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A14282 Ten introductions how to read, and in reading, how to vnderstand; and in vnderstanding, how to beare in mind all the bookes, chapters, and verses, contained in the holie Bible. With an answer for lawyers. Physitions. Ministers. Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth. 1594 (1594) STC 24599; ESTC S119031 61,414 222

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dicente me ad impium Ars artium regimen animarum Greg. in Past In Arca erant Tabulae Virga Manna Sit discretio virgae quae seriat Greg. 3. Sit consolatio baculi quae sustentet Multo consilio prudentia opus est Pastori mille vt dicitur occulis ad speculandum vndique hebitudinem earum quas gubernat animarum Chrisost in dialog lib. 2. Eadem sepius inculcanda Non est fidelis ministri prurietibus auditorum suorum auribus seruire singulis conscionibus noui aliquid adferre in medium sed diligenter obseruare quid illis immineat mali quod vigilantur sit precauendum deque illo fideliter iterum atque iterum praemonere etiamsi non omnibus saepe iterata admonitio arrideat Decies repetita placebunt Horat. eadem scribere vobis Phil. 3.1 me quidem non grauat vos autem tutos vel cautos reddit Eadem scribere mihi quidem non pigrum vobis autem necessarium eadem scribere vobis me quidem haud piget vobis autem tutum est Quapropter haud negligam vos semper commonere de his tam etsi sciatis confirmati sitis in praesenti veritate etsi periti Hem. 2. Pet. 1 12. Bis ter gloria Dimosth Bis ter idem Cicero in oratione Non vnum hodie cras aliud Chrisost in Ioh. 13. sed semper idem NOw concerning the pride and arrogancie of Preachers I would not willingly leaue you in any thing vnanswered if happely it please God by your repulse shame others may walke more warely wisely in their owne profession and not to busie themselues in other mens callings Let there be an inquisition had and a proclamation made If there be any minister that is a gentleman either in regard of his birth or in respect of his degrees in learning or els in consideration of his publicke place in the common-weale that doth seeke his owne profit and not the Lords praise that doth desire his owne gaine and not the Lords glorie or that doth exalt himselfe aboue the lowest of the poore members of Christ by vertue thereof when they should be humble or that of enuie or malice doth for his reuenge draw the sword of Gods word against any man by priuat or publique administration then let him be bound faithfully to doe the seruice of Christ Phil. 1 1.2 2. Tim. 2 1 Ki n. 19 19. Mat. 9.9 as S. Paule was Let him be presently commaunded to serue the Lord as Elisha was and then let him be enforced to forsake his accounts as Mathew was and if he be not content to doe this and withall to be a Iew 1. Cor. 9 19.20.21 to win the Iewes to be meeke to winne them that are meeke and to vse all means to winne some vnto Christ 1. Sam. 15 8.9 to 26. then let Gods spirit depart from him as it did from Saul and then let his place be giuen to another Mat. 28 3.4.5.6 Acts 1.15 to 26. as it was from Iudas let him be choked and strangled to death as a theefe and a murtherer and let his bowels be drawne and his body be quartered for the fouls of the aire as a traitor cōspirator 2. Tim. 3 1.2 3. Phil. 2.5.6 Christ made himselfe of no reputation although worthy to be taken and esteemed among the worthiest yet he abased himselfe c. as he said Mat 20 28. I came not to be serued but to serue He washed his disciples feet whē they should haue washed his He paied tribute to Caesar when Caesar should haue paied him tribute Christ did it not to be praised of men his praise was of God he did it not to augment his owne glorie for he had alreadie the fulnesse of the Godhead but to throw down the pride of al men especially of the ministers He cared not what he did so he might win a soule He thought his time wel spent and his life well bestowed if at the least he might winne some Let there another proclamation be made and an inquisition had If there be any lawfull Preacher how poore soeuer that doth derogate from the worthinesse of his calling the reuerence the duety the aestimation the fauor the loue and the honor that is due vnto him for feare of men or for loue of mony or doth submit himselfe to my Lord or to my Lady in any seruice that is not beseeming and meet for so great and so stately a professor then after the first and second admonition let him be shut out from the society of the Saints Mat. 18 15. to 19. Let him haue no vse of the word and sacrament Let his goods be confiscated to the vse of the poore and let his body be buried amōg the beasts of the field A minister is not a man basely to demean himselfe so great is the maiesty of his message A minister is not meet for the company of mean men so great is his calling and a minister is not to be seruant to a king that will make him seruile As the words of a lord