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A81533	A discovery of some of the sins of the ministry, made in a confession, published some years since by divers ministers, and now made publick again, for its usefulnesse, as briefly comprehending the chief duties of that great and weighty work of the ministry.		1660 (1660)	Wing D1648; Thomason E1878_2; ESTC R209839	6,375	16

neglecting others equally warranted and being diligent in no duty but preaching 6. Not studying to be acquainted with the condition of the people that we may apply our selves to the variety of their estates 7. Turning all Duties and Religion into a forwardness in the cause of God and under colour of that neglecting duties and the life and power of Godliness 8. Neglect of pains to fit us more for our callings after we have acquired an habit of preaching as if we need not grow in fitness for all the duties of our Callings 9. Partiality in visiting the sick if they be poor we go once and when sent for if rich and of better rank ofter and unsent for and in examinations often passing by great folkes 10. Performing the publick Duties of preach ing and Prayer as parts of trial and not as duties done to God Sect. VI. In Relation to our walk and conversation personal faults 1. Worldly-mindedness caring immoderatly for the things of this life and following too eagerly the bettering of stipends 2. Want of hospitality and charity to the Members of Christ 3. VVant of Sobriety in all things suitable to the times 4. Sleighting of the Hearing of the Lords VVord hearing the VVord from others only to censure and try their Gifts and not as Christians that should hear and make use of it 5. Envying the gifts and graces of God in others or discouragement in our duties because of our short up-coming to others in whom Gifts and Graces shine undervaluing and sleighting the sincerity of Grace in others because they be Inferior to our selves in Gifts 6. Pride shewing it self in not stooping and condescending to the infirmities of the weak but disdaining Christs work in them because of some infirmities that we can observe in them 7. Not enduring admonition or reproof from Ministers or such of the People of God as observe some things in us that are contrary to tenderness and give offence 8. Loss of Tenderness and diligence after we are Ministers to which some had attained before 9. Being very little in secret Prayer and converse with God and excusing this in our selves with being much taken up in other duties 10. Neglect of accurate studying the Scriptures 11. Vain imitation of other men 12. Neglect of frequent reflecting upon our own state and walk with God Sect. VII In our walk in our Families 1. Not being Patterns to the Flock in holiness and diligence but rather ill examples in lightness in our conversations and sleighting of Duties by superficial performance of duties by starts not setting apart time for the deliberate going about them 2. Reading the Scriptures rashly and inconsiderately and not as men that should be acquainted with the mind of God in all his Word 3. Neglect of the Instruction and Edification of our Families so that none more than our own are worse looked to 4. Little or no time set apart in our Families to mourn for the guiltiness of the Land and the backslidings of the times 5. Deep Hypocrisie in pressing upon others to do that in their Families which is utterly sleighted by our selves Sect. VIII In our walk amongst the people of our charge 1. Unfruitfulness not studying to converse with the people of God for their Edification 2. Carnal familiarity with wicked and natural People out of the duties of our Calling whereby they are hardned in their sin finding the Minister like themselves however he speaks to them in publick 3. Strangeness and up-keeping of our selves from such as fear the Lord whereby they are made to keep back profitable freedom from us 4. Neglect of spiritual fellowship with the people of God and not putting them to pray with us 5. Unwillingness to entertain spiritual discourse yea many times sleighting and shifting it out when it is cast in by others 6. Speaking our own words on the Sabbath day and countenancing the same in others 7. Not daring to reprove sin and appear zealous and tender before the wicked Sect. IX In our Walk in the Company of Ministers very unprofitable and oft hurtful one to another and being an offence to the Lords people 1. By neglect of Prayer and every thing that may edifie 2. Shifting off Prayer and other duties when we are called thereto 3. Ordinary driving away our time in carnal rejoycing and lightness sporting and jesting one with another and censuring c. 4. VVant of freedom and love to admonish one another in serious tenderness and if any freedom be used it is in jest and an upcast which causes an alienation when things observed in another do stick with us and are kept up or told in such a way 5. Ordinarily we Converse together as Ministers and not as Christians speaking only of things pertaining to our calling and of nothing pertaining to our souls and their condition 6. Turning all Christian duties into Ministerial duties we speak them as things that are without us and as if they did not concern our selves in a word we are not good Ministers because we are not good Christians this is the root of all the Corruption of our Calling FINIS

