Who will haue mercy on whome he will haue mercie and whome he will he hardeneth and dooth of the same lūpe of clay make some vesselles of honour some of dishonor some vesselles of mercy to shewe foorth his goodnesse and some vesselles of destruction to be glorified in his power Now in this tenth Chapter least God should séeme vniust in reiecting those whome he had ordained to be vessels of wrath He sheweth an other seconde cause of the casting away of the Iewes because they were ignoraunt of the righteousnes of God and went about to establish their owne righteousnes and would not submit them selues to the righteousnes of God And because the Apostle S. Paul did long for nothing so much Rom. 10.3.4.5 as that Israel might be saued so that for their sakes he desired to be seperated from Christe for his brethren which were his kinsmen according vnto the flesh He therefore beginneth héere to instruct them in the faith of Christe teaching them That Christe was the end of the lawe for righteousnes vnto al beleeuers And shewing them that the promise of God in Deuteronomy Deut. 30.14 The woord is verie neere vnto thee euen in thy mouth and in thy heart for to do it Was it therfore spoke because they were not able of them selues to performe the ●awe of God and to obtaine righteousnes thereby but that in that place God dooth signifie the woord of faith which we doo preache which is néere vnto thée in thy mouth and in thy heart for If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and beleeue in thine hart that God raised him againe from the dead thou shalt be saued In which péece of Scripture we haue two thinges to consider first That we are iustified only by faith in the death and resurrection of Christ Iesus Secōdly That we must shewe foorth the fruite of our faith to confesse him with our mouthes But because the confession of our mouthes is first set downe in this place as well in the sentence of Paul and also in the woords in Deuteronomy The woord 〈◊〉 neere vnto thee euen in thy mouth and ●n thy heart I haue thought it best at this ●me to followe the same order which the ●oly Ghost dooth vse in this place and to speake first Of the fruite of confession And secondly Of the tree of faith rooted and grounded vpon the death and resurrection of Christe Rom. 10.9 If thou shalt with thy mouth cōfesse the Lord Iesus c. The Apostle beginneth héere first with the Mouth because the Tongue is one of the principallest partes of mans body as S. Iames sayth If a man sinne not in woord he is a perfect man able to bridle the whole body For if the tongue be well vsed he compareth it to a little bit which ruleth the Horse be he neuer so fierce vntamed and to a rudder which though it be small yet it gouerneth the huge Ships béeing tossed assaulted with many blustering stormes and tempests But if it be ill vsed he sayth It is a world of wickednes it defileth the whole body it setteth a fire the course of nature and is it selfe set on fire of hell And therfore Anacharsis the Philosopher béeing asked What was the best wholsomest part of any thing and what the wurst and most vnholsome When it was thought that he would haue made aunswer of two seuerall partes to a double question he aunswered in one single woorde saying The Tongue Because béeing well vsed it is of all partes of mans body the best and on the other side béeing yll vsed the wurst and therefore if we imagine the case ●o be thus that we should carie about with vs two boxes whereof the one conteyneth most deadlie Poyson and the other a soueraigne Remedy against all diseases what great héede would we take vnto them least if the one of them should run out we should be most daungerouslie infected or if any of the other should be spilt we should loose so precious a Iewel In the Tongue there is bothe there is venemous Poyson and there is also a soueraigne Medicine for all infirmities and maladies and therefore what great care ●ought we to haue least eyther by abusing it we be infected or otherwise by out negligence loose the right vse thereof To rehearse all the poysons of the Tongue as Rayling vaine babling filthy talke lying slaundering cursing

therefore we ought to dispense the word faithfully in season and out of season 2. Tim. 4.2 knowing that if any doo perish thorough our default a seuere accompt shall be required at our hands We are called builders to edifie build the body of Christ Isa 49.17 Ephe. 4.12 15. that is his Church and to ioyne it vnto the head Christ and therefore we muste labour painefully and take heede where we laye our foundation that we build not vpon the sand but vpon the foundatiō of the Prophets and Apostles Ephe. 2.20 Iesus Christ himselfe béeing the chiefe corner Stone We are called Luke 6.39 the leaders of Gods people to leade them into all trueth and therefore we must take héede that we haue alwayes the word of God a Lanterne to our feete and a light vnto our pathes Psal ●19 105 for otherwise if the blinde leade the blinde Math. 15.14 they shall bothe fall into the Ditche we are called Sheepeheards and Pastors and therfore we ought to feede the stock committed to our charge or otherwise there is no loue of Christ in vs. Iohn 21.15 For our Sauiour mooued the question thrife to Peter Simon thou sonne of Iona doost thou loue me his aunswer was Lord I loue thee Lorde thou knowest that I loue thee Then feede my Sheepe feede my Lambes And therefore it is vnpossible that there should be any sparckle of the loue of Christ in our hearts except we haue a care to feede those Lambes for when he shed his bloud Ezech. 