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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40819	A sermon preached at the triennial visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, James, Lord Bishop of Lincoln held at Hartford, June 12, 1700 / by Philip Falle ...	Falle, Philip, 1656-1742.	1700 (1700)	Wing F342; ESTC R16543	31,663	66

not designed by him to be a standing perpetual Rule to those that should succeed him in Pastoral Cares and Offices 2. The unsettled Condition of the Church at that time is what ought also to be considered on this occasion There was no certain Provision as yet made for those who laboured in the Ministry The voluntary Offerings and Contributions of the Faithful were the only Fund which the Church then had to answer all Exigencies And though the Charity of the Apostolic Ages was indeed wonderful nevertheless since the Apostle tells us that not many Mighty nor Noble were called (r) 1 Cor. i. 26. but the far greater part of those Primitive Converts throughout the World were Persons more remarkable for the piety and sanctity of their Lives than for the largeness of their Estates or the splendor of their Fortunes 't is evident that the Treasure of the Church could not be great the small number of the Rich bearing no proportion with the multitude of the Poor In that state of things who can wonder if St. Paul out of mere generosity and nobleness of Mind chose rather to take up that Craft which in his younger years he had learnt in view of such an Incident and Emergency as this and to draw those Supplies from it which his long and expensive Voyages in the Service of the Gospel might sometimes cause him to want than to be a Charge to the Churches which he saw already burdened above what they could bear But where there is not a Parity of Case nothing can be inferred from such a Practice He that is called to serve at the Altar in a Nation thoroughly converted to Christianity and able to afford an honourable Maintenance for the support of Divine Offices needs not do that for it which St. Paul did for the poor proselyted Jews and Gentiles in his days 3. When St. Paul wrought at a Trade it abated nothing of his Vigilance and Care for the Churches it obstructed not his attendance on the Duties of his Ministry and he could have done no more though he had not wrought at all The Work of God did not stand still while the other went on So many Countries travelled or'e and or'e so many Nations brought to the Knowledge of Christ and to the Obedience of the Cross through his means are a proof of this Truth He laboured with his hands and yet he preached and wrote as if all his Time and Thoughts had been spent in Study and Meditation And the reason of that is plain The wonderful assistances of the Holy Ghost common to him with the other inspired Men of that Age were to him instead of those When ye shall be brought before Rulers and Kings for my sake says our Blessed Saviour to his Apostles take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak neither do ye premeditate but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour that speak ye for it is not ye that speak but the Holy Ghost (ſ) Mark xiii 9 11. Mat. x. 19 20. St. Paul then relying on this Promise of the Holy Jesus might very safely bestow some of his Hours of leisure and retirement in working privately for his Necessities which he could not have spared had he been left destitute of those extraordinary Helps and Succours he trusted to from above but must have employed them in preparing himself for such Solemn Performances as the nature of his Function required And can he in this be followed and imitated by the present Preachers of the Gospel who by unwearied Pains and Toils by a continual bent and intendment of Thought by a frequent substraction even of the necessary Refreshments of Life to gain Time must now endeavour to acquire that or indeed but a very small measure and proportion of that which the First Ministers of Christianity received from the immediate Influx of God's Spirit who inlightned their Minds and put the very Words into their Mouths that they were to use when they spake in publick 4. St. Paul seems to have been aware of the ill use that might be made of the Example he gave and therefore takes great care throughout his Writings to assert the Liberty and Privilege of the Evangelical Ministry and to free it from any such obligation to Manual Labour He professes that what he did was purely voluntary and the result of his own Choice and ought not to be made a matter of Duty or Necessity in others he shews the equity of making a Retribution to those who spend themselves and neglect their own Temporal Concerns to procure our Spiritual Good The IXth Chapter of his First Epistle to the Corinthians is a long set Discourse upon that Subject There he clearly insinuates that of all the Apostles truly or falsely so called he only and Barnabas the Companion of his Travels * Barnabas Pauli diù comes multim ab exemplo ipsius traxerat Grot. wrought with their hands He tells the Corinthians that he and Barnabas had power to forbear working likewise (t) Vers 6. and to challenge an Honorary from the Churches as well as others that did so For as he argues Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges Who planteth a Vineyard and eateth not of the Fruit thereof Or who feedeth a Flock and eateth not of the milk of the Flock If we have sown unto you Spiritual Things is it a great thing if we shall reap your Carnal Things If others be partakers of this Power over you are not we rather Nevertheless we have not used this Power (u) 7 11 12. The Power he speaks of is an Exemption from Manual Labour and a Right of being provided for by the Church which the other Apostles claimed and used but which he and Barnabas of their own accord and upon particular motives did decline As it was a Spontaneous Act of them two so it could be no Law to the rest of the Apostles nor to any subsequent Ministers of Religion Neither would the Reasons always subsist that had put him and Barnabas upon a Practice in which he owns they stood single and alone God would soon enlarge the Borders of his Church and then nothing could hinder Christian People from enlarging themselves also towards their Teachers Do ye not know for thus he immediately subjoins that they which minister about Holy Things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers of the Altar Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel (w) 13 14. Here he referrs to that remarkable Saying of our Blessed Saviour that the Workman even he who lays himself out on the great Work of Men's Salvation and is painful and diligent therein is worthy of his Meat (x) Matt. x. 10. and ought consequently to enjoy a Vacation from other Works and Labours Nor did St. Paul always live by making of Tents Sometimes he accepted of the Benevolence of the

