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lord_n	apostle_n	day_n	sabbath_n	13,396	5	10.0850	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16895	The preachers charge, and peoples duty about preaching and hearing of the Word : opened in a sermon, being the first fruits of a publike exercise, begun in the parish church of Lownd, for the benefit of the island of Louingland in Suffolke / by Iohn Brinsley ...	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1631 (1631)	STC 3790.5; ESTC S1527	26,069	42

not only seruent in the spirit but also hee spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord. Ministers in the dispensation of the Gospell are Gods seeds-men to sowe the seed of eternall life in the hearts of his chosen Now it is the seeds-mans charge giuen by the Preacher In the morning sowe thy seed and in the euening let not thine hand rest The Preaching of the Word must be a Ministers worke his daily worke not his recreation a continuall worke We are Gods Husbandmen his people are his tillage as Saint Paul maketh the comparison Now it is the Husbandmans portion redit labor actus in orbem his worke goeth round in a circle it is neuer at an end Spring Summer Autume Winter no vacation in any They that put their hands to Gods Plough must put on an indefatigable resolution to follow the worke with diligence It is the reason which the Apostles giue why they would haue Deacons chosen to take care of their poore because say they We will giue our selues continually to prayer and to Preaching of the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Insta●imus saith the vulgar Latine wee will be instant in it attend vnto it Thus must wee whom God hath honoured so farre as to make vs dispensers of his sacred mysteries we must 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 attend vpon the worke stand to it be instant in it first with Earnestnesse secondly with Diligence This in generall more particularly Be instant in season out of season 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will bee briefe in both In season the word may be vnderstood two wayes 1. It may be taken for the ordinary set time appoynted and set apart for this exercise The ordinary time set apart by God himselfe for this duty is the Sabbath day the Lords day And then to Preach the Word is to Preach it in season The Sabbath was and the Lords day is a signe of sanctification vnto the people of God neuer are the meanes of sanctification so properly in season as then This season did our Sauiour and his Apostles vsually obserue Before his resurrection they went into the Synagogues and taught vpon the Sabbath dayes After his resurrection they met together euery first day of the weeke vpon the Lords day as at the day of Pentecost and at other times And this season the Ministers of the Gospell are to obserue after a speciall manner In this there is a difference betwixt the word of God and that Mannah which came downe from heauen in the wildernesse that fell vpon euery day of the weeke except the Sabbath this spirituall Mannah neuer falleth so seasonably as then 2. In season that is at such times and seasons when the Word may be most acceptable most profitable vnto the hearers There are certaine seasons when the Word is likely to finde better acceptance and entertainment to take place rather than at other times as viz. when men are humbled vnder the hand of God when the heart is broken vnder some great affliction or other whether present or feared that is a season when the Word is like to finde easier passage and to make a deeper impression So againe when the heart is warmed and melted with the fresh apprehension of some new mercy that is a season when the Word is likely to finde a wide and effectuall doore opened to it to let it into the soule So againe there are certaine seasons when some particular doctrin is more seasonable than others As to minister comfort and consolation to an afflicted deiected soule when the heart is pricked wounded when the spirit is broken vnder the apprehension of sinne and Gods wrath due to it then to preach comfort is like the powring in balsome into a bleeding wound or like a showre of raine falling vpon the new mowne grasse it is a word in season Now Ministers should obserue and watch and apply themselues to these seasons We know what commendation the Wiseman giueth of words thus spoken in season How good is a word in due season And againe A word spoken fitly Super rotissuis saith the originall spoken vpon his wheeles that is with a due concurrance and obseruation of all circumstances of time place person and the like which are as the wheeles vpon which our words and speeches should runne is like apples of gold with pictures of siluer both delectable profitable Herin should the wisdome of the Ministers of the Word be exercised in taking hold of these opportunities to improue them for the best aduantage that they may minister a word in due season They must be instant in season and a. Out of season What is the Word euer out of season that which seasoneth all other things is that euer vnseasonable Ans. In it selfe in truth it is not but in the opinion of men in the eye of carnall reason in the iudgement of flesh and blood it seemeth sometimes to be out of season Out of season three wayes in three respects 1. In respect of the speaker 2. In respect of the hearer 3. In respect of both First in respect of the Speaker the Minister himselfe the Preaching of the Word seemeth to bee out of season when his ease his pleasures his profits his worldly imployments some vnnecessary auocations or other draw him another way When there is no constraint no necessity of Preaching the Law of the Land requires it not neither is there any benefit but perhaps danger likely to accrew to himselfe by Preaching as in times of persecution then it may seeme to him to bee out of season In respect of the Hearers when their Farmes their Oxen their particular calling domesticall imployments perhaps sports pastimes recreations draw them another way When they cannot repayre to the hearing of the Word without some paines without some hardship in respect of the season the weather as it falleth out this morning or otherwise then the Preaching and hearing of the Word seemeth to them to be out of season Thirdly to both Speaker and Hearers it may seeme out of season When it is preached not onely at the set ordinary times vpon the Sabbath the Lords day but also at other times vpon other occasions vpon the weeke day then flesh and blood will be ready to think it as a showre of raine in the midst of Haruest out of season Now at these times which to carnall reason may seeme vnseasonable must the Ministers of the Gospell stand vp to the worke of their ministery take all occasions all oportunities and aduantages of Preaching publikely of instructing priuately Thus did our Sauiour and his Apostles they went about Preaching as they went into the Synagogues on the Sabbath dayes so they tooke all other occasions on the weeke day to instruct the people publikely beside their teaching from house to house And here is our warrant for this religious exercise