34.4 to strengthen the weake to heale the sick to binde vp the broken to bring home that which is driuē away to seeke that which is lost and to defend thē frō being deuoured of the wild beasts of the field which we c●̄ neuer do vnlesse we be able to interpret the scriptures to apply them to the instruction comfort of the people therefore 〈◊〉 ●3 2 〈◊〉 2.24 Paul requireth in the Minister that he be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sit to teache al● commaūdeth Timothy to shew himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rightly deuiding the worde of trueth 2. Tim. 2.15 not onely and barely reading for that were to giue whole loaues vnto Children for the which they should be neuer the better but cutting and deuiding the worde of trueth Math. 4.19 Luke 5.5 and as it were breaking vnto them the bread of life We are Fishers of men and therefore we must at Christes commaundement continually let downe our Nets We are called Gods Stewards Luk. 12.42 16.1 and therefore we ought to be faithfull and wise and giue vnto the Household of God their portion of meate in due season Happy is the Seruaunt whom the Maister when he cōmeth shall finde so dooing We must euery one of vs be as it were Gen 41.57 another Ioseph that when the Aegiptians are pinched with famine they may finde reliefe at Iosephs hande The first thing then that is required in a Minister is that he haue knowledge and vnderstanding how to doo his Embassage how to feed with discretion first with Milke and thē with stronge meate how to labour in the Lords Haruest how to builde how to leade the people of God how to watch ouer them how to lighten their hearts and to season them with the knowledge of Gods holy worde The Prophet saith Math. 2.7 that the lippes of the Priest must preserue knowledge that the people may seeke the lawe at his mouth For he is the Messenger of the Lord of Hoastes and not onely should their lippes preserue knowledge but they must euen eate the rowle of Gods booke Ezech. 3.2 3. Apoc. 10.9 and fill their bowels with the volume thereof whereby is signified the profounde and deepe knowledge and inward digesting of the worde of God which ought to be in euery Minister Esai 56.10 The Prophet dooth greatly complaine of the blinde watchmen which cannot sée and the dombe Dogges which cannot barke and God denounceth a seuere iudgement against them saying Ezech. 13.3 Woe be vnto the foolish Prophets which follow their owne spirite and haue seene nothing Exod. 28.33 About the skirts of the robe of Ephod were goulden Bels alwayes sounding to signifie that the Priest wheresoeuer he went should be able to found out the worde of trueth and therefore we which are called to be labourers in the Lords Haruest to instruct the people in the worde of God Let vs first learne how we must doo it for labour wee neuer so painefully 2. Tim. 2.5 yet if wee labour not as we ought to doo our labour is all in vayne The labouring Husbandman must firste be able to choose good Seede and then to Sowe it with discrescion euen so the Minister must first be able to disseuer the trueth from falsehood light from darkenesse and meate from poyson and then to vtrer his Doctrine applying it to the profit and comfort of the hearers The Husbandman must fyrste Plowe the Soyle and bruse the Cloddes before hee commit the Séede vnto the ground euen so must the Minister fyrst bruse the cloddes and knotty affections of mens hearts by the Preaching of the Lawe and then Sowe therein the sweete promises of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ Some are of this iudgement that onely the lawe and the threatnings of God against sinne ought now to be preached bothe because the manners of men are growen to be so wicked and desperate that they haue néede of a sharpe and desperate remedie and also because that Christian libertie the more it is preached the more it is abused I confesse these thinges to be true and too true the Lorde be mercifull vnto vs But how so euer sinne be increased and Christian libertie abused yet good brethren we must so procéede in teaching that rather Christe be framed in the hearts then Moses and that rather by acknowledging Gods benefits men may be drawen to loue him then be driuen by feare to flie from him For if Christe doo come into our hearts it is vnpossible but that he should bring with him new vertues new actions new motions and a spirite sanctifying all thinges and where Christe is not receaued there is it in vaine to speake of any morrall vertue or vice whatsoeuer Eph. 3.17 If Christe doo dwell in our hearts by faythe then must it néedes follow that wee should bee rooted and grounded in looue and saye with the Apostle 2. Cor. 5.14.15 The loue of Christe constrayneth vs for this wee knowe that if Christe dyed for vs wee which liue should not liue vnto our selues but liue vnto him which dyed for vs and rose againe that as he gaue his body and bloud vpon the Crosse for vs so we should giue our bodyes and soules to serue him and shew our selues thankfull for the worke of our redemption knowing that he did not therefore die for vs that we should wallow in sinne and wickednesse