Chancellor are said to be great because it comes from the King so the words of a minister are said to be great Exod. 4 because it coms from God Thence the Preachers are said to be the mouth of God and their wordes a two edged sword Reu. 19. As fire and smoke comes out of the mouths of Locusts so Gods iudgements doe come from the mouths of ministers by the preaching of the word Ioshua 1. As God said to Ioshua Whosoeuer will not obay the wordes of thy mouth shall die euen so he that obayeth not the words of Gods holy ministers shall surely die Almighty God hath constituted and ordained the saluation of all men to be receiued by the ministerie of the word therefore he hath sanctified it he hath beautified and adorned it with the vse of excellent creatures with the adoration of Kings with the seruice of all angels and with the continuall presence of his owne maiestie Cornelius was an excellent man a man full of morall vertues yet the angell told him that he wanted one thing the angell might haue told him that one thing Acts 10 1. to 48 had not Christ determined his perfectiō his instructiō saluation to be receiued by the preaching of the word The Eunuch was faine to admit of Philip to preach vnto him to baptize him Acts 8 28 to 40. O the might and maiesty royall of Gods most holy word How may the disposers thereof be lightly regarded nay by what reason conscience or law may they be abused Will any man that hath a sonne or a seruant that is profitable vnto him in great matters will he cast him off deface him and euilly intreat him no no but these men are profitable vnto you in all things both for this life and for the life to come much more then ought they to be accounted by how much the more they doe profite you and preferre you Naaman though a great lord of king Arams court with his horses and chariots and all his traine waited at the doore for poore Eliseus Obadiah a Lord of Achabs court 2 King 5 15. fell at Elias feet and said Art thou my Lord Elias The noble Shunamite fell at Elishaes feet and the great Lord of the Queene of Candaces court 1. King 18 7 King 4 37 thought poore Philip a fit a meet man to ride in his chariot This makes plaine the authoritie and the great worthinesse of the ministers Reu 25 8 If the Prophets had this aestimation and honor who were speakers of the law and of Christ to come much more now the ministers who are speakers of the Gospell and warranters that Christ Iesus is alreadie come As the Gospell is to be preferred before the law for the worthinesse of it so the ministers are to be preferred before the Prophets for their worthinesse Kings scorning the reproofe of the Prophets haue bin defaced to the face of the world 1. Chro. 18 19. The ministers haue names of greater Emphasis of greater accent and authoritie than Moses Aaron and the Prophets Here now my good Parishioner I make an end with my harty praier to Almightie God for you and for all such as wander out of the way that hencefoorth you may walke worthie in your owne calling and grounding your owne foundation sure least being troubled with other mens faults your selfe be sound guilty of slaundering Gods most holy word being the instrument of your saluation by slandering the ministers of the same to whose most mercifull direction I humbly recommend you now and hencefoorth Qui pergit que volt dicere que non volt audiet FINIS
TEN Introductions How to read and in reading how to vnderstand and in vnderstanding how to beare in mind all the bookes chapters and verses contained in the holie Bible With an Answer For Lawyers Physitions Ministers LONDON Printed by A. Islip 1594. To the right Worshipshipfull maister Tobie Wood Esquire and Councellor at Law dwelling neere her Maiesties Tower in London the true and vndoubted Patrone of this booke AS three speciall occasions moued S. Peter to offer his labour in building of three Tabernacles a Mat. 17 3.4 one for Christ one for Moses and one for Elias euen so right Worshipfull three speciall occasions moued me to offer this my labor in the building of a spirituall Tabernacle one for meere b 1 Cor. 12 12.13.14 to 25. Phil. 2 19.20.21 1. Cor. 10 24. care and c Act. 24 16. Rom. 9 1.2.3.4.5 conscience to my d Leuit. 25.25.48.49 Rom. 9 5. contrimen in Wales one to kindle my e 1. Sam. 16.2.20 2.4.9.12.13.17.12 10. faithfull affections towards you and one to satisfie the request f By his letters dated Ianuar. 20. Apr. 5. And one May 2. 