state of what degree of what condition soeuer Thus the Prophet Esay maketh his Proclamation Esay 55. 1. Hoe euery one that thirsteth come ye to the waters There are none excepted none excluded out of our Commission wee must tender Christ vnto all So must wee Preach to the Churches as S. Iohn writeth to them in his Reuelation He that hath an eare let him heare what the Spirit saith to the Churches Preach the Gospell to all 2. In whose name we must preach Heralds speake not in their owne names but in the names of them that send them Thus saith the great King the King of Ashur saith Rabshakeh to the Inhabitants of Hierusalem So must we speake to the Inhabitants of Iudah and Hierusalem in the phrase of Heralds not in our name but in the name of him whose messengers we are in the name of God Thus saith the King the great King of heauen and earth Thus spake the Prophets of old The Word of the Lord the burthen of the Lord Thus did our Sauiour himselfe as he was man come vnto his people Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord Thus were the Apostles to preach vnto the people it is our Sauiours owne charge to them a little before his ascension That Repentance and remission of sinnes should bee preached in his name And those outcasts in the Gospell when they would plead as they thought effectually for themselues they doe it in this phrase Lord Lord haue we not prophesied in thy name Ministers must speake to the Lords people not as Lords ouer them but as messengers as Heralds in the name in the authority of him that sendeth them in the name of God 3 How wee are to speake and deliuer the will of God to the people namely as Heralds should doe How is that Why 1. Boldly 2. Faithfully 3. Plainely Boldly as hauing authority as representing the person of the Prince that sends them Faithfully neither adding to nor detracting from what they haue receiued in instruction from their Masters Plainly that all they to whom they are sent may heare and vnderstand their message Thus should the Ministers of the Word behaue themselues in the dispensation of the Gospel in preaching of the Word Deliuer it 1. Boldly as standing in the place representing the person of God himselfe not fearing the faces of them to whom they are sent Behold I haue made thy face strong against their faces and thy fore-head strong against their fore-heads As an Adamant harder than Flint haue I made thy fore-head saith the Lord to the Prophet Ezekiel Such an vandaunted boldnesse such an inuincible resolution should there be in the Ministers of the Word in deliuering the will of God to the people in instructing exhorting conuincing reprouing they must doe it with boldnesse They that preach Christ must so preach him as Christ himselfe preached when hee was vpon the earth as hauing authority It is Saint Pauls charge in expresse words to Titus These things speake and exhort and rebuke with all authority 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is with a Ministeriall authority In this Christs preaching and our preaching of Christ differ He preached 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as hauing authority in himselfe from himselfe Wee must preach with authority too but not as hauing authority in our selues but with a deriued a Ministeriall authority deriued from him whose Ambassadours we are whose person we represent Preach with authority Boldly 2. Faithfully Deliuer the will of God his whole will nothing but his will neither adding to it nor detracting from it Thus did the Apostle Saint Paul preach and deliuer the will of God to the Churches What hee deliuered to others he first receiued himselfe I haue receiued of the Lord that which also I deliuered vnto you And as he receiued what he deliuered so hee deliuered what he receiued he kept nothing backe I haue not shunned to declare vnto you all the Counsell of God They are his owne words to the Elders of Ephesus at Miletum Thus must we deliuer the Counsell of God his reuealed Will for that is meant by Counsell in that place not his secret Decrees and Purposes but his reuealed Will specially his Counsell and Purpose touching the way and meanes of saluation by Christ and Christ alone we must deliuer it faithfully not adding to it nor baulking any thing necessary to be knowne Exemplary to vs is that resolution of the Prophet Michaia when hee was sent for to prophesie before King Ahab At the Lord liueth saith he whatsoeuer the Lord saith vnto me that will I speake Deliuer the will of God faithfully And thirdly deliuer it plainely Heralds speake distinctly with an audible voyce in a knowne language to the vnderstanding of those to whom they are sent Rabsaketh when he was sent as an Herald to the people of the Iewes he would not speake to them in the Aramites language as Eliakim would haue had him but in the Iewes language that the people might vnderstand his arrand Thus must Gods Heralds the Ministers of the Word in deliuering his Embassage in preaching of the Word they must speake plainely distinctly in a knowne language to the capacity of the hearers Thus did Ezra and the Leuites in that forenamed place They read in the booke in the Law of the Lord distinctly and gaue the sense and caused the people to vnderstand And it is noted of the Apostles at the day of Pentecost as an exemplary president to the Ministers of the Gospell for euer That Euery man heard them speake in his own language That is they spake to euery man in his own language not that the hearers heard that in diuers languages which they spake but in one as some haue not without some colour in the words coniectured for then as Mr. Caluin vpon the place well obserues the miracle had beene in the hearers not in the speakers whereas the clouen tongues rested vpon the Apostles not vpon the people Their tongues were clouen they spake to the people in their owne languages that they might vnderstand as well as heare For a Herald to deliuer a message of importance in a strange language which none vnderstand but himselfe he had as good bee silent They that take vpon them the preaching of Christ must speake in the language of Christ and the language of the people they must speake plainely This it is properly to Preach viz. To deliuer the will of God as Heralds doe the commands of their Masters to speake vnto all to speake in the name of God with boldnesse faithfulnesse plainenesse You now see the first question resolued and cleared What is meant by Preaching But what must we Preach The voyce saith to vs Cry but what shall wee cry That is the second thing to be vnfolded The text telleth vs The Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We must Preach the Word This word 〈◊〉