nor death nor Angelles nor principalities nor powers nor thinges present nor thinges to come nor height nor deapth nor anie other creature shall be able to seperate vs from the looue of GOD which is in Christe Iesus our Lord. Argolandus the Prince of Affrica ●ganne to laye a foundation when he came to Charles the great the king of Fraunce and was purposed to haue forsaken his Heathenish superstition and to haue embraced the true Religion of Christe But when he sawe thirteene poore folkes simplie arrayed to be set at meate before Charlemaigne he asked him what he meant to entertain such simple wretches in his presence The king made aunswer These be they whome I keepe alwaies before me in remembraunce of my maister his freends And beeing demaunded of what maister and of what freends He sayde Of my maister Christe and his twelue Apostles who liued in poore and base estate heere vpon earth If the case be so said Argolandus that your maister vseth his freends no better I care not greatlie for his freendship neither doo I meane to be anie of his freends And so the Heathen Prince refused to become a Christian because he did not consider that the Crosse was alwaies a companiō of the Gospel of Christ and that the children of God were to be iudged and measu●ed not by outward prosperitie but by inward graces therefore with shame ●he gaue ouer his building so that it might iustly haue been said vnto him This man beganne to builde and was not able to make an ende But we must consider that the charges of a Christian building is not to imagine that we shall leade a softe easie quiet ritch delicate and pleasaunt life in honour ●itches daintie fare pride and pleasures of the world But we must sit downe so make our accoūpts That we must be content to forsake all we haue Luk. 14.33 for the name of Christe and patientlie to submit ourselues to all troubles whatsoeuer for the bolde and open confessing of the Lord Iesus our sauiour For so doth our mai●er Christ foretell his Disciples when ●e sayth vnto them Beware of men Math. 10 1● Iohn 16. ● for ●ey will deliuer you vp to the councelles ●nd scourge you in their Sinagogues They ●hall excommunicate you yea the time ●all come that whosoeuer killeth you shall thinke he dooth God good seruice If ye were of the world Iohn 15.19 16.20 the world would looue his owne but because ye are not of the world but I haue chosen you out of the world therfore the world hateth you Ye shall weepe and lament but the world shall reioyce Now therfore that we christian Soldiers may in time be carefull for sufficient furniture against the day of trial and thinke vppon our haruest before the hower doo come that the stroakes shall light vpon vs and learne aforehande what duetie we owe vnto our cheefe captaine Iesus Christe and how we may in all thinges please him for as Paule sayth No man that warreth will entangle himselfe in the affaires of this life 2. Tim 2 4.5 because he woulde please him which hath chosen him to be a Soldier and if anie man striue for a maisterie he is not crowned except he striue as he ought to doo That vve may therefore endeuour in time to knowe howe we ought to striue and as vvise builders sit downe and cast our accoumptes before vve ●ake that vvorke in hande to be professours of the Gospell of Christe I trust that this Treatise vvill be some thing auayleable to prouoke vs therevnto if the Reader thereof will not so much respect and looke for any ●urious and artificiall handeling of the same as ponder and laye vppe in his ●eart the proofes and reasons vvhich ●re simplie and plainlie therein contey●ed I vvas purposed also to haue pen●ed the seconde parte of this Texte vvhich I handeled in the same place ●e next morning following But because I shall haue occasion to ●treate more at large of that article ●f Iustification in an other vvorke vvhich I am determined by Gods as●taunce heereafter to publishe I ●ue thought good nowe to omit it ●d in steede thereof to ioyne an o●her Sermon which I made too before in the same place the last time that Ministers were there ordained That as in the first Sermon generallie all mē maie learne how to striue and how to cast their accoumpts in their Christian profession so in the second especially Ministers may learne the same which are as it were captaines and cheefe builders vnder our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ It may peraduenture seeme vnto you a tedious thing that so large a Treatise should at once be vttered vnto the people but you may easilie consider that the matter which we had then in hand was not to be posted ouer with quick speede and celeritie but that euen as in the Apostles time Ministers were appointed with fasting prayer so it was behoouefull that I should at that time with continuance in preaching and praier keepe the people occupied longer then the wunted māner and withdraw them from their accustomed diet And againe if nowe in penning the discourse I haue in some places enlarged it I trust you wil not denie but that the waightinesse of the matter dooth greatlie require it The Lorde giue grace bothe to me which haue vttered this doctrine out of his holy woord and also to you which shall reade the same that beeing watered with the dewe of his holy spirite it may so reforme vs renew vs and builde vs vp into the perfect building of Christe that we may euerie one of vs discharge our dueties in our seueral vocations and let our light so shine before men that they may see our good workes and glorifie our Father in heauen Amen Farewell in Christe Iesu from VVarrington the. 8. of Maie Anno. 1582. Yours in the Lord Simon Harwarde A godlie and learned Sermon against the subtill practises of dissembling Neuters Rom. 10.19 〈◊〉 thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and shalt beleeue in thy hart that God raised him vp from the dead thou shalt be saued THe holie Apostle S. Paul the elect vessell of God the seruaunt of Iesus Christe and the Doctor of the Gentiles writeth this Epistle ●o all that were in Roome beloued of the Lord called to be Saintes which were ●o instructed before by Andronicus Iunia Vrbanus and others that their faith was published throughout all the world In which Epistle as I declared vnto you yesterday after that he hath saluted them in 〈◊〉 Lord he first prooueth vnto them That ●o man can be saued by him selfe and by ●is owne merites but that bothe Iew and Gentile were in themselues condempned The Gentiles were condempned by the ●nowledge which they had by the creatures 〈◊〉 God because by the creation of the world ●ey knewe that there was a God and ther●re if they did not feare him as God they were left

T it 2.14 but that he might redeeme vs from all iniquitie and purge vs a peculiar people vnto him zelous of good workes And thus our especiall care ought to be to frame Christ in the hearts of men 2. Cor. 3.6 And therefore Saint Paule saithe that God Idoneos nos fecit Ministros noui Testamenti he hath made vs able Ministers of the new Testament not of the letter but of the spirite for the letter killeth but the spirite giueth life Luke 16.16 Lex et prophetae vsque ad Iohannem ab eo tempore regnum dei annunciatur The Law and the Prophets continued vnto Iohn and from that time the kingdom of God is Preached whereby we are giuen to vnderstand that we are especially the Ministers of the new Testament to Preache the kingdome of God that is the Gospell of Iesus Christ not that we ought not to Preache the Lawe also for the teaching of the law is very necessary Firste Rom. 3.20 5.20 7.7 Gal. 3.21 4.1 Psa 1.2 19.7 119.105 Math. 5.17 to make vs acknowledge our owne wretchednes and miserie Secondly to be as it were our Schoolemaister to leade vs vnto Christ And last of all to reueale vnto vs the will of our heauenly father whereunto euery Christian must indeuour to the vttermost of his power to frame his life and conuersation But for that our chéefest labour ought to be to sprinckle the soules of men with the bloud of Iesus Christ 1. Peter 1.2 Heb. 9.14 and by his death and passion to purge their consciences from dead workes to serue the liuing Lorde What though some doo abuse the liberty of the Gospell and of the doore of saluation doo make vnto themselues a window vnto all wickednesse what though some by abusing Christes benefites doo shew themselues vnworthy of the same what though many come to the Supper without their wedding garment yet we must follow the ensample of our heauenly Father who Math. 5.48 maketh the Sunne to shine vpon the good and bad and the Raine to fall vpon the iust and vniust we must follow the seruants Luke 14.17 which were sent to bid men to the Mariage we must bid all bothe worthie and vnworthy and if any doo come which are vnworthy hauing not their wedding garments God will not condemne vs but them he will not saye to vs why did yee bid him why did ye let him enter Math. 22 1● but he will saye vnto the vnworthy guest freend how cammest thou heather hauing not thy Wedding garment take him binde him hand and foote and cast him into vtter darkenesse where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Wee must followe the good Sheepeheard Luke 15.4 which if he haue but one Sheepe lost will leaue ninetie and nine in the Wildernes and go and seeke that one which is lost And therefore if in the whole congregation there be but one which with Dauid Ps 6.3 38.4 dooth grone vnder the burthen of sinne and therefore néedeth comfort and all the rest be abusers of Christian libertie there is no reason that for the great multitude of the abusers he should be depriued of comfort for whom Christ dyed And thus ye sée first the wisdom which is required in them that will be profitable labourers in the Lords Haruest that they know how to labour how to chuse the Séeds how to Sowe it with discretion how to bruse the cloddes and knottie affections of mens hearts by the threatenings of the lawe but especially how to molli●ie them and water them with the swéete dew of Gods mercies and with the comfortable promises of the Lorde Iesus Christe Then yee which are nowe to take the Office of the Ministerie vpon you are héere to trie and examine your selues whether ye be able thus to labour in the Lordes Haruest or no and if ye be not assure your selues the Lorde dooth not send you ye respect the liuing to féede your selues and not your knowledge to féede the flock and therefore Iohn 10. ● are ye Hierlings ye are theeues and murderers ye come in at the windowe and not at the doore Christ Iesus And as for you which now either for want of knowledge or otherwise for want of age are not admitted at this time into the Ministerie be not therefore discouraged but rather accompt it to be a token of the mercifull prouidence of God that he would haue you to tarie the time vntyl he himselfe shall call