A SERMON Preached at the Triennial Visitation Of the Right Reverend Father in God JAMES Lord Bishop of LINCOLN Held at HARTFORD June 12. 1700. By PHILIP FALLE Rector of Shenley in the County of Hartford Prebendary of Durham and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty Published by his Lordship's Command LONDON Printed by W. Bowyer for John Newton at the Three Pigeons over-against the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleet-street 1700. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD JAMES By Divine Permission Lord Bishop of LINCOLN MY LORD WHEN Your Lordship was pleased upon a Motion of the Reverend Dr. Stanhop seconded by the rest of the Clergy who heard this Sermon to command me to print it I had nothing left me but to obey at the hazard of meeting with Readers less equal or less indulgent than the Learned Auditory in which I preached it I was called upon to attend His Majesty into Holland before I could transcribe it for the Press which is the Excuse I have to plead for its not appearing sooner And here I must crave leave to acquaint Your Lordship that the first New Book put into my hands at my Landing on the Other Side chanc'd to be the Rotterdam Journal that gives an account of the Works of the Learned In the Article relating to England I found a glut of Printed Sermons amongst us complained of and reflected on in so rude and in so injurious a manner * On voit icy Londres des Sermons sortir en foule de dessous la Presse Nos yeux ne voyent que Manne En voulez vous sçavoir la raison C'est que les Ministres ayant la liberté de lire leur Sermons en Chaire en achétent de tout faits et n'ent d'autre peine que de les lire passent ●our habiles gens à peu de frais Histoire des Ouvrages des Sçavans par Monsieur B Docteur en Droit Mois de Mars 1700. Art XIII pag. 124. as might well discourage me and others of my Brethren from troubling the World any more with our Labours in this kind could we believe that the Author of that Journal spoke any body's Sense but his own He chargeth us indiscriminately with a Plagiarism of which I doubt whether the best Intelligence and Information he could get if he were put to it would furnish him many Instances Indeed we do not usually hear of our Printed Sermons being preached over again among our selves but we have heard of their being frequently so by certain Gentlemen abroad with whom we shall never quarrel for doing us that honour The committing of Sermons to the Memory is no such infallible Means to prevent pilfering of other Men's Works as the Journalist would insinuate and perhaps the Press has as often helped out at a dead lift those who use that Way as those who use the other He might have learnt from My Lord of Sarum's excellent History * History of the Reformation of the Ch. of England Vol. l. Book III. pag. 317 318. what Reasons set our First Reformers who were Great and Wise Men upon Writing and Reading their Sermons contrary to the general Practice before in England and what Accuracy and Exactness in those Composures has resulted from the keeping up of that Vsage among us ever since And certainly so long as good Sense good Method and good Language shall make up the Character of good Preaching that which obtains in the Church of England shall take place of the Declamatory Way which for the most part has little to recommend it besides the Noise and Heat of Action Such flashy and frothy Pomp of Words without Matter shall vanish with the Breath of the Speakers when the finished and elaborate Discourses of our Sandersons and Tillotsons read from the Pulpit shall weigh upon the Judgment and the Vnderstanding and shall convey a Light and Conviction into the Mind that shall make every Man wiser and better who once heard or now reads them I forbear saying any more lest while I am endeavouring to right the Learnedest and most deserving Body of Men in the Christian Church from the Exceptions of a Person who has not treated them with Common Respect or Good Manners in a Paper designed to fly over all Europe I should seem to magnifie my own Performance The Meanness of it is as it happens the best Apology that can be made for its Publication for that will render it less liable to the Suspicion of making Plagiaries as there would be no Robbers if none Travelled but Poor People Your Lordship knows how willing I was to have the Province assigned me at Hartford transferred to another who would have discharged in much better but your Lordship insisting on your first designation and appointment of me it became me to submit I then began to think what would be most proper to say at that Meeting and was determined to the Choice of my Subject by the Consideration of the State of that Part of Your Lordship's Diocese where the Visitation was to be abounding with ignorant Fanatical Lay-Teachers who make a Property of our People And I entred the more readily upon the Subject that I was sure to have the best sort of Dissenters on my side who joyn with us in declaring against an Anarchy in the Church and in asserting a Separation from Other Works to Ministerial Functions Whatever Defects of another nature this Sermon may labour under I hope it will be found to contain honest and seasonable Truths and to have Some Things set right in it which peradventure were not altogether so before Such as 't is I lay it at Your Lordship's feet and gladly embrace this occasion of telling the World what satisfaction we the Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln take in having a Prelate of so much Candor and Temper Affability and Goodness and of such other excellent Qualifications set by a Great and Just King to preside over us Your Lordship fills a Chair venerable for Antiquity for extent of Jurisdiction and for a long Succession of pious and learned Bishops in whose steps Your Lordship worthily treads As Your Lordship goes before us and governs us with the Care and Tenderness of a Father so in return I dare promise Your Lordship without fear of being disowned by my Brethren a Filial Duty and Adherence on our part I have always thought the Strength and Glory of a Clergy to lie in their being thus united to their Bishop and of so happy an Vnion may we York Lordship's Clergy ever be an Example and a Pattern to others As for my self besides the Tyes of a Presbyter to his Diocesan I have very particular Obligations to Your Lordship as my Benefactor I hold my Preferment in Hartfordshire from Your Lordship's Gift and tho' the Possession of it has been hitherto attended with some Trouble yet that does in no wise diminish my Gratitude and Thankfulness for the same That Your Lordship may never blush to have conferred