A DISCOVERY Of some Sins of the MINISTRY made in a Confession Published some years since by divers Ministers and now made publick again for its usefulnesse As briefly Comprehending the chief Duties of that Great and Weighty Work of the Ministry Primus felicitatis gradus est non delinquere secundus delicta cognoscere Cyprian Ep. 55. Discernendi a Plebe caeteris sumus doctrina non veste conversatione non habitu mentis Puritate non Cultu Cael. ep 2. ad Episc Gal. Tom. primo Concil Haec sit Propositi nostri summa quod sentimus loqu●mur quod loquimur sentiamus concordet sermo cum vita Seneca Ep. 75. LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. Nihil sane turpius nihil perniciousius nihil coram ipso Deo abominabilius quam in omnium gravissimis Ecclesiae rebus nempe in docendo Ecebolum aut Vertumnum agere arundinis instar levi aura nunc huc nunc illuc impelli ac vacillare nescire stare loco attemperare religionem five nostris five aliorum secularibus caducis fluxissimis commodis pro voluntate potentiorum laxare restringere omnia Magdeburgenses in vita Lucae Evangel Pulcherrrimus ordo est saluberrimus ut onus quod portandum imponis tu portes prior exte discas qualiter oporteat aliis moderari Sermoquidem vivus efficax exemplum est operis sacile faciens suadibile quod dicitur dum monstrat factibile quod suadetur Bern. Epist 201. That dreadful charge of Paul to Timothy 2 Tim. 4. 1 2. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearance and at his Kingdome preach the Word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine is able to affright even a Chrysostome a Calvin who preached every day when I seriously ponder the several effectual enforcements of this terrible Obtestation methinks Ministers should do nothing but study preach and pray Rob. Bolton Assize Sermon P. 97. To the Reader Reader IT concerns thee not to know who were the first Authors of this Confession if thou knowest not already for I have not published it either to disparage them by discovering their Infirmities or gain them any applause by fuch a free ingenuous acknowledgment of them which would be as absurd as contradictio in terminis being intended by themselves for their humiliation and may serve as a Directory not only for such who have little else left them to do but as the Frier counselled Luther abire in cellam dicere miserere mei Deus but for all who are employed in that work which none ever undertook but might sadly reflect upon his own failings in the management of it For who is sufficient for these things as Quintilian saith of an Orator he must be bonus vir dicendi peritus so a Minister must be not only apt to teach but a good man he must take heed both to himself and to his Doctrine if he would swe both himself and those that hear him otherwise he will not know how to deal plainly and froely with others For dicta factis deficientibus erubescunt Tertul. de patientia Or as Aelfric many hundred years since complained of the English Clergy non audent de justitia loqui qui justitiam nec faciunt nec diligunt Usser de successione c. 2. s 35. Or if they preach such things as they do not themselves practise how easily do the people put them off as he that read Tully docet officum non facit officium He that winneth souls is wise and he had need maintain in others a repute of his own integrity though he should not affect popularity for his own advantage yet he must have a good report of those that are without 1 Tim. 3. 7. Quisquis vitam custodit sibi benefacit quisquis autem famam in alios misericors est nobis enim necessaria est vita nostra aliis fama nostra Aug. de bono vid. 22. And if the people look upon a Minister either as a Diotrephes that seeks for preheminence or a Demas that makes a Trade of the Ministry for gaining the world or an Ecebolus that builds up the things which he hath formerly destroyed he shall be as salt that hath lost its savour or as the wood of the Vine that is good for nothing of no use and another shall by his good conversation without the word gain more than he shall by his preaching gain without such a conversation And it is as vain a thing for a man to continue his Ministry by letting go his integrity as propter vitam vivendi perdere cousus If any despise these Confessions as supposing an unnecessary strictness in Ministers I shall account them such as had rather sleight their duty than faithfully perform it as a bad Disputant that finds it a more easie way to neglect his Adversaries Argument than to anser it quanto expeditius est dicere fabula mendacium est But such do not perswade men as knowing the terrour of the Lord or considering the account which they must ere long give before the Judgment-Seat of Christ Let such read the Epistle of John Fisher Bishop of Rochester to the Bishop of Winchester before his works He had the Bishoprick of Ely or Lincolne offered to him but he contented himself with that which he had already because though he had less Revenues belonging to his Bishoprick so he had fewer souls and he should be able to make up his accounts better which he expected shortly to be called to than those who had more souls and the expence of greater Revenues to answer for Let me subjoyn hereto a story or two of like nature and I have done There was a good man who having brought up his Son at the University and being asked why he did not prefer him to a Benefice which he had advantage easily to do being in great favour with such as lived at the upper end of the world and if I remember well one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to King James he replied that he had souls enough to answer for in his own Parish he would not bring upon himself the guilt of more by putting his Son into a Living before he knew him to be fit for it The other is of Dr. Williams Late Archbishop of York who told a Minister that came to him for Institution not long before his death that he had passed through many places of honour and trust both in Church and State more than any of his Order in England but if he were assured that by his Preaching he had converted but one soul to God he should take more spiritual joy and comfort therein than in all the Honours and Offices that had been conferred upon him Let those that rule over others so watch for their souls as those who must give an account Heb. 13. 17. 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