you and make you fit for that function and with this persuasiō apply the scriptures and no doubt the Lord will blesse bothe you your studies the better Paul will haue the Minister to bee no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no young Plant 1. Tim. 3.6 not greene timbered but to be seasoned for a time with the knowledge of Gods worde and with grauitie and integrity of life For if the chéefe beames and Rafters of the house be made of gréeue Timber there is great daunger least the Timber shrinke and so the fall of the house be great The Minister must be one of the Beames to vpholde the house of God and therefore séeing ye are yet but gréene wood as I am sure your owne conscience dooth witnesse vnto you let it not gréeue you to be seasoned for a time that ye may be made fit for the building of the Lorde And héere by the way I am to make my humble petition to you my Lorde that as your Lordship hath had a godly care and taken a good course that none should be admitted at this time but such as for their learning and knowledge are of great hope and towardnesse So also an order may now be taken that they may be driuen to some godly exercises wherby not onely the good gifts of God may be continued and increased in them but also Isa 56.10 the blinde guides and dombe Dogges which are already crept in may be in time reformed You must deale with all these Ministers as the Eagle dooth with her young Birdes as many as can looke stedfastly vpon the Sunne so many dooth she nourish the rest she turneth out of the Nest as vnfit to be kept You must set before them all Math. 4 2. 1. Cor. 14.29 1. Tim. 4.13 the beames of the sunne of righteousnes Iesus Christ appoint them godly exercises to the increase of their knowledge and as many as cannot abyde thus to looke vpon the sunne of righteousnesse so many should be turned out of the nest as vnfit to serue in your Lordships Dioces And thus if their Talent be exercised then no doubt their Talent shal be increased Math. 25.20 and God will double his holy spirite in them so that in short time they shall be able bothe to exhort with wholesome doctrine Tit. 1.9 Act. 1.4 6.3 Luk. 24.49 and also to improoue the gainesayers and except they haue these giftes and graces of the holy spirit and

the worke of men be bound to doo it Titus 2.9 without murmuring and grudging and to serue their bodily Maisters with feare and trembling with singlenes of heart Ephe. 6.5 not with eie seruice as pleasing men but as the seruaunts of Christ dooing the will of God from the heart How much more ought the labourers in the Haruest of the Lorde to shew all faithfulnesse in dooing that worke willingly where vnto the Lord hath sent them The third propertie which is required in those that wil be good labourers in the Lords Haruest is Dilligence for otherwise they be not labourers but loyterers and therefore Saint Paul dooth charge Timothy 2. Tim. 4.1.2.5 before God and before the Lorde Iesus Christ which shall iudge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom that he preache the worde and be instant in season and out of season that he improoue rebuke and exhort with all longe suffering and doctrine watching in all things dooing the worke of an Euangelist Salomon saith Prou. 27.29 be diligent to know the state of thy flocke and take heede vnto thy Heards Isa 58.1 God commaundeth the Prophet to crye aloude and spare not to lift vp his voyce like a trumpet to shew the people their transgressions and the house of Iacob their sinnes Colos 4.17 Tell Archippus saith Paul take heede to the Ministerie that thou hast receaued in the Lord that thou fulfill it Right terrible is the woe which is so often denounced in the holy Scriptures against the slouthfull and negligēt Pastor Ezech. 34.2 as by the Prophet wo be to the Sheepeheards which feede themselues and feede not the flock and by the Apostle Ier. 23.1 ● Cor. 9.16 vae mihi nisi Euangelizauero Woe be to me if I preach not the Gospell If the consideration of this woe that is of the horrible iudgements of God were laide vp in our harts it could not be that so many of vs should sléepe in the Cradle of Securitie vtterly neglect the charge which is layde vpon vs it could not be that so many of vs should leaue the studie of the Scriptures giue our selues to lewde pastimes as though we were called to cast a Bowle to prick a Carde to trip a Die and not rather to féede the flock of Christ which he hath purchased with his precious bloud Neither could it be that so many of vs should depart from the flockes ouer the which the holy Ghost hath made vs ouerséers and lye continually either in the Vniuersities or in Cathedrall Churches not once indeuouring to fulfill the Ministery which we haue receyued of the Lord it could not be that so many of vs by ioyning liuing to liuing should heap charge vpō charge without any care to discharge for if they which discharge their office by substitutes would cōsider how that he which féedeth his flock only by a Substitute may peraduenture go to Heauen by a substitute but he shall surely feele his woe in Hell in his own proper person if they which lye away for learnings sake would cōsider how lamētable the case is that the Steed should sterue while the Grasse dooth grow how that before God this excuse will not stand liue Horse and thou shalt haue Grasse if all we which are carelesse negligent would