1592. of a right worshipfull gentleman Sir William Herbert knight who would ioyne with me in this worke If the care of my countrimen might be vnsupplied and if the worthinesse of this learned and zealous knight might be as he is in the graue for euer silenced yet the heartie affections the bond of thankefulnesse and the christian duety I owe you can no way so effectually be discharged Wherein also I shall make cleare my good conscience towards the one and my humble duety towards the other which if you shall please to patronize whatsoeuer is found wanting by him which is dead shall be supplied I doubt not to your contentment by them which are aliue g Exo. 37 7. As the two Cherubins which Moses made tended to the preseruation of Gods people The Method and nine obseruations and therefore both were placed vpon the Arke as one euen so good worshipfull Sir the two former books which I made tended to the instruction of Gods people in the holie Bible and therefore I haue placed them both in one h Psal 62 11.12.13 As God spake once and twice that power and mercie belongeth vnto him so I will speake once twice and euer to his maiestie that power may be giuen by his spirit and mercie by his sonne to all that long with Zeale to the knowledge hereof These are to certifie i Ier. 9.17.18.19 you though not for news there was great k Ezech. 32.1.2.3 lamentation in Syon because of Gods iustice for their sinnes as there was great lamentation for Pharao in Aegypt because he was a lion in the land and a dragon in the sea and as there was great l Hest 4.3 sorrow fasting mourning and weeping among the Iewes because the king had decreed their deaths euen so there is great cause of lamentation fasting mourning and weeping here in England because m Ier. 9 21. death is scaling our windowes the n Eze. 32.4 beasts of the fields hungering to deuoure our bodies our bloud readie to water the land Eze. 32 6. and our o Mat 7 19.13 42.43.18.9 Iud. 9 Reu 19 20. soules as prepared for the fire of hell by reason of sinnes in the p Hos 4 1.2 common sort of horrible crueltie in many of them that are q Esa 3 12. Hos 7 3.4.5 great and of the generall ignorance of Christ according to his gospell in euerie sort If it please you to compare the raigne of r Kin. 20 21. Manasses sometimes king of Iudah with the raigne of Marie sometimes queene of England you shall finde little oddes in the innocent blood that the one shed at Ierusalem and the innocent bloud that was shed at London c. which God the righteous iudge hath not yet fully reuenged because that the vniformitie in the professiō of Christ these 36 years is not yet perfect the persecution of former times are not done away by repentance For notwithstāding the great s 2. Kin. 22.23 zeale of Iosias with the obedience of his people yet the former sinnes of Manasses would not be forgottē Therfore God knowes and most wise men sees we haue vrgent occasions mouing vs to pray yea to pray heartely vnto Iesus Christ the aeternall king for Elizabeth our queene and other hir subiects that either be will vtterly forgiue or at the least grant that the penaltie deserued doe not fall vpon vs nor vpon our children And albeit we cannot shake off the generall condemnation threatned and knowne to hang ouer England yet hir maiesty with vs and we with hir loathing our own sins and detesting the abhomination of others shall be singled and seuered to preseruation come the desolation neuer so terrible and suddaine Ierusalem which was sometimes the citie of the great king the keeper of the diuine oracles the receptacle of Angels and the continual presence of God himselfe is now become a place of sulphir and hellish flames inhabited with Oules Estriges and such like noisome creatures euen so they that haue eyes to see may yet see the tears and desolation of the great and famous citie of London they that haue ears to heare may yet heare the cries of hir children the pitious lamentation of hir women and the sighs of hir men in euerie street some for their parents some for their children some for their wiues some for their husbands some for mony and some for meat which the last years plague hath ruinated depriued and desolated Whether this were a reuenge of their sinnes yet liuing or a reuenge of their sinnes alreadie dead and yet vnrepented it is not knowne but sure it is many woes are past and many more are to come if the perusing and the examinatiō of our selues worke not in vs the consideration of that great zeale of Gods glorie the desire of building the Lords house and the practising of such an vpright life as was in the antient fathers of the church Wherefore I humbly intreat you and in Christ Iesus I desire you albeit your place be not to reforme these things so generally out of frame yet reforme and amend your selfe and your owne houshold ioyne with them that they may ioyne with you My good worshipfull and Christian friend as I cannot charge you nor any of yours for any disorder so I cannot leaue to intreat and desire you to walke warily and wisely in this crooked and froward generation ground your own foundation sure take heed to your selfe looke that noman t Reu. 3 11. take away your Crowne The deuill offreth violence hold therefore fast that which you haue watch and pray O pray continually powre out your supplications before God morning and euening both you and your hoshold v Psal 5 3. Morning and euening said Dauid will I direct my praiers vnto thee