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Saint Peters general petition to our Saviour, for himself and his fellow sufferers
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Rowland, John, 1606-1660.
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returned to Fishing for Scultelus observes that the same word is used 1 Sam. 17 when David left his Fathers sheep with a keeper untill he had fought with Goliah but he returned to them afterwards Christ doth not require of all men the same conditions he propounded to the young man so some he sends home to their houses to take care of their Families where they might live there with a safe conscience as wee read Mark. 8.26 Nor did the Apostles forsake all but sometimes they returned to their Vessels and went a fishing John 21.3 vers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fignifies not to lose all but to abate the love to all as it is used Rev. 2.4 The Church of Rome hath her Votaries who take upon them a vow of poverty and they say they forsake all to follow Christ But Charles now Duke of Lorraine as I have been credibly informed when some of his souldiers had plundred a rich Monastery and the Friers complained to him hopeing to finde reparation he desired to know of them which went easiest to heaven the Rich or the poor They replied Doubtless the poor then saith he I have sent more to heaven then you all for I have made many poor and I mean to make you all so before I have done Now though our Saviour in his speech to his disciples before my Text did shew the great danger of Riches yet he expounds his meaning Mark 10.24 it is onely so for those that do put their trust in Riches For we read of many Rich Kings and Princes as David Solomon Hezekiah which have been great Saints as also of Abraham Isaak and Jacob Iob Zachary and others very Rich men and Christ tells us Matth 8. speaking of the Rich Centurion That many shall come from the East and from the West and shall fit down with Abraham Isaak and Iacob in the Kingdome of Heaven alwaies provided that they be willing to forsake all as Abraham was who when he was called to go out obeyed he went out not knowing whether he went Heb 1.1 But if such rich men live in such a happy age of the Church where no persecution drives them to it yet they may say Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee By forsaking all is not so much meant the forsaking of our possessions if we can hold them with a safe conscience as the forsaking of our sins Many during the late troubles forsook their friends and Estates to preserve a good conscience who yet did not forsake their cursing and swearing and some other gross sins which might cast a cloud over the suceess but yet their Adversaries who forced them out of their estates by pressing strange Oaths and Engagments upon them by plundering sequestring and Imprisoning them were not free from the same vices yet they will commonly be the men who shall first come upon change of times when they have only fallen out in parting stakes and cry with open mouth Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee What shall we have therefore Men that can sail with any wind a true Hieroglyphick of of the Netherlands And these will oftimes outvye the rest as Mercury out acted Socio in Amphitruo untill such time as the Play was ended and his Vizard and disguise was taken off Sed postquam fictas inclusit Pagina partes Vera redit facies dissimulata perit Of such our Saviour foretold Matth. 7. Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have not we prophesied in thy Name and in thy name cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful things and then will I profess unto them I never knew you depar from me ye that work iniquity We acknowledge with everlasting thankfulness and to One above all the rest that there are many noble Hushais that can be of Absaloms Counsel and yet do the greatest service to King David and such were some of those by whose vertues and Indeavours next under God and your Majesty we injoy our present happiness These have great Reason to say We have forsaken all and followed thee What shall we have therefore And it is for their sakes that your gracious Act of Indempnity hath made us all equal in your future favours and it will not be well-constroed by any of our reconciled friends who stood in need of it to be a title to them or a bar to us So I come to the Question which is the Petition it self What shall we have therefore A very rugged and blunt Petition at the first hearing and will be thought by some better becoming a souldier than an Apostle because Souldiers bred in the Camp are not usually well verst in the smooth language of the Court. It is true of all the Apostles S. Peter was most the souldier for he ware a sword John 18. and when his Master was betrayed and taken he drew it and smote the high Priests servant and cut off his right ear and had not our Saviour menaced him and commanded him to put it up again because he drew it against Authority he might for ought we know have cut out his brains with it as well as he cut off his ear though that were the Sword which I saw at Paris above 30. years since which the Friers maintain to be his which was little above a foot long if it were so much And now I am thus far upon my way it will be no digression to go one step further to encounter our modern Chiliasts such as call themselves Fifth Monarchy-men who would perswade us that all the Apostles were of their Creed ready to fight for Christs temporal Monarchy and then their gloss upon S. Peters Petition here will be that he petitioned onely for some great places at Gourt when Christ should raign upon earth which were a fowl errour in our Apostle when as the young man had so lately petitioned our Saviour in his hearing for eternal life But it is apparent by our Saviours Answer to S. Peters Petition that S. Peter petitioned onely for the same thing the young man did Even everlasting life because they had forsaken all to follow him which the young man refused to do when he might enjoy it I deny not but that some of the Apostles might sometimes have had an eye to Christs temporal kingdome because their question to our Saviour immediately before his ascension into heaven seems to look that way Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome again unto Israel Acts 1. But they preacht no such Doctrine after his Ascention into heaven when the holy Ghost had once descended upon them in the feast of Pentecost Nor did our Saviour teach them any such lesson when he was conversant among them but the contrary in his answer to Pilate John 18. Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world If my kingdome were of this world then would my servants fight for me that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now my kingdome