continually set before our eies the woe so oftē pronounced against vs the heauy accompts which we are to make at the dreadfull daye of iudgement when the secrets of all harts shall be opened it could not be but we should haue more care to fulfil the Ministery which we haue receiued of the Lord and when we haue vrgent occasion to go abroade as often times it falleth out and so for a time to be absent in bodyes yet it would make vs alwaies to be present in hart 1. Reg. 19.20 and in prayer and againe to remember the Counsel of Elias to go but with speede to returne For when Elizaeus the Prophet asked leaue of him to go to his Father and Mother he saide go returne for what haue I done vnto thee I haue anoynted thee to be the Prophet of God and that is the charge which thou must now attend vnto notwithstanding goe to thy fathers house but with all speede returne As for those which continue from their flockes and suffer the worde to cease amongst them so that their soules doo perish for want of foode they haue a seuere plague denounced against them by the Prophet Zacharie Zach. 11.17 O idole Sheepheard that leaueth the flock the sworde shall be vpon his arme and vpon his right eye his arme shall be cleane dryed vp and his right eye shal be vtterly darkened his arme that is his strength and his right eye his knowledge and memorie shall all consume perrish and vanish away and he shall come to a fearefull end But thou wilt say that thou art resident vpon thy liuing and therefore thou doost not flye away Augustine saithe Aug tract 47. in Ioh. Fugisti quia tacuisti Thou hast holden thy peace and therefore thou art fled away thou art present in body but thou art absent in minde and voice and what will thy bodily presence profit when thy heart and thy tongue wherby thy office should be discharged is altogether absent Thē ye which are now to enter into the Ministerie and so to be sent foorth as labourers into the Lordes Haruest learne how to shew your dilligence not by idle presence of the body but by painefull presence of the hart and voyce for otherwise Zach. 11.17 the Prophet Zachary doth accompt you to be nothing but Idols not Pastors indéede but Idols Psal 135.16 such as the Psalmist speaketh of which haue mouthes and speake not eyes and see not eares and heare not neither is there any breath in their mouthes Math. 25.20 If your Talent be but small yet exercise the same with prayer and dilligence and the Lord hath promised that he will increase it and double it and when ye shall shew your selues faithfull in little he will make you Maisters of much But if ye haue any Talent be it neuer so small although it be but one Talent yet if ye hide it Mat. 25.28.30 it shall be taken from you and ye shall be cast as vnprofitable seruaunts into vtter darkenesse where shal be weeping and gnashing of teethe But otherwise if ye perceaue euidently that ye haue no Talent at all and that ye are able to doo no good at all in the Church of God I require and charge you before the Lord Iesus Christe and as ye will aunswer at his appearaunce that ye presume not rashly to enter into so high a function Luk. 12.42 to be Stevvards of the Lords Household hauing no portion of meate to giue them in due season Remember the accompts which euery Stewarde is to make at the last day when that dreadfull voyce

they be sent we must continually beare in minde this cōmaūdement of our Sauiour Christ that we praye vnto the Lord of the Haruest to send foorth Labourers into his Haruest Which cōmaundement because Christ gaue it in this place to his 70. Disciples Let vs of the Ministery firste apply it to our selues and learne heere our dutye which is that with all laboures we ioyne our prayers vnto the Lorde of the Haruest For if in temporall things nothing can prosper without the blessing of the Lorde as the Prophet Dauid saithe Psal 127.1 Except the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that builde except the Lorde keepe the Cittie the Watchemen watcheth but in vaine It is in vaine for you to rise vp earely and to lye downe late and to eate the bread of carefulnesse as we sée by experience euery day many rise early and lay downe late and eate the bread of carefulnesse but they prosper not because the Lord doth not build the house if worldly riches be the blessing of the Lord as Salomon saith it is the blessing of the Lorde which maketh men riche if in fishing in the Sea Luke 5.5 Peter may fishe all night catch nothing vntil our Sauiour Christe voutchsafe to come into the barge thē how much lesse shall we think that we can build the Lords house or watch ouer the flock of Christ or gather a rich haruest vnto the lord or catch the soules of mē with the spiritual net of gods word vnlesse with our rising early lying downe late eating the bread of carefulnes we alwaies let our praier supplicatiō be made to God with thāksgiuing Phil. 4.6 Iob. 31.27 Iobe saithe If my heart did flatter me in secret or if my mouthe did kisse mine hand this had bin an iniquity to be condemned for I had denyed the Lorde aboue where Iob maketh the ascribing of our temporall goods to our owne handie worke and saying Haec sunt opera manuum mearum these are the workes of mine owne hands to be nothing els but a denying of the Lord aboue How much more then doo we deny the Lorde aboue if in spirituall graces we doo not confesse and acknowledge that it is