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A47031	A sermon upon Ember-Week, preached before the University of Oxford, at Christ-Church in Oxford, 1698 by David Jones ...	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1699 (1699)	Wing J939; ESTC R2427	21,461	34

with Fifthly There was heretofore a Generation of Men who cried up The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord Jerem. 7. 4. And yet those very Men were the greatest Enemies to that Temple For it is there expresly said of them verse 6. 9. That they would oppress the Poor the Fatherless and the Widow they would shed innocent Blood Steal Murder commit Adultery Swear falsly burn Incense to Baal and walk after other Gods And have not We just such another sort of Men now adays who cry up The Church The Church The Church and yet will do Nothing for the Church but Drink and Swear and Whore and take away the Church-Land and Call the Best Men of its Communion the Soundest Preachers and the Strictest Livers a Company of Puritans and Phanaticks And these Men I know very well will presently pretend a great deal of Zeal and will find Fault with those Texts of Scripture which I have Quoted out of God's own Word for the Proof of my Doctrine And to these Men I will only say thus much A chast Virgin or a chast Wife does not at all think her self abused when she hears a Whore or an Adultress set forth in her proper Colours And a Learned and a Laborious Minister does not at all think Himself or the Ministerial Office abused when an Ignorant an Idle a Covetous a Wanton and a Proud Pharisee is described to the Life If any Man here present finds himself Touch'd in God's Name let him Reform and Amend And if not why does he then find Fault Let him rather Bless God that he stands and take heed that he do not fall When we thus lay the Axe to the Root of the Tree and begin where God's Judgments usually do with God's own House first and deal impartially with our selves then our Hearers will think we are in good Earnest when we do not spare our selves they will think we have the same Blessed Spirit that Moses had who did not Spare either Himself or his Brother Aaron or his Sister Miriam but Plainly and Publickly recorded their Faults in Scripture as well as others and they will never be able to be Angry with us for telling them of their Sins roundly and smartly to their Face And indeed to tell you my Mind freely it is not our Priviledge Onely to tell other Men of their Sins and never to be told of our own It is not our Prerogative Onely to declaim against other Mens Vices and to Live and to Reign in our own without Controul No No If ever the Church be Reformed We Church-Men and We Clergy-Men must first Reform our selves For We are the Salt of the Earth and therefore we are to spend our selves as Salt is spent to Season others and to keep them from Corruption and how can we do so if we our selves have lost our Savour We are the light of the World and therefore we are to spend our selves as a Candle is spent to enlighten others and how can we do so if we our selves are all Darkness Matt. 5. 13 14. Sixthly If it be a dismal Sight to see several Thousands of poor people Fainting and ready to Perish for want of a little Meat and Drink to feed their Bodies then is it not a far worse Sight to see several Thousands of poor people Fainting and ready to Perish for want of good Catechizing and Preaching to feed their Souls For though a Man's Body starve for want of Meat and Drink yet his Soul may go to Heaven notwithstanding as is plain from what is recorded of Lazarus Luke 16. 21 22. But if a Man's Soul starve for want of Catechizing and Preaching both his Body and his Soul in the Ordinary Way of God's Providence must needs go to Hell A Famine of Bread is bad but a Famine of the Word is far Worse For the Soul that feeds upon the Word is far better than the Body that feeds upon Bread For says the Prophet Isa 30. 20. Though the Lord give you the Bread of Adversity and the Water of Affliction yet shall not thy Teachers be removed into a Corner any more Where you see that though a Man be fed with the Bread of Adversity and the Water of Affliction that is such course Fare as is scarce able to keep Body and Soul together yet as long as he has his Teachers left him and he may both See and Hear them he has that which is far better For It is better to be a Beggar with the Gospel than to be a King without it For says the Holy K. David It is better to be a Door-keeper in the House of the Lord than to dwell in the Tents of Vngodliness Psalm 84. 10. And therefore it is a shrewd Sign that God is extreme Angry with a People when he takes away a good Minister from them For When God took away Lot the Preacher of Righteousness from Sodom he presently rained upon it Fire and Brimstone from Heaven Gen. 19. 22 24. It is a shrewd Sign that God is extreme Angry with a people when he sends them a bad Minister For when God sets a Lyon a Wolf or a Leopard to Watch over a City has he not a mind to Destroy it Jeremiah 5. 6. And when God put a lying Spirit into the Mouth of all Ahab's Prophets to perswade him to go up to Ramoth-Gilead had he not fully determined that Place for his Destruction 1 Kings 22. 23. And therefore you may all assure your selves that God has not many People to Save in that Parish where he does not Settle a good Minister For if God has any Harvest in a Parish he will certainly Send a good Labourer to reap it down to gather it up and to put it into his Barn If God has any Sheep in a Parish he will certainly Send a good Shepherd to look after them For if God has much People at Corinth or any where else he always Sends them a Paul or some other able Minister to Instruct them in the Faith of Christ Act 18. 9 10. For the Harvest the Sheep and the People of God are the Jewels of the Lord of Hosts and they shall all be carefully made up and safely kept by that watchful Keeper of Israel that never Slumbers nor Sleeps Malachi 3. 17. compared with Psalm 121. 4. For that God who takes care of every Sparrow and numbreth the Hairs of your Head and suffers not so much as a Tear you shed in Secret to be lost but puts it in his Bottle and notes it in his Book that good God who does all this will never suffer the Souls of his People to be lost for want of a good Minister to look after them unless you think that your Souls which are his Jewels and for which Christ died are not worth so much as a Sparrow a Hair of your Head or a Tear that falls down your Cheeks when you weep for your Sins Lastly If our Fore-Fathers

