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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03930	The preachers president, or, The master and scholler in a sermon preached at a synode holden by the Right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn, Lord Bishop of Chester, at Wigan in Lancashire, the 21 of Aprill, 1625 / by Iames Hyatt B. of D. and preachers of Gods Word at Liuer-poole.	Hyatt, James, fl. 1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 14038; ESTC S2753	13,491	24

THE PREACHERS PRESIDENT OR THE MASTER AND SCHOLLER In a Sermon preached at a Synode holden by the Right Reuerend Father in GOD IOHN Lord Bishop of CHESTER at Wigan in Lancashire the 21. of Aprill 1625. By IAMES HYATT B. of D. and Preacher of Gods Word at Liuer-Poole LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1625. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD John Lord Bishop of Chester my singular good Lord and Patron MY GOOD LORD IN obedience to your Lordships pleasure I doe here humbly present you with that Sermon which I lately preacht by your Lordships appointment at Wigan my little leasure and health at that time and my lesse skill for such a businesse made me very vnwilling to vnder-take it vnconscious to my selfe that I should not sufficiently discharge it but your Lordships authoritic imposing it vpon mee brought me to a necessitie of performing it as I could and when I had done it your Lordship was pleased to my great incouragement not onely to speake well of it but to require a re-view of it from mine hand and pen And indeed your fauour and goodnesse to me and mine hath beene such and taken so deepe impression in mine heart that I shall 〈◊〉 haue power to denie whatsoeuer it shall please your Lordship to command or expect from me though otherwise I could rather haue wisht that it might haue slept with me in silence For it may be those defects will be spyed in the reading which were not so easily obserued in the hearing of it I confesse that the matter is much of it gathered from others onely the method is mine owne and if it proue therefore lesse acceptable to some who by this meanes may chance to haue a sight of it yet I am confident that this shall bring no losse to it in your Lordships acceptation as well knowing that the Spiders web is no whit the more commendable because it is all wouen out of her owne bowells nor the Bee's honey lesse pleasant and vsefull because it is gathered from seuerall flowers Whatsoeuer it be I now commit it to your Lordships Patronage humbly desiring seeing it hath found grace in your eyes that it may safely shelter it selfe vnder your protection and continue with you if for no other vse yet as a faithfull pledge of mine hearts thankfulnesse which hath for euer vowed it selfe to your Lordships ser●ice And now crauing pardon for this boldnesse I humbly commend your good Lordship to the mercy of God in Christ Iesus beseeching him vpon the bended knees of mine heart to blesse you with health long life and happy dayes vpon earth to his glorie and his Churches good and with eternall felicitie hereafter in his heauenly Kingdome Your Lordships most humbly deuoted Chaplaine IAMES HYATT THE PREACHERS PRESIDENT OR THE MASTER AND SCHOLLER MATTH 22.16 And they sent out vnto him their Disciples with the Herodians saying Master we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth neither carest thou for any man for thou regardest not the person of men THe latter wordes of this Text may fitly bee called The Preachers president for they contayne in them the exact description of such a man as is fit to teach Gods Will to the World as will more fully appeare in the after handling of them the occasion of their deliuerie may be thus conceiued The Pharisies had before assayed to resist Christ openly but when they see that that will doe no good they withdraw themselues from him and thinke vpon a fraudulent course against him which is by some meanes to intangle him in his talke and because they foresee that their owne persons are no fit instruments for such a purpose hauing before discouered themselues and their malice against his Person and Doctrine therefore they send their Disciples with the Herodians to him two Sects though differing much both in life and Religion yet agreeing well enough together to destroy Christ which that they may the better doe they are to fayne themselues iust men And to say to him Luk. 20.20 Master we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in Truth neither carest thou for any men for thou regardest not the person of men Tell vs therefore what thinkest thou is it lawfull to giue tribute to Caesar or not which speech of theirs diuideth it selfe into a salutation and a question I haue now chosen the first of them onely to speake of In handling it I might obserue the manner of their saluting Christ and the matter of their salutation for the manner it is very dissemblingly done of them for they come with an intent to destroy Christ and yet giue him good wordes call him Master and tell him that they know him to be thus and thus qualified as indeed it becommeth euery Master of Gods people to be but vnder this maske of faire wordes they seeke to shroud the wicked purpose of their hearts from his obseruation they pretend loue to his person and reuerence to his profession that they may secretly draw him into the snare which they haue priuily laid for him which indeed is the common practice of false-hearted flatterers it is vsuall with them to hide the deadly hooke of their wicked purposes vnder the sugered bait of faire wordes 2. Sam. 20.3 and to come like Ioab with art thou in health my brother or Iudas-like with all haile Master in their mouthes Matth. 26.49 when there is nothing but treason and villainie in their hearts But I cannot stay vpon this point my purpose is to insist onely vpon the matter of their salutation which is the ascribing of three particular qualities to Christ which indeed were most eminently in himselfe and ought in some competencie to bee in euery Minister of the Gospell of Christ Iesus The first is that hee was true the second a teacher of the truth to others the third no respecter of mens persons the first seemeth to haue reference to his person the second to his ministerie the third to both as if they should haue said wee know thee to bee one that doest rightly vnderstand and constantly maintayne and practise the truth in thine owne person and also diligently faithfully to teach it others not suffering it to receiue any detriment either in thy life or doctrine through partialitie or respect of mens persons So that in these words they acknowledge Christ to bee an vpright and blamelesse liuer in his owne person and a faithful and diligent teacher of the truth to others Which two things indeed are necessarily required if not to the being yet to the perfecting of our ministeriall function Exod. 28.30.33 they were represented by the Vrim and Thummim in Aarons brest plate the golden bells and Pomegranets about the skirts of his Garment whereby God signified that he would haue light of doctrine ioyned with integritie of life and the sweet sound of sauing words to bee accompanied with the sauorie fruits of good