nothing for Paul 1. Cor. 3.6 2. Cor. 3.5 to Plant and Appollo to water except the Lord doo giue the encrease that we are not sufficient of our selues to thinke one good thought as of our selues but all our sufficiencie commeth of God who hath made vs able Ministers of the new Testament that Isa 6.5.7 Ierm 1.6.9 the Prophet Isay is a man of polluted lippes bēfore the Lorde doo purge them that Ieremie is but a Childe and cannot speake before the Lord doo put his woords into his mouthe and therefore that in all our endeuours we trust not to our owne wisdome to our owne learning to our owne pollicie to our owne gifts of nature but that in all our laboures we doo in feruencie of spirite Psalm 51 1● pray with Dauid O Lorde open thou my lippes and then my mouthe shall shew foorth thy praise Héere also in that our Sauiour dooth commaund his Disciples to pray the Lord of the Haruest to send foorth labourers into his Haruest we haue to consider the tender care which euery Minister ought to haue of the Church of God still to pray vnto God for the same and not onely to pray vnto God but also with great griefe of hart to remember as well the small number of the faithfull labourers as also the great number of the peoples sinnes This vehement zeale and tender care for the Haruest of the Lord was in Moyses when he prayed so earnestly for the people that he sayde Exod. 32.32 O Lord pardon their sinnes or els raze me out of the booke which thou hast written Gen. 18 24. This was in Abraham for when he saw how the sinnes of the Sodomites had prouoked the scourge of God against them he prayed vnto the Lord and sayd Lord if there be but fiftie righteous in the Citie wilt thou destroy the place and not spare it for the fiftie righteous and againe behould I haue begonne to speake vnto the Lord and am but duste and Asshes If there lack fiue of fiftie wilt thou destroy them for fiue And againe what if but fortie And againe what if thirtie what if twentie And againe let not my Lord be angrie if I speake once againe what if but ten shewing thereby sufficiently the earnest zeale which he had 2. Pet. 2.7 for the saluation of the people This was in Lot who was vexed with the vncleane conuersation of the wicked for béeing righteous and dwelling among them in séeing and heareing vexed his righteous soule from day to daye with their vncleane and foule déedes This zealous care for the Lords Haruest was also in Samuel 1. Sam. 7.9 Psal 119.136 who cried vnto the Lord for Israell And in Dauid whose eyes gusht out with Riuers of water because his people kept not the Lawe of God This was in the Prophet Isay Isa 22.4 who in the aboundance of looue bewayled his bretheren which would needes perishe saying Turne away from me I will weepe bitterly labour not to comfort me for the destruction of the Daughter of my people Ierm 9.1 Ierem. 14.17 This was in Ieremy who cryed out O that my head were full of Water and mine eyes a Fountaine of Teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people Let myne eyes droppe downe teares night and daye without ceasing Dan. 9.7.16.18.19 This was in the Prophet Daniel who when he heard out of Ieremie that the Captiuitie should continue seauentie yeares he turned his face vnto the Lord with fasting with Sackcloth and Ashes and prayed saying To thee O Lorde belongeth righteousnes to vs open shame and confusion O Lord I beseeche thee let thine anger be turned away from thy Cittie Ierusalem thine holy Mountaine We doo not present our selues vnto thee trusting in our owne righteousnesse but in thy great and tender mercyes O Lorde heare O Lorde forgiue O Lord consider and doo it not for our sake but for thyne owne sake O my God This was in the holye Apostle Sainte Paule Actes 20.31 Phil. 3.18 Rom. 9.1 who ceased not to warne euery man bothe daye and night with Teares and hee called God to wytnesse that hee spake the trueth howe hee had great heauynesse and contynuall sorrowe of heart for hys Bretheren and that for their sakes Luk. 19.41 he wished himselfe to be seperate from Iesus Christe This was also in the chéefe Shéepheard our Sauiour Christ who when he beheld the Citty Ierusalem and the iniquitie thereof he wept ouer it and cried out with gréefe of heart O if thou hadst knowen at the least in this thy day these things which belong vnto thy peace but nowe they are hidde from thine eyes and this ought

to be in all the Ministers of Christ to haue a zealous and a tender care of the Church of God which Christ hath purchased with his moste precious bloud and therefore our Sauiour dooth héere commaund his seuentie Disciples that in all their prayers they should not haue so much respect vnto themselues as vnto the Haruest of the Lorde and biddeth them pray the Lord of the Haruest to sende foorth labourers into his Haruest And this is the dutie not onely of the Minister but generally of all men Psal 137.5.6 to pray for the peace of Ierusalem and the prosperous estate of the Church of God Ephe. 6.19 to pray for the Ministers that vtteraunce may be giuen vnto them that they may opē their mouthes bouldly to publish the secret of the Gospell to pray 2 Thes 3.1 that the word of God may haue free passage and be glorifyed among them to pray for their Pastors Colos 4.3.4 that God wyll open vnto them the doore of vtteraunce that they may so speake the Misteries of Christ as it becommeth them to speake to pray with Dauid that the Lord will be fauourable vnto Sion Psa 51.18 and build vp the walles of Ierusalem And finally to praye heere with the seuentie Disciples that the Lord of the Haruest will send foorth labourers into his Haruest and this shall euery one of you performe a great deale more carefully if ye will call to minde either the great comfort which commeth vnto you by the paines of faithfull Labourers or els the miserable estate that ye stande in if ye want these Labourers For first what greater comfort can there be to a trauayler béeing in a straunge place and among his enemyes then to be well armed and to haue a good weapen to defēd him Neither can there be any greater comfort to vs that Psalm 39.12 are straungers and Pilgrimes in this vale of misery and continually assaulted with most cruell enemies the world the flesh and the Deuill then to be well weaponed with the sworde of the spirite Ephe. 6.17 Hebru 4.12 the word of God which shall cut downe sinne in vs and enter thorough euen to the deuiding a sunder of the soule and of the spirite of the ioyntes and of the marrowe Then we ought alwayes to pray with Dauid I am a straunger vpon earth Psal 119.19 O hide not thy commaundement from me What greater comfort to a man which walketh in darkenesse and in a daingerous place Ephe. 5.8 Psa 119.105 2. Pet. 1.19 Ephe. 5.8 then to haue a light to be brought vnto him Neither can there be anye greater comforte to vs which of our selues are nothing but darkenesse as Paule saythe then to haue the worde of God a Lanterne to our feete and a Candle shining in a darke place whereby we may be made light in the Lorde and walke as the children of light What greater ioye vnto a poore man then to shrowde himselfe vnder the winges of some Nobleman or Gentleman and to weare his Liuerie and Cognisance neyther can there be any greater ioye to a true Christian then to weare the Badge of a Christian which is a zeale to heare the worde of God Iohn 8.47 1. Ioh. 4.6 Iohn 10.27 that hearing Gods worde he may be knowne to be of God and hearing the voyce of Christ may be knowne thereby to be one of the Sheep of Christ and therefore such a one as cā neuer perrish There is no man but he would willingly be reconciled to his Landlorde or any other which is able to hurt either his body or goods The Gospell of Christ is called 2. Cor. 5.19 Math. 10.28 the worde of reconciliation whereby we are reconciled to him which is able to destroy bothe body and soule and cast bothe into Hell lier No man but he would willingly be saued Iam. 1.21 Rom. 1.16 Isa 12.3 it is called the worde of saluation which is able to saue our soules and therfore we ought with ioy to draw water out of the Wels of saluation as the Prophet speaketh ther is no mā but he would willingly be preserued frō errours falshood it is called 2. Cor. 6.7 Iohn 17.17 the word of truth No mā but if he haue any sparkle of grace he would willingly be deliuered frō the bondage of sinne iniquitie It is the Law of God Psal 19.7.11 119.9 which is perfect conuerteth the soule the Testimony of the Lord is sure giueth wisdom vnto the simple by thē is the seruāt of God made circūspect by teaching improouing 2. Tim. 3.16 correcting instructing they make the mā of god absolute perfect in al good works There is no mā but if he haue enemies suing him at Lawe for a péece of Land he would gladly haue the aduise of good and learned Counsellers our enemyes séeke to pluck from vs the kingdome of Heauen and therefore our delight ought to be in the statues of God for they are our Counsellers Psal 119.24 saith Dauid if we haue any suite we are desirous to know the end how that iudgement shall passe Christ saithe If any man receiue not my woords Ioh. 12.48 Sermo quem loquutus sum iudicabit eum in nouissimo Die the word which I haue spoaken shall iudge him the last day There is no man but if his Father haue made a Will and Testament and therein bequeathed vnto him any worldly goods or possessions he wyll read the Will ouer and ouer againe to see what his father hath bequeathed vnto him But the Minister dooth bring vnto you not the Testament of any mortal man but the Will and Testament of our Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 11 27. 2. Cor. 3.6 Hebru 8.8 9.15 1. Pet. 1.18 wherein he hath bequeathed vnto you not temporall riches but the euerlasting ioyes of Heauen purchased not with Siluer nor Gould but with his owne precious bloud How much more then ought ye to héere marke and commit vnto me morie this Will and Testament of our Lorde and redéemer When the Market day commeth that we must prouide for foode and rayement for our bodyes we wyll applye it dilligently to our great costes and charges Behoulde the Lorde hath appointed many dayes especially the Sabbaoth dayes to be the Market dayes of our soules wherein we may fréely prouide for some thing to the nourishment and comforte of our soules What a great care then ought wee to haue to resort vnto the Church Apoc. 3.18 Isa 55. ● to buy Gould tryed by the fier that we may be riche and white rayment that we may be cloathed and as the Prophet saythe to buie Wyne and Mylke without Siluer and not so to care for the body which shortly shall be Wormes meate that we haue no care of the soule which shortly shall be in the companye of Angels There is none of vs but he would willingly conceaue some hope of eternall life and