A SERMON UPON Ember-Week Preached before the University of Oxford AT Christ-Church in Oxford 1698. By DAVID JONES Master of Arts and Student of Christ-Church Oxon. Ezek. 44. 6 8. Thus saith the Lord God to the Rebellious House of Israel Let it suffice you of all your Abominations Ye have not kept the Charge of mine Holy Things but ye have set Keepers of my Charge in my Sanctuary for your selves LONDON Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheap-side MDCXCIX Mr. David Iones's SERMON UPON Ember-Week Matth. ix xxxvi xxxvii xxxviii When Jesus saw the Multitudes he was moved with Compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd Then saith he unto his Disciples the Harvest truly is Plenteous but the Labourers are Few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth Labourers into his Harvest NExt Lords-day is Ordination-day That Day upon which Learned and Religious Men are to be Ordained Priests and Deacons And next Week is Ember-week That Week which is Emphatically called a Week of Embers or Ashes For these two Words do only signifie one and the same thing And the Reason why this Week is thus called is this The Church hath commanded us to Fast and to Pray upon three days in this Week That God would be pleased to give us such Ministers as are both Willing and Able both by their Life and Doctrine to set forth his Glory and to set forward the Salvation of all Men. And these three Days have been heretofore so strictly kept by holy Men and Women that they covered themselves with Sackcloath and Ashes and ate nothing till Night nor then neither save only a Cake baked under the Embers which was therefore called Ember-bread And from this strictness and severity which was formerly used upon the three Fasting-days in this Week the whole Week came to be called Ember-week And the Reason of all this strictness and severity upon this Occasion is this When men do Fast from Meat they acknowledge themselves to be Unworthy of the least Crumb of that Meat they Fast from And when they do in the time of their Fasting cover themselves with Sackcloath they acknowledge That to be far better than they deserve They call to mind that their Cloathing is only the effect of their Nakedness and that their Nakedness is only the effect of their Sin And therefore they are resolved not to be Proud of those Cloaths which ought to Humble them with the thoughts of their first Original and to put them in mind of those tatter'd Rags they are Now Cloathed with instead of that Glorious Robe of Righteousness which they Once had in Paradise When men do cast Embers and sprinkle Ashes upon their Heads they publickly tell God that their Sins are so Many and so great that they deserve nothing but Death they deserve nothing but to have Those dreadful Words in the Office for the Burial of the Dead constantly sounding in their Ears Earth to Earth Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust And when men do thus Openly dedeclare their inward Sorrow of Heart by these and the like outward signs of Fasting and Mortification they mightily move both God and Man to have Mercy upon them For when the Servants of Ben-hadad King of Syria girded Sackcloath on their Loins and put Ropes on their Heads and presented themselves to Ahab King of Israel in that humble and miserable Condition he could not chuse but have Pity upon him though God had appointed him to utter Destruction and though he and his people were to lose their Lives for saving him and his people from Death 1 Kings 20. 32 42. Yea and that very same Ahab by Humbling himself with Fasting in Sackcloath and Ashes moved God to take away from him one of the greatest temporal Judgments that ever was threatned against a mortal Man 1 Kings 21 17. with the following Verses to the end of the Chapter And here now let no Proud Sinner that despiseth the Ministers of God's Word imagine that the day appointed for the Ordination of Priests and Deacons is not of to great Concern to the Nation that it ought to be kept with so much Strictness and Solemnity Let no Graceless Person think so scornfully of Ember-week and Ordination-day For the Apostles thought themselves bound to Ordain no Elders in any Church without the Solemnity of a Fast Acts 14 23. And Christ himself before he entered upon his Ministerial Office Fasted forty days and forty nights Matth. 4. 2 17. And if Fasting and so long Fasting was Necessary to fit and prepare Christ for the Ministry how much more Necessary is it to fit and prepare Us for it who are Infinitly short of his Divine Perfections And thus I have shewn you what is meant by Ordination-day and what is meant by Ember-week And that you may all keep them as they ought to be kept I have purposely pitch'd upon these Words which are the Gospel for the Ordination of Priests as being most proper for this Great Occasion and our most Serious Meditation upon it When Jesus saw the Multitudes he was moved with Compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd Then saith he unto his Disciples The Harvest truly is Plenteous but the Labourers are Few Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth Labourers into his Harvest In which words there are several Doctrines But I can at present only Insist upon this One Though there be a great many Ministers in a City or Country yet the Common People may be ready to Faint and to Perish for want of Knowledge for want of Plain Affectionate Practical and Scripture Preaching Yea and their Case may be so desperately Bad that nothing but a Company of poor silly Sheep scatter'd abroad without a Sheperd can possibly represent their deplorable Condition And the Reasons which prove this Doctrine are these First There were a great many Scribes and Pharisees and Lawyers in our Saviour's time For he denounced more Woes and greater Curses against Them than against all others because They were more against Him and his Gospel than all others were Matth. 23. throughout the Chapter And yet notwithstanding there were so many Ministers and Doctors and Preachers of the Law at that time the Text tells us The Labourers were Few Few of them all would Labour in the Harvest and Feed the Flock of the Lord. And therefore The Multitudes Fainted Or as the Margine of the Bible has it They were Tired by going so far to hear an Awakening Preacher and they Lay down for Weariness and they were scattered abroad as Sheep having no Shepherd And what was their Case then may for any thing we know be the Case of several Thousands and Millions at this present time For The thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall